What car do you first remember your father owning?

[spanner570]

Rag top, Black/Green Morris 8.

The doors were hinged on the middle body pillar.
When I was young, I was in the front passenger seat. (Being ex. RAF, my dad didn't know the meaning of 'Slow') when the door suddenly flew open, but thanks to my dad's quick reaction in grabbing hold of me and hauling me back into the car, I am able to write this......Thanks Dad!

[Mark1]

Bmw motorbike and sidecar, bmw isetta,ford taunus, plymouth roadrunner,ford falcon,fairlane,fairmont,lincoln continental ,pinto and the list goes on.

[AlanG]

The first car i remember him using was a Lada Riva which he then sold and got an Austin Maxi.

[davecov]

My father left us in the Sixties when I was about eight or nine years old but my mother says that he never seemed to have the same car for more than a few months. She said that he had owned about forty cars over the years as well as a few motorbikes. I found out that he spent a few years in Pentonville nick for cutting and shutting stolen cars! As a result, I can't recall the first car he had although it might have been an old Fifties black Ford Popular which could never get up Bread and Cheese Hill!

This is one of my favourite Dad's cars, a Ford Consul when we were camping in Cornwall in the mid-Sixties:


My Grandad's Ford Popular "POO 14" by his caravan in Clacton. My Dad's Zephyr 4 is alongside:


The only other cars that I can recall my father having, were a Vauxhall Victor FB and an earlier model of Ford Consul. The latter car is memorable because once, on our return from Heathrow Airport, there was a police chase going on and the baddies' car ran a red light and t-boned our car as we crossed a junction.

Dave

[scottie3158]

The first car I can remember my dad buying was a bright yellow Datsun 120Y up until then he used to rent a car if we needed one.

[Easyrider5258]

First car I remember Dad driving was a Riley Pathfinder two tone Black & Green

[JayCee]

The first car I can remember my Dad having was an Austin (A40?) he bought in Aden in the early '50s. Before that he had always had motorcycles.
John.

[Neil Merryweather]

Black Austin Seven.
That petrol and leather smell always reminds me of it

[peterairfix]

Me about age 3 or 4 with next to my dad's regal.
Please don't laugh

[The Smythe Meister]

Triumph Herald,in about '69(ISH),I can still remember the black fluffy carpet covering the gearbox housing,it seemed really high to me at the time.... well,I was only 4 years old!!

[minitnkr]

Peter had "pinchable cheeks".

[Tim Marlow]

First car I remember us owning was a Ford 100E in a ghastly green colour, very like this one…..

I’m sure they were dip, rather than spray, painted because there were drips on the interior paintwork. I remember the wipers getting slower when it went uphill as well. Apart from that it was utterly forgettable.
My uncle had a sit up and beg popular as his first car, but I don’t remember much about it.

[Tworrs]

My first recollection of a family car was a Peugeut 403 CB8595, white with a maroon flash down the sides, however I think he had a Vauxhall Velox before that.

[BattleshipBob]

Grandad had a Morris Minor, wonderful memories of the farting exhaust and trips to Fontagary park near Barry, S Wales. May buy a restored one in the future?

First car I can remember with dad was a either a Morris Oxford or Cambridge. Those lovely comfy seats. Hating radio 2 lol.

[langy71]

A few of the cars I remember my father having were a metallic blue Volkswagen variant estate, 1.6l air cooled fuel injected lump, that went like a rocket when he stood on the loud pedal,
funny thing is I can still remember the registration number NAK 959M. he had this for a fair few years until it became uneconomical to repair and off it went to the great Volkswagen breakers in the sky

A ford Corsair,
A Metallic Grey Vauxhall Victor,
A Vauxhall 'shove-it'..Chevette,
A Nissan Bluebird estate,
and an original Mini Clubman..(I remember driving this whilst on holiday with him just after I'd passed my driving test.)