A red Sierra Ghia. X reg I believe. As a tiny child I was excited by the thing that told you when the doors were open or if it was near freezing.

Pale blue Vauxhall Viva.

maccruiskeen – Member

Brown Mk3 Cortina 1.6L with bum-scorching, leg flesh tearing black vinyl seats. And in classic 70’s fashion bits of it were already rusted through (not just rusty but you could stick your finger through), even though it was only 3 or 4 years old.

This^^^^^ Maybe your Dad bought my Dad’s car, don’t think it was rusty when he sold it though.

We started with a Blue Triumph Herald Estate, which struggled up hills. I remember leaving for holidays very early and having a bed made up in the back of the car for me and my two siblings. We then moved onto a Hillman Avenger, before the Fiat 131 – which had non-plastic seats. After that it gets vague.

Mid 70’s – Dad had a Ford Granada estate in a baby blue colour for moving his crew n’ gear around scotland (fishing boat skipper), i loved that car as it seemed huge inside and i was allowed to sit in the boot

Mum had a wee red mini cooper that she drove everywhere at 10/10ths, oddly enough i never liked that car as i always threw up inside it, probably due to her driving style.

As a casual boast 😉 to the above the owner of my dads fishing boat was Innes Ireland (F1 race driver 50’s-60’s) and i often used to get picked up from school (if my mum was working) in his Aston Martin and driven out to his house tyres screeching and tail sliding at every opportunity. He was quite a character 😀

Coyote – Member

Pale blue Vauxhall Viva.

I feel like possibly you’re my dad’s secret other family.

Hillman Superminx in blue – This was our family car when I was born until my dad moved it on when I was 7 years old. It took 2 adults and four kids to Skegness with all the luggage etc. That trip would probably account for most of the 7 years….

My dad upgraded from the Viva to one of these:

In Brooklands green – obviously a nod to the Marina’s racing heritage 😆

My ex girlfriend’s family had much better taste (and lots more dosh)

Mk1 Astra GTE
Silver Manta GTE hatchback – B reg
Saab 900 Turbo T16S – D reg
Saab 9000 CDE – F reg
and in the garage a white E-Type (1960s G reg)

maccruiskeen – Member
Brown Mk3 Cortina 1.6L with bum-scorching, leg flesh tearing black vinyl seats. And in classic 70’s fashion bits of it were already rusted through (not just rusty but you could stick your finger through), even though it was only 3 or 4 years old.
This^^^^^ Maybe your Dad bought my Dad’s car, don’t think it was rusty when he sold it though.

We had one in white. Then we had a couple of fiestas, followed by a a blue Sierra J145 HMD.

Black cortina. XFH 132 H

I rolled it into the garage door one day whilst pretending to be a rally driver. Just let the handbrake off.

Split screen VW microbus in red and white, DUJ 576C if I remember correctly, rear bench seats faced each other & used to get filled with camping gear before us 5 kids* got laid down across the top to sleep before trundling off up to Skye from southern England.
* Most argumentative ended up shifted to the front with parents and dog

My dads first car was a baby blue triumph herald. he never learnt to drive until I was 7 which was 1976!!

Renault R4 in diarrhea brown.

Circa 1977.

Earliest I definitely remember was a greenish Moggy Traveller. Would have been around 1974 or so.

Not my photo.

Then…

Datsun 180b. ODO 602M (the only number plate I can remember, even from my own recent cars).
Baby blue mk1 Escort estate.
Navy blue Capri 2.0l Ghia.
Silver Allegro LE.
Beige Marina coupe with a chocolate coloured vinyl roof.
Dark blue Polo (the old ‘looks like an estate but not really one).

Before I got my own first car – a nasty maroon 1.5 Allegro…

The first car I remember was one of these in white Reg No AXE 490B

followed by
Blue P6 Rover 2000TC WHX 451G
Red P6 Rover 3500 UXD 354L
Blue Cortina Mk5 ANM 454X

We didn’t have a car, poor or what…. 😀

My uncle had a gold coloured Ford Cortina 1600E. I’ve had a soft spot for those cars to this day.

Standard Pennant blue and white reg LGS 600 about 1962 only reg I have ever been able to remember.

First one I remember was an A reg Escort Estate – 3 door for cost saving benefits I assume, it also only came with a drivers side mirror from the factory and a single speaker under the radio.

Like this one but red

Replaced with a 1990 5 door Escort GL – Oooooooooh, which became my first car in 2000 when I was 18.

Green Austin Maxi, followed by a beige (beige!) Austin Allegro.

Gosh, you’re all very young aren’t you?
The first car we had when I was very very little (early 60s) was an old Ford Pop. I still remember my dad replacing the floor in the boot with plywood. It was one of only two cars on our road – the other was also a Ford Pop.

Like this

Lime green Capri Ghia with a black vinyl roof… it had some kind of plastic “spoiler” or “grill” over the back window.

My Hulk kite somehow got left in the boot when my parents part-exed it for the first of their green cortina estates…. 🙁 …. oh, and my dad reckons he sold it for more than he bought it due to the rampant inflation of the mid 70s

In 1976, the summer before I came along my folks drove their LHD, ex-Belgian Boulanger 2CV van to Yugoslavia for their Honeymoon. They had to turn round and reverse up some of the cols in the Alps as first gear wasn’t short enough. Me being born ruined van ownership and they quickly changed it for a yellow 2CV4 called Custard.

A bedford c1 dormobile without even a raising roof. Drove from Mumbai to London in it in 1966

Not ours but very similar and with a Mirror dinghy on top instead as we drove down to the Med for summer hols.

Peugeot 404 Familiale.

Audi 100 in gold, then a yellow one with black vinyl roof. mid to early 70’s

Hillman Imp van, dark green & used from early 60’s to about 1972, when replaced with a brand new LWB petrol landrover.
The Imp must have been very crowded in the back on family camping trips, what with three kids, all the gear and an engine all crowded in there!

A dark green Singer Chamois (Hillman Imp) which was rubbish, replaced by a white Mk2 Cortina 1600E, which was a great car.

I have seen photos of a Dormobile, but the first one I remember was this – same colour, same reg, but not this exact car. This would be 1983ish.

It was replaced by this actual car, which is still running around town even tho my folks sold it in 1992:

(it too was replaced by another ancient Volvo 😀 )

A brown Jag MkIV 1 1/2 litre which overheated when looked at.

Replaced by a grey sit up and beg Ford Pop. WWE953 I think. Nicknamed wee-wee.

Then the usual string of Anglias, Cortinas, Avengers. Beautiful Singer Vogue at one time, memories of a brilliant trip to the 1967 British GP in that.

Er Jamie’s South Park pic on page 2… anyone?

A custard-yellow Ford Escort MK2 estate. A bit like this. But with foil over the radiator grille in winter. Not an inconspicuous vehicle.

White colour VW Beetle 1966 model 1.3 bought in early 80s from my aunt.

The only car my father ever bought and we still have it.

White Austin 1100, around 1975/76.

Ro5ey – Member

oh, and my dad reckons he sold it for more than he bought it due to the rampant inflation of the mid 70s

Does he know how much it’d be worth now 😯

White Hillman Avenger.

I remember being taken quickly out of my child seat as it filled with smoke from under the dash 😯

White Hillman Avenger.

I remember being taken quickly out of my child seat

Clearly a similar age to me – but I certainly never saw a child seat as a child. We used to ride in the boot of our Cortina – even on long journeys to the seaside.

Brown Capri followed by a purple Datsun, and for some reason we a had a private number plate ‘THE 77’ and I vividly remember a Porsche whizzing past us beeping uncontrollably who had the number plate ‘THE 99’

Vauxhall Victor like this

Followed by a Granada 3.0 Ghia in red

Followed by a Toyota Cressida in yellow (DFR616S)

Then a Volvo 244 DL in chocolate brown (UWH81T)

Then a Capri 3.0 Ghia in purple

Renault 4

Renault 4

Beige Citreon Diane. Bloody awful.

Followed by a red Citreon 2CV. Worse.