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What car did your dad drive...
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A junkheap Renault 4 van.
The roof was rusted where it met the side walls,there was a hole in the floor so large you could see the ground as you drove along and driving along was rare in itself as the car almost never started and needed to be pushed.
Followed by a scrapheap Fiat 128
It eventually gave up teh ghost completely and was parked on blocks in the driveway for years.
My father had converted it into a greenhouse and the wrecked car was used as a local landmark to our acute embaressment.0 -
First one I remember is one of these
Same colour as the one in the pc.... neary sure the reg was IMI 777
If not it might have been the reg of the replacement
Same colour as the one in the pic but with ......*shudder*.... black vinyl roof.
Then came the unforgettable
That got turned into an accordion outside the factory where me dad worked by a lorry full of pigs...
Then THIS!!!
After that a load of vans... Lite Aces mostly
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The highlight of my childhood was dad buying a brand new car,we only ever bought second hand ones before this,so I will forever remember it.
A cream with brown horizontal stripe, Ford escort- and the plastic covering on the seats which we tried to keep intact forever.
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Something like this beast...?0 -
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My Dad had
Ford Cortina IBI 606
Hillman Hunter (spent more time stopped than running)
Datsun 160J 565 HZD
Ford Granada Giha 753 RIK with vinyl roof
Opel Rekord 839 AZL - really comfortable car
Nissan Laurel 200L - got written off on the Phoenix Park
Nissan Laurel 240E SGL Auto SI 720 (I think). Nice car. Electric everything.
VW Passat 89D37412 - I took ownership of this later, no power steering :eek:
VW Golf 1999
VW Golf 2001
VW Passat 2004
Citroen C4 2008 - current car.
My Ma had
2x VW Beetles - KZC 974 (plates still in Dad's shed) and KID 410
Datsun Cherry - (plate escapes me)
VW Golf Mk I 24 EZI
After I comandeered the Golf she drove Dad's cars.
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My dad's car was a Ford popular 103E
Not our car by the way. I think it is a different reg number.
I actually drove one of these a few years ago.
3 speed box. Reverse where you'd think first would be.
Feels unsafe at speeds over 45MPH & that's in broad daylight on a dry road!
Still, I spose they were better than hitching up a pony & trap which is what they replaced really.0 -
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raggedyman wrote: »With those huge fins, I thought that 1960 Belvedere was the coolest, but it was a piece of junk. That's why Dad stopped getting Plymouths and started buying GM cars.
Mopar or no car! 0 -
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1970-ish Opel Record Estate
- Red
- Lots of chrome
- My Dad used to need an estate to travel the country selling clothes wholesale to small shops
1972 Peugeot 504 GL- White, new
- Nice bit of luxury (for those days): cloth seats, carpet, rear armrest, good sound-proofing.
- Loved being in it (i was about 4 years old when we got it). Dad liked to save money by buying stuff in bulk from wholesalers (like shoe polish, tins of beans, firelighters...), and one time he got a whole case of banannas from the fruit market, stored them in the boot of the car too long, and the car acquired this smell of ripening bannanas, which it never really got rid of - hated that smell after a while!
- Dad liked this car bacause it was really reliable (in the days when cars were generally not very reliable) - it had won the Paris-Dakar rally several times in the early '70s.
1978 Toyota Corolla K30- New, left plastic seat covers on it for about a year :pac:
- Yellow, 4-door
- Amazing luxury: cloth seats, tinted windows, standard radio, other stuff I can't remember
- Really reliable, mechanically.
- Really poor rust-proofing, rust would bubble up under the paintwork continually, Dad had to get it resprayed several times (he must have known someone that could do it cheaply, because resprays are hugely expensive).
- This was Mam's car.
- My brother and I learned to drive in this down the country when on holidays in the caravan: I was about 13 - needed a cushion to sit on to see over the steering wheel :eek: :pac:
1978-ish Peugeot 504 Estate GX
- Diesel, sounded like a tractor.
- Vinyl seats, not as luxurious as the 504 GL... this was a true commercial vehicle.
- Didn't like it.
1983 Peugeot 505 GRD Estate
- Blue, diesel, bought new (sold red 504 estate).
- Beautiful car, loved it. Nice bit of luxury inside.
1981-ish Opel Kadette Diesel Saloon
- Sold the Corolla and got this.
- 1.6 Diesel, black :cool:
- Nice car, slow, lot's of MPG, reliable.
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i cannot believe that no-one has owned up to this.
late 1970's british leyland princess in that colour. i can still rem he crashed on the way to knock. i might only have been 7 but i took it as a good sign.
followed that with a renault 25. it had electric windows.0 -
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Can't believe I'm only finding this forum now! Loving it!
From the year I was born (1989) to now, the aul lad drove the following:
198? Toyota Corolla. Beast of a car so I was told. She was robbed thrice and met her firey death at theft number 3 in 1991. Tough life. RIP
After the Corolla, he had a 1989 Peugeot 305 which broke his heart but he will always maintain that it was the most comfortable car he has ever owned.
The Peugeot was replaced in 1992 by a brand new Ford Sierra
No, it wasn't a Cosworth This is where, at the tender age of 3, I grew a love for all things drivable. I can actually remember the day when this car was sold and I was distraught. Can't remember exactly what year that was. 1994 maybe.
He was forced to take a step back and the Sierra was replaced with a 1990 Nissan Sunny which he owned till 1999. He had that years and it ended up been passed down to my brother, who then passed it on to my sister until it came to a firey end in 2002. RIP. I always say that that Sunny would still be in the family somewhere if she wasn't stolen and burnt out.
Dad bought a brand new Ford Focus in 1999. We were the talk of the street with our brand new car which had only been launched to the market! :P Power steering and electric windows??!! WOW! This was the car that made my father swear that he'd never buy a brand new car again. I really don't blame him. It was identical to this:
My brother went to Oz for a year back in 2004 and left his 2001 Punto behind. My Dad decided to buy the Punto off him while he was away, and he'd put both the Focus and Punto up for sale. It was a competition between both cars. Whatever car sold first would be gone and the car that didn't sell would live with us. Guess what car didn't sell? The f****n Punto! I won't even bother going into that. We'll be here for days.
That Punto overstayed its welcome and was replaced with the Top Gear car of 2005, a 2003 Suzuki Liana. Identical to this minus this horrible wheels.
He still has it. I've asked him to sell it but he won't. I despise it but he is happy out with it. She is not my cup of tea but is very solid and has many more years left in her which keeps dad happy.
Those were the cars from 1989. Before that, off the top of my head, I think my Dad has owned a Ford Cortina, a MK1 Escort, a MK2 Escort, a few Beetles, some sort of Skoda and some sort of Austin.
Of course, our dad has had his fair share of vans too. Mostly company vans. A Lite-ace, a Vanette, a Caddy, a Hiace and a Vivaro. I have a van that he uses from time to time too.
Wow that took ages to type. Great reading all the other stories too
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