cars your Dad had

oh god... erm

1x Reliant Super Van
2x Reliant Robin
2x Cortina estate (dunno what mark... 4 maybe)
1x Honda Civic
1x Fiat Tempra
current one Mondeo Estate

Befire I was born my dad had several cars I know about, including a hot FJ Holden with a 186S motor, Saginaw 4 speed gearbox, Monaro diff and disc front suspension etc.
He also had a hot HR Holden with triple carbs and a motor that idles at 1500rpm.
There was a Morris 1100, a Minor, and astring of Peugeots mostly 403 wagons. Also a Sunbeam Alpine and numerous series 2 and 3 Land Rovers along with a Jeep or two and a 4x4 racing Nissan Patrol with an American V8 in it. And a Hilman Hunter automatic wagon he would rather forget.

After I was born, a Renault 16TS, a Renault 10, a Peugeot 504 1.8litre, a 504 2.0litre, a 504 dieseltweaked for 120mph , a Volvo 164E (lovely car that was, 150mph ;D), then a move to a remote country property meant a 4x4, so a Daihatsu F20, a Nissan Ptrol, a Toyota Landcruiser, then a move to the farm meant a Toyota Dyna truck, the family grew so we got a Toyota HIace van, then a Landcruiser wagon with 10 seats, a Mazda van ( ) now dead :Da Holden ute which I learned to drive in, a NIssan E20 van which died of lead replacement petrol (Grrrr......) and finally teh hot Transit.

This one! ;D




oh, and that's me on the bonnet.

Smiler.

OOOOOO blimey

Several spitfires
A MK1 Transit Minibus LOL
Several Morris Oxfords
Heralds & Herald Estates
Mini Traveller
errrrrmm thats all i can think at the mo
also My gran (who has allways lived with my parents) had a minor up until she stopped driving in about 1985, shed had it from new and i remember being gutted and telling her to keep it cos i wanted it when i started to drive LOL (i was 10 at the time!)
My dad allways used to go on holiday in his dads 'company' loan car which was a spilt window bug, cos he was a mechanic at Star garage in Ware dealing with all the early VW's They had 3 kids, so why they never asked to use a camper instead i don't know LOL
and another thing i remember was my dads mates 412 - he was allways moaning about it cos it was allways breaking down!!

I'm sure there loads more but i can't remember em LOL

My Dads had a shed load of cars, wouldn't be able to list them all here, road going and racing

2 of my fav's, although they weren't the most modified.

mk2 austin a40 with lotus steels, lowered with a lucas reversing lamp, weber carb and modified head. The second being a volvo p1800 on dunlop wheels in a dark blue, looked mint.

The reason to laugh is that it would have been an English Transit, complete with either a wimpy V4 of a tiny diesel. Now, if it had been an Australian Transit, with a 130hp 3.3 inline six...........Who'se laughing now? and with a couple of hours and some spanners you can replace the engine with the 160hp 4.1 six, identical apart from capacity but not offered in Transits. We went one better by using the crossflow alloy head version and using a 4 speed box too, but the crossflow is a curse word to fit in a Mk1. It is too wide and you have to cut and weld a little box to fit around the inlet manifold and "adjust" the heater intake plenum to clear the carby. The upside is that you now have power oversteer in 3rd gear whenever you want it ;D ;D

My dad had:

Ford Pop
Vauxhaul Victor
Several MKI and MKII Escorts (as company cars)
Mini Traveller
MKI, MKII and MKIII Sierra's, including a ltd edition 2.0i GLS
MKII Granada 2.8i Ghia Lux X Pack
MKII Vauxhaul Senator 3.0ltr Coupe
MKIV (?) Granada ltd 2.4i Ghia
Cavalier Diplomat (L reg)
2001 Subaru Forester 2.0ltr Turbo S (same as Scooby WRX)

I'm sure he had a few more cars before the Ford Pop, but I can't remember.

3 mini coopers
2 mini cooper s's
2 vw beetles
vauxhall estate(a bit like the sport wagon)
bmw 3.0 cs(lovely lovely motor)
bmw 325i sport(now mine)
and now he's got a boxter(i upset him when i told him my beetle is faster ;D)

...except of course, when he was in a hurry to go anywhere backwards!*


*apologies to any users that didn't get my DAF-related humour.