Project Memoirs - End of an siERrA

[Dan302]

4 minutes ago, Christine said:

My dad  had  a   Austin 1800S  in 1970 , by then,  all the cool kids dads had good looking modern Mk 3 Cortinas or Vauxhall Victors .. Then in 1974 , he replaced it with another brand new  ..... Austin 1800 ...not even a twin carb one .. i was gutted ..

"No. We're not having a Ford... they don't start in the mornings ..." 

My dad always said that about Fords and he also had a landcrab although this was in the 80s and it was rotten! He later bought brush painted Talbot Alpine then a brown Lada Riva so street cred wasn't high!

[Brigsy]

Can remember my dissappointment as a kid. My dad test driven a mk2 astra 3door estate which i thought he was buying, then turned up with a skoda estelle 4door in dog cock red. Que loads of piss taking at school.

I dont mind them nowadays though. Retro cool 

[danthecapriman]

The biggest disappointment I had when I was younger was when my parents decided to get rid of the family Datsun Sunny Coupe! They had it donkeys years then decided to part ex it against a year old Vauxhall Vectra (R reg).

I was well disappointed when they did that. Especially given my hate for cars like the Vectra (at the time). It was the end for the Datsun too, it went to scrap after the trade in.

[wuvvum]

I had a Doblo of that generation, albeit a non-ULEZ-compliant 1.9 JTD.  They are a decent steer for a smoll van, I went to Somerset and back in mine and it was fine.

[Christine]

Though if my dad had waited a few months , we coulda had the   new  BL 1800 Princess instead  , which would have trumped  a mk3 cortina and Victor ... As it was , i had to wait another 4 years  before he got the  new Princess 1800 , but it was the  High Line .  Then  4 years after that,  he went well posh..Opel Rekord 2.0  Berlina S  by which time i'd left school , so no one saw it  that i could brag  to .  I used to borrow it  and thrash the living daylights out of it  .. I remember going home and saying the clutch was slipping a bit  and   him saying  it can't be ,  it it's only a few months old .. Yeah , i cooked it good !