I've just watched a brilliant TV programme called Car SOS. They did up an old rotting Ford Cortina Mark III for a guy, who was totally bowled over with the results.
It got me thinking what car or cars my Dad and Mum [Mum didn't drive] had back in the day. The last one I remember was a white Triumph Dolomite in the Seventies. I recall it had an overdrive button on top of the gearstick. The reg started with EBU. It was a nice car.
What car or cars did your folks have readers?
None, neither of my parents drove. Cars weren't really a thing in my early life (we lived close to the town centre, and the bus and railway stations). I didn't pass my driving test until I was 30!
ReplyDeleteDo you enjoy driving kev?
DeleteNo, hate it!
DeleteMy dad had a green mini van. I made a tribute to it using an Oxford die-cast model!
ReplyDeletea Mini Van, With the two doors at the back Looey?
DeleteFunny I was only talking about this today with my parents and my daughter, my dad had got a metallic aqua/green Avenger, the interior was white vinyl, it was a hot day and the vinyl stunk really bad, I was also travel sick, I don't remember what I'd eaten that day but the back seat of dad's car was stained orange, his next car wasn't much of an improvement, a red Morris Marina, it didn't even have the Italian styling of the Ital, just horrible, the only car my dad had that I approved of was his Passat and then the Skoda version of the same car
ReplyDeleteYuk. Puking in Dad's car! its a rite of passage MJ. My Mum used to give me boiled sweets on long journeys to Butlins but they just came up too with all the rest! I have to look uo the Avenger. Forgotten about them but what a name!
DeleteMy dad once bought a new Moskovitch, and just out of the guarantee period the mechanical petrol pump packed up. My father bought an old frogmans wet suit and used to cut out pieces to replace the diaphragm in the pump.
ReplyDeleteIn the end he got fed up of doing that and installed an electrical one from a vauxhall or a Ford! After three years of annoyance, he sold the car on and got something else...
Was the Moskavitch an Eastern Bloc car Bill? They must have been rare in the West.
DeleteFor my childhood we had a motorbike and covered 2 person sidecar.
ReplyDeleteIn my teens dad got a Hillman Hunter and later an Avenger.
Motorbikes were my big brother's passion Mish. He could always be found outside in Summer listening to the radio and polishing his Norton with a tube of paste called autosil? I will have to look up the Hillman Hunter. It must have been fun going round in a sidecar!
DeleteMy father had a motorbike and sidecar at one time. The sidecar was like a little cab that me, my brother and my mother could fit into. Then he got a car which looked like a 1940s gangster car, but I don't know the make. Then he got a Noble 200 (as mentioned before), and after that he had a series of Reliants, mostly yellow, the last one blue, I think. He should never have had the 'gangster' saloon type car as he only had a provisional licence.
ReplyDeleteI love that sidecar memory Kid. I once travelled to Europe in a sidecar, I fell asleep and the rider went mad as I was meant to be navigating! Reliants are just great.
DeleteOops, not a Noble 200 - a Nobel 200.
DeleteGot it.
DeleteMom has had a old fiat 500 ,dad never got the license.. the second car was a Renault 4:))
ReplyDeleteI remember those Fiat 500 cars EW. Like a little van?
DeleteLike a smart,the Little van was named" fiat 600 multipla"..ew
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