My dad had a loverly mk2 cortina 1600e gt in gold, full leather, walnut dash, chrome trim on arches etc (was an option aparently), and also twin 40s .
Was a very nice car, always remember going on trips to brighton etc init.
It was origionally my grandads (dads father) and passed it down to my dad.

He sold that for £1000 wishes he kept it now as it is a proper classic.

He also owned a proper mini cooper that he bought when he was a teenager, painted in amber yellow, very nice colour, had an uprated engine init and used to rally it in a club, had proper bucket seats, harnesses etc.
Sold to a neighbour who still has the car
Keep trying to get my dad to buy it back lol, still have 2 sets of cibies in the garage, 1 is an old set with the chrome backs and the other is the ones with like a beige back and the white covers.

Tried bolting them to my mk1 astra when i was 17 , but he told me to take them off incase i smashed them lol.

Since then he has gone down hill, must be old age

When he sold the cortina and the mini he bought a 18month ol meastro vp, the talking one lol, aftre that we had an honda accord and a metro (which i wrote of a week after passing my test ), and since then all his had is corolla gti, we have 3 on the drive at the mo, plus my cossie and bmw and my combi van .

 

My dad had an XR3 and a Rs1600i with my baby seat in

 

My old man had a austin allegro estate which i loved cos it had a green sun visor strip in the front with the radio's ariel zigzaging through it (i was only 4 or 5 at the time)
Mk3 escort 1.6 ghia was a nice car and his onion 1.6i ghia was nice.

Worst was an Mk2 astre gte 8v white with the nice white alloys, he only bought a playboy bunny sticker and put it on the bootlid
memories ehh. My uncle still has his v12 e-type.

 

brandnew flint grey saphy

 

Used to love my dads, Triumph 2000 overdrive when I was a nipper!

 

Dad had a Ford XB Coupe in black. Same as the one in Mad Max

 

dads been a bit of a ford nut cars owned go something like this

lotus cortina
cortina gt ( sold lotus ver when got married )
mk3 xr3
sierra 2.0 litre 4 speed when they werre brand new out
sierra gl 5 speed
xr4i
i think its 5 or 6 xr4x4's over the years
sierra 2.0 gls ( changed job )
another sierra gls
mondeo 2.0 litre
mondeo v6 n reg
mondeo v6 r reg
mondeo ghiax
another mondeo v6 ghia x

and now a mondeo st220

the xr4i was cool so were the 4x4's but i really lilke the current st220, excelent car.... except the brakes

RW

 

subaru impreza type r v5,

 

When they ask this question again in 30 years time we're going to be a seriously cool collection of Dads (and Mums)!

 

My Dad had a MK3 A Reg in Black XR3i, when i was three years of age, loved the Mk3 since that day, hence why im mad about Mk3 Escort.

 

first car i member my dad having is a Mk1 White Escort Mexico with a webasto roof and steals

but his coolest car was a Lotus Elite like the one below in pastal yellow which he sold to marry me mum


he also had a mk2 Lotus Cortina

and one of these babies a TR3



he's now 62 and drives a VW Polo

 

my dads well into his cars fondest memoroies for me was in 1987 brand new black 3 dr cossiewhen it would come on boost i used to shout aeroplane lol,then he got a red porsche 944 which i loved then a new white 4x4 cossie,which was probably when i decided one day id have one he now has a porsche boxster

 

My dads cars were - without exception CRAP

We are talking Austin Maxi, Renault 12,Skoda Estelle, Volvo240 crap!!

Coolest thing he ever bought was a brand new Mini Mayfair that became my 1st car.
How I ever became such a car nut seems to be a mystery!

 

my dad used to own a bright orange lada riva estate

 

My dad had a dodge charger in the same colour as the general lee

I loved it when i got droped of and picked up from school

But the damm thing kept breaking down so he sold it

 

Used to get over 100 out of it on the way to reading on sundays.......Was like a spaceship inside....

 

a green maxi

 

my dad had a granada mk2 "b plate 84". It was a 2.8 ghia rare manual one. Used to fooking move that had. Other than that he has had sum shit like the Proton he has now

 

brand spanking new rs500

there started my love affair with them, shame it got pinched and torched.

 

my dad had one of these and kept trying to palm it of on me when i first
passed my test kept telling me it would be a good first car to
have to get my first year's no claim's

told him i could not insure it then not long after got a capri that cost
twice as much

 

Remember my Dad having a 20L JPS Capri, black with gold decals then various Granada 2.8i ghia's then a Mk2 Golf GTI 16V. After that it was a 2.9 4x4 which got stolen. And the best till last Feb 93 brand new facelift saff cossie in silver which i bought off him when it was 4yrs old and still have.

 

Some of the favourite ones he owned that i can remember are

A few JENSONS
a few ALVIS's
Volvo 760 TURBO (like an early T5)

And the best one is the one he owns now BRISTOL 411.

But best for fan factor for me when i drove them were
Old mercedes Estate that went through bushes and had me and my mates on top of it at Ultimate street car trying to throw each other of the top while pissed up (could say i got in shit when i took it home with massive scratches all across the roof!)

And a Morris minor traveler that i tryed off roading a few times

 

I inherited my dads morris traveller when i was 18, fully restored and up dated running a vitesse v8

 

my dads always had shite cars!

but my mum had an MG metro i always had my eye on for when i turned 17! in the end it turns out my sister did me a favour by writing it off before i got to it!!

 

All sensible famliy cars for my dad. He had a Y plate VW Jetta which was good but my favourite as a young kid was a C plate VW Passat in very nearly crystal blue. Amazing car but mum hated it as it was big!

He then got a sierra hatch in 1991 which started my love affair with sierras. He bought home some brochures of saff cossies at the time from Ford which I used to cut up and also an escort one a year or so later. Would be worth a fortune now!

We kept the sierra hatch until about a month ago when my bro px'ed it. Owned it in the family for 14 years. I had it for 5, bro for 1 and dad for 8. Hardly cost anything to run and broke down only once.

 

Fiesta+bongo

 

i bet rods dad owned a model t

 

All my old mans cars were shit !

 

rosso red mk1 orion 1.6 injection ghia,with extra fogs on front and them little wing things on the wipers,god bless the 90s

 

well before i were born my old man had a mk2 rs2000 from new. then i came along so he sold it. would love to know if it were still on the road. and while i were growing up he had a mint mk3 xr3i, i think it were mk3 cant remember now

 

My dad had a new XR4i on a A plate then px for a Moonstone 3dr when they came out. I can even remember the reg, D212KKR

Steve.

 

My old mans black RS1600i LTP111Y

 

My dad had a 2.8i 4 speed capri,cant remember ever goin under 100mph much in it,went like fook! pretty untouchable back in the early 80's.Then a turbo technics capri special,Only thing can remember passing that was a detomaso pantera,used to give standard cossies a very hard time. He also had a TVR 3000m with a 3.1 essex in it with 200hp.Proper cool,hes still got it somewhere! Had it since 1982.

 

my fav old mans car was a 2.0 capri in black with 7j rs sevens
my moms was a mg metro resprayed by my bro and his mate in the garage

 

my dad had a black 325i turbo converted e30 bmw was an animal amazing to look at and went amazing to the car died in 1996 when both bottom and top ends went .

 

my fav car my dad had before i could drive was prob was his new Vauxhall Cavalier SRI 130 on a H-plate

awesome car and quick

 

All my dads stuff had been crap since i have been about. seen some pictures of his Pontiac he had in the late 60's, thats was a fair tool!

other wise, its been a skoda estelle, a maxi, BX, 405, now a A class

at one point he had one of these...

Dutton Sierra, based on a MK1 Mexico

 

my dad had an xr31 when i was at secondary scholl, i loved that car, spax suspension, janspeed full system series 1 alloy's i loved it when he picked me up from school, reg was ygx782y

then he sold that and got an xr4i that was lowered with a 4inch out rolled exhaust and 15 inch alooys cant remember what make, he taught me to drive in that, and how to wheelspin lol reg was b222hal


wonder if their still around?

 

I remember going to school in a two tone green Mk1 Escort Van! Dad later chopped it up and put seats and windows in the back when my younger sister came along!

We had a mint 1.6i Laser Capri in Black which he resprayed himself, and also had a 2.0GLSi Sierra Hatchback when it was just 2 years old in 1995! Another minter, and typing this, I've only just realised that back then Escort Cosworth's were still being made!