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A red Sierra Ghia. X reg I believe. As a tiny child I was excited by the thing that told you when the doors were open or if it was near freezing.
Pale blue Vauxhall Viva.
maccruiskeen - MemberBrown Mk3 Cortina 1.6L with bum-scorching, leg flesh tearing black vinyl seats. And in classic 70's fashion bits of it were already rusted through (not just rusty but you could stick your finger through), even though it was only 3 or 4 years old.
This^^^^^ Maybe your Dad bought my Dad's car, don't think it was rusty when he sold it though.
We started with a Blue Triumph Herald Estate, which struggled up hills. I remember leaving for holidays very early and having a bed made up in the back of the car for me and my two siblings. We then moved onto a Hillman Avenger, before the Fiat 131 - which had non-plastic seats. After that it gets vague.
Mid 70's - Dad had a Ford Granada estate in a baby blue colour for moving his crew n' gear around scotland (fishing boat skipper), i loved that car as it seemed huge inside and i was allowed to sit in the boot
Mum had a wee red mini cooper that she drove everywhere at 10/10ths, oddly enough i never liked that car as i always threw up inside it, probably due to her driving style.
As a casual boast 😉 to the above the owner of my dads fishing boat was Innes Ireland (F1 race driver 50's-60's) and i often used to get picked up from school (if my mum was working) in his Aston Martin and driven out to his house tyres screeching and tail sliding at every opportunity. He was quite a character 😀
Coyote - MemberPale blue Vauxhall Viva.
I feel like possibly you're my dad's secret other family.
Hillman Superminx in blue - This was our family car when I was born until my dad moved it on when I was 7 years old. It took 2 adults and four kids to Skegness with all the luggage etc. That trip would probably account for most of the 7 years....
My dad upgraded from the Viva to one of these:
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In Brooklands green - obviously a nod to the Marina's racing heritage 😆
My ex girlfriend's family had much better taste (and lots more dosh)
Mk1 Astra GTE
Silver Manta GTE hatchback - B reg
Saab 900 Turbo T16S - D reg
Saab 9000 CDE - F reg
and in the garage a white E-Type (1960s G reg)
maccruiskeen - Member
Brown Mk3 Cortina 1.6L with bum-scorching, leg flesh tearing black vinyl seats. And in classic 70's fashion bits of it were already rusted through (not just rusty but you could stick your finger through), even though it was only 3 or 4 years old.
This^^^^^ Maybe your Dad bought my Dad's car, don't think it was rusty when he sold it though.
We had one in white. Then we had a couple of fiestas, followed by a a blue Sierra J145 HMD.
Black cortina. XFH 132 H
I rolled it into the garage door one day whilst pretending to be a rally driver. Just let the handbrake off.
Split screen VW microbus in red and white, DUJ 576C if I remember correctly, rear bench seats faced each other & used to get filled with camping gear before us 5 kids* got laid down across the top to sleep before trundling off up to Skye from southern England.
* Most argumentative ended up shifted to the front with parents and dog
My dads first car was a baby blue triumph herald. he never learnt to drive until I was 7 which was 1976!!
Renault R4 in diarrhea brown.
Circa 1977.
Earliest I definitely remember was a greenish Moggy Traveller. Would have been around 1974 or so.
Not my photo.
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Then...
Datsun 180b. ODO 602M (the only number plate I can remember, even from my own recent cars).
Baby blue mk1 Escort estate.
Navy blue Capri 2.0l Ghia.
Silver Allegro LE.
Beige Marina coupe with a chocolate coloured vinyl roof.
Dark blue Polo (the old 'looks like an estate but not really one).
Before I got my own first car - a nasty maroon 1.5 Allegro...
The first car I remember was one of these in white Reg No AXE 490B
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followed by
Blue P6 Rover 2000TC WHX 451G
Red P6 Rover 3500 UXD 354L
Blue Cortina Mk5 ANM 454X
We didn't have a car, poor or what.... 😀
My uncle had a gold coloured Ford Cortina 1600E. I've had a soft spot for those cars to this day.
Standard Pennant blue and white reg LGS 600 about 1962 only reg I have ever been able to remember.
First one I remember was an A reg Escort Estate - 3 door for cost saving benefits I assume, it also only came with a drivers side mirror from the factory and a single speaker under the radio.
Like this one but red
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Replaced with a 1990 5 door Escort GL - Oooooooooh, which became my first car in 2000 when I was 18.
Green Austin Maxi, followed by a beige (beige!) Austin Allegro.
Gosh, you're all very young aren't you?
The first car we had when I was very very little (early 60s) was an old Ford Pop. I still remember my dad replacing the floor in the boot with plywood. It was one of only two cars on our road - the other was also a Ford Pop.
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Lime green Capri Ghia with a black vinyl roof... it had some kind of plastic "spoiler" or "grill" over the back window.
My Hulk kite somehow got left in the boot when my parents part-exed it for the first of their green cortina estates.... 🙁 .... oh, and my dad reckons he sold it for more than he bought it due to the rampant inflation of the mid 70s
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In 1976, the summer before I came along my folks drove their LHD, ex-Belgian Boulanger 2CV van to Yugoslavia for their Honeymoon. They had to turn round and reverse up some of the cols in the Alps as first gear wasn't short enough. Me being born ruined van ownership and they quickly changed it for a yellow 2CV4 called Custard.
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A bedford c1 dormobile without even a raising roof. Drove from Mumbai to London in it in 1966
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Not ours but very similar and with a Mirror dinghy on top instead as we drove down to the Med for summer hols.
Peugeot 404 Familiale.
Audi 100 in gold, then a yellow one with black vinyl roof. mid to early 70's
Hillman Imp van, dark green & used from early 60's to about 1972, when replaced with a brand new LWB petrol landrover.
The Imp must have been very crowded in the back on family camping trips, what with three kids, all the gear and an engine all crowded in there!
A dark green Singer Chamois (Hillman Imp) which was rubbish, replaced by a white Mk2 Cortina 1600E, which was a great car.
I have seen photos of a Dormobile, but the first one I remember was this - same colour, same reg, but not this exact car. This would be 1983ish.
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It was replaced by this actual car, which is still running around town even tho my folks sold it in 1992:
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(it too was replaced by another ancient Volvo 😀 )
A brown Jag MkIV 1 1/2 litre which overheated when looked at.
Replaced by a grey sit up and beg Ford Pop. WWE953 I think. Nicknamed wee-wee.
Then the usual string of Anglias, Cortinas, Avengers. Beautiful Singer Vogue at one time, memories of a brilliant trip to the 1967 British GP in that.
Er Jamie's South Park pic on page 2... anyone?
A custard-yellow Ford Escort MK2 estate. A bit like this. But with foil over the radiator grille in winter. Not an inconspicuous vehicle. [img] 
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White colour VW Beetle 1966 model 1.3 bought in early 80s from my aunt.
The only car my father ever bought and we still have it.
White Austin 1100, around 1975/76.
Ro5ey - Memberoh, and my dad reckons he sold it for more than he bought it due to the rampant inflation of the mid 70s
Does he know how much it'd be worth now 😯
White Hillman Avenger.
I remember being taken quickly out of my child seat as it filled with smoke from under the dash 😯
White Hillman Avenger.
I remember being taken quickly out of my child seat
Clearly a similar age to me - but I certainly never saw a child seat as a child. We used to ride in the boot of our Cortina - even on long journeys to the seaside.
Brown Capri followed by a purple Datsun, and for some reason we a had a private number plate 'THE 77' and I vividly remember a Porsche whizzing past us beeping uncontrollably who had the number plate 'THE 99'
Vauxhall Victor like this
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Followed by a Granada 3.0 Ghia in red
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Followed by a Toyota Cressida in yellow (DFR616S)
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Then a Volvo 244 DL in chocolate brown (UWH81T)
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Then a Capri 3.0 Ghia in purple
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Beige Citreon Diane. Bloody awful.
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Followed by a red Citreon 2CV. Worse.
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Nah, 2cv's are way cool.
Not when you're 12, in the mid 80's, and your mum insists on dropping you off at school right outside the gates. >[i]shudder[/i]<
Yellow DAF 33
Would have loved it to have been a Y reg Austin Ambassador, but this from late 60's up until about 1975, when we got a Toyota Hiace:
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Morris Oxford Traveller
A bright red Messerschmitt KR 200.
Followed by a Standard Vanguard in black and rust
Followed by a humber Hawk In rust and blue
Followed by my favorite, a Rover 3litre saloon. In three tone - light grey, dark grey and rust
There is a theme emerging.....
Ford Anglia,spruce green and ermin white,registration LWB 911D,first bank loan £150,second car DWA 50 H Ford Cortina 1600E,good times
Purpley Jowett Javelin from early 1950's is my earliest memory. Dad had an Austin 8 before that but I am not sure I recall that really, just from photo's.
A hacker's gold mine Shirly?
Hindustan Ambassador in white. Yes we did live in Utta Pradesh.
A grey or blue Ford Anglia of which I remember the reg No. We had a couple before trading up to Ford Prefect.
TR2 long door in BRG. Until shortly after my sister was born and a Hillman Super Minx appeared on the driveway.
Peugeot 504 Estate. In red. Then Dad replaced it with a blue one.
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Not the actual car.
Look at the size of it though!
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I still remember the noise it made as it turned over and over and over but never quite fired on cold mornings. Big red vinyl seats with white piping. We went all over in it but it was bloody awful.
Citroen Light 15 in green. A late 40s one.
Two tone grey Rover P4.
Green Ford Corsair V4.
Until my mum remarried, we only had one car, and that for not all that long, my dad having died when I was thirteen.
Up until then he had a motorbike, which I used to go everywhere on the back of.
Our first, and sadly only car, was one of these:
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I so wish we could have kept it, but it just wasn't possible. 🙁
Morris Marina in red. Followed by another one.
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Rover P5 mk3 in burgundy
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Sunbeam Rapier. My dad's pride and joy. It had overdrive!
When you wound the back windows down, the metal "post" between the front and back windows went down too. I thought that was cool.
9252 KX light blue moggy 1000 we had that from about'68 - 74 great memories in that car 8 hr journey to cornwall in augusts sitting high on sleeping bags ,blankets etc laid on the back seat. could hear it coming from miles away minors still have that exhaust note. Whilst some great stories come from this thread there are some truly awful bits of 'engineering'up there^^ 😯
As well as that Buick I posted my Dad had one of these, a fan of 50's Americana he owned one of these in black, a Cadillac CdV. It looks way cool now, but in the 70's and early 80's believe me you could pick one up for next to nothing. He restored it, adored it and when we came over here got it sent to Saudi where my Uncle was based.
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Then having moved here and my Mum bought an Ovlov 240GL estate he bought one of these, damn thing had a fire in the engine bay and we didn't see Dad for weeks until he repaired and refurbished it, turned out to be a blowback from the injection system (that they were known for) Hardly used, high days and occasionally taken out if the Ovlov was somewhere else.. cool as my Dad..
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I can remember the Grey 850 mini that was my mum and dads first car. It was a wedding present from my Grandad ( mums - dad ) . C reg , no idea of the reg plate. Dad got a webber carb fitted and someone nicked it .
It blew its gearbox driving down the A1 on a wet, dark sunday night and we got home in a hired Mk3 Cortina 3L auto which was way better.
Then a succession of Austin 1300's, one of which I rode my bike into and the brake lever left a 1m long scrath which I tried to cover up with airfix paint and only made it worse.
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VW variant Estate.
My folks bought it new in South Africa and then brought it over to Scotland when we moved back here in the early 70s.
I recall them driving over the Kalahari Desert with us four kids in the back and dad sleeping on the roof rack when we slept in the car.
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..fantastic car for a 5 year old kid, it had a huge armrest in the back seat.
My parents and my parents both had Citroën CX safaris. Grand parent's was 7 seat, ours 5 but we regularly travelled in the boot. One was was blue, one was gold.
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The first one I remember properly was an MG Montego in Black. There was a Corolla and an UNO before that but I don't have any memory of them.
I vaguely remember my dad having a dark blue Ford Anglia, and later a maroon Triumph 2500 with overdrive.
My mum re-married when I was 12, my new stepdad then had a Morris Marina 1800 in red
There's some cracking cars on this thread 🙂
Cant quite remember the order they came in but the first I remember were a Mk2 Escort in metallic green with a vinyl roof and a red Chevette with vinyl seats that on hot days would remove any exposed skin!
Tricky, as I remember several and they all blur together a bit. My dad was a GP and tended to change cars quite frequently in the early days so :-
Probably a pale ?green Ford Anglia - got a vague memory of peering out the bedroom window and seeing it in the drive.
But about that time a ?Grey Singer Gazelle came and stayed for a very short period. It apparently understeered so badly that every time my Dad turned the wheel he had enough time to wonder if the steering had in fact broken before it changed direction. I think it was with us for less than 3 months.
There was also a series of Ford Cortinas. Possibly a Mark1 before the Singer and a Mark2 after but the one I can picture on the drive was a light metallic green Mk3 Estate.
The first family car I can remember riding in was a bright Yellow Mk1 Ford Escort Mexico.
After that my dad went through a Renault phase, a Saab phase and then a Citroen phase which coincided with the start of my own car ownership which began with a 2CV6, NTB906W.
Dark blue Ford Anglia van was the first. It practically rusted away and for about a year the passenger door was held shut with a sling and karabiner. Then two white Renault 4s the first of which had 6v electrics. R4 drivers used to wave at each other on the road 🙂
Then a canary yellow Viva, which learned to drive on.
Early eighties, Datsun Cherry in yellow, rear axle collapsed IIRC.
Shortly followed by a MkII 1600 Escort Sport.
While Ford Escort mk1. May have been a Mexico, because I remember sitting in the back doing 100 mph across Haldon on the Exeter road. Second car was an Orange Marina coupe. It was the death of him, literally 🙁
Triumph dolomite in pale blue. Used to let me steer it sat on his knee. I was about 6!
Annoyingly, and I only remember actually seeing it once, they also had a VW van with the split windscreen that we went around Europe in when I was a baby. My dad shifted it because it was "shit slow". Probably worth £40k these days.......
Blue Zephyr 6 estate...we drove to Spain in it.
Green mk3 Cortina XL. I still remember the agony of beige vinyl interior...after long hot journeys on summer holidays in the early 1970s the memory of the pain of skin on the backs of my legs being peeled away from the seat will remain with me till the grave. 40 plus years on and I'm still traumatised by that.
Now my dads next car, an orange mk3 cortina GXL that followed it was pure class 1975 style ( all traces of vinyl relegated to the exterior roof and the seats were covered in fabric ...luxury!) 8)
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Mini van, as the tax was less or something and then dad cut some windows in the back, it was grey, but dad knew someone who worked in a council garage, so the van got painted utility yellow with a brush, and then the metal garage door went the same colour! MMF 322C.
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One of these as well, but no windows in the black and it stayed grey. Kent to Co Durham for summer holidays, setting off at 4 to beat the traffic, goodness only knows why! EYK990C.
First family car I remember was an Alfasud in red (KPR 447P). Would've have been about 1976, I would have been six. I do remember my dad replacing the front wings and respraying a couple of years later. Haven't seen one for a LONG time. All long rusted away presumably. He loved it though.
My Dad had an old grey mini van as well! Had one of those horns that went Aroogah and used to beep it every time he came home.
We had a cushion each amongst the tools in the back, and used to fight to sit next to the back doors. And if Mum wasn't there we were allowed to open the doors once in a while and sit with our feet hanging out the back 🙂
Humber Sceptre, Mk3, in black. Dad says we had a mk1 Cortina before that, but memories of it are non existent.
Not ours...
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