turbochild

Seen this on another forum so thought i'd bring it over here well we must of got our passion for cars some where was it from our parents

mk2 escort (signal orange)
mk2 escort estate (red)
vauxhall chevette (yellow)
mk3 escort (Biege)
sierra sapphire (maroon)
mg montego turbo (white)
s2 turbo (black)
a dihatsu sportrack jeep thing (snot green )
audi a4 quattro (black)
peugeot 206 (burn't orange)
now a brand new fiesta(black)

thinking of there car history i still think why did they change for there next one specially the s2 to a shitty jeep lol

dug112y

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yellow 1300 gt cortina
roman bronze cortina
yellow 2.0s capri
silver cortina crusader khs 682y brand new
volvo 740 D811 pns
p100 sierra
volvo 240 LST 666Y(wish i had kept the reg)
sierra cosworth 3dr (wish he'd kept that)
mitsi shogun F252 ESU
volvo 850 est
audi estate 5cyl
volvo 850 est
volvo xc 90
freelander td4
toyota rav 4
nissan pathfinder

as well as transits and renault masters and too many off road ktms

R5FORD

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Have no idea its been a hell of alot of cars

turbochild

must be some that stand out lol

saff_cossie

VW Jetta - Red
VW Passat - Blue
White Sapphire - was clocked and didnt last long in the family. This was when I got into Cosworth's as dad brought home a Sapphire brochure from Jackson's of Basingstoke (circa '89). He subsequently didn't buy the car from them but from a small time dealership. Should have stayed with Jackson's!
Red Sierra hatch - stayed in the family for 15 years and did a Ford Fair too.

That was it during my 18 years at home.

carlfiesta999

My parents were divorced when i turned 3, but the ones i do remember

Dad - A reg blue mini (scrapped), mk2 cavalier SRi (got nicked), D reg burgundy sierra old shape lent it to someone who wrote it off pissed, mk1 mondeo estate, mk2 mondeo estate.

Mum had a B reg renault 5 (B314 RRW) will never forgot that car, or the date 7th December 1994 (i was 10) when a car come barrel rolling down the road and went over the roof of us, had a mk1 astra, a peugeot 309, escort mk4, rover 416, cavalier 1.6 ( which i owned ) mk4 fiesta, she currently has a mk5 facelift fiesta,

When my parents were together the only car i remember them having together at a young age was this red honda prelude old one.

Mums bf who shes been with since thy split, had a white xr3i mk4, minis, carlton 3000 GSi thing, capri..

Nothing chose my interest in Fords, i just bought one as my first car and it went from there!

Benni

For most part of growing up we had a red Ford Orion, D reg, then a Ford Escort, M reg, and then another Escort, R reg.

Benni.

kev 3dr

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series 1 xj6 front de bumpered,
Mk3 2000e cortina
dad built a mk5 2dr cortina from a brand new shell from germany 2.1 howley racing pinto engine and lots of rare german RS parts (car is still on its 2nd owner rotting in a lock up with a 3.2 essex in now)
yellow manta gte
red manta gte with montego bumpers
silver sierra ghia estate
blue carlton
740GLE volvo
940 SE estate volvo
yellow mustang
vauxhll Insignia

bad boy rs

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Spent most of my childhood in cortinas and sierras ( no cossies though ) also a few volvos 240's in there to think I've got photos somewhere

cossie4i+

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I can't remember all the cars my folks have had, im old

Going back to about 1982 they had a Mk2 Escort Estate with a duff gearbox, no reverse lol.

Then came a White XR4i, brand new from Invicta Motors of Canterbury.

PXd the 4i for a brand new 3dr Cosworth in Moonstone Blue, agin from Invicta Motors (D212 KKR)

I don't want to remember what they have had since the cossie

Steve

B19 JUB

wow memories
austin a40
mk3 cortina
morris minors
vauxhall cavalier
thats all i can rememeber tbh lol

rog

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All totally shit cars and probably the worst on this thread so far.....
Fiat 126 in aquamarine
Fiat Mirafori in brown
Fiat Regatta 85s in bronze
Fiat Regatta 100sie in silver
Mazda 626 in red (started to get better at this point)
BMW 525i in white
Pug 406
Pug 407
Jag X type sovereign

jay.woody

can' remember them all, but the ones that stand out in my mind from being a kid,

mk2 capri in red fully restored
mk3 capri in white with full KAT kit
Lancer ex2000 turbo in white, with limited edition aviation stripes,
Lancer ex2000 turbo in black, (mums)
Lancer ex2000 turbo in white, (dads)
volvo estate for towing the caravan and then plenty more boring cars after that

naturally aspirated

I can remember when I was only 4 or 5 an old Ford Consul Capri the old man had (not the sort of Capri you are probably thinking of) it was a lime green colour, reg: 776 EOE. After that he had an Austin Cambridge (Farina shape) reg: 594 KWP. Next he had a Vauxhall Victor estate, a 3.3 straight six, reg: RTV 383G. Then came a Ford Cortina mk2 1600 super which I had the "L" plates on, reg: VUY 508G.

CossieRob

Mine had from what i remember in no particular order

Mini Pick Up
Mk1 Sierra 1.6l
2x Mk2 Sierra 2.0 Ghia
Saab 99
Saab 900i
Saab 900turbo
Porsche 924 (i think it was called a lemans as it was the 944 body?)
Mini
Peugeot 309 GTI
Peugeot 205 GTI 1.6
Peugeot 205 GTI 1.9
Renault 5
Mk2 Golf GTI
Landrover Freelander
Audi A4 1.8t sport
Mk3 Golf GTI
Fiat Barchetta

Tank Mike

Mine from what i can remeber always had Vauxhalls, They did have a bunch of old skool fords but that was before i can remember!

They now both own fords scince ive been in the ford scene and love them, Although my old man recently chopped in his trusty TDCI Mondeo for a Jaugaur. Still a bloody ford!

AJC

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Montego
Maestro
Mercedes 190e
3 door mk4 escort

All I can remember from being under 10 year old

jameswrx

My mum was the car lover out of my parents.

They had a lotus cortina (that got stolen) and one of my mums favourites (I remember her really wanting one in the early 80's) was her Granada 2.8i ghia x.

She had loads of cars though as my grandad was a car dealer and she seemed to be changing all the time.

Also rememeber a really nice BMW 635csi in red.

The weird thing is when I was a kid I always used to think they were old sheds but thinking about the reg numbers and year she had them they would have been almost new.

CraigJ

Reliant robin x2
Morris marina
fiat regatta
talbot sunbeam
nissan sunny
mk4 escort
mk3 fiesta
mk4 escort
mk6 escort
mk4 astra

now a 59 reg Astra.

super_cb

All i can remember is
Cortina
3 or 4 Granadas
2 Scorpios
Land Rover Discovery
and Currently a New Land Rover Discovery

joffy

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Dad had
G888 GCL moonstone saph (rainbirds one)
K757 HOO silver 4x4 saph

Mum had
E986 RPW blue cavalier lx
N441 HLN green escort

Rod-Tarry

Standard Little 9 remember going on hols in this old car.


It was followed by this a Morris 8 it is still an ambition to own one of these, probably after the Saff.

yellowsierra

Mk 3 Cortina 1.6 XL
Rover P6 3.5S V8
Then emigrated to Spain so no need for a car living on the Beech

pee vee

2litre ghia cortina
Sierra xr4x4
2litre Sierra
Escort gti
1800 focus
Now got Focus ST2

AJ-RST1

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mum dont drive, but dad had what i know of

Mk1 1.1 escort
Mk1 1.3 escort
Mk1 Mexico,
Astra GTE
Series 2 RS turbo
3dr not sure what colour,
Then astra Mk4 gsi
Now astra VXR in red

cozjon

Mk2 2.3 ghia granada had it 11 years, this is why I love fords
mk2 escort van at the same time
Freg nissan bluebird 2.0i gsx 6 years
P reg mk 2 mondeo 2.0 ghia 9years

and had a datsun sunny and a mk3 escort as in between cars

vaughant

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My god my parents car list is so dire,especially compared to those.since I was born (1976) we had (this won't take long):
Mk 1 4 dr 1300xl escort
Cortina 2.0 gl AUTO
Saab 99 2.0l
Saab 99 2.0l (but with 9k on the clock in 1993 when it was 10 years old!!!)

And that's it for the family as my old man died in 1997.

The old girl had:

Volvo 240 AUTO(hideous)
Fiesta mk3 n reg(brand new thanks to my voucher scheme)
Merc 190e (nuclear war proof)
Astra 2.0l cdx
Toyota corolla(been written off,paid out on and she will NOT sell it).

Crap really.

brad

Lotus cortina mk1
cortina savage
V6 supercharged 105e in candy apple red with metalflake
3.0 mk1 granny
Half a dozen 2.8 Granada ghia's (new every 2 years)
Raven black Scorpio that they bought new and hated so traded it in for a Toyota supra within 3 months.
Couple of cossies and then they divorced and now my old man drives a vw transporter and the old dear drives a new BMW touring , kinda says it all really .

cossiedad

Mk2 cortina in eggshell blue
Honda 250 super dream, all polished up too
Mk1 Transit camper NFH 610L with corbeau buckets up front!
Couple of Bedford HA vans (ex BT in yellow!)
Nissan Bluebird estate 2.0 and went like stink! (at least it did back then!)
Morris Minor Traveller in English White and restored wood
Morris Marina 2dr coupe
Renault 21 Turbo
Renault 21 Diesel (turbo I think)
Vauxhall carlton 2000
Dad then got in to his Vauxhalls and unfortunately he's stuck with them. That said, he did have a couple of very nicely modded Mk2 Astra GTEs.
But the favourite, and they do say save the best til last, was....
Mk2 Escort. But not just any Mk2, oh no. An ex Ari Vatanen Rothmans rally car that he raced in 79. I fully understand rally cars get re-shelled and plates changed etc, but this had paperwork to prove the provenance. The car had been painted diamond white over the Rothmans livery, but still had a 2.2 BDA under the bonnet that returned around 3mpg on full chat! Crazy car, really was. Still fully caged, and had all the gear still fitted - twin fuel pumps, switchgear, co-pilot dash, arches, 2 up 2 down cibies etc etc

RichieST

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He still not managed to shift the ST yet then?

RichieST

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My dad had

Cavalier coupe thing (not sure of what it was called exactly but was the calibra of 27 years ago!)
Mk2 Astra
Rover 214
Toyota Carina
Honda Civic.

So yes, a whole list of utter snot boxes!

opposite lock

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My dad had a maxi 1750 when i was 3 , then a skyblue Chevette BOO 900T, then a Cavalier CD mk2 D705 JML, nearly crashed that one fookin about in Belfairs Golf Course car park haha

KevST

only cool cars my dad had were mk1 capri, mk2 capri x2, an xr3i, and more recently an 04 wrx, now its diesel rav4's


tried to make it look better in photoshop a while ago

robbie1988

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These are the ones I can remember;

Sierra 2.0
Bluebird 1.8
Sapphire 1.8
Mondeo 2.0
Escort GTi
Rover 600 Turbo
Astra 1.8 CDX
MG ZS 120+
Volvo 940
Freelander
Corsa 1.7 Cdti
Impreza WRX which he has still got

Rob

.Ross.

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My parents dont swop & chop cars very much. They keep cars for years.

The current is an X-Type Jag on a 52 plate Bought New.

Furthest I can go back is to a Brand New Toyota Corolla (D Plate)

roscom

Ones I can remember in no particular order;

triumph spitfire
mini 850
sunbeam
various mk2 escorts
bmw 2002 with engine conversion of some sort
couple of orions
205gti 1.9
mk2 xr2
vw scirocco gt
couple of basic fiestas
vauxhall astra

Old shite mostly with the odd performance highlight.I dont know what the engine the bm had in it and neither does my dad (he bought it from a friend who used to prepare race/rally cars) but i can remember being a youngster and watching it go well off the clock coming up a decent hill on the A1 and thinking it was the coolest thing going.

Cossy Mike

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My Dad does'nt change cars often

Mk2 Escort 1.1 pop plus
Capri 2.0L
Ford Capri 2.8 Special
RS1600i
Opel Manta GTE
bought in 2003, Ford Puma 1.7 Still has it now......

It's Czech Mate

1300 gt mk1 ecort
1300 supersport fiesta
1600 s mk2 escort
mk3 escort 1,6 ghia
swiftly traded for a new mk3 xr3i that had the revised suspension geo as soon as it came out
Another C plate xr3i
D plate mk3 xr3i
E Plate RS Turbo
XR4x4 Estate
Couple of Sahps, Magenta and Black ( both 4x4 I think )

Than loads of borng shit that I cant remember as I left home as soon as I was old enough

Just has run of the mill focus diesels now


Those were the road cars, he's always had a few interesting track cars and projects tho

cos47

Mini Cooper s
Capri 3.0 s
2x 2.8i capris
Xr4x4 in black
2x S2 RS Turbos both black
2x 2wd saffs both crystal blue
400 BHP 4x4 saff in silver
500 BHP Escort cos in red had this one 7 years now
Mk1 focus RS

fish99

Ah memories of yesteryear...

I remember ( and some of the reg's)

Hand painted yellow Anglia
Red 2.0 Mk 4 Cortina ... SLX344R
Blue Ford Escort 1.6 Laser... B143BMG
Red Ford 1.8 Sierra LX... D237JMM
Red Ford 2.0 Sierra Saphire G377VME (Dads first new car, bought from Allens of Romford. We were on Holiday in Devon on the 1st August and he drove all the way back down to collect it. Must have been one of the highest milleage new cars on the road at the end of that day haha.

Citreon Xantia.......... He loathed that car.
Mondeo Ghia X
Vaux Vectra SRI
Vaux Vectra CDX
Vaux Omega CDX
red Escort Rs2000 K344CAR or K433CAR brand spanking new. My and my bro use to love washing that car. Shame that it had 4 new doors, new gearbox, new engine... and it wasnt even 6months old. bloody car thieves

Vaux Frontera
few more cars inbetween
Rover 45
And now a black cab and a new fiesta for mother