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[dubber36]

Harvest Gold per chance.

That's the one. He had a 2 door so that I'd be safe in the back, followed by a 4 door in the same colour. In 79 he bought a brand new red 4 door with a black vinyl roof and spot lights in the grille. By 83 it was rotten and got replaced with a silver Ital. MOP 20X. I've got a felling that rotted fairly quickly too as it was soon replaced. Nissan/Datsun came to town and he bought a Sunny in about 85.

 

[Sackmycook]

My dad was a Datsun advocate....had a 120Y , 140 and Laurel. They seemed to be reliable

 

[Srea064]

The first good car my dad bought was a 1977 BMW 528, purchased in 1980. After a long line of lemons, including a Hillman Imp, Morris Marina and a MK5 Cortina that always broke down, it was a beautiful car in a a ruby red metallic.

 

[Stay Frosty]

Amongst many my favourite cars my dad had were a Vauxhall Cresta PC. It had bench seats and a steering column gear lever. I had spotted it sitting in a yard for months on my way to school and begged my dad to buy it. Much to my surprise he did and as he was a mechanic had it running sweetly soon after. My next fave was a Vauxhall VX4/90 in green, manual with overdrive. My dad would give it some welly because I loved it, that thing went like stink.

I'm 67 and talking about my Dad's car like I'm still at junior school however we had a VX490 too but it was the 101 shape so looked like a 2/3 scale early 60s Chevy Nova.
I don't remember it being fast but with two adults and three of us kids and no seatbelts it was more about cruising up the high street and being seen by your mates.
We must have looked like a bunch of Pikeys in a stolen car but this was one of a string of Dad repaired salvage cars, a good one followed by a few weeks in a 5hitbox and then the next good one which from memory was a silver fox 67 Corsair 2000e and that looked like a miniature Ford Thunderbird.

 

[Johny]

My Dads first car was a nissan 100 (Datsun cherry), what a rust bucket that was.

 

[Paynewright]

I find it interesting how the desirability/price of certain classic cars explodes and then wanes which I understand is linked to what was about when we were kids and current age / disposable income. 40s, 50s and 60s cars seem to be dropping in value - notable is the E type. Some 70s, 80s & 90s cars are high - M sport BMWs, Mk1/2 escorts Peugeot 106 Rallye / gtis, JDM cars etc

Classic 911s always seem to gain and stay up, after the normal depreciation curve, probably due to lineage back to the original. Well cared for MGBs seem to do well - you can still buy complete new body shells pressed from the original tooling.

I’m waiting for my 996 to take off

 

[Macp]

Yes the 996 is still relatively unloved. A mate of mine bought one and took me out in it. Feck me he almost turned me inside out. I remember thinking when does it stop accelerating.

 

[JumpShip]

My grandad had a metallic brown mk1 escort 1300e

My dad had a mushy pea green bug and a bright orange Datsun 120Y.