When you were 8 years old what car did you want your dad to buy?

Have I hell.
I was also going to buy a truck and travel across Africa.
Not done that either.

I think it’s probably a good thing anyway. The reality is usually nowhere near as good as the anticipation. I remember as a kid I thought driving a Ferrari would be the most awesome experience ever.

But it wasn’t. It was like driving a badly made Fiat.

We had one of these;

to be honest I don’t remember being traumatised by goign round in it but I remember hoping we’d have a proper car like all my freinds families did.

My parents did have 4 kids and a large dog, though, and subsequent experiments with a Cortina Estate proved that a minibus was probably a good choice in the days before people carriers.

A Scooby WRX STI-UK 🙂

Got:

MG Metro
Tipo
Escort
Rover 214
Astra Estate
Tempra Estate
Vectra estate
Focus Estate
MG Midget (now mine 🙂 )
Punto

I wanted my Dad to get a a

but he ended up with a

and my mum got a

How times have changed. I remember lusting after a Fiat Tipo turbo.

Had a poster of this on my wall and really couldn’t understand why we didn’t have one in the garage

Did have one of these though (2 actually, but I was only 5 when they had the first one)

I had a 5GT Turbo as my first car (student loan paid the insurance!) and loved it. A mate still has a 16k miler sat on his drive under a cover. Probably appreciating in value if it’s not rusted away!

my dad had one of these when I was about 11

then two of these (one after the other, not at the same time)

then one of these (which he still has)

He likes his jap cars pointy, does my dad.

I must be the same age as Harry as I wanted a Matra Rancho and a Fuego as well.

Instead we had a succession of Cortinas and Sierras.

Eventually I persuaded them to go for something a little more exciting.

Not great to look at but the suspension was cool.

Derek_Starship … that’s a Uno Turbo 😉

But then again, when my kids were eight, I had one of these……

This

but he bought this…

It was a good comprimise!

+1 for the dodge charger and delorean

Or this

Or this

And how could i forget this

mathewjb – that’s odd – our family history of cars and car wants reads almost identically to yours. Although my dad did get a Capri once. And a Maxi for some mad reason (although it WAS the 1750 twin SU carbed version so it was pokey (for its day).

When I was eight, any car would have been a luxury. There were only around five cars in the whole street, and two of those belonged to a family who ran a taxi/wedding car business. When we finally got a car it was one of these:

Sadly, before we had a chance to really use it my dad died. I was eleven.

Family transport was one of these:

Nice example and pics here: autosleeper
Don’t remember wanting my dad to get a specific car, just any car would of done.
Imagine my confusion when the Auto Sleeper died and he came home with one of these to transfer all the camping stuff over to instead. Never a problem finding it the ASDA carpark.

Remember wondering why we couldn’t get a normal car like my mates dad just got.

Thankfully my mates smugness wore off after they found out it was actually pretty awful, they got rid of it within a year.

mastiles_fanylion – Member
mathewjb – that’s odd – our family history of cars and car wants reads almost identically to yours.

I guess lots of people of a similar age bought cortinas etc.

Before that we had one of these:

I assume you didn’t. 🙂