Club Arnage
Club Arnage => General Discussion => Topic started by: Lord Steve on May 26, 2009, 09:01:51 pm
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Just a little motoring related side issue to fill in the next two weeks.
Can you remember cars that your Dad had and what were your favourites.....?
Mine:
Austin Maxi, Austin Ambassador and a Morris Marina. Oh and a Mini Cooper!
I know, I know but my Dad, God bless him, was an Austin / Morris / BMC / British Leyland / Rover dealer.
He did, however borrow Chris Rea's dad's Rolls Royce for a week. That was fun being taken to school in it!!
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Well M'Lord it's like this from my memory
MY DAD HAD
Austin A35 / Morris Oxford / Ford Zephyr / Mark 3 Cortina 2000GT / BMW 2002i
Leg amputaion now owns a something or other called a perdoua Mivi micro car thingy wotsit.
Fav - Mark 3 cortina, he tried to teach me to drive in it, I did a 180 in a gravel carpark as my foot slipped off spring loaded clutch with loads a right foot, Shat a brick............
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You might be sorry you started this thread, I have a list ready.....you see, my Dad's a car guy, as many of your's are also and my grandfather owned an Olds dealership. Here's his list (hope the formatting works out), he'll be 81 in July:
1932 Ford Model B 4 Black 2 door yellow wheels hit mayors husband
1934 Plymouth Custom 6 Black 4 door trunk model hit house
1934(5) Buick Victoria 8 Black 2 door rolled over 3 times
1937 Buick Special 8 Black 4 door 6 wheeler rebuilt, 2 spares in fender
1941 Chevy Special Deluxe 6 Dark green 2 door
1939 Buick Special 8 Black Convert w/ red leather 2 door
1940 Olds 98 8 Wine red 4 door first automatic
1933 Plymouth Custom 6 Dark blue 4 door drove 20 miles
1934 Chevy Sport Coupe 6 Black 2 door
1935 Chevy Standard 6 Black 4 door somebody died in it
1939 LaSalle Custom sedan V8 Silver gray 4 door bought wrecked
1949 Nash Statesman 6 2 tone brown 2 door bathtub demonstrator
1940 LaSalle Custom sedan V8 Dark gray 4 door
1946 Ford Deluxe V8 Black 2 door
1942 Olds 78 8 Maroon 4 door
1946 DeSoto Custom 6 Cream convertible 2 door
1948 Buick Super 8 Black 4 door run into ground
1950 Buick Roadmaster 8 Bronze gray 2 door best car, No.1
1951 Olds 88 V8 Dark blue 2 door 1 wreck
1950 Chevy Special Deluxe 6 Black 2 door drive 1 month
1951 Buick Riviera Roadmaster 8 cyl 2 tone Blue hardtop 2 door 2 months
1954 Olds Super 88 V8 Cream-white 2 door
1942 Chevy Fleetline 6 Dark Green 2 door new, drove into ground
1955 Olds Super 88 V8 Dark gray-white 4 door new
1947 Ford Custom V8 Black 4 door
1950 Studebaker Champion 6 Red 4 door got in junk yard $50
1950 Olds 98 V8 Silver gray 2 door coupe 250,000 miles
1953 Olds 88 V8 Dark green 2 door
1951 Buick Super 8 Black 4 door - prison commander drove 2 weeks
1951 Ford Custom V8 Fire Engine Red convertible
1940 Ford Custom V8 Dark green wood station wagon sold for $75.00
1954 Ford Custom V8 White convertible 2 door
1954 Olds Super 88 8 Dark blue white 4 door Cindy came home in
1950 Dodge Deluxe 6 Black sedan 4 door drove 2 weeks
1953 Buick Special 8 Gray white hardtop coupe
1953 Chevy Bel-Air 6 Dark green white 2 door lemon
1957 Olds Super 88 V8 SeaMist Rose/White hardtop, station wagon 140,000 miles, brought to Fla
1953 DeSoto Super Sedan V8 Black 4 door $35.00
1963 Mercedes 190 4 Light blue 4 door worst car ever owned
1964 Ford Custom V8 White 4 door (Galaxy ?)
1961 Mercury Comet 6 Black 4 door drove 1 month
1962 Chevy Corvair 4 Yellow convertible worst car ever made
1953 Olds Super 88 V8 Dark green 4 door
1968 Mercury (Montego?) V8 Yellow & black Fastback 2 door
1970 Mercury Marquis V8 Maroon 4 door stolen – best car No.2
1956 Plymouth Savoy 6 Light green 2 door
1972 Mercury Marquis V8 White Station Wagon (Colony Park?)
1970 Mercury Marquis V8 Maroon 4 door replaced 1st 70 Marquis
1967 Jaguar 420 6 Black 4 door (was Earl’s)
1979 Mercury Marquis V8 2 tone blue 2 door coupe demolished in 6 days
1980 Mercury Marquis V8 Red & white new 2 door drove into ground
1970 Chevy Camaro 6 Orange 2 door drove 1 month
1967 Pontiac LeMans V8 Blue 2 door
1973 Chevy V8 Light green
1983 Mercury Cougar V6 Dark gray/light gray 2 door Best Car No.3
1969 Mercury Marquis V8 Yellow 4 door
1976 GMC Suburban V8 ½ Ton Black & Silver
1986 GMC Suburban V8 ¾ Ton Red & Tan
1986 Cadillac Coupe DeVille V8 White on white lemon
1988 Lincoln Town Car V8 Light blue sedan Best Car No. 4*
1989 Jeep Cherokee 6 Bright red
1993 Ford Explorer V6 White 4 door
1997 Lincoln Continental V8 Pearl/Ivory 4 door (or 1995?)
1988 Lincoln Town Car V8 Light blue sedan 4 door *Bought 2nd time
2003 Ford Taurus V6 Green 4 door
2004 Ford Crown Victoria V8 White
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That is going to take some beating!
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Well impresive, well that explains NOT typing that collection in 7 mins flat
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well, when my dad did get a car, it was a
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It's not a competition....I just don't get to share this list with many "car guys"! Championaudi has impressive photos but for us in the States could you label them, I don't recognize them all....
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It's not a competition....I just don't get to share this list with many "car guys"! Championaudi has impressive photos but for us in the States could you label them, I don't recognize them all....
He has some nice old buses on "that" list
Austin A40 Farina
Vauxhall Viva
Ford Sierra
How far back should I go?
Dad had buggerall money and lots of very old cars over the years
Morris 8, Ford Prefect, BSA Dandy (sometimes no car at all!) really much older Fords that showed a family resemblance to the early Prefect, Austin A40 Devon, Austin A40 Somerset, Austin Seven, Austin Big Seven, Austin Ten, Various Hillman products including a gorgeous Drop Head coupe (which dad's mate then proceeded to destroy by braking when dad was trying to tow start him and ripped the body off the chassis)
Then he got modern
An Austin A35 (in which I learnt to drive) A Hillman Imp, An Austin 1100, A Triumph Herald or two. He had a Ford Escort van with windows in (took my young son around Scotland in that with him and mom) various others which I forget now (privilege of getting damned old, sorry) He had my wife's old M2 Ford Escort later followed by an 1500 Dolomite.
Then he got too ill to drive, but by heck he'd had a few hadn't he.
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Reminds me of this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw
So - we were so poor we had a (http://www.motorbase.com/uploads/2008/10/14/fs_copy_of______024.jpg) - light blue with a white go faster stripe (reg LHT _ _ _)
still scares me, only thing i rememmber is that you can drive along at a high speed (50mph -tops) with the door slid back (so it was wide open). When you broke, the door use to slam shut, if anything in the way - just like a mobile guillotine ;D
Oh yea - also
Moggie Traveller
Hillman Avenger
Fiat Poski Fiat (AHHHHHHHH)
and other crap (more to add as I remember in my nightmares)
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1930 Norton
2 big 1950's American cars when we lived in South America in the late 50's/60's, I'll try and find some photos to identify them.
Riley Pathfinder
Fiat 600
Renault r8
Rover 2000
Peugeot 504 estate
Peugeot 504 Ti x2
Renault Clio, which my Mun still runs.
My favourite was the first 504 Ti, quick car for the time, I was allowed to drive it when I was 18, I got in a lot of trouble with that one, I broke the prop shaft. ;D
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If we're just talking about what my dad had during my lifetime, it wasn't an exciting list (and I get confused as to what were his cars in his youth and which were his 3 brothers). Anyway there was a mid 70s Cougar up until about 1978, followed by a 1976 Audi Fox (badged as Audi 80 in Europe), and an early 80s Ford F100 pickup to get through the 1980s. A Chevy Corsica and Chevy Citation II replaced them in the early 90s. Since then, it's included a Ford Escort wagon, a Mazda pickup, and a Kia Rio.
Of those my favorite is the Corsica, if only because I split my time in high school driving that and the Citation, which was a piece of junk. Of course, since my first car was a ten year old but low mileage 1981 Escort, I couldn't complain too much. That car was my grandfather's and with only 32,000 miles put on in the first 10 years, the gaskets had dry-rotted.
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First car I remember my old man getting was a brand new 2.0 Granada in 1977; it was like being Cowley in the Professionals (OK, so his was a 3.0L, but they both had vinyl roofs, OK? :)) Before that, we had a series of Datsuns (including a 1.4L 120Y coupe which my Mum drove, probably the nearest thing they ever got to a performance car).
After that he had a Fiesta "Million" special edition 1.1 with a pop-up sunroof and special side stripe (woo hoo), an Escort 1.6 velour-tastic Ghia, a succession of turgid vans (such as brown Maestros, or even a bright orange Simca whose floor rusted away so you could see the road through the passenger footwell), then ended up down the Rover "man wearing a hat" brigade with a couple of 200-series ones, and has now ended his motoring days in a Yaris.
Not exactly petrolhead heaven then!
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Well my dad had.........
First car was a 1937 Armstrong Siddely not sure which one though.
Ford Anglia
Renault Dauphine
Austin a70
Standard Ensign
Vauxhall HA......this was my first car as he gave it to me to learn to drive in.
Vauxhall HB
Vauxhall HC
Fiat 128 Sport
Chrysler 2000
3 X Vauxhall Astra's and 2 X Nova's courtesy of mobility.
and now has "wings" so no need for four wheels!!!1 ;D
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Recent history aside which has seen a collection of small hatchbacks
Audi 80
Nissian Silvia
Ford XR3 (4 speed carb)
Trimph Stag
Alfa sud ti Black
Alfa Sud Red
Saab 99
others that spring to mind
VW Beetle,
Fiat 124
Mini
Ford Pliot (before my time)
Before that he was a bike person and had many that would be worth a small fortune now, or so he tells me, including Velocete, BSA etc
http://rupert8766.fotopic.net/p37326339.html (http://rupert8766.fotopic.net/p37326339.html)
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Since I was born,
Triumph Herald Convetible (950 I think)
Vauxhall Victor 101 Estate
Vauxhall Viscount
Vauxhall Victor Estate
Datsun 260C Estate
Astra GT (something)
Various Rovers
Jaguar X type
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I can't claim to have paid much attention to the Japanese and Australian production line staples - Holden Kingswoods and Commodores, and Mitsi Galants - we had while I was growing up but I do remember the DeSoto Deluxe S-11 that my step-father bought as a 'project'. We spent a summer stripping the paint off it with paint stripper and screwdrivers after which Mike got bored with it and it sat in the garage unloved until Mum told Mike to get rid of it. I often wonder where it ended up.
Dx
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Not an exhaustive list as the memory is not as good as it was but in the 60's and early '70's (when I was in my early teens):
Standard Vanguard
Jaguar 420G
Jaguar Mk 10
Ford Escort MK1 estate
Rover P5B Coupe
Audi 100 coupe S
Merc 350sl
Merc 450slc
He was a secondhand car dealer at the time and cemented a passion in me for all things automotive. Fortunately from a sartorial point of view I never much liked the 'Arfur Daley' style fur lined jackets that seemed to go with involvement in the business at that time.
I think the Escort was a bit of an aberration. He then went into antiques for some reason and succumbed to several Volvo estates, poor fella.
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those i remember is:
Datsun 120
Moris 1000 pickup
VW Golf mark 1
VW Jetta mark 1 + 2
VW 1300
VW 1303
Peugeot 405 + 505 + 504 pick up
Mazda 818 Coupe
Dacia pick up (the first i got to drive. 110 km/h top speed)
Skoda Octavia
Honda CR-V van
Seat Altea van
Favorit? must be the 1303 as it has given me a lot of fun memories
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I was around RS Fords when a kid, my dad rallied in a 1500 pre-xflow Anglia, then a MkI Escort Twin-cam that became an RS2000 when the Lotus engine became temperamental - he bought a type 49 shell from Boreham when they brought out the MkII and built a Mexico out of a crashed road car and used that as his everyday car for years. That would be worth a small fortune now !!
They then went to Larton (L.A.D.) built Samba's and then 205's - little flying machines with fantastic engines.
Before that he had a Stiletto, a Cortina GT as road cars - after the Mex he had a MkII Ghia, very civilised !!
The other half of my family all had Alfa Romeo's that always seemed to swap hands regularly - I remember a 'Sud Ti or two, a Sprint and Alfetta GT and GTV, that's where my love of Alfa's comes from.
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Ones I have heard of before I was born.
Austin A35.
Moris Minor (First rear end shunt)
Xk120 (used for courting mother)
XK150
XJ6 SI
Lambo Espada SII(For a weekend before delivering it)
After I was born
Bentley S2 (pics of me in baby seat in it)
Rover P6 (Smashed to bits while refreshed)
Stack headlight Merc.. white
Mini Van. Green
Land Rover SII SWB 338 FOU
MKII Jag 3.8 Red 8714 DD (Sold to Jersey)
Rover SD1 3500 White
Rover SD1 3500S Blue with gold lower bits and wheels GSF 650T
BMW 535I
SAAB 900 Turbo
Range Rover V8 x 3
Nissan Patrol 1xDiesel, 1 x Petrol
Jeep Cherokee 4.0 (Total fcukin heap of sh*t even when new)
Daihatsu Fourtrack 2.8 Van... fun!!
Suzuki SuperCarry (That did over 100K!)
Nissan Cabstar x 2
Mitsi Shogun
VW Caddy van (The Pig Pen Racing transport 2007)
Nissan Terrano
Nuffield 460
Fordson Major
Leyland... dogshite with loader
Lister Dumper
JCB 3C & 3CIII
and loads of motorbikes before he grew up.
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Well, here we go, from the ones I know about:
Jointly owned and run by him and his 3 brothers during WW2, underage, and without parents knowledge - Citroen Traction Avant.
Bundle of stuff probably after that - need to ask him what there was.
Before I was born - the first post-war Aston Martin, built on a Humber staff car chassis - why, oh why, did you ever sell that....
To replace it in 1959 with a new - Isetta Bubble Car when I was born - WTF!!!!
Followed from the early 1960s to the present day by a genealogy of:
Ford Corsair
Austin 3 Litre
Ford Cortina Mk II
Ford Cortina Mk III
Ford Granada Mk I
Ford Sierra
Ford Mondeo
Honda Civic (current)
Plus Mum's cars from about 1960-odd
Humber Hawk
Mini Mk I (with sliding windows and floor start button)
Ford Anglia
Triumph Herald 13/60 convertible
MGB GT (mine originally)
Honda CRX (current)
And other influences:
Primary School - blonde lady teacher with a Lotus Elan, and in the Curborough paddock pushing a GT40 to the start line
Secondary School - couple of teachers - MGB GT, TR4a, plus next door neighbour giving a me a daily lift there in the early to mid-70s - Alfa 2000 GTV Bertone, Lotus Elan, Jaguar XJ6, Range Rover, Lotus Europa, plus helping him rebuild a Berkeley SE328.
MG Mark
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My dear Dad always hankered after a Porsche 911 but never took the plunge given his responsibilities to us small people. He did, however, dip his toe into the 'sporty' car look with this little beauty. Not his actual car but correct year and colour.....
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Apart from the boring stuff he had after me and brother came along he had,
Mini 1275 GT,it could manage 100mpg aparently
Opel kadet
Manta GTE
and his favourite and mine Peugeot 309 GTI goodwood.
Boring stuff after that,
I remember a Montego saloon thing
A 309 GLX
4 Escorts,1 was a ghia
and 2 Renault Meganes
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A lotus 6
Cortina gt
Mini cooper
E type
Vauxhall Firenza
Chevette Hs
Apart from the E type, they were used for motorsport. I shed a tear when he sold that E type.
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Just found this tread :)
A Lanchester of some discription too young to remember(1962)
Austin Cambridge
Ford Zephyr 4
Rover P6 3500S
Damiler 2500 V8
Cortina MK2 1600 estate
Cortina MK3 2000XL estate
Humber Septer 1750 estate(complete s--t)
Saab 99 combi coupe
Saab 900GLS
Honda Prelude aws
Toyota Supra 3000
Lexus LS400
Toyota Land Cruiser 4.2 VX TDI
Toyota Land Cruiser 4.6 Amazon Petrol
Toyota Yaris Verso (a moment of madness)
Saab 95 covertable
Lexus RX 300 se
Lexus RX 400h Nav(2008)
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From 1966 on
Ford Popular 100E
Mk1 Cortina with 1500 Corsair engine
Mk1 Escort GT
Vauxhall Chevette
Toyota Corolla
Citroen BX GTi
Citroen Xantia diesel
Citroen C3
Plus numerous works vans.
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Right, I'm not too sure about the order in the early days, but here goes;
Morris 1000 Traveller
Ford Zephyr
Minivan
Renault Dauphine
Austin A40
Wolseley 1500 x 2
Vauxhall Viva HB
Hillman Minx
Ford Cortina MkII
Morris Marina x 3 (Actually, the last one may have been an Ital!)
Vauxhall Cavalier x 4
Peugeot 405 x 3
Citroen Xantia
Vauxhall Vectra
Vauxhall Carlton Estate
MGF
Holden Commodore
Yes, he was a sales rep, and yes, he bought the MGF when he retired and the Holden when he emigrated to Australia. He took the MGF with him too.
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OK, took a while to get the list together as I don't remember them all (before my time) and Dad's getting burnt in Florida rather than being here getting ready for Le Mans. Here goes :
1961 Ford Consul 375
1963 Ford Zephyr 4
1956 Standard 10
1963 Vauxhall Victor FB
1966 Ford Corsair V4
1971 Ford Escort 1.3L Estate
1971 Hillman Imp
1970 Ford Cortina 1600E
1971 Ford Cortina 1600L Mk3
At this stage I was born....still don't remember as I was a bit young :-\
1968 Ford Cortina 1600 Mk2
1974 Cort Cortina 1600XL Auto
My brother born....I start remembering some from here on...
1979 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6L - I remember this being Orange!
1981? Mini
1983 Austin 1300
1982 Vauxhall Cavalier Sri
1981 Ford Granada 2.8GL Auto
1983 Ford Grandada 2.8 Ghia Auto - this one was nicked twice. I liked this one.
1984 Ford Orion 1.6GL (company car)
my second brother born....
1986 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6L (company car)
1985 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.8CDi auto
1988 Mazda 626 (company car)
1993 Vauxhall Cavalier (Company car) - can't remember the model on this one, but was nice as being a company car, I could drive it too :)
1986 Austin Metro - mum's runner
1990 Ford Granada 2.0 GhiaX Auto
1992 Ford Granada 2.9 Ghia Auto
1982 Ford Cortina 2.0 Estate - donor for kit car....
1993 Merlin kit car, Cortina was the donor
1993 Jaguar 3.2 Sovereign auto
1970 VW Beetle - hobby car. Bought damaged, repaired and sold
1989 Ford Escort 1.3L - mum's next runner
1996 Ford Escort 1.6 - another of mum's run-arounds
1967 VW Beetle - restored and my youngest brothers first car
1965 Jaguar Mk2 2.4 - was a project but scrapped it - too much needed to bring her back to life
1961 Jaguar Mk2 3.8 - restored and still running well. We used this as my wedding car
199? Vauxhall Astra 1.6Diesel GL
1995 BMW 318i
1995 Jaguar XJS 4.0 Auto
1973 Jaguar V12 E-Type - restored and still running well.
1972 VW Type 2 Camper - project, restored and upgraded to 2.1ltr engine
2002 Ford Mondeo 2.0 Zetec
2006 Ford Focus 2.0 Ghia
1986 VW Caddy pick up - Current project, converting to GTi running gear
2004 Ford Ka
2000 VW Lupo 1.4 - donor shell for another current project
2002 VW Lupo 1.4 TDi - its been a bit bent, but running gear planned to be transported into the other Lupo shell
2008 BMW 325i Coupe Auto - was nicked over christmas
2009 BMW 330D Coupe Auto - replacement for the nicked one
2009 Toyota RAV4 Sport - his car when in Florida
So from the latter half of this list, do you agree he has too much time on his hands now he's retired!?!?!?! ???
