Playsatan

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When I was 17 my old man got a BMW e30 325 Sport in red . Sounded like no other car on the road and at the time I thought it was fantastic.

Got a few "code brown" moments when i tried to drive it like my 1.3 escort though.

Bubba po

My Dad never had a cool car, I'm afraid, except for an Austin A90 Atlantic, before I was born.

little-ginge

As a kid, all my dad's car were cool... then I went to school and saw all the other parents cars

Crazy Chick

My dad had a TR6 when I was very little. Means nothing to me.

Simes777

An XR3 - the pre injection model. Well, I thought it was cool

STi wanna Subaru

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Austin Healy 3000 MkIII



similar to this.

Dracoro

Now THAT'S cool! even more so nowadays. Gorgeous motor.

banny sti

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Nissan bluebird turbo! Well I thought it was cool anyway.

Maz

Bubba po

My Dad's I think. My mum said he broke the Speedo on it coming down Toll Hill near Pontefract.

0-60 = 18.4 seconds, LOL.

davyboy

1300 E Escort

957 CC Fiesta Popular plus (he bought this off someone who won the car) reg number MOH 898X.

1986 1400 Fiesta sport

1990 1600 Sport fiesta - He still thanks me I wrote this off!

1992 Ford Escort 1.8 16 valve

1998 VW polo 1.4

...thats it....34 years worth of my dads cars!

STi wanna Subaru

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Oh yeah... I have a love for them from just seeing his photos. Sad story how it went though. He'd just married my mum and bought their first house. I was 6 months old at the time when he had a bump with a lorry. The car needed work to get her back on the road. He had no money due to the house and new baby. The car had to be kept under sheets trying to protect it from the weather... old cars like that used to rust.

In the end it deteriorated so badly that he bought a family run around but couldn't bear to part with the rotting shell of his pride and joy. In the end he sould what was left for £75 in the 80's. The car went to a bloke in Scotland who phoned him some years later saying he'd fully restored it and was driving it.

I do wonder now given the choice if he'd have swapped the car for the house and kid?!

oh and to add.... My dream is to be able to buy him one when he retires in a few years. Not a mint one but one he can work on as he is a greasemonkey at heart. I'm not in the position yet to be able to do that

Spoon

Coolest to me at the time I guess was a new Ferrari 308GTB new in 1980, sold it in 1981 for more money than he paid for it too.

Others since have been cooler.

STi wanna Subaru

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So do you guys think you got your passion for cars from you dads then? I know I have. I knew more about the specs of cars as a young lad than anything I was taught in school.

Freak

My mum had a fiesta supersport (old W plate )

Dad at one point had a black capri 3.0 litre i think? complete with red go faster stripe and a big beard, afro and sideburns
II thought the car was pretty cool

brumdaisy

my dad had a a white capri with a black roof

davyboy

Did you read the list of cars my dad had?

NotoriousREV

My Dad's list of cars:

Ford Corsair
Austin Allegro (x2)
Vauxhall Viva estate
Triumph Acclaim
Austin 1300 estate
Austin Maxi
Vauxhall Viva saloon
Austin Maestro
Citroen BX
Vauxhall Corsa
Vauxhall Astra
Vauxhall Meriva

Which one's the coolest? I can't decide

TopBanana

My Dad used to have a thing for Vauxhalls... the pinnacle of his motoring career in my opinion was a Carlton GSI. I can still remember all the numberplates, even when I was a kid I was a car nut

STi wanna Subaru

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Sorry...excluding davyboy

Bubba po

I didn't get a passion for cars until my thirties. I saw a scoob, I wanted one, I bided my time, I got one.

STi wanna Subaru

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Strange how the bug bites us then... It's faded for me in recent years. That's more down to the finacial side though. I imagine with a wad of cash I'd be like a kid in a sweet shop.

Spoon

Undoubtedly. I was out in something fast and noisy at every opportunity.

They were the days when you could thrash a car for pleasure.

Doing a 360 on a traffic roundabout in the wet in a 3 day old Lotus Sunbeam Talbot was a thrill!!

banny sti

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Same here! God this is bringing out some old memories. I can remember every reg plate of the cars my dad owned but never admitted it.
1. Cortina mk3
2. Datsun 200L
3. Cortina mk5
4.Datsun 180b
5. Cortina Mk5
6. Nissan bluebird.
7. Nissan bluebird (new model).
8.Mazda montrose gls (don't ask!).
9. Nissan bluebird turbo zx.
10. Toyota camry.
11. Toyota camry (new model).
12. Bmw 318i.
13. Toyota camry (again!).
14. Rover vitesse.
15. bmw 525i.
16. Honda accord.( During the ownership of this car my dad sadly passed away).

Maz

NotoriousREV

In my case, my love of decent cars is rebelling against my dad's complete inability to pick something even half-way good.

J4CKO

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My dads Fireblade is pretty cool, car wise he has only ever had 3 since i have been born

Mk1 Capri 1600 GTXLR, still going according to DVLA, now a 3 litre
MK2 Golf GTI
Rover MG ZT190

Plus hundreds he has bought and sold.

Brendan Hughes

If I remember, and I'm not sure of the order of the first few:

VW Camper van
Renault 4
Austin Maxi
MkIV Cortina Estate 1.6
Pug 205

in 30+ years.

Then along came the wildcard - Cobra kit with Ford V6 power!

And that came from ME buying and messing with a Dutton!

It got as far as being MOTd before being sold, only once ever driven on the public highway

Currently with a diesel Mondeo.

I'll join the list of posters who can safely say that he wasn't influenced by his father (hang on - I drive a diesel RAV4 - )

scoobyboy1

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My dad had a E30 BMW M3 when I was a kid and we was based in Germany, I remember I didnt think it was special at all, just another BMW, its only now I wish he still had it, he also had a JPS Ford Capri in black with gold wheels which I believe I was conceived in(probably) Both LHD.

I remember the gear **** broke on the M3 and my dad took it to a BMW dealers in Germany, and the german bloke said "Ze gear **** in ze BMW should never break" and gave him one free of charge. He sold it to another soldier as he was in the army, and the bloke smashed it up a few days later.

CooperS

Ford Grandad :S

Olly

My dad has always had Transits.

However my mum has had some cool stuff.

Some highlights include:

Mini Cooper S Mk2
Cortina 1600E
Granada Mk1 3.0 (in Sweeney bronze)
Datsun 240Z
Porsche 911E
Capri 3.0S
Chevette HS (homologation special twin cam)
Opel Monza Coupe
Escort RS2000 Mk2
Capri 2.8 Injection (now mine!!)
205 GTi 1.9 (she hated it!)
Sierra XR4x4
Sapphire RS Cosworth
Porsche 911 Carrera (anniversary model)
Lotus Elan SE (front engined one)


If Carlsberg did petrol headed mums... Got the pics of all, maybe I should post 'em up. Shame she's cancelled it all out now by owning a Cayenne, probably the most uncool car on the road.