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  • What cool or very uncool cars did your dad have when you were a kid?
  • derek_starship
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    Uncool only for me I'm afraid.

    2 x Vauxhall Viva estates
    1 x Morris Marina 1.3 – in Brooklands Green – racing heritage eh?!
    1 x Opel Ascona 1.6

    And he made my teeth fall out 😆

    LMT
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    Austin Maestro! x2
    Pug 309 Turbo Diesel

    Both very uncool cars!

    stumpyjon
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    Fiat 128 and worse still 2 fiat 126s 😳

    oh and a really basic dark blue 1 litre metro which they flogged to me as my first car 👿

    Shakey
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    A Robin Reliant with a mattress for a back seat and a Toyota Corolla!

    He now drives a Volvo so a I suppose he has got slightly cooler.

    Big-M
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    Renault 4 and more than a few Volvos.

    Mind you, I have a Volvo now! Man I'm so uncool 🙄

    Dudie
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    Cool:

    Vauxhall Victor FD 2000 Super
    A couple of MkIII Cortina company cars
    Morris Marina Coupé (well, I think they're cool 🙁 )
    Jaguar XJ6 S3 (my fave)
    Jaguar XJS V12 (still got. Me want)

    Uncool:
    A couple of Morris Marina saloon company cars
    Audi 100 (mid 70's model)
    Ford Granada Mk.2
    Rover 820

    kenneththecurtain
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    Suzuki SJ. Saw one the other day and was hit with a wave of mini-4*4 nostalgia. Definitely cool.

    shepleg
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    ha ha ha check this out,
    austin/leyland allegro in poo brown estate
    another allegro estate the vandam plas with the roller grill
    austin maxi
    mini metro
    then another two
    what a large pile of turd they all were!

    el_diablo
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    Austin Alegro
    3.0L Granada (sweeney style)
    Citroen GSA
    Rover 3500
    Vauxhall Carlton
    Opel Manta
    Jaguar XJR-S V12

    amongst others

    Some great, some not so great

    Harry_the_Spider
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    Morris Minor
    Cortina Mk2
    Cortina Mk2
    Marina
    Triumph 1500 TC
    Cortina Mk3
    Cavalier Mk1
    Ascona (imported Cavalier Mk2)
    Cavalier Mk2 LXi – His only cool car 😀
    Cavalier Mk3
    Xantia
    Rover 200

    Leku
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    Mini Van with no back seats and home made side windows
    Ford Escort estate (really early type)
    Citroen Dyane
    Lada's X 2 ( :roll:)
    Pug 106 (we sold it to them)
    Now Skoda Fabia

    Slowly getting better (really slowly)

    DaveVanderspek
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    3 Litre capri (V6), in orange with a black vinyl roof, fitted with hand made straight through pipes.
    Major beastage right there.

    bol
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    Uncoolest: Peugeot 309, replaced with coolest: Manta GTE.

    twang
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    ……mmmmm

    luke
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    I was brought up until I was 11 or 12 in a one parent family, so my mum's choice of cars were in data order;
    Viva
    Renault 4 in yellow, with red aftermarket seatbelt in the back
    Lada Riva in orange with black viynl roof
    Lada Rive in red.

    yes I was picked on at school

    My now stepdad lived locally and his car collection during the same period went:
    xr3i
    sierra ghia
    orion 1.6i ghia

    Then when they got together mum got an old style Suzuki alto

    and now there both heavily in to peugeot's several 309's a 205 several 306's and now 307's

    Oggles
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    Vauxhall Mk11 Cavalier SRi
    Ford Fiesta Mk11 XR2 (nicked off the drive!)

    midlifecrashes
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    Cool:
    Vauxhall Cresta PB
    Ford Zodiac
    Morris Oxford
    Citroen CX Family
    Vauxhall Victor
    Saab 95
    Vauxhall Senator in white, everyone thought it was a cop car and got out of the way!
    BSA engined enduro bike

    Less Cool:
    Austin 1800 landcrab
    Daewoo Nubira
    Citroen C5
    Peugeot 504 Family Estate

    Brainflex
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    The one that I remember best was his Jenson Interceptor MKIII. Biiiig engine and loads of go.

    millsonwheels
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    Triumph 2000
    MGB roadster
    Hillman Minx in the garage as a project that never got started, which is still there 20 years later 😯

    Bat1
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    Make your mind up??

    CaptainFlashheart
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    My mother had a Cooper S (tweaked and outstandingly good fun, if only it was still in the family!)
    Father didn't really have much to interest. VW Fastback was a favourite, though.

    Now, my grandfather on the other hand….Succession of Jaguars (XKs and Es, including at one point three Es. FHC, DHC and a lightweight racer). One of the very first Land Rovers off the line. He also had a few Mini Coopers, a Bentley or two and his favourite (Really!) a Dolly Sprint!

    schmiken
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    Lada Riva in dark blue. God, did I get picked on! Followed by a Datsun Cherry which wasn't so bad.

    neilsonwheels
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    Cool (imo) VW beetle

    Not so cool…
    Hillman avenger
    Mini…1000 auto FFS
    Maestro
    MK2 cav with brown interior
    Orange crotina estate

    mboy
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    Porsche 924 (ok, so it had a vw engine)
    BMW 528i E28 (early 80's shark nose one)
    Pug 205gti (was my mums actually, she had some cool cars too)
    BMW 535i E34
    BMW 540i E34
    BMW M5 E39
    caterham 7

    he had a couple of pretty uncool cars too though, including a mid 80s Jag xj6, late 80s merc E class, a Volvo 240 estate at some point (though would be cool now for mtbing!), a beige Audi 80, a BMW 7 series (way too big) and an s class merc (again way too big)…

    Edit: CFH's grandad sounds WAY cool! My grandad was sadly only into ridiculously huge cars that barely moved (mid 70s rollers and bentleys), rusted a lot and looked stupid…

    rusty-trowel
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    Cortina Ghia's
    Mk 2 Escort 1600 s (orange and black) – cool
    Capri (10 of us in it going swimming for my 10th birthday!)
    Cavalier SRi and SRi130 and GSi (quick motor that one)
    Mums 65 now and drives a tasty sporty astra far too quickly.

    Dad had BMW bikes all through my school days and used to pick me up from school when i was 6 on his R100RS boxer, which i thought was cool then.

    Sonor
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    Cool:

    Ford Anglia estate
    Vauxhall victor estate, the 3.3ltr version
    Ford Sierra ghia estate(i thought it was cool at the time) was going to buy it off him until some tit in a metro crashed into the front of it writing it off.

    And now the uncool:
    Triumph herald estate
    Vauxhall Viva estate
    a couple of Marina's
    Vauxhall Cavalier

    the downright dangerous:

    Montego estate which burst into flames.

    sor
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    My dad also had a Fiat 126! Followed by a Strada, then he went all Ford and sensible – Fiesta, then Escort. All considered uncool at the time because my mate's mum had a Triumph Spitfire. Coolest thing to a 9 year old was being told, due to lack of seats, that I'd have to stand up in the back (roof was down) and hold on tight while they drove us to whereever we were going.

    TheFunkyMonkey
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    Loads, not all cool though.

    Cortina 2.0 sport something or other. Blue
    Lotus cortina white and green
    BMW 323 mk1 black
    Merc 300 red
    190E 2.0 gold with zender kit, very nice actually!
    190E 2.6 gunmetal AMG kit
    190E 2.5 cosworth red
    300CE 24v AMG kit red
    SL55 silver
    Several astra vans, vauxhall and bedford varieties all white
    Shogun mk2 monster wheels silver
    Range rover vogue v8 green
    RS1600i mk2 blue
    XR3i mk3 red black wheels
    Escort RS turbo mk1 and mk2 both white
    Sierra saphire cosworth rwd grey
    Nasty gold fiesta mk1
    Sierra saphire 2.0 ghia grey
    Pug 306 1.9 turbo d white
    Nissan terrano 2dr blue
    CLK230 kompressor cabriolet silver
    Audi quattro 20v
    Audi quattro turbo both red

    In no particular order, just as they came back to me

    CaptainFlashheart
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    MaverickBoy, he was a bit of a chap, that's for sure! He and his chums used to race from their country pads to the RAC for lunch, quaff a bucket of claret then race home to the pub for a snifter! Last to lunch buys lunch, last to the Falcon buys the drinks!

    The E-Types at full chat up and down the (then unrestricted) M1 must have been awesome! Then someone took a Cobra to the M1 and ruined all the fun! 😉

    stumpy01
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    Blimey….

    Ford Cortina that got nicked.
    Vauxhall Chevette
    Volvo 340 GLE
    Ford Orion LX

    Currently a Ford Focus Zetec.

    Before I was born my dad had a baby blue VW Beetle that was his driving instructor car.
    Oh, and we had a black cab for years as he was a London cabbie until ill health ruled it out. Getting in it during the summer wearing shorts was a dangerous task.

    FoxyChick
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    No idea as to the coolness…but Dad had a Ford Zephyr in about 1973…bloody huge! Had a bench seat across the front.

    steelfan
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    My dad actually ordered an Austin Alegro as a company car from the motorshow at Earlscourt in 1977. Probably one of the worst cars ever produced!

    TandemJeremy
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    The only cool car my parents ever had. Me and my sis were driven back to the UK from india in one of these in 1966

    Apart from that a long line of bland leyland cars and renaults

    aviemoron
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    VW Beetle, brown Allegro, mini clubman, Audi coupe, Capri, Princess (with vinyl roof!) Marina and the cool one – the first VW GTI!

    Nico
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    Some facts:

    Marinas were in Tundra. Not BRG.
    Robin Reliant? Or Reliant Robin? Jasper Carrott has a lot to answer for.
    Renault 4? So cool it doesn't deserve to be called a car.

    househusband
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    Beetle (first car I can recall)
    Vauxhall Viva
    Renault 4
    Austin Maxi
    Lada Riva
    Austin Metro

    mcmoonter
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    A couple of Lanchesters (The previous owner of one was a Mrs Lyle of Sugar fame)
    http://picasaweb.google.com/mcmoonter/PeterSChildhood#5396628842035054322

    Daimler Majestic Major (V8 dragster)

    Rover P5B

    Bedford Camper like TJs

    VW Type 2, Beetles and Golfs

    MGB GT

    Citroen CXs and a 2CV

    Land Rover 109

    A Dennis Fire Engine

    slimtubing
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    the only cool car my dad ever had was a farnham bodied Mk IV Zephyr estate. in maroon!
    followed by pug 404 estate, renault 12 estate, polski fiat 126p estate, fiat 128 hatch, then 15 years of ladas and protons 🙁

    rusty-trowel
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    Go on then 'music' fans:

    'me vauxhall vivas covered in rust, but you…………'

    brakes
    Free Member

    after always having sporty saloon cars, dad went and got one of these

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