Family Viking's cars

[Dyslexic Viking]

Think there is a thread here with old family photos, but I can't find it, so I'm making my own now of some of my granddads cars.

1977 Ford Taunus 1,6L scrapped in 1997

1983 Ford Sierra 2,0L scrapped in 2005

1984 Ford Granada 2,8GL taken off the road in 2002 and not registered scrapped so could be alive?

Ford Sierra estate 

1991 Ford Scorpio scrapped in 2015

His last car was an Escort estate which I believe was one of the last sold in Norway. It was shit and was scrapped with 60,000km on it.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Dad's transporter and uncle's Datsun?

Dad had this Transit for a long time and I have many good childhood memories from it. It was a 1984 long wheel base 2 seat row so 6 seater diesel scrapped in 2008.

[Dyslexic Viking]

More cars from grandpa

This Fiesta was my grandmother's I got it from her never drove it as sold it in favor of a Volvo 240

[Dyslexic Viking]

Even more cars to grandpa

[Dyslexic Viking]

 

 

Even more cars to grandpa

The 1974 Datsun 120Y was scrapped in 1992. There wasn't much room for 4 kids, 2 parents and holiday luggage in this, so grandfather ended uo having to buy a trailer for the holiday trips.

[Split_Pin]

I especially love the Renault 12, they came in some nice colours then. It looks well loaded up!

What's the red car with the boot and doors open, it's the photo below the black VW Beetle.

[Shite Ron]

Great photo’s, thanks for sharing I love old pictures. The Taunus estate is my favourite, I love the colour too. The Granada and Transit are great also.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Grandpa had a car buying sickness from the 1960s to the 1980s, so many cars were sold and bought, and Grandma probably came close to killing him a few times. I don't know how he managed it on a factory worker salary with 4 kids.

Here is a rare picture of grandpa with one of his beetles sometime in the 1960s.  Grandma was from a little further up in Norway, so every summer the car was loaded up with children and luggage and driven 600km to where she came from. The memories of being 4 kids and parents in a car with holiday luggage and a dad chain smoking on dusty bumpy gravel roads in the summer heat are well remembered by dad.

 

I'll see if I can find more.

[Dyslexic Viking]

16 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

What's the red car with the boot and doors open

I don't know, Corolla?

[hairnet]

42 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Even more cars to grandpa

thats cool - i have a similar photo of my mother and her brother and sister when she was about 20 stood in front of a ford 100e (shes 76 now  ) 

[Split_Pin]

I have Googled similar cars and it's a Datsun 1000. Quite a rare car even back then I'd  imagine.

[hairnet]

29 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I especially love the Renault 12, they came in some nice colours then. It looks well loaded up!

What's the red car with the boot and doors open, it's the photo below the black VW Beetle.

the two red japanese cars top one is a datsun (hubnut had a go in one) the other one is a 120y i think

youse were posh facelift mk2 granny and the taunus is cool too

ours was a 2.3 gl 1980 best car he ever had and he had nearly new montego russ swift spec and e39 bmw from 4 years old

[Dyslexic Viking]

5 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I have Googled similar cars and it's a Datsun 1000. Quite a rare car even back then I'd  imagine.

I thought it was Japanese from the looks of it. Nice to know what it is. Thanks.

[Surface Rust]

I love seeing old snaps like this, especially the holiday photos with overloaded cars and excited kids everywhere.  

Yours are particularly good as I spent loads of childhood holidays in Scandinavia in the 1980s and loved spotting all the unusual local caravans like Polar and Solifer, all usually towed by Ford or Volvo estates. Seemed so much more exotic than our Sprite Mustketeer on the back of a Carlton!

[Rightnider]

That’s a nice collection of cars, and in colour, like cars were back then!

It seems like you’ve had a solid upbringing with Fords in various flavours. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

2 hours ago, Rightnider said:

It seems like you’ve had a solid upbringing with Fords in various flavours. 

Not exactly grandpa became  loyal to Ford, but it was a lot thanks to the local dealer who always sorted things out as some of the cars were not without problems.

My mother's family was dominated by Volvo so my first car memory was a green Volvo 145 which I also think I had my first drive in from the hospital.

The last Ford my dad owned was the Transit and nobody I know of now owns a Ford, most have cars from Korea and Japan now.

[Dyslexic Viking]

On 10/07/2023 at 21:20, Dyslexic Viking said:

1984 Ford Granada 2,8GL taken off the road in 2002 and not registered scrapped so could be alive?

An update on this. Have been in contact with the current owner of this and it still exists but is to rusty to be saved and has/is been used as a parts car. So it is not possible to get it back on the road, unfortunately.

[Captain Mainwaring]

Great photos DV.