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My Dad had a penchant for small engines, and also used to buy right sheds, run them 12 months, then scrap them. First I can remember was a Reliant Rebel estate. It threw a rod one morning when me and my mum were going up town - and I can remember being put in my pushchair for the rest of the way so it must have been '76/'77 Then after that: Bedford HA van '76 2CV in Orange '71 Ami8 '72 Ami8 '71 Renault 6 '74 Daf 44 estate? '74 Ami8 Estate GLG630N '82 Visa VRF77X '79 Renault 4 (I learned to drive in this, mum had it for years) RHF270T '82 Renault 4 (Big Bro learned to drive in this, rolled it 6 days later) CGB591X '86 Cherry C963YUM (Definite pun there) Why the question mk on the 44 estate?
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![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/weblefeck/Scanned%20Stuff/IMG_0002.jpg) ![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/weblefeck/Scanned%20Stuff/IMG_0001.jpg) More rust than the titanic! Cam rattled like frozen peas in a biscuit tin. I don't think my dad ever lifted the bonnet to check anything and i only remember it having brake pads and a backbox in 3 years! Used to pull the caravan! Did some miles in that. As far as i was concered it was the coolest thing, cause the kids next door, their dad only had an A-reg 1.6 Cavalier, and we were forever using the Sierra to tow their cavalier home when it rained. My brother also got banned from driving the sierra when it took it out once after passing his test and 180'd it on a busy island in the wet.... would have been ok but he had mom in the car! pmsl
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The two clearest memories I have are of family holidays. My folks used to have a Cortina 2.3 (reg. MOO 840V) - the head gasket blew whilst driving through the Pyrenees, I remember there being no water available and my dad having to top up the rad with snow! Also, one time in their Cavalier 2000GLS (reg. DKG 494V - pic below) the exhaust fell off in southern France, we had a very noisy drive back to Blighty with it on the back seat between me and my sister. 'Don't touch that, it's hot!' ![](http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a106/DBevis/Motors%20of%20Dan/Cavalier.jpg)
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LOL and this! ![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/weblefeck/Scanned%20Stuff/IMG_0060.jpg) brought to fill a space cause our Freight rover Sherpa 310 minibus died (which we'd sold the Above Sierra to buy), we'd borrowed a Datsun Cherry but needed a car of our own! Got it from a carboot sale of all places! Came WITH a small wooden trailer (which we needed for holidays and stuff! lol) Pinked lots under load, but never let us down... EVER! Went all over on holidays, trailer in tow! Eventually after recovering financially from the Freightrover fiesta got traded in for this..... trailer got sold soon after as not needed! ![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/weblefeck/Scanned%20Stuff/IMG_0036.jpg) ![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/weblefeck/Scanned%20Stuff/IMG_0032.jpg)
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My Dad had a penchant for small engines, and also used to buy right sheds, run them 12 months, then scrap them. First I can remember was a Reliant Rebel estate. It threw a rod one morning when me and my mum were going up town - and I can remember being put in my pushchair for the rest of the way so it must have been '76/'77 Then after that: Bedford HA van '76 2CV in Orange '71 Ami8 '72 Ami8 '71 Renault 6 '74 Daf 44 estate? '74 Ami8 Estate GLG630N '82 Visa VRF77X '79 Renault 4 (I learned to drive in this, mum had it for years) RHF270T '82 Renault 4 (Big Bro learned to drive in this, rolled it 6 days later) CGB591X '86 Cherry C963YUM (Definite pun there) Why the question mk on the 44 estate? Wasn't sure whether it was a 44, it was 30 years ago, and I was only 6.
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'83 GTM Coupe. 4A-GE Powered '00 GTM Libra Auto. Ick. '71 Detomaso Pantera. Current Resto '89 GMC Safari Tow/Kip bus '05 SAAB 9-3 Daily '71 Siva Moonbug. Not even contemplating resto yet.
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Ahh I understand and with the 44, 46, and 55 all looking fairly similar I can understand that. Being a 74 model unlikely a 46 I don't think they had been released yet again unlikely to be a 55 as the 66 was out then. I would say your probably right solid grilled aircooled twin pot 44. The best of all of them ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) have a pic this what you remember ok this is a 72 model but theres not a huge difference other than rubber capped bumpers ![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3624/3421948366_5c2e630ed7.jpg)
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Last Edit: Mar 17, 2010 9:51:03 GMT by pauldaf44
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Mar 17, 2010 10:09:57 GMT
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Yeah, that looks familiar. The only things I remember about it are: It was M reg. It was red. And when drive belts fail it's like a gun going off.
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'83 GTM Coupe. 4A-GE Powered '00 GTM Libra Auto. Ick. '71 Detomaso Pantera. Current Resto '89 GMC Safari Tow/Kip bus '05 SAAB 9-3 Daily '71 Siva Moonbug. Not even contemplating resto yet.
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Mar 17, 2010 10:12:21 GMT
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Yeah it does make you jump, everything I know whos had it happening says it like someone letting of a shotgun under the back seat. Most tend to go when pulling away and then they aren't as dramatic.
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Mar 17, 2010 10:30:23 GMT
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Being a child of the 70's I have 2 distinct memories of my Dad's MK1 Triumph 2000, having the backs of my legs burnt alive by the vinyl seats on the proper Summer days we had back then ;D
and it being the first car I was in that hit 100mph
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Mar 17, 2010 10:50:15 GMT
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I have a vague memory of my mum reversing her Renault 6 in to the wall outside my nursery school. I must've been 3ish. No recollection of the next car (although I know it was a Renault 12 estate from photos) but clearly remember the brand new T reg Lada 1200 because it was utter rubbish and kept breaking down on the school run - usually on the dual carraigeway between Linwood and Paisley. Then there was the unforgettable CGA 70X - a bright blue 2CV. Dad refused to buy the yellow one with stuck on bullet holes and 007 stickers. ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png) Round about the same time Dad had a T reg Peugeot 504 estate. One day it was really bad weather, so we (my 2 brothers and I)were taken to see the ferries at Wemyss Bay - except we never got there because we were swamped by a massive wave and the car stopped dead. We were stuck in the car for ages, with massive waves pounding us. Then plod arrived and shut the road...and we got rescued somehow. Car was a bit damp for a while after that. I also remember a friend's dad's BMW 2002 convertible - because of the day the rear wheel fell off on the way to school.
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1982 Mercedes 280TE
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Mar 17, 2010 11:27:12 GMT
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I remember traveling to Cornwall from Sheffield in a yellow Suzuki Carry.
Me, my sister and the camping gear in the back, Mum and Dad in the front. We stopped at a place my mum thought was called "Shop" as it was written on the front of the petrol station we had pulled in at.
We set up the table on the forcourt (was about 6am and we had been traveling all night) and set up the camping stove. Mum popped across the road to get matches.
Notice where this is going yet?
On the way back, it dawned on my dad that starting a fry-up on a petrol station forcourt is probably not the best plan.
And it wasn't a place called shop. It was the shop at the petrol station.
My dad has had Cortinas (which he got one stuck up at ladybower) and a Granada that spun it's big end bearings on the way home from picking it up. Our neighbours must have loved us, as we've had a Lime Ceased (lived on a quarry) Series III Landrover, which we used for spares for my Series I, an MG Metro, a Unimog, My rotten Mini, a big gypsy caravan complete with cut glass, A 4x4 Panda Sisley, 2 normal pandas (one painted in dulux pink) An Ice Cream Van and a MK2 transit for spares. Normally, no less than 3 cars parked outside at any given time.
If anyone's of suitable age, they may also remember a white Suzuki Carry or Bedford Rascal in Sheffield, with a tiled roof and pictures of monkeys swinging from ladders on the side, the company was Gutterclean. Another one of my dad's adventures.
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retrolegends
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Mar 17, 2010 13:52:18 GMT
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My dad had a rally yellow Bettle 1300 the reg was GBC662N and we used to travel to Ilfracombe from Burton on Trent for our hols.All the was down the A38! It used to take about 9 hours and was like sitting on a crate with a compressor next to your head.Still have a soft spot for the old Dubs though even if my ass was permantently deformed by them!
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1974 Hillman Avenger 1500DL1992 Volvo 240SE1975 Datsun Cherry 100a flying custard1965 Hillman SuperMinx Rock N Roller1974 Austin Allegrat Mk1 1.3SDL1980 Austin Allegro Mk3 1.3L1982 Austin Allegro Mk3 on banded steels2003 Saab 9-3 Convertible 220bhp TurboNutter1966 Morris Minor 1000 (Doris) 2019 Abarth 595C Turismo (not retro but awesome fun) www.facebook.com/DatsunCherry100a
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Brian Damaged
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Mar 17, 2010 17:21:20 GMT
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Not a childhood memory as I was 23 at the time, but a DAF-related one. So seeing as it's 22 years ago I'll use a little artistic licence... ![](http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs028.snc1/4288_89640606407_665941407_2283661_8073343_n.jpg) This 1974 DAF 66 belonged to one of my work colleagues, who was also a petrolhead. One wet Saturday in 1988 we were hanging out at the rolling-road tuning place in the Black Country (and no it WASN'T Aldon, it's long defunct.....last I heard the owner was in prison) who used to sponsor the road-rally Avenger I used to navigate in. It was commonplace to have a bit of a play with whatever customer cars we had in for service on a Saturday afternoon. Naughty, but MEH. Who cares. The industrial estate where the business was situated was new at the time, and once the other factories had closed down for the weekend we had the place to ourselves. One of the stupid games we used to play involved timed laps of the estate with each of us taking turns, and the loser ending up buying fish & chips for everyone else. It was great fun, Over the months I got to drive everything from Lada 1300 rally cars to full-race Alfasuds to Porsche 944's, Lotus Sunbeams and even once a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow on one memorable occasion.. On the Saturday in question however, there was nothing suitable. So David volunteered his trusty (but unloved) DAF 66. Before you start wailing and gnashing your teeth may I point out that this was 1988....and rather than being quirky but cool as it would be viewed these days, back then it was just some 14 year-old piece of cheap foreign junk. I think it was a one-owner car with about 30k on it from memory, but Dave had paid next to nothing for it...because back then stuff like this was basically worthless. Anyway, I digress. The Variomatic transmission on these gives a sort of LSD effect.....that, allied to the soaking wet conditions meant that after a bit of practice lappery all of us were drifting like heroes with 1108cc of wheezing asthmatic Renault OHV pig-iron screaming its gonads off under the bonnet, and two skinny 145x13 tyres struggling manfully to get what little actual power it had down to the tarmac......and failing. After comparing times we were all within a second of one another, so we decided to have a final play-off lap each to decide the winner. I drew the short straw, and went first. Now I'd been hatching a plan. Across the road from the unit was a reasonably large-sized factory, with a small landscaped rose garden extending about 30ft in front of the offices. I reckoned that garden was good for at least four tenths of a second if I managed to set the car up properly, and drift across it. So I hammered the hapless DAF up to about 50mph on the back straight, round the back of the units, and then threw it into a four-wheeled drift just before I exited onto the main straight past our unit. I couldn't have judged it better. The front bumper missed the corner of the building by about 2" (I was told afterwards) while the now completely sideways DAF collected rosebushes, grass, rocks, trellis, posts and clumps of earth all along one side and scattered them in the direction of the assembled throng (well, half a dozen Brummies, cheering and convulsing with laughter anyway) before trailing half a ton of mud down the tarmac, fishtailing wildly. Result. Over a second faster!! Well, that was it. Everyone had a go. The competition was forgotten, and for a good hour we thrashed this poor little DAF mercilessly round and round, until you couldn't see what colour it was. What was once a nicely landscaped factory garden looked like the Somme, and the industrial estate resembled something akin to Lydden Hill when BBC Grandstand used to film the Rallycross. It all had to go wrong though, and fortunately for the rest of us it was its owner Dave who overcooked it round the back of the units, and deposited the DAF upside-down in a stream. Once we'd dragged him up the bank and all stopped laughing we did the only decent thing which was to torch it, and go to the pub. The guy who ran the RR business told the landlords/police we'd gone home early on the Saturday in question, the DAF had been left outside as there was no room, so someone must have broken into it and joyridden it. What a mess. The youth of today, eh?. Harumph. ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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Mar 17, 2010 17:51:53 GMT
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Peugeot 205s...
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Mar 17, 2010 21:17:55 GMT
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hmmm, the first car Iactually remember travelling in was my brother in laws morris traveller (when I was small, I went all over the place with my sister and her boyfriend before they married). He sold that in 76 and then bought a beetle that he still owns today. However, the first car that I actually travelled in was my dads mk II Jag.
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Mar 17, 2010 21:23:06 GMT
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the first family car I remember having was a 1973 Audi 100LS, dad bought it brand new, it was bright red. i loved that car. at the same time my mum had a mini countryman also in red that they kept till 76 when dad bought her a new Fiat 128 3P. I loved the Audi and the Fiat but never liked the mini.
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Mar 17, 2010 21:34:02 GMT
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I seem to remember loads of our old cars. My Dad had a thing for 'unusual' cars when everyone else was getting Escorts, he came home with a Skoda 100. When he was bored of that he got a Fiat 850 followed by a Herald convertible. I also remember travelling to the south of France in the back of an Avenger estate which I was gutted when we sold for a Chevette 4dr. Looking back, the unusual cars my Dad bought probably set me on the path to appreciating the 'out of the ordinary' today. ;D
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1981 VW T25
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Mar 17, 2010 21:56:22 GMT
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yeah, my dad had all sorts, skodas, ladas, vw campers, vivas, etc, etc. In fact he changed cars like normal people change underpants. My older brother was the same, only he had slightly more exotic tastes. My all time fav of his fleet was a lotus europa back in 89-90. Bloody loved that car. Oh and his xj sport as well ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Mar 17, 2010 22:06:16 GMT
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Brian, that's the best car story ever!* ;D
*I don't condone reckless driving or speeding. Except this time ;D
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1989 Peugeot 205. You know, the one that was parked in a ditch on the campsite at RRG'17... the glass is always full. but the ratio of air to water may vary.
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Mar 17, 2010 22:18:03 GMT
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mine was the ford cortina estate my dad had, followed by the 2 austin montegos he had, these where really nice cars, one was a red saloon that was an ex-display that was all kitted out.
ill see if i can get some picture of them
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