Family snaps with your old cars in the background.

[camryv6]

On 5/29/2020 at 12:32 AM, Ghosty said:

Gonna dig this up as I've got my first slice of tat photos.

These are from 1988.  

Pictured is:
- my mum's first car, an Escort Popular Plus. My dad who was then almost 40 bought it and taught my mum (in her mid twenties) to drive in it, hence the L. It got broken into at one point and eventually was fucked off for a Metro like my aunt's. I think those are the only manual cars my mum ever drove, she has insisted on autos ever since, and I doubt I'll ever get her out of her auto Cooper S.

- my aunt's Metro, along with her (late twenties?)  and my dad (that jumper he's in was most likely from when he was an RAF flight engineer). 

The Metro was replaced with a blue Fiesta 1.1L auto in 1992, F86KBU. She kept that car til it died of rot in about 2007. Was replaced with an 03 Fiesta that in turn was replaced with a Yaris last year. 

Are we really going to ignore @Ghosty's fit mum in an Escort joke ?

[Dick Cheeseburger]

15 minutes ago, camryv6 said:

Are we really going to ignore @Ghosty's fit mum in an Escort joke ?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the same!

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

Spring 1996 me and other members of a local Land Rover Club.

From the left, Bob, my tame mechanic and his Series 3 109 five door Safari, powered by a Nissan 2.8, 6 pot diesel. 

Dave the builder with his son and a late 2a 109 Truck Cab powered by a Perkins 4.203 diesel running Range Rover diffs.

Me and my 2a 88, standard 2286 petrol van.

Ray and his Series 3 Lightweight rag top, powered by a Range Rover 3.5 V8.

[ProgRocker]

Granada! 

My dad got sick of "that petrol smell" that seemed to be present in Fords so moved over to GM in 1985:

Royale! 

Sadly that was the last of the big saloons until the boxy 1986 Carlton 2.2i CD arrived in 1993.

Edited July 5, 2020 by ProgRocker
Changed year

[Amishtat]

45 years ago today, my parents with Dad's Viva (a few years before they were my parents, but you know what I mean). Presuming the chap in the middle was one of Mum's colleagues. 

[Pete-M]

Few more old vehicular family snaps. 

 

 

P4, Winter 1964 I think

 

Dad's garage, July 1968

 

Dad's runabout Austin A40 pickup, photo from circa 1960

One from Dad's RAF service days. VSWB Landy 80.

Dad and his Royal Enfield. He bought this new in 56.

Dad when working for Ford in the mid 50s.

Dad again. Car from Scotland, Dad was stationed near Fort William, so this will be somewhere around 1953 I would guess. 

Dad's brother. He died in the mid 1930s, there are a few pics of this bike. It looks pre-1920.

[AdeMk1]

Sometime in the 80s on the Isle Of Wight.

[Austat]

Somewhere in Snowdonia. My dad took this pic on holiday in 1980:

[Richard_FM]

 

Me & my Kettler Go-Kart, along with my Dad's Mk2 Vauxhall Cavalier which he had from 1986 to 1988, registered in the C...JET series.

I credit him with starting my interest in transport and other technological things.

Sadly he list his battle with lymphoma yesterday.

John Davies RIP 18/8/1948 - 1/8/2020.

[Split_Pin]

I'm sorry to hear that chap.

Long may you continue with the interest in transport he gave you.

[ProgRocker]

My condolences @Richard_FM

[Richard_FM]

Thanks for the kind words.

[Austat]

Found a few old photo albums from when my mum was an ESL (English as a second language) teacher in Japan back in 1991;

First a picture from Maebashi(?) with the first-gen Subaru Rex in the background that my mum used as a daily driver. She vaguely recalls it having a "women-friendly" type specification as it was a manual without a clutch, apparently she drove it all the way from Maebashi and Isesaki to Kyoto and Nara a few times:

Another one I found was a shot of one of those stacking car parks with some great early 90's chod. I recognise the Galant and the Bluebird, but what are the kei-cars? @Spottedlaurel might know:

[motorpunk]

Dunno if I’ve shared this before. My first ‘sporty’ car, a Mk2 Cav Sri. It was the 115bhp but looked the same as the 130 with Helios blue paint over an anthracite coloured bottom. Lovely Recaro seats and a sunroof. Pic outside my parents house. Flogged the car to some dodgy Asian lad when I got a company car and I think it then vanished.

[Austat]

A battered old Holden wagon that a few of my dad's work colleagues owned. Was decorated a bit to coverup various dents and scrapes, those HG/HK Holdens where pretty undesirable back in 1996:

[martc]

7 hours ago, Austat said:

They are both Daihatsu Mira/Cuore's. The top is a model L55/L60 and the bottom one is a model L200.  Both models were sold in the UK, as the difficult to pronounce Cuore (Italian for heart), would they have done better if they were called the Mira?

L55/L60

L200

[rob88h]

Me, my brother and my sister (and my her doll) with our Family Ascona's in the mid-90's(?)

Why two you ask? Well a speeding Sierra happened to the back of FEC T... (bonus K10 "mum's car" in the garage). I hadn't appreciated at the time that this was an SR. I guess that's why my dad went to the trouble of swapping the engines over. With the other Ascona, not the Micra.

As a kid, not many people I knew had family cars from the 70's, certainly not an Opel. I'd never seen another one until my dad somehow turned up with one the same colour just days after ours was written off! I've a lot of time for Ascona B's. Maybe it's the corduroy velour upbringing that's why I'm on this forum... I also miss my TMNT tracksuit and Reebok Classics, before they were classic.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

5 hours ago, martc said:

They are both Daihatsu Mira/Cuore's. The top is a model L55/L60 and the bottom one is a model L200.  Both models were sold in the UK, as the difficult to pronounce Cuore (Italian for heart), would they have done better if they were called the Mira?....

It wasn't for want of trying. Top Gear did a feature on kei cars, and I think Clarkson squeezed himself into one of the turbocharged Cuores (TRXX Avanzato?), being mildly-impressed with what the tiny thing could do.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

The first car I drove after passing my test was an Ascona 1.9 Berlina auto, looked pretty much like those two , it was a company car my Dad was using whilst his 2.0L Granny was having a new carb. He wanted to keep the Ascona  but it had to go as was high mileage - 50,000!, how attitudes to mileage have changed.

I remember doing 110 on the M4 as my Dad gave me a motorway lesson. “ Get in the fast lane keep your foot down and flash your lights a lot”  What was good in 1981...

[rob88h]

The one that was crashed was a Berlina. I remember the badge on the front wing would snag my sponge as I earned my £1 pocket money washing it. 

[Austat]

Fitzroy street scenes containing a lot of period chod, c.1995/96. The first Australian suburb my dad lived in after leaving the UK:

[Dan_ZTT]

My dad dug this out the other day, a photo of my grandad (and my aunt as a child) with his Herald on holiday in the lake district.

Thought to be taken in 1968 but not certain, think he had the car from new but dad can't remember how long they kept it for

[Andrew353w]

On 5/16/2020 at 1:50 PM, UltraWomble said:

Charles with his Renner taxi

Norm with assorted background chod

Arthur with his horse (wifes Gt Grandfather)

Paddy & his bike ( circa 1890)

Uncle Eric ( beard) with his mates Riley tripod thing - pretty sure its down south in a museum now, this was the Manc - Blackpool run 1975

 

And with a Wartburg Tourist in the background-how are is that?

Edit: As spotted by the earlier correspondent-sorry, I ought to have read it before adding my comment!

[Andrew353w]

After more than 60 years I've "one or two" car related pictures in the family store. Don't panic, I won't be reproducing them all, but it seems my love of eccentric and odd-ball cars may be genetic.... This is my grandparents with my Aunty Jenny and a Ford Pilot (I think!)

[Mr Pastry]

1 hour ago, Andrew353w said:

a Ford Pilot (I think!)

It's a Standard Vanguard phase 1. 

[Andrew353w]

13 minutes ago, Mr Pastry said:

It's a Standard Vanguard phase 1. 

How could I have been THAT mistaken? "Taxi for Andrew353w!" Sorry!

[Mr Pastry]

Just now, Andrew353w said:

How could I have been THAT mistaken? "Taxi for Andrew353w!" Sorry!

TBF it was based on 1948 US Ford styling, but it didn't quite work when scaled down to British size.

[Andrew353w]

I can't get this wrong! My Father's fleet of Mini vans:

[bunglebus]

Round mother-Bungle's place today, asked about my grandad's old photo albums, which I was sure would be buried in the ever accumulating  piles of stuff around the place. However luck was on my side, spotted one poking out of a carrier bag and it was the very one I wanted.

Here they are at Swalecliffe in 1954 with their Bond, that's my mum in the car, my nan sitting down and presumably one of my great aunts standing

Mum (smoking a fag? Never!) and  grandad

By the next year, at the same site, he'd upgraded to the Ford Pop. That's my mum and her cousin

Got quite a few pics of the Pop, but these are my favourites

[Andrew353w]

My Dad liked triumph 2000s and we had two of them. This was the first, which I thought looked great in two-tone, but later Dad had it resprayed in 1970s orange! The later one (UUO 405 J) was also an estate, but had the 2.5Pi engine, and really was quick, as I remember. Mind you, I was only 12 or 13 at the time!