The first of my Dad's cars that I remember was one of these Peugeot 504's. Comfortable seats, poor body roll and very unreliable auto box.
https://www.avforums.com/attachments/img_0144-jpg.1001301/
I learnt to drive in a mid 80's Opel Kadett. Great little car.
https://www.avforums.com/attachments/img_0145-jpg.1001303/
My mum had a Wartburg estate MOU222L - it was bright '70's orange - the perfect hipster car now!
Impressed by all the modern cars on this thread data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7.
Here's the car I remember the most - MkII Consul that my Dad bought in Krefeld in about 1958/9
https://www.avforums.com/attachments/by-car-in-italy-jpg.1001958/
I'd have been about 9/10 then, my wife still calls me "Sparrow-legs" data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
My grandads brown Austin Metro, later to become mine when I was 16 and yes I used to drive it too data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 I still remember the reg A772YON, my friends used to call it the brown bomber data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
My brothers vauxhall viva (his was brown):
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My father always had a car but oddly I cannot remember any of the earlier ones. I remember he came home one day in '86 minus his company car and declared he'd quit his job to setup a new company with his colleagues. The new car he got after that was a Ford Sierra, and there was a whole series of them, all white, mix of sub-models and fuels etc. Maybe his prior car was also a Sierra and hence it doesn't stand out.
He only kept each for 18 months or so as he used to do circa 80,000 miles a year in them as he often worked far from home but never liked staying away from home - at one point he was doing a daily 650 mile round journey to "commute" to Glasgow, have to say circa as many had the speedo/odometer disconnected :S
Mother got a secondhand Austin Mini Metro around 1987 which caught fire and burnt out a couple of years later which was the first car that was "hers"
My first car was this... Same colour too
https://www.avforums.com/attachments/classic-ad-ford-cortina-mkiii-jpg.1004266/
Hated it but it was the car I purchased after smashing my Yamaha X's 750..... And after getting car I met my now wife of 33 years....
The last car I owned before we got married and had kids was this beastie...
https://www.avforums.com/attachments/4504150530_b48b9b186c-jpg.1004267/
Brilliant car.Drink fuel but great car.
Had lots of mundane cars since and couple of kids....
Kids are now gone and married... Now have a mint Mk5 Astra 150 BHP.... Chipped!And it's a beast.Not over done but goes like hell.My son fitted bigger brakes, shocks and few other bits..... Not sure of the bhp now but it's up there.Won't be changing it for a while.
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Dad's first car that I remember was a Renault 12 saloon.A car that looked almost the same at the front and back data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Renault 12 - Wikipedia
Dad had a pale blue or white one which he put on its roof, replaced by a metallic green one, then a Renault 18.
Apparently Dacia were still making them until 2004!
My dad had a breakers yard and a car lot so had many cars & vans, but one that sticks in my memory is his Thunderbird, me and my mates used to pretend to be Batman in it data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
It was similar to this: https://www.avforums.com/attachments/car-jpg.1005540/
Wow. Very nice.
Batmobile is also what my Consul Classic 315 (the Ford that didn't wear a Ford badge) was called by the younger kids at school.
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