What car did your dad drive...

theghost

Hillman Minx. Then another Hillman Minx. Then Ford Cortina. This was the first car we had that had a radio in it. After that he stayed with Ford until sometime in the late 80's/early 90's when he switched to a Seat. Then Toyota.

s_upergirl

My Dad's first car was a red 1983 Ford Fiesta - no seat belts back then (great for the car game LOL) and on a Sunday 4 adults and 3 kids would cram in for trip to the Dublin mountains - my Dad used put a blanket on the engine at night to stop it freezing but totally forgot it one day and realized when loads of black smoke poured from under the bonnet!!;)

Amalgam

My father had a thing about the Opel Kadett. We might have had a 'B' type first, but the first one I remember was the C type.



It was a bit like the Ford Model T, any colour as long as it was either: glossy brown or red\orange..

Inside was pitch black from one end to the other. Like an oven in hot weather, soaked up the heat. Seats had a dimpled square pattern on them, great car to sit in as a kid.

carchaeologist

There used to be loads of those Kadetts around back in the day,and your description is perfect!:D

fryup

yes there sure was,

my old man had a....

kadett

followed by another kadett

then a Renault 16 (gear stick by the steering wheel)

then a Opel Ascona (orange in colour yuk!)

and then a Ford Orion (with four speakers WoW!)

got car sick in all of them except the Orion was a bit older then

carchaeologist

fryup wrote: »

then a Renault 16 (gear stick by the steering wheel)

Bit of trivia about the Renault16,the wheelbase on one side was slightly shorter than the other. The Renault 4 was the same aswell i think. It was because of the design of the torsion bar rear suspension.

L1011

Parents sharing their car era:
Fiat Uno, 84KE665, still have the plates and the ashtray out of her here. Scrapped it
Fiat Uno 94KE902, sold on; was on the road till recently
Fiat Punto 96D36868, sold to my brother, scrapped
Fiat Punto MkII, sold on to my sister, "traded in" (read: scrapped) by her for an Alfa Romeo Brera, some changeover!

Seperate cars era, Mammy:
Fiat Punto MkII 3dr, sold on to my brother and written off in a crash
Fiat Panda

Seperate cars era, Dad:
Fiat Stilo, sold on
Fiat Panda, sold on to my brother
Fiat Grande Punto


You may notice a bit of a theme here...

fergal.b

My dad had a love for citroen, This one was amazing it's head lights turned with the steering and you could raise up the car in floods

Agricola

The first car I remember him driving was a new Toyota Corolla 1980 model. We kept that car in everyday use up until 93/94 i think.

WDW1111

Through the 70s and into the 80s my Dad had several Vauxhall Vivas followed by several Toyota Corollas, they were always in good nick. My Mum though had one crappy mini after the other. Half the time we could look right through the floor and see the road passing underneath. I remember one trip to a town about 20 miles away in a mini with 3 adults, 5 kids and a load of shopping thrown in on top of us - talk about sardines!! There was one kid in the window, one in the footwell and the rest just squished in wherever they would fit :eek:

carchaeologist

WDW1111 wrote: »

My Mum though had one crappy mini after the other. Half the time we could look right through the floor and see the road passing underneath.

I remember a story a woman i used to work with told me of a wedding she went to. The brides dress got covered in mud from hanging out the floor of the Mini she was heading to the church in and she didnt realise till she got to the church!

Its amazing how rotten some cars were back in the day (and that day wasnt that long ago either) in this country and still driving around.

Another story was of a lad with a Fiat 131 Mirafiori. The rear end was collapsing from rust so he wedged bit of timber between the C pillars to get another month or two out of the car untill he could afford another.

And my friend with a Fiat 132. He could see where the fuel filler pipe went into the car and down under the boot floor because all the quarter panel was gone from rust,and he regularly used to get 90+ MPH out of the car in that state.

Even my uncles 1979 KP60 Starlet RWD in the mid 90s. The front strut towers were so rotten one of the struts came up through the bonnet,he repaired it by bolting heavy flat bar tho the side of the engine bay and bending it over the top of the strut and bolting the strut to that...I remember sitting in the rear seat of that car and putting my hands out through the quarter panel onto the road(when the car wasnt moving!:eek:)
He used to race a Starlet in Rosegreen at the same time and the racecar was in much better order!:D

How things have changed now. Many cars were scrapped back then because they could not physically move anymore,nowadays cars seen to be scrapped for many trivial reasons.

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

why do you have such a big interest in cars??

are you a mechanic, dealer??

carchaeologist

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

why do you have such a big interest in cars??

are you a mechanic, dealer??

Lol,no on both counts,well,i guess id call myself an amateur mechanic.:D

Dunno,just like old motors!:pac:

pearliefan

fergal.b wrote: »

My dad had a love for citroen, This one was amazing it's head lights turned with the steering and you could raise up the car in floods

My dad loved Citroen as well! The DS is still his dream car. We had these when I was younger though;

Citroen 2CV


Citroen XM

Terrontress

fergal.b wrote: »

My dad had a love for citroen, This one was amazing it's head lights turned with the steering and you could raise up the car in floods

Did your dad have one of those? Is that an ID or a DS?

I have always loved Citroens. Don't drive one but my sister has a C1. We had a DS for our wedding car. We were getting married in NI and I tried and tried to get a C6 for the bridesmaids car but could not. In desperation I got in touch with Citroen UK who phoned and said that if I had given them more time they would have sorted it out and put us in their magazine but it was too late.

Pearliefan's dad's XM is cool too. I remember being really impressed with the dot matrix display

barleybooley

My dad had blue Peugeot 405 or 406 estate style van. I can still remember the number plate FIS 415, the shame of having to clamber out of the back of it in the mornings going to school. Looking back, I'm pretty sure he loved it because he got a new one in 1998 (a Peugeot Expert) and got rid of that two years later in favour of a Transit. Don't know what he had before those as I was but a twinkle in his eye at that stage!

zilog_jones

305 van maybe? Like this: http://www.peugeot305.co.uk/db/images/photographs/van/frank_morskate/van_01.jpg
405 wasn't out till 1987 and I don't recall any van versions, also FIS 415 was registered to a 1985 Toyota Carina

Twin-go

Here what I can remember:

'77 Hillman Avenger - Red with a black vinyl roof
'81 Chrysler Sunbeam - White with red plastic seats (hot, hot, hot in summer)
'87 Toyota Carina liftback - Gold - first brand new car
'90 Toyota Carina - Red
'93 Mazda 626 - green - first car I "drove" up and down the driveway
'96 Opel Vectra - Black - I think it was the CD sport spec. Used to loose power when driving at 60mph:eek:
'99 Honda Accord - Silver
'01 Merc C200 Kompresser coupe - Black
'01 Ford Focus Ghia H/B 1.6 - Blue. The car I passed my driving test in first time:D

2 car house from here on:
'03 Ford Focus Ghia 1.6 - Silver
'04 Ford Fiesta Ghia 1.4 auto - worst car ever!!
'08 Toyota Rav4 - Blue
'10 Ford Mondeo 2.0TCDi TitaniumX - Best car he has owned

Dunjohn

My dad swore by Toyota and still does. We got a new car every two years (company car, something about impressing customers) and it was always either a Carina or a Corrola.

Then in the early nineties, the school run became problematic so we became a two-car house, and all we could afford for Mum was a second-hand Ford Fiesta that was soon nicknamed the "Crock." It looked a bit odd in the driveway, this ancient, battered, matte blue yoke beside the shiny metallic Corrola. At one point it had fungus growing beside the pedals. It was eventually replaced by a Toyota Starlet that lasted years.

Gneez

Toyota liteace a 1.1 litre yellow piece of **** that ended up with go-fast puke stains because I used to always get car sick and he would refuse to pull over so I would hurl out the window on any long drives

Pittybitty

My mam had a baby blue Fiat 127 - I LOVED it!! I cried when she got rid of it and got a 1985 micra

My dad had a yellow 1977 toyota celica (still has it, an ongoing restoration project) and then an 1987 toyota corolla

Now they have a 09 avensis - my dad is a big toyota fan

carchaeologist

Pittybitty wrote: »

My dad had a yellow 1977 toyota celica (still has it, an ongoing restoration project)

One like this? HAWT!

Blue850

Pittybitty wrote: »

My mam had a baby blue Fiat 127 - I LOVED it!! I cried when she got rid of it and got a 1985 micra

My dad had a yellow 1977 toyota celica (still has it, an ongoing restoration project) and then an 1987 toyota corolla

Now they have a 09 avensis - my dad is a big toyota fan

How about an 2nd ongoing project:D




Baby blue 127 project lol

taffeta

The one that sticks out in my head is a silver Datsun Cherry with an orange stripe. That was early to mid 80's I think.

Pittybitty

carchaeologist wrote: »

One like this? HAWT!

Yup - that exact one

carchaeologist

Anyone else have any additions to this thread?:D

Lawrence1895

carchaeologist wrote: »

Anyone else have any additions to this thread?:D

Yes, I would like to add my dad's Volkswagen Beetle. Those cars were just popular in Germany back in the 1970s.

chakotha

A mini in the early 70's.
Fiat 124
Silver Ford Cortina
Ford Escort
Datsun Bluebird
Volvo 240
Opel Omega
Another Volvo
Fiat Multipla (weird looking from the outside but comfy inside)
Land Rover

bbam

Here goes from what I can remember, not in exact order... some of these were my mam's too..

Ford Anglia
Austin A35
Chrysler Avenger
Chrysler Alpine (New)
Hilman Hunter (with dodgey LPG kit)
Morris 1100
3* Citroen GS Pallas (All new)
Mk1 ford Escort
MK3 Ford Escort (New)
Renault 12
Fiat 127 (New)
Ford Popular (Vintage Project)
Datsun 100A
Datsun Cherry
Renault 18TD (New)
Peaugeot 305
Renault 19


Looking back it was a very Eclectic mix, he was on the road alot clocking up the miles

Starokan

my folks had the brightest orange VW beetle you can imagine.

i must try dig out a picture of it. The noise of it was unnatural!