Jump to content

Family snaps with your old cars in the background.


NorfolkNWeigh

Recommended Posts

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. 

100624511_251634982591863_3430400644287037440_n.jpg

100869300_176456430433214_6777402421074198528_n.jpg

101379853_3054863444596923_2862362988571000832_n.jpg

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

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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.

DSC_0017 (4).jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

Granada! 

1976 Ford Granada 2000 L (4 speed manual)

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

Royale! 

1979 Vauxhall Royale 2800 automatic

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

Edited by ProgRocker
Changed year
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 weeks later...

Few more old vehicular family snaps. 

 

FamilyScans026-1.thumb.jpg.ae6f765c4b72a1f07f6bf42db5c1ca6b.jpg

 

P4, Winter 1964 I think

FamilyScans028.jpg

 

Dad's garage, July 1968

FamilyScans027.jpg

 

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

FamilyScans017-1.jpg

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

FamilyScans015.jpg

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

FamilyScans016.jpg

Dad when working for Ford in the mid 50s.

FamilyScans018.jpg

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

FamilyScans001.jpg

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

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

r51a.thumb.jpg.de5de73b43c3e03a181c66ee17e0dec7.jpg

 

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.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 months later...

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:

508435491_Scan10.thumb.jpeg.2e785e3a5652b0ee872986e69c95f75d.jpeg

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:

1209502634_Scan9.thumb.jpeg.337105111c872c9c64f1ae3ee0d0edf3.jpeg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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.

DA5BD090-ECCD-40B5-B190-AFBF3E60B825.jpeg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

7 hours ago, Austat said:

1209502634_Scan9.thumb.jpeg.337105111c872c9c64f1ae3ee0d0edf3.jpeg

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?

Daihatsu Cuore I (L55,L60) technical specifications and fuel consumption —  AutoData24.com

L55/L60

image.jpeg.936c38d388aec032d1ca345682c4692d.jpeg

L200

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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

1930610_25359727916_7700_n_25359727916.jpg.c1ebe6437599e70969c8f44d43bf80fa.jpg

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.

1930610_25359732916_8005_n_25359732916.jpg.2a190177d95d0a3af23766b99c7d29b6.jpg

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.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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

1184519328_Richardson(1).thumb.jpg.a687967f57a010423ee3efbf6fc200ce.jpg

Charles with his Renner taxi

301558994_FlanilyTwee021.jpg.bbf81cf39db63d9e9c729d445cd605ee.jpg

Norm with assorted background chod

1468319003_FlanilyTwee005.thumb.jpg.2761583b9fc091bacb1f085475e092ac.jpg

Arthur with his horse (wifes Gt Grandfather)

8380488219_5337efd575_o.thumb.jpg.1125daf8a62d98ded0c57d556be6dac7.jpg

Paddy & his bike ( circa 1890)

2008649292_1975(72).thumb.JPG.995920350c057c4599daefa6c87e7037.JPG

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!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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!)

D17C5A31-DF75-4EDD-838D-B3F8E8298361.jpeg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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

884822072_Swalecliffe1954.thumb.jpg.c3648b912473e5228fa33bd50a6eddbb.jpg

Mum (smoking a fag? Never!) and  grandad

651581526_Swalecliffe1954-2.thumb.jpg.91fb755ac68213d845c0e51cd3148cbb.jpg

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

2011675098_Swalecliffe1955.thumb.jpg.8063d3aeccfcdaed1deda104e221db7c.jpg1287540897_Swalecliffe1955-2.thumb.jpg.7752f2563da6dfa51c719e5a143c3f9d.jpg

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

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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! 

Scan10022.jpeg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...