Nostalgia - your Dad's cars and music?

[Headfry]

VW beetle - LHK 376C springs to mind, have to ask Mum if thats right!
Mum, Dad, Grandama, Brother Bill (9), Sister Mandy (8) and Myself....all the way to Devon!!!!! I was about 10. Goodness knows how we did it! those were the days!
Val Doonigan and Herb Alpert (bought a DVD of his not long ago and still like it-strange) were Dads music then he got into John Denver :-(

[Flummery]

My dad had a bike too Snadger. When he got home from work he used to let me stand on his peddle and push me down the path. I thought it was great! Simple times, simple pleasures. He liked classical music. Beethoven was his hero - athough he goes on too long for me. I got to know Messiah by watching him ice the Christmas cake every year - he chose the night it was on the wireless.

[moggssue]

Rusty - my dad had a bond 3wheeler too. I have a cute (well, I think it is!) piccie of me sitting on the bonnet aged about 2 witha pigtail on top of my head! By the time I was 13 we'd moved up to a Fiat van converted to a campervan which used to take us to Wales, Yorkshire, Cumbria and the like as well as days out bbq-ing and 'fishing'. Those were the days hey!

[OverWyreGrower]

Sadly I lost my dad 11 years ago. Since he had company cars, they were all much of a muchness....

But the music!!

We'd frequently travel from Lancs to Yorks to see relatives and the whole journey would be:

Queen
Status Quo
The Carpenters
The Shadows
Abba

By the time I was about 13 I knew all the words to all the above mentioned bands. I asolutely love the Carpenters, still know the words.

I remember sitting in traffic, head banging to Bohemian Rhapsody with my parents when I was about 10!

[witch-1]

A burgundy red Vauxhall Zephur!!

And listening to the Top 20 on a Sunday on our way home from visiting the grandparents!!

Dad swopped his cars seemed sometimes weekly... Mum said she never knew what car she'd be driving from one day to the next. Always remember Dad 'tinkering' in the garage! Never brought a new car until 1979 - then swore he'd never do it again! Waste of money

Miss my Dad

Jan[/FONT]

[yoanbob]

dads red transit, me crying cos my feet were so cold, "L O L A Lola"
mums rusty blue cortina with no floor "ruby tuesday"
dads alpha romeo "goodbye yellow brick rd."
the blue flat bed "anything by simon and garfunkel"

[nick the grief]

My dad didn't have a car he allways had a Motor bike until after I passed my test then he went from a

Mk1 Humber Sceptre - a beauty she was
Fiat 124 special T ( body was crap but went like Diahorea off a tooth pick - faster than **** off a shovel)
Mk2 Ford Escort
Opel Ascona S/R
Lancia (can't remember the model)

As to music, he loved Big Band and Trad Jazz So we had things like Glenn Millar and Big Bill Broozy.

I'm more for Blues & Jazz these days

[dexterdoglancashire]

My Dad always had motorbikes and sports cars - he was always in the garage tinkering away with something or other! The cars I remember are the MGs, Austin Healeys, a maroon zepher(?) that was stolen....the most memorable vehicles were the bright yellow school bus, the american army jeep with a star on the bonnet, but most of all the JBA Kit car my Dad built from scratch using a Ford as the doner car. We drove it all the way to the Neurberg circuit in Germany and took it for a wizz round! (Apologies for the spelling - brain not working too well today!) Bernie

[trousers]

as for cars , my mother had a austin a40. and my dad had a fewas he liked to change them when one caught his eye ford boss capri ,mini marcos, lotus europa, jaguar xk120, but the one that i loved the best as a youngster and i wish i had it now was a shelbey cobra it was fab. his music was mario lanza , jim reeves, elvis, and the seekers.there are proberly loads more !

[Hazel at the Hill]

Happy days!

Dad had a motorbike too - my earliest memories are of only being allowed to ride pillion once I was tall enough for my feet to reach the pedals - how I wished my legs would stretch!

Once over that hurdle, I was designated as weekly shopper with dad as I was the youngest and smallest so when we loaded the bike up with the family's shop, we could cram more on.

Dad passed his driving test when I was about 10 and bought an orange Lada and about 2 weeks later we all piled in to drive the 450 miles up to the north of Scotland for our biennial trip to see mums twin & family.

He did have a habit of occupying the same driving postion on the road as he did when he drove the motorbike which tended to make the passenger whimper and cringe towards the gear stick as the wing mirror brushed against the roadside trees and bushes, and the nearside wheel was permanently in the gutter - god help any cyclists we passed!

No music in the car for us - driving was far to serious a business for that!

Aforementioned mum's twin had a vauxhall viva estate, and when they came down to visit (before we had a car) all nine of us would pile in for family outings! I remember it being rather unreliable, but with hindsight, I suspect that it was overloaded!

[HeyWayne]

Thanks for this thread Sarzwix. I'm a card carrying petrol-head, and my dad has always worked on cars, some of which he has acquired in the process.

My favourite car we ever had was an Austin Allegro. Metallic purple with a beige vinyl roof and interior. Dad converted it by giving at a Citroen 2CV style roof. He used to drive along and we'd be stood up on the back seat with the wind in our faces. I remember constantly burning my legs on the hot vinyl on a summers day. Once I had one of those "Stretch Armstrong" type things, only mine was the Incredible Hulk. We spent the day at Woburn Safari Park, and I left the Hulk on the shelf under the back window. When we came back, the Hulk was bleeding badly. He never recovered...

I also remember my Mum's first car. A black Mini. the steering wheel of which was the size of Greater London. She was taking me to the orthodontist one day, and we had to climb a steep hill in it. At one point we both thought the car wasn't going to make it. It did.

So many cars in my life over the years. Ahh, to reminisce...

Dad: Austin 1100, Austin Allegro, Fiat 128, Austin Maxi, Renault 21 Savannah....

Mum:...Mini 1000, Austin Allegro (ex-police car), Ford Fiesta...

Grampy & Nan: Hilman Imp, Austin Marina, Peugeot 104 (luminous yellow), Lada Riva....

Grandad: Austin Princess, Austin Ambassador, Nissan Datsun Cherry (the first brand new car I ever sat in).

[laura g]

most memorable dad car was the purple capri reg no WDY 200M!!!

For some reason, being stuck in the 'out' queue of biggin hill air fair is very memorable for me. hours of waiting with nowt but warm orange squash and manky hard boiled eggs left. Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds on the cassette deck!!!!

OH is one of 9 kids. His dad had an old hearse to ferry them around in!!!!

[OverWyreGrower]

The first car I can remember my mum having was a lime green nissan micra. It had brown faux-leather interior and we used to call it the Chocolate Lime.

She was a big Abba fan, and we used to have to listen to them all the time. I now have an absolute loathing of Abba....

[SarzWix]

So many of these are making me chuckle, it's great!
I too remember burnt legs and bums on vinyl seats... Ouch!
Gave me Dad that book for Fathers Day, he was well chuffed, set him off reminiscing