Cars your Dad had!

[Lord Steve]

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!!

[Andy]

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............

[F-Troop Mom]

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   

[Lord Steve]

That is going to take some beating!

[Andy]

Well impresive, well that explains NOT typing that collection in 7 mins flat

[championaudi]

well, when my dad did get a car, it was a

[F-Troop Mom]

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....

[Perdu]

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.

[nopanic - neil]

Reminds me of this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw

So - we were so poor we had a - 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 

Oh yea - also

Moggie Traveller
Hillman Avenger
Fiat Poski Fiat (AHHHHHHHH)
and other crap (more to add as I remember in my nightmares)

[Barry]

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.

[gturner]

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.

[ewan]

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!

[wishy]

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

[Nordic]

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

[garyfrogeye]

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