My dads old Cortina and Wolseley

only 6 years old at the time - wheres me teleport lol


nice tina

Yeh i get that feeling too

Heres one of my dads many creations

Excellent! They've got to be some of the best looking steelies haven't they?

list of cars that lived on my street when i was under 10

mk1 fester
very old merc 308 van
austin 1300
mk1 cavalier
we had beige mk3 tina then mk3 estate in green hand painted by us black lol also blue mk 2 granny 2.8
vw beetle - 70's
next door worked for rumbelows and his company car was a mk2 escy estate that turned into a mk3 escort over the years
3 doors down had a lancia delta b reg i think
further down had a volvo esate - 240 i think he had a beard and was a geography teacher i think lol
last house before the side street had a mk1 opel kadett
in the side street - another mk1 cavalier and da daaaa

a purple triumph stag that one summer i crashed my strika pushbike into denting the door

across the road had a new tr7 fixed head in red

we used to wait for him to come home in the summer so we could mess with the pop up headlamps lol

what did you have on your street when you were a kid

in 1979 when i was 7 these cars were in our street

w123 merc 300d
datsun 120y?
mk1 escort 1100
mk 2 cortina 1600
datsun 120a?
our mk3 cortina 1600gxl
datsun laurel
mk 2 capri
and round the corner was a dirty great cheroke chief.

I remember... (mid 80s)

Renault Fuego
Alfa Romeo Guiletta in white
Datsun 120Y I think
Fiat Camper Van, like the red one on the bay a while ago
Polski Fiat pick-up in blue
Polski Fiat van in green
Renault Espace, a very early one when it was new
Princess in brown
Hillman Avenger estate in blue
Peugeot 504 pick-up in orange
A Ventora Estate and A35 on the way to school


And my Great Gran used to live round the corner from the AC Invacar factory

lmao

we also had a vauxhall victor that mum put in a ditch in ireland - with us in it

auntie had chevette hatch mk2 escy in silver i think lathams got it now lmfao - bm 323 (guess why i wanted and got an E21 lol) she went boring after that J saloons accords and stuff since

uncle dave bought a brand new mk1 astravan in 84 and up to 2 years ago still had it - think its still going

uncle shay in ireland had marinas pug 504's morris ital bmw 320 cortinas dunno what hes got at the mo - going over in april

thats it for now unless i think of more

am i boring you yet lmao

My uncle had a matt-black Bettle with an Ansa exhaust (noisy as!!)

He also had an orange Mini, a Herald, a Q-plate Landie with a P5B engine, Panda 4X4, Mk1 Golf automatic.

Aunt had a Talbot Samba, or the Maggot as she called it

Grandad on one side had an E21 323i, 635, 2002

Grandad on the other had a Mk3 Cortina with a tasty 2.0 Pinto, a 2.3 Mk2 Granny, an early Volvo 240 Estate with a fixed child seat.

Nan had a Pug 104 and a Fiat 127 that got squashed when the garage roof collapsed in the '87 hurricane

Dad had a brand new Mk2 Golf Gti on a B-plate in '84 or '85, I think it was Mars Red

My Dad just sent me this :

Memories :
Of the Cortina:
Going to Wales and having to stop at Port Talbot to re-fill the 14 gallon tank and having to do the same coming back ! Blown clutches x 3.

Of the Wolseley:
Getting admiring looks as we wafted past much newer cars on the M4. Lousey brakes and non-existant handling. Lovely leather and wood interior.

Rover 95:
Looks of amazement passing cars on the A3 doing 100mph, me wondering if it would be able to stop, 16 MPG !!!!!

Minis various:
Best handling car ever, bar none. Permanant damage to knees and back due to curse word off-set driving position, suitable for dwarfs only. Freezing in winter.