What cool or very uncool cars did your dad have when you were a kid?

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 😆

Austin Maestro! x2
Pug 309 Turbo Diesel

Both very uncool cars!

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 👿

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.

Renault 4 and more than a few Volvos.

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

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

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

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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!

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

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

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)

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

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

……mmmmm

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

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

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

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

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

Make your mind up??

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!

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

Cool (imo) VW beetle

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

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…

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.

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.

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.

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

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! 😉

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

A couple of Lanchesters (The previous owner of one was a Mrs Lyle of Sugar fame)
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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

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 🙁

Go on then 'music' fans:

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

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