"Dad's Rubbish Cars"

[Wilko220]

I tend to find this sort of thing pretty unamusing and tiresome but, having stumbled across it, I thought it worth posting anyway just in case any of you were interested.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/fathers-day-trip-down-memory-3660940

 

 

[Lord Sterling]

My Dad went through a period of buying the absolute worst examples of car money could buy. I still reckon he could have done better but he seemed to thrive. I remember things like a G40 Polo, Hatchback Corrolla, Mk1 Honda Integra, Citroen C15 Van and a Mk3 Ford Escort.

 

Thanks to my Dad, this has actually happened to me a few occasions:

 

when you're a pubescent young man pushing your dad's clapped out jalopy around a major roundabout

Yep, the couple of occasions I recall this happening were; half way around the the roundabout in Schuman (outside the big European Commission building) however, we got a push by another car to a local petrol station. The other time happened in town after some lights. I had to get out and push the car to a corner. Sheer fun.

[Junkman]

Despite not being a car guy at all, my dad has a flawless Autoshite record. All bought new, though.

 

Citroen 2CV

Renault 16 X 3

Citroen DS

Renault 16 X 2

Renault 20 TS

Renault Fuego GTX X 2

Chevrolet Caprice Classic

Cadillac Seville STS

 

Why is there never a book about mom's rubbish cars?

[Spiny Norman]

Although born in the USofA my Dad hated Ford or GM products and tended to go French, Italian or British.
In my lifetime He had a Renault Dauphine, a Renault 1100 auto, three R16s, the last one being an auto, A Fiat 128 1100, a Triumph Toledo, Morris 1800 land crab, and a Vauxhall Victor FE, which confirmed everything he thought about them when, a mere 5 years after its registration date, it dissolved into the road outside the house one night just before an MOT, and that was that.

 

My Mum had two Minis, a blue 850 and a green 1000 with stripey orange seats.

[brickwall]

Mum's choices were totally shite. The only classy stuff were the ones dad bought her.

 

Austin Princess x 2

Hillman Hunter x 2

Vauxhall Chevette

 

and so on

[dave21478]

My father is ace* at buying cars. He is a salesman's wet dream - he walks into his local showroom, wanders round for a few minutes and when approached says "I will buy that one" while pointing at whatever took his fancy. He pays full price, never haggles, never trades in, just a straight sale. He is not some super-rich playboy browsing for a new toy or anything, just an average guy looking round the local Ford garage.

 

He also has an unerring ability to pick up the lowest spec cars ever made....Previous delights included a Mkwhatever Escort, R-reg that was a 5-door in non metallic purple with no central locking or electric windows and a doubleDIN radio. Not a radio cassette, just a fooking radio! That one got foisted upon my sister when he "upgraded" to a Fusion....one of those extra-vertical Fiestas. That was a grim spec as well...I dunno what happened to that. He currently rolls a 1.6 Focus. Its only 2 years old and not one of these eco-turbo-boost things, just a boggo 1.6 that struggles to shift its own bulk.

I got the best deal when he passed me his old G-reg Orion years back - It was positively luxurious, being a 1.6GL, with leccy windows, central locking, sunroof and even leccy mirrors. Such extravagance!

[trigger]

The only cars i know my dad has owned before i was born were.

 

A Rover 2200 TC, Mini van, Mini, Simca 1100, Ford Escort RS1600, Hillman Avenger Tiger, Hillman Hunter, Ford Escort 1300L Estate, Ford Cortina Mk4, Then i popped out and since he's had a Vauxhall Victor VX2300, Ford Cortina 1.6 Crusader, Escort 1.3L Estate, Escort 1.3L, Sapphire 1.8 LX, Sierra 1.8L Estate, Austin Metro 1.0L, Escort 1.6i LX, Sierra 1.6L, Fiesta 1.4L, Escort 1.8TD LX, Ford Explorer 4.0. Focus 1.8 TDCi Titanium and a Kia Sportage GLX.

 

I think that's about all from what i remember.

[Honey Badger]

Surely to qualify as a really rubbish dads car it has to have at least 3 body panels in different colours like my old mans Mk 3 Cortina, or have wings that were mostly Wicksteeds packing tape in a technical self supporting pattern like his VX 1800?

[dave21478]

As for the older stuff that I can remember...Marinas, Vivas and several Chevannes in a row. He only got rid when mum took exception to me having to sit loose in the back. He got a Volvo 345GL, with CVT transmission that had some kind of amazing ability to make me throw up if I sat in it for more than a 10 mile journey. That made family holidays fun*.

[anonymous user]

Just read through the article and he just sounds like a normal bloke from 30 or so years back, in the days when cars were bought for transport and before they became a lifestyle item to hang a pcp finance agreement on.

 

My dad was in the motor trade so we generally had old/awful cars as he would fix them, if we ever had anything decent it would quickly get sold to a customer and we would then end up with whatever they traded in.

 

My mother didn't drive and had little/no interest in cars, to the point that she wouldn't notice if it had been changed. She once told me that my brother had bought a new car, I asked what it was and she said "It's a blue one" (When I saw it it wasn't blue it was metallic gold). She would also get into other cars thinking it was ours even though it was a totally different size, shape and colour to the one she had got out of earlier.

[chrisjvm]

My Mom had two cars though she never passed her test.... First one was a Honda N360 NOX25G,Dad bought it new but the cam went on it when it was a couple of years old iirc. ... Apparently he couldnt get the engine rebuilt so he swapped it with a dealer for a '64 Jag mk10 3.8 that had been written off ... It had been rolled and the roof had been replaced...

I used to beg him to put the trade plates on and drive it home which he did do a couple of times but it was a bit too ostentatious for him and he would often drive this awful Anglia van which would never start in the morning even though dad would put a rug over the engine! luckily we lived on a big hill so it was always bump started...

Moms other car was a Mini Countryman FYK 751C (i think) Dad totally rebuilt it ... It was a lovely old car.

Dad had so many different cars The more notable being a Riley Pathfinder,Austin Westminster,Citroen ID19,Citroen DS21 Safari,Citroen GS,GSA,Ami estate,NSU Prinz 1200ttt,Ford Capri 2000GT XLR!

Moskovitch Van,Nash Metropolitan,Daf Variomatic etc etc....

[beko1987]

My dads car history was good but has peaked and in decline now!

 

80s escort

D reg Granada 2.0

D reg escort derv when the Granada died

M reg Mondeo 2.0 in white

1.9 V reg Sharan

02 Alfa 156

55 Saab 95 aero

09 Eos

2012 Cmax shit

 

Step mums is similar...

 

M reg golf when dad met her

D reg 2cv Dolly

K reg AX 3 door

Y plate Yaris

2006 Golf (the one with the 3.5 in)

VW touran that's coming to the end of its lease.

 

Better than my step dads...

 

2002 zafira

2006 zafira

2010 zafira

2012 zafira

2014 Octavia

[Billy - Medhurst]

SEPTEMBER 1979 VOLVO 2127cc 244 DL SALOON WHD611V by Midlands Vehicle Photographer., on Flickr

 

Thieving cunts.......

[Hendry]

My old man has little interest in cars and doesn't maintain them either, only fixes them when something actuàly breaks or the car fails its mot. He buys a half decent car usually 3/4 years old and keeps it usually double/treble the time it takes to pay the finance then trades it in. Infact he only learned to drive after I was born as it was difficult to go anywhere on a bus with a kid and a pram and associated shit, had I not been born he probably still wouldn't drive.

 

First car when he passed his test in Feb 88 was a W reg yellow Allegro with a black vinyl roof which he says was his favourite car, that was soon replaced by B535 SLS a white 3 door Uno 45 base model which had to be bump/jump started when it rained due to water getting into the engine via the stupid vents Fiat put on the bonnet.

 

Next in 1991 came a brown Maestro 1.3 City D907 ODS which fell apart totally in 1994, was held together by rust and had haywire electrics which regularly failed totally, this got binned in September 1994 for a March 91 mk3 Orion 1.6 LX (mk5 Escort shape) which brought such extras as metallic paint, sunroof, power steering and central locking for the first time, it was a heap though, the central locking motors continually failed, the keys snapped, folk tried to break in/steal it regularly, heater motor burned itself out and melted half the dash wiring loom in the process, finally got stolen and burnt out Feb 2000 and replaced by P688 TGG a emerald green Chrysler Neon 2.0 LE with rare manual box, this got written off November 2000 and replaced by R479 EGA an exactly 3 year old ex motability mk3 Astra 1.6 LS in natilus blue with only 7K miles which got passed to me in September 2005 when he took up the taxis and bought his youngest car at time of purchase to date, DS54 KRX a 7 month old silver Vectra C 2.0 DTi which got traded in utterly fucked on 230K in August 2012 for a 09 plate VW Jetta (mk5 Golf shape) 2.0 TDi CR Sport which has on 90K so far failed to suffer any OMGMODERNVWEPICFAIL shenanigans yet.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I was born just after my dad turned 17 so I must have been in every car he's ever owned.

1964-1966 2x e93a Pops and 1 x Prefect

1966-1968 3x Moggie Minors

1968--1971 65 HA van

1971-1974 67 1500 Cortina estate

1974-1976 68 Viscount

1976-77 71 Dyane

1976- 79 56 Land Rover 86 & 67 A60 Cambridge & 73 Granada 3.0 GXL

1979-82 73 GT6

1982-85 77 16 TL

1985-88 79 Spartan & 15 TL

1988-91 73 Scimitar GTE

1991-93 84 XR3i

1993-96 87 Granada 2.4GL

1996-97 85 Audi 100 Avant

1997-00 92 Scorpio 24v

2000- date 93 Disco 200tdi,95 Disco 300tdi, 99 Disco TD5, 57 Land Rover 88, 98 SLK 230, 03 A4 2.5tdi.

The fact he currently owns 6 cars (4 of which are taxed) plus the remains of a Spartan in his garden, probably explain my 3 brothers and me owning a further 24 cars between us at the time of writing.

[Skoze]

I feel like i've missed out on the 'dad's rubbish cars' thing, mine seemed to do quite a good job of rolling around in some seriously top-drawer whips. 

 

DAF 44

Ford Cortina 1600GT

MG Midget

Triumph GT6

Ford Capri Mk1 RS3100

Ford Capri Mk3 X Pack with a 3.2 Essex 

Pug 309 GTI #1 (written off by a van)

Pug 309 GTI #2

Vauxhall Astra 1.8 Sport ESTATE when being a dad was in full swing

Vauxhall Carlton GSI3000 

'94 Subaru Impreza WRX Wagon fresh off a boat

[cms206]

My dad used to buy cars at the pub when ratarsed and drive them home so I used to be ferried about in all sorts of shit.

[urpert]

I persuaded my dad to trade in a 1984 Ovlov 240 estate (deeply povo spec) for a 1986 BX19 (Mk1). I'm still not sure which was the better shite.

[Skizzer]

Thieving cunts.......

Thieving c**ts is right. You should complain to them about that, or get Flickr to. The photo is your copyright, and they've used it for a commercial purpose in breach of Flickr's terms of use and without acknowledging your rights as originator. YOU IS ENTITLED TO COMPENSAYSHUN, probably.

 

Fucking rag, the Mirror, bad as the Mail. And the Express. And... oh sod it, they're all twats.

[messerschmitt owner]

SEPTEMBER 1979 VOLVO 2127cc 244 DL SALOON WHD611V by Midlands Vehicle Photographer., on Flickr

 

Thieving cunts.......

send the thieving cunts a bill!

[Negative Creep]

My Dad had a Corsair as his first car, which he wrapped around a lamppost aged 16. Didn't stop him chastising me after my first (and only) at fault accident though. As far as I recall he had the following company cars:

 

mk.1 Astra estate in either brown or orange that they took me home from the hospital in

mk.2 Astra in white

a couple of Sierras, one of which had a carphone which was like something out of the Enterprise

Montego, which I think was an MG in BRG

Renault 9 in metallic green

 

then he changed jobs and bought a 1.1 Uno with vile tweed seats, but since I passed my test in it I can't hate it too much. He gave it to my sister when she passed her test, but since it took her 6 attempts it was stood too long so got scrapped. Now has a 2.0 Focus Ghia for what must be about 10 years now. Rather annoyingly the only thing that has ever gone wrong in the entire time he's owned it was a snapped PAS belt, which he will smugly remind me every time something of mine breaks. Mum never learnt to drive

[scruff]

send the thieving cunts a bill!

 

Absolutely

[Skizzer]

Fatha Skizzer:

Austin A40 Cambridge (1956?)

Ford Consul Classic

Austin 1100

Renault 10 (bought the year I was born)

Renault 12 x 3 (red, tin leg pink, metallic brown, all TLs)

Renault 14 x 4 (pale blue TL, metallic brown GTL, non-metallic blue and silver TLs)

VW T25 Transporter camper, a CI Kamper conversion

Austin Maestro 1.3L (Oporto red)

VW Golfs (both Mk2 1.6 CLs, both silver)

 

Mutha Skizzer:

Ford Anglia 105E

Morris Minor Traveller

Mini Clubman (antelope beige)

Metros x 4 (an early-ish HLE in zircon blue, a moonraker blue 1.0L 3-dr swiftly replaced by a 5-dr 1.3L in the same colour, that was later passed to me as my first car as a punishment for crashing it fairly thoroughly, and a 1.3 Mayfair in Shantung gold)

Breadvan Polos x 3, all 1.3 CLs

Mk3 Polos x 2

 

It was me that started the VW thing, after I chopped in the Metro I was running for a breadvan Polo and found it massively better built. The gold Mayfair my mother bought new was delivered with a warped front brake disk, which the arsehole main dealer fixed* under warranty by knackering the brake on that side so the pads didn't rub any more. Or indeed brake.

[jakebullet]

Giffer had a shitload of triumph dolomites. Then he got an acclaim. Best triumph he'd ever had he would proudly proclaim.

 

Fuckwit.

[Skizzer]

^ Harsh words! I really liked Trigger's Acclaim at Shitefest. Mind you, I've never driven a Dolomite.

[trigger]

😢

[jakebullet]

Nowt against acclaims, more a comment on my old man being thick n not realising it was better cos it's a honda with a triumph badge.

[AlabamaShrimp]

My dad had his own garage so he would normally drive anything that was about. He never seemed to have a car of his own up until about 1995 when we started selling cars but even then it would almost always have been a trade in, stuff I can remember him having for any length of time though er er

 

Blue 120Y (still his favourite car ever)

Starlet mk1

Hyundai ponie mk1, was mint on a Y, he had it in about 98. Some twat smashed it's windscreen while it was on the car pitch over night and for some unknown reason he scrapped it. Was sad to see it with another car plonked on top

Couple of mk2 micras

Frontara we th a giant petrol engine

and now a suzuki ignis

Conclusion is my dad loves Japanese cars regrets getting rid of every one!

 

My mum had more regular cars but still random

Volvo Amazon that the key once snapped in the ignition but started anyway

Some kind of triumph herold

Mk2 Honda civic

Mk2 escort

Then some company cars

Mk3 fiesta in about 92

Mk5 escort I was allowed to drive it home the first week she got it (didn't have a licence )

 

Then I can't remember I'm sure there's loads more but I have the memory of er something.......

[oman5]

My dad had the usual stuff that was worthless in the '80s, princesses, minis, sd1s, itals etc. He did better with cars after I started finding them for him. for example he would never buy foreign, until I lent him my BX diesel then an audi 100 5 pot,  and showed him what he was missing. he ended up buying both those off me and loved them.

I have so many memories of his old crocks breaking down when I was a kid. He really was skint most of the time and I think it was a major struggle for him to run a car at all.

[panhard65]

My dads first car was a Renault Juvaquatre which didn't last long. Other highlights were a Healey Abbott roadster that had rotten floor boards replaced with chipboard. It finally died when it caught fire with me and my sister in it. Not a serious fire but bad enough that it had to go. We recently went to look at a project one that was for sale up the road, 20k and it was as rough as the old mans was when he sold it. The only one I really remember well was his old Volvo a 1968 144s. This was the best car ever and lasted nearly 20 years and 260,000 miles. There are plenty of tales with that one. I finally killed it when the rear suspension broke out of the floor after a spirted pull away from the pub one night. After this he started buying salvage that we would repair. The A plate MG Maestro was fun but his paint job was awful. The cavalier with the rear 1/4 held on with pop rivets was another classic. He also had a really ratty mk1 VW golf diesel that had been driver over from south africa. This was a favourite as it was so cheap to run but died of terminal rust after a couple of years. Now he is in his 70's and had some spare cash I got him to blow 8k on a very nice Honda Insight which will hopefully see him out.

A healey like the one he had only in decent condition and hopefully has floors made from real wood.