fast bloke

My Dad had a Healy 3000. I think it must have been in the 8th century. I don't remember it and he doesn't have any pics, but looking at these pics i realise he must have been cool once

Leslie

A Morris Eight series E, dont know the year. It was a fine old wagon and I learned to drive and took my test in it. Wish we still had it-worth a bomb now!

I did my first 4 wheel drift in it near our local village. My Dad was not in it at the time though

Les

Playsatan

iTrader: (2)

That's quite a list. A few gems and a few ropey ones in there too.

I should have said in my first post that while I thought the E30 325 was the coolest my old man would probably have pick one of his current trio

330 Clubsport
1972 VX 4/90
Mk I Jag E Type roadster

r32

A Morris 10, HUB 164 was the rgistration, first car we had as a family, made in the mid 40's I think.

Bottomfeeder

Coolest thing my dad ever owned was a SuperMirafiori 2000TC

My mum however.....

Capri 2.8i
Astra GTE (had LCD dash rather than dials)
Escort RS1600 (stripes on bonnet)
XR3i

My mother is the epitome of Hyacinth(sp) Bucket, but a screaming petrol head to boot. Family legend has it that she got stopped for speeding on her way to work one day. The 'young' bobby stood by the side of her Capri and started his "Do you know how fast you were going?" routine whereby she cut him off dead, addressed him as sonny, and in her best "telling the kids off voice" told him, at length that, theat she had been driving since before he was born and to go and catch some real criminals as she was very late for work.


Legend has it he apologised "for wasting your time Mrs Cannon"

Don't know how true it is, but all those who know my mum well, nod sagely when the story is recounted.

At present and true to form Dad runs a Mondeo 2.0TDi and Maggie is tearing up Stockley bypass in a 2005 SAAB Aero convertable !!

Petem95

My old man had some pretty cool stuff

MGB V8
Le Frances
Triumph Spitfire
205 1.9 GTi

CrisPDuk

My Dad can't drive

My Mum has had the following:

Ford 105E
Austin 1100
Triumph 1300
Morris Minor
Triumph Dolomite Sprint
Mk1 (RWD) Mazda 323
Morris Marina
Morris Ital
Mk1 Vauxhall Astra 1.3 Auto
Vauxhall Cavalier

With the exeption of the Vauxhalls, all but the Minor were on their last legs by the time Mum got them

IMO the Minor was the coolest The fact that the Dolly was a nail stopped it from being cool


PS: For all the parents who can't manage to move just one kid around without either a van with windows, or a Chelsea tractor, my parents, my sister & me travelled all over the country for years in the Moggie

Scooby Snacks 23

Anyone remember the Renault Fuego? My old man had one of these, and they were the coolest cars in the world!!

Come to think of it, he must have been a Renault freak as he had a 5, 16, 20, and 25!

Oh, and the old VW scirroco was cool too!!

fromage

My Mum: (no order)

Ford Orion Ghia
Porsche 944 S2
Pug 205 1.9 GTi
Pug 309 1.9 GTi
Astra GTE
Mazda 323 F (pop-up headlights)
Fiesta RS1800
Rover 420i ewww


My Dad: (No order)

Escort Mk2
VW Golf Mk2 GTi
VW Golf Mk3 GTi
Nissan 200 sx
Ford Sierra 4x4 2.8i
BMW M3 Evo (E36)
Peugeot 406 GLX
BMW 530i Sport (E39)

They have owned other cars in their lives but can only remember these

Leslie

My dad had a BSA three wheeler, the one with the big Vee twin engine like the old Morgans. It was all he could afford when he got back from a POW camp in Germany. It was a fine old car and we used to go to all the motor races in it when I was a lad.

Les

GaryK

Ive got one of those now! Cool as!

Hmmm coolest car the old man had must have been the Mk2 ford zodiac, he used to drive it slowly up the private road while I laid on the bonnet

Gary

lawson101

My dads never really had a cool car, heres the list as I rember it.

Morris Marina Estate
(company cars - Vauxhall Viva, Mini)
Renault 9
" " 21 (x2)
" " Laguna 1.6 sport
Mazda 6 2.3 Sport

The last is the best of a bad bunch imo, its canary yellow tho...

JTaylor

I mentioned a yellow and black Mk1 Capri GT in the other thread but Dad owned that before I was born. When I was ten he embarked on a series of restorations including 2 Ford Populars (the mint green one being my favourite), but the highlight was a 1946 'Sit up and beg' Ford Prefect. He was the General Manager of Trathens Coach Company at the time and so had access to the workshop and paint facilities. The car was simply stunning, with the deepest black cellulose finish. It was rumoured to be one of the best examples in the World. It appeared in a couple of Miss Marple films and was then sold to a Japanese collector who wanted to source the best. The car currently resides at a museum in Yokohama.

CrisPDuk

My Son's Dad has owned one of these for 11 years now

Karl 227

That confused the crap out of me for a few minutes

Sport160

Looking back at all the cars owned I would have to say the modified Mk2 Mini Cooper S, Blue/Old english white roof. Perhaps the lancia fulvia although I was a little young to remember this, and maybe one of those honda S800 things count as well.

Miles

When I was fourteen, my dad's H-reg Carlton GSi 3000 24v rated pretty highly. Then a few years later he had a really early Impreza Turbo in white (!) with full leather interior....

Now is on his 2nd Octavia 4x4 Est (yawn).

hades

Your dad's have no imagination. My dad, as well as some more sensible cars has gone through:

a wooden, 6 wheeled hustler which was a little distinctive, partly by nature of (a) having 6 wheels and (b) having plywood / ash / mahongany bodywork (the clue is in the name!)

a modifiied, fibre-glass shelled, big arch mini minus with a rather pleasant 1430cc tuned lump in it.

he now drives a GTM Libra with a mildly worked over 1.8 K-series. Mid engined, a fair bit stiffer and 50kg lighter than a Mk 1 Elise and now it's properly set-up, better handling too. Sod all this boring "off the shelf" stuff

scoobie-shieldy

mk 1 escort
mk 1 opel kadet
mk 1 capri
hillman imp
maxi
citreon xm
was cool for a 8 year old kid, playing with the hydrallics making it go up and down, draining the battery, then getting a belting of the old man lolz those were the days

triumph spitfire