Dad cars

[GUBRATS]

Following on from last Sunday's Top Gear , what was your dad's ' car ' , not necessarily his first , but just the one , the ' car ' that was the one you most remember being in most of all 

My dad's first was a Morris Oxford , the late fifties early sixties one , but ' his ' car was an Anglia estate , he had it for about 6 years from 69 till 75 when we emigrated to NZ , most Friday nights during that time meant load up the car and drive the 70 miles to Sedbergh up near Kendal , where we had a caravan on a site within fishing rod casting into a tributary of the river Lune , on Sunday nights we had to climb the 7 in 1 gradient hill on the way back to the M6 sometimes five up with my nan in the car with us , the huge 997 pre cross flow engine struggling to the point sometimes my brother and I would have to jump out and walk up the last 100 yards of that hill 

It was two tone grey , funnily enough that particular body type now is worth a fortune , much more than the hundred odd quid my dad paid for it back then 

[gittinsfan]

My dad never had a car or even learnt to drive.When I was 17 he put me through my test and bought me an Austin A40 which I suppose was really his first car.He did this partly so I could take him to and from work,especially on late shifts.He was getting too old to use the bike too much.This was great because he also paid for much of the petrol,and also occasionally a pint on the way home.

I wish I had kept the reg number for that A40,it would be worth a few bob to someone now.  KHD4.

Thanks Gubrats,it was a long time ago but this has brought back some happy memories.

[CanaBull]

The first car I remember rolling around in the back of as a kid was Dad's (74 I believe looking at pictures) Mini Clubman Estate in the worst 70's brown colour.  Me and my brother got yelled at in that all the way down to Cornwall.  Dad followed that up with a sterling upgrade to a Morris Marina.

[Robin Evans]

Hillman super Minx

[Moose]

Austin A40 Somerset. Dad bought it in 1958 in S Africa and brought it back when we returned to England two years later. 

 

 

 

[Futtocks]

Although I must have been around 5 years old, I can still remember the day my dad came home with one of these.

[Robin Evans]

My first car was a Ford cortina mk IV.

Proper paul calf car

[tim2]

By the way, that segment where the presenters spoke about their dads (and Chris Harris's mum) shows why they are better than the Clarkson-led trio, even though the show is essentially the same. 

[Derwent]

40 minutes ago, Robin Evans said:

My first car was a Ford cortina mk IV.

Proper paul calf car

2 tone Brown ?

[Bleep1673]

My Dad never had a car either, I was the first to own a car. A Mk III Cortina, which I hated, but was bought by my Dad. My Favourite was a MkII Escort 1.6L, S Suffix, that was incredible. I Once drove 9 people from Manchester Centre, back to Hope Hospital (Where they were living) after a night out, in 1988.

[hindle xiii]

4 hours ago, tim2 said:

By the way, that segment where the presenters spoke about their dads (and Chris Harris's mum) shows why they are better than the Clarkson-led trio, even though the show is essentially the same. 

I think Paddy McGuinness has toned things down a bit in this series and the last, in the first series he was genuinely and consistently insufferable.

I never bothered with the Chris Evans or Matt Le Blanc led versions.

[hindle xiii]

As for my Dad's cars I remember a Vauxhall Cavalier and a Vauxhall Carlton in the 90s.

[Futtocks]

41 minutes ago, hindle xiii said:

I think Paddy McGuinness has toned things down a bit in this series and the last, in the first series he was genuinely and consistently insufferable.

I never bothered with the Chris Evans or Matt Le Blanc led versions.

Chris Evans didn't fit the show, despite being a massive enthusiast. Matt le Blanc was okay. Paddy still shouts a bit too much, but maybe he'll calm down a bit.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

54 minutes ago, hindle xiii said:

I think Paddy McGuinness has toned things down a bit in this series and the last, in the first series he was genuinely and consistently insufferable.

I never bothered with the Chris Evans or Matt Le Blanc led versions.

Same with me, I'd stopped watching it for the last few series of the Clarkson era because they'd started to do my head in and didn't bother with the Evans or Le Blanc ones but caught one of the new ones on Dave (there was nothing particularly on and thought I'd just give it a go) and really enjoyed it. I think it was the Nepal one. Big fan of the new lineup. 

[JohnM]

My dad's first car was the Austin Seven Chummy that he owned before the 2nd World War. 

[Futtocks]

11 minutes ago, JohnM said:

My dad's first car was the Austin Seven Chummy that he owned before the 2nd World War. 

My mum's first car was an Austin Seven. As she used to go from London to Edinburgh (for the Festival) each year, she soon worked out a route which didn't have any hills too steep for the little motor.

The first family car I remember was hers too; a Bubble Car, one with the only door being the entire front of the vehicle.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

5 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

The first family car I remember was hers too; a Bubble Car, one with the only door being the entire front of the vehicle.

The Isetta? 

[Futtocks]

5 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

The Isetta? 

Either an Isetta or a Heinkel, I can't recall. Vague memories and a Google image search suggest the latter, but not definitively.

[GUBRATS]

12 hours ago, Robin Evans said:

Hillman super Minx

Ooh posh , I bought my dad a 65 Humber Sceptre from a customer in Blackpool , would have been about 1980 , cracking car , rotten as a pear underneath , the MOT guy said it must have been ' fiddled ' through for 5 years at least , it was bought by some stock car lads , they reckoned it'd be great for that

[Robin Evans]

1 minute ago, GUBRATS said:

Ooh posh , I bought my dad a 65 Humber Sceptre from a customer in Blackpool , would have been about 1980 , cracking car , rotten as a pear underneath , the MOT guy said it must have been ' fiddled ' through for 5 years at least , it was bought by some stock car lads , they reckoned it'd be great for that

My dad had a humber super snipe. Bench seats. Colum change. It was fabulous but jeez, it struggled to pass a petrol station. I loved that car. Way classier that the rover 2000 he bought after that.

 

[GUBRATS]

8 hours ago, Robin Evans said:

My first car was a Ford cortina mk IV.

Proper paul calf car

Mine was a MK1 escort , bought at a local authority auction in Lower Hutt in NZ , for both my brother and me , I'd just passed my test aged 15 , it was a beige grey colour with scratches on the door where the council crest had been painted , and a bucket of concrete actually concreted into the floor 

A couple of months later my brother bought a mk 2 Spitfire after a big win on at the races so the ' Scort ' was mine , had some fun in that thing 

[GUBRATS]

15 minutes ago, Robin Evans said:

My dad had a humber super snipe. Bench seats. Colum change. It was fabulous but jeez, it struggled to pass a petrol station. I loved that car. Way classier that the rover 2000 he bought after that.

 

Can't beat a bench seat and a column change , back in NZ the streets were full of Zephyrs and Zodiacs and of course the Holden's, PA and PB Vauxhall's , we'd often see a MK1 or 2 Zephyr with various different coloured doors and wings , quite often missing a bonnet or boot , full of the locals in them , " Maori Mustangs " was the general term for them

[Moose]

28 minutes ago, Robin Evans said:

My dad had a humber super snipe. Bench seats. Colum change. It was fabulous but jeez, it struggled to pass a petrol station. I loved that car. Way classier that the rover 2000 he bought after that.

 

I had a Vauxhall Victor about 1967/8 with a bench seat, column change and only three gears. Not too fond of the bench seat, no seat belt you slid all over the place

[Red Willow]

My Dad's first car was the bank job car.

It was a silver blue escort that every getaway driver seemed to have in 70s

[Clogiron]

11 hours ago, Moose said:

Austin A40 Somerset. Dad bought it in 1958 in S Africa and brought it back when we returned to England two years later. 

 

 

 

The first car I can remember my dad having was a black estate version of one of these, carpet in the back where I used to play happily when we went anywhere, then it was a A35 followed by a Mini.