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By *ightkitty4u OP   Woman
over a year ago

Epsom

So what was your Dad's car?

Mine had a P6 Rover 3500

Love to drive one, was such a comfortable car, aside from getting stuck to the leather seats in the summer and then being freezing in the winter! Was not allowed to eat drink or breathe in that car

Went all over the UK on holidays towing a caravan

Great memories

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

MK1 Cortina followed by a MK1 Escort

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

I’m watching that too

I need to have a memory recall as I can’t remember what car my dad had!

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By *ittleMissCaliWoman
over a year ago

all loved up

My dad never drove after he drove his commanding officers Mercedes into a dry dock in Singapore

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember dad getting his first company car in 1978, a pastel yellow Vauxhall Cavalier with a beige interior

Before that I remember an Austin 1100, an Austin Vanden Plas and a white mk1 Vauxhall Viva

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just love top gear. I wouldn't mind being crushed in dad's car with Paddy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ford sierra rs500.

He bought it new i still have the car nearing the end of its restoration, the noises that car made & the smell of it bring back so so many memories

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

2002 Peugeot 406 but I was rarely in it as he always drove a red Mazda van that he used for cash and carry for our shop. I remember being so embarrassed rocking up to school in that

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

My dad's not really into his cars. He's currently got a donkey of a hyundai (that I'm borrowing as mine is broken lol).

The only car I can ever relate to him being excited about is a Ford capri when he was just a lad in the east end of London. I never knew it as it was before I was a twinkle but he does talk of it fondly.

My maternal grandad loved a jaguar.

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By *avenTinaCouple
over a year ago

Southport

Growing up in Southern Africa our cars tended to be a little older, we had a 1961 Chevrolet Impala and a 1964 Morris Oxford estate still going strong in the 1980’s

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

Maroon ford Zephyr V6 bench front seat coloumn change autobox could get all five of us kids plus mum and dad in it easiley .

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

A Land Rover safari

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By *100Man
over a year ago

Essex

Rolls Royce Corniche was my favourite for the school run in 1980s

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My old man had many cars over the years the one that sticks in my head is the damn rover montego that kept breaking down every week he also had a Sierra that had no power steering

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

He changed his frequently. I remember a red Mazda 323 with pop up headlights and a powder blue Alfa Romeo 146 (I think).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Neither of my parents drove.

It was either walking or the toddler seat on the bike of the pushbike.

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By *hrista BellendWoman
over a year ago

surrounded by twinkly lights

A poo brown Austin Allegro, went to Windsor safari Park and the monkeys ripped all the rubber off the trims

I hated that car...

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By *onmacMan
over a year ago

glasgow

1962 or 3 ford consol classic

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By * Sophie xTV/TS
over a year ago

Derby

My dad had quite a few different cars through the years, everything from a brown cortina estate with a beige vinyl roof through to a rare as rocking horse poop gold Lancia Gamma.

My favorite memory though was on holiday in Scotland and him doing doughnuts in a black Ford Consul on a rainy day for something to do as everywhere was shut and you couldnt go anywhere because of the weather

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"A poo brown Austin Allegro, went to Windsor safari Park and the monkeys ripped all the rubber off the trims

I hated that car..."

I think they handed those out to Dad's as standard. My Dad loved his

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By *ufia SnowbunnyTV/TS
over a year ago

Hastings

An awful red Metro in the late 80s. He didn't learn to drive until his 40s. My stepdad had a very eclectic mix of cars including a Rover SD1 and a Fiat 126!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

jensen interceptor and the Jaguar xj.

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan
over a year ago

Torquay

My mum admitted that she always wanted to go over 100 mph, she did it once in a Renault 16 TX on the M11, she never told my dad though

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By *orbidden eastMan
over a year ago

london dodging electric scooters

Mine was a Audi 100. Massive steering wheel

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hillman super minx, red with cream leather interior.

He put a hunter 2.5l engine with twin webber carbs.

This was in late 70s, was a real head turner at the time.

It got stolen and torched and he never got a decent car again, just drove old bangers.

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

Dad's first car was an Austin 1100, it being a Company Car. Two years later, on leaving that job, he needed transport so we had a Moskvich, the Russian Fiat styled saloon. We had the 2nd one bought in Scotland.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

‘64 Chevy Impala that my Dad bought with his combat pay from Vietnam. It went from Cincinnati to Hawaii and back. I still have the car, but my Dad passed some years ago. It is original, including my melted crayons on the back window deck.... I would rather have my Dad, we went for a tire melt on a Saturday, and he passed on the Monday smiling about burning rubber in front of the State Trooper..

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