cars your parents drove when you were a kid

[derall]

The first car I ever remember my dad driving was a Ford Popular, not unlike this:

Followed by:
Austin A30
Cortina Mk1
Triumph Toledo
Some sort of Simca
SAAB 90

 

[Elmer Fudd]

Ford Anglia van
Bedford van
Vauxhall PA Cresta
Vauxhall Victor
Toyota Corona
Ford Zephyr

 

[Elmer Fudd]

my parents never had a car.
we went everywhere by bus...as a kid in 70s sheffield we went from city centre to the edge of the peak district for the princely sum of 2p.

Yeah, but if you lived in London it'd cost ya £2 from picallili to trafalgar square!

 

[Fnaar]

We got our first car when I was 7. It was a Morris Oxford Estate. Then we had Ford Corsair (way cool ) then Cortina Mk3, Cortina Mk 4, Morris Marina and finally Datsun Cherry . Then the old man pegged it.

 

[domtyler]

Dad - Orange Hillman Hunter
Mum - Hillman Imp

I remember when my dad went 80 miles an hour on the dual carriageway!!!

I was telling my mates about it for years after.

 

[domtyler]

Yeah, but if you lived in London it'd cost ya £2 from picallili to trafalgar square!

Wrong, Ken pegged all bus fares down to a pound for any trip. I think it may have gone up now but it was still a pound the last time I took the bus.

 

[LLB]

bought in Singapore and brought back to the UK and then a Corsair in HK
a Mini back in the UK
another Corsair
A mk2 cortina
mk 2 fiesta
then I left home

 

[Trillian]

dad had a mk3 cortina which got the engine taken out for a few reasons,
austin allegro estate in yellow, crashed into by a truck on a roundabout with my mum driving
mk3 escort in red, replaced by face lifted mk3 in blue that was kept for 15 years or so, it even passed an MOT with the boot lid held on by gaffa tape! and was sold in this state!
about half way through the above my mum got a montego estate, it got stolen and recovered and sold followed by another which got scrapped last year and a subaru forrester bought
my dad bought a mazda demio (now the mazda 2) which i crashed a year after passing my test and then it got re-built.

 

[palinurus]

The old man mostly cycled on an ancient three-speed, even when he had a car.

He had a motorbike for some time and didn't have a full driving license so he had a Reliant Regal until he passes his test. Then a ford Anglia, a VW Beetle bought from a neighbour, then a Talbot Alpine.

 

[Hilldodger]

1930 Aston Martin International (This is in the 60's and 70' brfore anyone comments on my age!)


It wasn't our only car though, I think we had seven or eight - mostly vintage or pre war. Our modern car was a Rover 100 P4 from 1959 ish

 

[Canrider]

Dodge Dart
Honda Accord*
Volkswagen Jetta**
And then an endless succession of Toyota Corollas***
*Most popular car on the road that year
**Most popular car on the road that year
***Best selling car, ever.
So, basically, they've bought the most popular car on the road in their market every time they've gone to buy a car. Ho. Hum.

 

[PatrickPending]

Ahhh memories,

Ford Probe
Mercedes C class
Toyota Prius


Ahhh the memories of yesteryear




errrrrm ok

Vauxhall Viva (3 I think all dark blue)
Mk 3 Ford cortina cw vinyl roof
Mk 4 cortina
Volvo thingie

 

[Over The Hill]

Ford Corsair
Pic if you are too young...
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/uploads/new/35699.jpg
We got it new in 1964 (posh), it was really quite radical and american for its age. I remember it was a bit of an event for the whole extended family.

It lasted until about 1970 when it was taken away by the scrap man as it had completely rusted away! So lasted six years. They dont make 'em like that anymore!

We spent most of the journey kneeling on the back seat making faces at the driver in the car behind.

Then dad had a Transit van. When we went out for the day with friends he used to put two lounge chairs in the back behind the van seats for the two mums (two dads sat up front) and we (4x kids) scrambled around on a pile of blankets in the back, emerging from the dark of the van at the seaside. This was all in the days before health and safety!

 

[walker]

...in the early 1970s my dad was a lowly TV outside broadcast cameraman and we had:
Triumph Toledo
Triumph Dolomite
Austin Maxi
...then my dad started his own business, did quite well for a bit, and we had:
Ford Cortina Estate
Ford Granada
...then everything went tits up with his busines so we then had:
Austin Metro
Austin Maestro
Vauxhall Astra
Vauxhall Belmont
...then I left home.

your dad was a transvestite?

All I remember my folks have was:
a Jag of some sort
A rover 1600
a Nissan Sunny Estate
a Vauxhall Calibra

then I left home

 

[simoncc]

I was 17yrs and 10 months old before my dad bought a Ford Escort, and for the last 2 months of my childhood he drove that.