Your parents' BEST car?
 

So now we've got the nasty ones out of the way, which cars are you glad that your parents bought? Mine had/have some pretty cool cars. Here's a selection:

1980 Lola T590 Sports 2000: Proper racing car converted to road legal!!! Sold in 2007.

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1955 Austin Healey 100/6: still got

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w...BigHealey2.jpg

Jaguars: 1984 XJ-S HE V12, 1972 E-Type FHC V12, 1964 S-Type 3.8 Manual. Still got these.

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w...dn/Jaguars.jpg

1998 XK-8 (still got)

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w...ightdn/XK8.jpg

There was also a mint 1972 150bhp TR6, very early 1963 MGB roadster and the 1955 Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire that my Dad restored and that have long-since been sold.

Turbo - WOW! That Healey is LUSH (my favourite classic car) as is the Lola!

Bit more modest for me - can't be ar5ed to find pics but it's a toss up between:

7th Mk1 GTi in the UK (new)

http://www.vw-one.co.uk/HMJ%20BH%20House.jpg

Porker 928S

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...he_928_GTS.jpg

Audi Quattro Treser (the last of three he had)

http://www.designcars.de/Automodelle...e2/Treser2.jpg

E20 323i (new at the time)

http://www.ziomal.itl.pl/opisy/historia/BMW%20e21b.jpg

And then a few that should have been nice but weren't:

Ferrari 308 GT4

http://www.dennigcars.org/models/pic...ri_308_gt4.jpg

Porker 924 Turbo

http://www.356-911.com/post1974/mode...924turbos1.jpg
Big fat Jag V12

http://www.bluebird-electric.net/blu...gistration.JPG

Triumph Stag V8 with spoke alloys (which cost a fortune).

http://www.thebritbox.com/BCD%202006...phStag_red.JPG

And then the crazy Q cars:

Ford P100 pick up - looked almost stock, had a 400bhp Rover V8.

http://i.oodleimg.com/item/1509713199_1m?1249275417

Mitsi Shogun - BBR Racing tuned to nearly 300bhp


One of the last mk1 GTIs (new - 1.8) with huge amount of work done to it - proper 911 eater at the time

Fond memories of my Dads 3500 Rover SD somethingorother.....

It was huge, and the seats in the back were like sitting on a couch, it had armrests that were big enough to sit on.

It also had 140mph written on the clock, so I obviously assumed thats what it would do...WOW.

It was a tan/coffee colour... :eek:

SDs were VERY cool. Even if the design was nicked from the Ferrari Daytona...

I think I was about 9 or 10 when he got it, second hand, if I would have know it had any association with Ferrari I would have told the world.. :D

Yoza - I used to live near a Ferrari garage - they had a Daytona Spyder there (in the mid 80s when the economy was booming) for £1.6 million!!

got to be in 1976- Rover P6 V8 3500

bear in mind most peoples cars were junk like mini's, marinas, fords of all types, princess', allegro or no car at all.

Aston Martin DB6


but I always loved the Rover SD -- and especially the cantilevered rear armrest

Probably a toss up between TR7V8 rally car, a 964 Speedster (rare), or 997 C2S. Will have to dig out some pictures.

The Lola was amazing. It had originally competed for a couple of seasons in the Sports 2000 series in Holland in the early 1980's. It was then repatriated to the UK and the then-owner went about having it road-registered, since it was no longer competitive. This was not as difficult as it sounds. It just meant sourcing a suitable horn, lights, hand brake, treaded tyres, some instruments, a bench seat with two harnessess, raising the ride-height an inch or two and adding a laughable excuse for an exhaust silencer box. There are not many V5 registration documents with the word Lola as manufacturer.

My parents bought it in the late 1980's, having seen a private classified advertisement for it in the local newspaper. Weighing about 500kg it was blisteringly fast as a road car. It had a tuned 2.2 litre Pinto with 2 twin choke 45 Webers and the proper Hewland Mk9 4 speed racing gearbox. It was so fast and windswept that it used to blow your eyelashes back into your eyeballs!

We did one track event at Donington, but other than that it was purely a fun road car for us. I remember my Dad spinning it with me as passenger on the ice of a tight left hand uphill country road one quiet Christmas Day morning. My mother sometimes drove it too. She would occasionally surprise my Dad and everyone else by picking him up from the Railway Station in it after his daily commute back from his office job in London. :)

We finally sold it a couple of years ago, when it was in need of some fettling and not being used. I believe the current owner resides in Lincolnshire and intended on getting it back on the road.:thumb:

Unfortunately my mum and dad couldnt afford a car ,but when I was growing up my next door neighbour had a mk1 escort van done up as a Custom car in metallic bronze and the other next door neighbour had a Consul with about 15 inch wide rear wheels and flames down the front wings !!!!

Most of the other people on the street had Marinas,allegros,rovers ,so the Custom cars did grab your attention .

Its a shame we dont see many Custom cars these days .(although some may disagree !!!!!)

Turbo - superb! How cool! Using it to pick up from the station too - class!

I remember getting lifts to school in the 928 and other daft cars - but the most fun was piling into the back of the V8 pickup - dad would always blip the throttle after he dropped us off. Bit sad but we loved it!

njk - think you are right. Sticking a big V8 in a small car or similar seems so much cooler than plugging a car into a laptop for a remap.

A mate of Dad's did it professionally (he stuck the V8 into the pickup) and did a 911 Turbo engined VW Camper (splittie), a few Model T Fords with supercharged V8s and plenty of others - all done very well. Again a bit better than sticking on a fat "zorst" and 100kgs of plastic bodywork.

biot boring i know, but a volvo v70 d5.

for a dirty diesel went like feck!

180bhp for those D5s and a lot of torque - they are pretty quick!

Not all diesels are dirty...

My dad only really had one car when I was a kid, 1969 MK1 Capri 1600 GT-XLR, got it when I was three and gave it me when I passed my test aged 18. It was originally "Silver Fox", he had it re-done in white at work in about 1980 as it was geting a bit ratty and being a bus depot there were limited paint colours and he didnt fancy bright Orange, superb paint job done by the painter at work, new chrome throughout, new vinyl roof, repainted the Rostyle wheels, silver with black inserts, it looked like new. He rebuilt the engine himself at 90,000 miles, overbored, apart from a little piston slap when cold it was better than new, it was fairly quick, I remember keeping up with a MK1 XR2 which seemed an acheivement at the time.

I remember being in it as a kid, left listening to the 8 track, Bit of Deep Purple, Tubular bells or the Who, getting in trouble for chewing the back of the seats.

I remember when I got it spending a lot of time in barely controlled slides, fitting a decent stereo, breaking leaf springs doing demonstration runs in a pub car park to show the benefits of rwd, trawling scrapyards with J4ckos mate looking for new springs and getting chased off by huge oily Alsations and deciding to go back when the place was actually open. Getting stopped by the Police, mainly as the copper wanted to have a nosey and get misty eyed over a MK1 Capri again.

Personally, even when other kids had much newer and posher cars at school I wasnt bothered, they were old man, proper dad cars like Volvo's, Peugeots etc and I used to get picked up by my dad in the Capri, did sometimes get embarassing when we left sideways in a haze of burning Goodyear Grand Prix S :D

My Mum had a Marina TC which for all its "Marina Cosworth" type badging was actually a wheezy old MG engine in a turd of a car, she then got a Princess off my grandad, his heart condition meant the steering was too heavy so he got a PAS equipped Montego , quite why my mum was decided man enough for the job I dont know, remember her straining to heave it round corners, the tip of her cig glowing bright red as she inhaled through it, the corners of the car battered from when my grandad hadnt heaved enough and the chisel nosed Princess sent our substansial gatepost flying one visit, it aquired many other dents, the one cool thing you could do was make it bounce in the style of a South Central Gangsta low rider by holding the handbrake on and letting the clutch in and out :D

lol, it was when it needed servicing lol.

was very nice car though, im contemplating having one aas my next run around, corners well, as you say plenty of poke, brakes were like you'd thrown the anchor from the titanic out the back lol

A yellow ford capri a little like this, then dad moved from london and his choice in cars went downhill from there i'm afraid

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/25...8e0275.jpg?v=0

D-Type Jag he drove for Duncan Hamilton when he worked for him, sort of company car:)
http://www.autocult.com.au/img/galle...ologram167.jpg

(not this one but one like it)

MY Mum had a Morris traveller when i was 3 , and my mum and stepdad had a rather fetching Triumph 2000 saloon, in beige, 2.5l possibly ??
I cant remember any the rest/not admitting to them ( mainly repmobiles ) -family more intrested in boats

:brickwall

This was the best car I remember him having, but in silver, and not an SRI, it was a 1.6 lazer or similar...







http://www.pistonheads.com/pics/news...432913-2-L.jpg



But I had a much older brother that had this at the time, so the cav was much prefered.

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He now drives around in one of these, :lol1:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/98/25...5344b5.jpg?v=0

I had a serious look at the V50 with the D5 engine but thought that much oomph through the front wheels would be tricky. So 335d it was. With 348mm front disks!

Paul - another beauty! Jag made such lovely cars then - and with the latest XK8, still do (we'll ignore the S Type, X Type, etc!)

The best cars my old man has had.

Ford Capri 3.0S
Sierra XR4x4
Sierra Cosworth 4x4
Audi RS4 (V8)
Audi R8.

For my Dad the best have been two Rover SD's, a yellow followed by a blue followed by a white mkii Supra 2.8i and then a red mkiii 3.0i and then a Jag XJ6 (80's model). My Mum's best car was the Nissan Silvia 1.8T in two tone silver and blue, I bloody loved that car as a kid. Like this one:

http://www.performance-car-guide.co....ia-Turbo-2.jpg

Obviously didn't age well as don't see them on the road any more.

None of them. Not one of my parent's cars were any good. I'm amazed I managed to hold on to my love of cars at all. If I had to pick one I'd go with the Morris 1300 Estate because the quarterlight windows were cool.

Afternoon!:)

Dad had other nice cars – morgan 3 wheelers, S typess, afla's etc. Dad was related to Brough of Brough Superior fame so had a couple of nice bikes as well.
However, This was before me and all I remember is the morris minors and rustin allagros!

Rover P6. Only a 2000TC, but it was the proper blue colour and i was eternally transfixed by the red "thermometer" speedo :D

Don't have actual photo's but these are what I could find on the net.

First up, Lancia Thema V8. Which I only found out recently had a Ferrari V8 engine. I don't really remember the car that much as I was very young.

http://www.musafiaitalia.it/1Z300127b.jpg

Next up Mercedes E Class Coupe AMG

http://www.amg-classics.de/mediac/40...s300ce-AMG.jpg

Mercedes CLK Convertible

http://www.roycemotorservices.co.uk/...s/ws0175-t.jpg

Mamoon, the proper name for it was the Thema 8.32. It used the same block as the 308 but a different crank (crossplane instead of flatplane) and it ran the opposite way to the 328 so that the Thema didn't end up with 5 reverse gears and 1 forward (like an Italian tank).

I always wanted one for the Ferrari connection and sheer rarity of the things.

http://www.classictrim.co.uk/images/RS2000_Exterior.jpg

RS2000 in yellow, then moved on to a mk2 RS2000 in purple.

I was looking at autotrader for one of these the other day and there are none. Probably all rusted away by now