growingvegetables
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One of these. Idiosyncratic and unreliable beasts, but brilliant for rolling along in summer, with the doors pulled open. No seat belts in those days.!
What was your dad's best car?
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The Jogger
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A mark 1 ford cortina, 3072FZ was thge reg which I believe was a 1963 reg ( i think)
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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One of these. Idiosyncratic and unreliable beasts, but brilliant for rolling along in summer, with the doors pulled open. No seat belts in those days.!
Ah, Bedford vans.... only bettered by Comma and then Leyland Daf!
Yellow Fang
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My dad's had some decent cars since we left home and especially after he became a director at his company. My favourite was a BMW, but all his nice, modern cars are boring. His best car when we were kids was a 1970s Toyota Corona. Being Japanese, it was depressingly reliable. It never broke down. I think it must have been the Corona, not the two door Corolla, because I left the back door open while he was reversing out the gate, damaging it
. I thought I was going to get into big trouble for that, but strangely, I was never punished for the really terrible things I did. I was only about four or five though. We were in Zambia at the time where my father was a teacher.
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My dad's had some decent cars since we left home and especially after he became a director at his company. My favourite was a BMW, but all his nice, modern cars are boring. His best car when we were kids was a 1970s Toyota Corona. Being Japanese, it was depressingly reliable. It never broke down. I think it must have been the Corona, not the two door Corolla, because I left the back door open while he was reversing out the gate, damaging it. I thought I was going to get into big trouble for that, but strangely, I was never punished for the really terrible things I did. I was only about four or five though. We were in Zambia at the time where my father was a teacher.
Thats lush.
Yellow Fang
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It does look pretty good and well made. That's obviously a well restored example. I seem to remember dad getting up to 90 mph in it once. It may have been 100. He only did it the once to our disappointment.
Night Train
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My dad has had quite a few 'interesting' cars.
Mk1 Lotus Cortina
Mk1 3l Capri
Rover P5B Coupe
Renault 5 GT Turbo
But my favorite was the Series 2 Land Rover. It was like this but with sliding side windows in the back and was kitted out as a camper. He didn't have the amber beacon though.
The Rover comes a close second.
Mk1 Lotus Cortina
Mk1 3l Capri
Rover P5B Coupe
Renault 5 GT Turbo
But my favorite was the Series 2 Land Rover. It was like this but with sliding side windows in the back and was kitted out as a camper. He didn't have the amber beacon though.
The Rover comes a close second.
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My Uncle had these - in order:
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That's random...
My dad's best car has, technically, been all of them. He's managed to buy the most popular car on the road *every single time he's bought a new car* from 1972 to the present. Nowadays that means a cavalcade of Toyota Corollas, mind you.
So probably the 'best' in the crowd reading this thread was the first:
(...now try and imagine that without the fake hood scoops, and painted shoot-brown metal flake with generic hubcaps and tyres)
car l
Hmm ... would a car like that still be reliable today? Would it be serviceable? Replacement parts?
I like the look of older cars, but don't like the idea of spending all weekend every weekend working on them, and then breaking down somewhere in the lake district or something. A more reliable Japanese car however...
Back on topic, all the cars my dad ever owned were awful. He did apparently own a Mini once, but buggered it up trying to tune it, according to my mum.
I recall a Ford Sierra in drab grey, that I think I convinced myself was a Cosworth when I was 10 but it wasn't.
Thinking about it, during the 80s he was a pretty successful travelling salesman. I wonder why he never had fancy cars. Especially as he was never paying my mum maintenance! He did however always have those stupid horrible wooden roller things on the seats that were supposed to be good for your back. He put them on the passenger seats too, so you HAD to sit on them. Guhhhh.
My dad's had some decent cars since we left home and especially after he became a director at his company. My favourite was a BMW, but all his nice, modern cars are boring. His best car when we were kids was a 1970s Toyota Corona. Being Japanese, it was depressingly reliable. It never broke down. I think it must have been the Corona, not the two door Corolla, because I left the back door open while he was reversing out the gate, damaging it. I thought I was going to get into big trouble for that, but strangely, I was never punished for the really terrible things I did. I was only about four or five though. We were in Zambia at the time where my father was a teacher.
Hmm ... would a car like that still be reliable today? Would it be serviceable? Replacement parts?
I like the look of older cars, but don't like the idea of spending all weekend every weekend working on them, and then breaking down somewhere in the lake district or something. A more reliable Japanese car however...
Back on topic, all the cars my dad ever owned were awful. He did apparently own a Mini once, but buggered it up trying to tune it, according to my mum.
I recall a Ford Sierra in drab grey, that I think I convinced myself was a Cosworth when I was 10 but it wasn't.
Thinking about it, during the 80s he was a pretty successful travelling salesman. I wonder why he never had fancy cars. Especially as he was never paying my mum maintenance! He did however always have those stupid horrible wooden roller things on the seats that were supposed to be good for your back. He put them on the passenger seats too, so you HAD to sit on them. Guhhhh.
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That's random...
My dad's best car has, technically, been all of them. He's managed to buy the most popular car on the road *every single time he's bought a new car* from 1972 to the present. Nowadays that means a cavalcade of Toyota Corollas, mind you.
So probably the 'best' in the crowd reading this thread was the first:
(...now try and imagine that without the fake hood scoops, and painted shoot-brown metal flake with generic hubcaps and tyres)
Dodge? Dart?
GrumpyGregry
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A car? The Aged P? Don't be silly, he cycled to work every day, he never had a car.
Now my best mates dad, he was an engineeer, he had an Opel Manta, and when he wrote that off he got a bright red Triumph 2500S and when I got older he used to lend it to me. Phwoar! Then one day, when his son was driving and I was in the front passenger seat I inexplicably ended up with a VW Beetle in my lap, which stung a bit, and that, as they say, was the end of that.
Now my best mates dad, he was an engineeer, he had an Opel Manta, and when he wrote that off he got a bright red Triumph 2500S and when I got older he used to lend it to me. Phwoar! Then one day, when his son was driving and I was in the front passenger seat I inexplicably ended up with a VW Beetle in my lap, which stung a bit, and that, as they say, was the end of that.
Stephenite
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Well, i've put this pic up. Not my dad's unfortunately. Just a pic nicked from google.
But it's a Cortina mk3 - red with black vinyl roof.
I'm not really a car lover. But this is a car.
But it's a Cortina mk3 - red with black vinyl roof.
I'm not really a car lover. But this is a car.
subaqua
What’s the point
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Audi RS6 Avant absolutley lovely but driven very very sendibly by him despite the oodles of my inheritance he has spent on tuning it.
that said when he takes it on track days it wipes the floor with most other cars.
that said when he takes it on track days it wipes the floor with most other cars.
Cletus Van Damme
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Well, i've put this pic up. Not my dad's unfortunately. Just a pic nicked from google.
But it's a Cortina mk3 - red with black vinyl roof.
I'm not really a car lover. But this is a car.
My dad had a later MK 4 2.0 ghia. Shame he never had a Mk3 a 2000E or something. I really like higher model Mk3 Cortina's and Mk1 Escort's (RS2000 & Mexico) the rest of older Fords do very little for me.
My Uncle had these - in order:
Thats lovely. Love older Italian car's, I always wanted a late 70's early 80's Lancia Beta. Common sense told me not to though.
