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Cars I can remember:
MG 1300 (British Racing Green, used to overheat every time we went anywhere) Bedford Beagle Dormobile (Viva HA van with a pop-up roof) Anglia 105E (never ran properly, spent most of its time in bits) Triumph 2000 Mk1 (aged eight, I remember being SO proud, riding around in that car) Datsun 120Y Sunny estate (bought brand new, naff at the time but definitely retro-chic now) VW Polo Mk1 895cc (the car I took my driving test in) Rover SD1 2600S - a series 1 car in Persian Aqua. Gorgeous, except for all the bits that fell off it.
My dad now lives in California and drives a Honda...
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May 20, 2004 12:06:45 GMT
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I know exactly what u mean. My dad had 2 mk1 and 2 Mk2's thru the 70's when I was aged 0-9 . 2nd Mk1 was the first car I was in that did 100mph . I have that car's reg on my MK 1 today...
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May 20, 2004 12:30:43 GMT
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I keep thinking about buying a Mk1. I had a Mk2 for a while, but my then girlfriend hated it (she said it was just like a Lada), and instead of doing the sensible thing, I got rid of the car. It was still running around the Ipswich area last year - EKO 286K, Valencia blue with overdrive and Lucas rectangular foglamps. I haven't seen it around for a while though.
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May 20, 2004 18:41:34 GMT
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Nobel bubble car Austin A55 1600E Cortina Corsair FD Victor Austin 1100 or 1300 Triumph 1300 FWD (first one I remember, I can remember the roof overhang above the back window with the chrome air extractor vents in) Zephyr MK3+4 Humber Sceptre MK3 (Hunter shape) Austin A60 Cambridge Peugeot 404 estate Vanden Plas Princess 1300 2 X Maxis 2 X Chrysler Alpines Mk2 Granada Skoda 105 Volvo 240 MK1 Golf Austin Ambassador Austin Montego Mk1 Carlton MK2 Carlton Mondeo 1.8 petrol current car-Mondeo 1.8 TD They're the ones I can think of, I may have missed some out. My main memory of my Dad's cars is that they were usually in bits the night before we were due to go on holiday !
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Last Edit: May 20, 2004 20:01:34 GMT by mattblack
... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down and that's not really the car's fault.
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May 21, 2004 10:31:22 GMT
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My main memory of my Dad's cars is that they were usually in bits the night before we were due to go on holiday ! Ah, those holiday memories. Being stranded in Fishguard when the charging system packed up on the Triumph 2000. Camping holidays in the Bedford, with my Dad starting it every morning with the handle because we'd had the interior lights on and run the battery flat. And my favourite holiday memory - getting a ride with my Uncle Albert in the cab of an Atkinson artic, all the way from Southampton to Newcastle. Trucker's mate, aged seven. Retro truck, anyone?
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May 21, 2004 18:05:44 GMT
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Nice Atkinson! retro lorries, theres an idea. My dad was a manager at a small fuel oil distributors at Kingsbury in the 1970's and I used to go on Saturday mornings and holidays. He used to send me out with the drivers in various oil tankers. Guys mainly. Then in the early 80`s he delivered mail order furniture and drove various lorries. One memorable being a Ford V8 turbo that was mental and much better than going from the Midlands to Scotland in a Bedford diesel at 45mph much much less on Shap!. (goes away muttering about Scammells)
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I'm dressed in black again until someone invents a darker colour.
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