My Dads Cars

[Semi42]

We never had a car, my Sis who was older than me, was the first driver in our family and I passed my test the year after her.
There was a 1969 Camero parked a couple of streets away and I thought it the most fantastic car I’d seen compared to the usual escorts, cortinas and marinas .

[Andrew Difrau]

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We had an interesting selection of cars when i was growing up:
- Mini Estate
- Triumph Herald Estate
- Volvo 145
- Triumph 2000
- BMW 2500
- Renault 20
- Austin Princess
- Austin Ambassador
- Austin Montego
- Volvo 340
- Vauxhall Cavalier

At this point I got my own car via carplus - a red 1.0 Metro which was fantastic and very very rusty!

Hi
The selection is really interesting We happened to have BMW 2500, Volvo 340, and a Renault. Despite the fact that they were all bought as used each of them drove after the purchase about 200k more kilometers

[AndrewP]

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We had an interesting selection of cars when i was growing up:
- Mini Estate
- Triumph Herald Estate
- Volvo 145
- Triumph 2000
- BMW 2500
- Renault 20
- Austin Princess
- Austin Ambassador
- Austin Montego
- Volvo 340
- Vauxhall Cavalier

At this point I got my own car - a red 1.0 Metro which was fantastic and very very rusty!

[tex]

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White.....

[amethyst]

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Think Terry's was white

I'm sure he had a white and gold one

[tex]

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No That Photo It Is Just After It Happened My Old Man Drove It Back To My Nans.

Oh,bet you couldn't get a sheet of paper between the two cars

[tex]

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When I met my ex he had a gold capri like the one Terry had in Minder lol

Think Terry's was white

[amethyst]

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When I met my ex he had a gold capri like the one Terry had in Minder lol

[onthebusesfan]

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iS THIS PHOTO THE ACTUAL COLLISION?

No That Photo It Is Just After It Happened My Old Man Drove It Back To My Nans.

[tex]

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My Old Man Had This 1970's Capri when he was younger in the early 80's he paid 400 quid for it., sadly this ford capri is no longer with us as my old man had to have it it scraped in the early 90's.

as some old woman reversed her car in it .

iS THIS PHOTO THE ACTUAL COLLISION?

[onthebusesfan]

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And These Are Our Car's & Bikes we have had over the years .

[onthebusesfan]

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My Old Man Had This 1970's Capri when he was younger in the early 80's he paid 400 quid for it., sadly this ford capri is no longer with us as my old man had to have it it scraped in the early 90's.

as some old woman reversed her car in it .

[Mulletino]

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The family cars I can remember:

Morris Minor Series MM (split windscreen) - my dad still has this and just got it back on the road, been off the road since the early 80s.
Ford Cortina MK1
Humber Hawk - this was my grandad's car which we had when he couldn't drive anymore
Vauxhall Viva - given to us by a family friend
Ford Anglia Estate - my mum's car for a while
Granada Ghia - this turned out to be three cars welded together
LWB Land Rover (ex army)
Daimler Double Six (1970s version)
1982 Bedford Astra Van
1987 Bedford Astra Van

Have many great memories of each, we'd sometimes have three in the driveway at once and as kids we'd sit in them and play, no need to lock them as nobody nicked them back then.

[80sChav]

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My dad has had a lada and a ford capri.
Any car he has had has been 2nd hand.

I know he has had others just cant think of them.

We had both these Daz mate - rather my Mum the lada's and before that my Dad the Capri!

Phew that was a beauty that Capri - a pile of old rubbish, but owning that and then seeing Alfie whisk Kat off into Xmas Night in EastEnders years later proves the magic of such Beasts!

[Donald the Great]

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My Dad had a Hillman Imp too. Recall we would all pack into it and drive to the nearby National Park for a weekend picnic. They were happy days. I lost my Dad a few years later then my brother and I were shipped off to a boarding school.