The best car your Dad had ?

[MoreThanPolish]

(thread idea shamelessly nicked from another place)

Fire away....I'll kick off

The best cars my Dad had were his Rovers - SD1 2600, which had acres of space ( I was 6ft by this time), lovely soft velour upholstery (honestly - this was the 80s!), a lovely sound and decent grunt. Styled by Pininfarina like the Daytona.

The best Rover he had became my pride and joy, a very late 1977 P6 2200TC in Pendelican White, which I had restored after 5 years under a tarp and ran from 1989-1996 or so. Power, great sports seats, alarming body roll but actually great handling, space for 4 and a full length Webasto roof so rear seat passengers could stand and look out. Twin carbs which delivered about 120 ponies I believe, and amazing construction - it was a skeleton on which 27 panels were hung. I replaced many of them.

He's now got a Jaaag. And no, he was never a bank manager.

 

[mon the fish]

Probably the E46 330ci Sport he had from new as a company car - looked great, fabulous engine.

The Omega V6 he had when I passed my test was good for a 17 year old to drive - could just soak up the miles

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[Allandwf]

Dads Cars

As above mine had a Rover 2200TC but in Blue. Then a Humber Sceptre. After that it went downhill lol

 

[cgt]

Mine had a series of XJS's. I'm still baffled why they are now considered classics as they were s**t.

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[sssdu01]

Toss up between Series 1 E type, lotus Cortina MK1 with BRM tune, or Lotus Elan. Yes my dad was a petrol head and all of these cars came to a sticky end. E type went after my mum caught my dad doing something he shouldnt with her best friend. I can remember to this day my mum smashing all the glass and body panels with a garden spade. The Lotus Cortina was stolen, and the Elan was returned to kit form after it was spun into a tree :laugh:

 

[Carper]

Datsun 240Z and Lancia Beta Coupe.

 

[phillg]

Bond Bug 700ES

 

[A348W]

Toss up between Tr4a (I use to go on the parcel shelf with the dog!!), land rover mk1 short wheel base, and a rd350lc.

He still has them all, the tr and land rover have been sat in a barn since 1972; and I’m not allowed to touch them despite offering to have them restored. The lc I learnt on and hasn’t been ridden since about 89. Actually I remember now the last time it was probably ridden. It will take several pints to get that story out of me.:wink3:

Guess at some stage I’ll inherit a few projects.

(Simon, the e type story cracked me up!! I’m sure it wasn’t funny at the time, but...!)

 

[Mike01606]

Toss up between Series 1 E type, lotus Cortina MK1 with BRM tune, or Lotus Elan. Yes my dad was a petrol head and all of these cars came to a sticky end. E type went after my mum caught my dad doing something he shouldnt with her best friend. I can remember to this day my mum smashing all the glass and body panels with a garden spade. The Lotus Cortina was stolen, and the Elan was returned to kit form after it was spun into a tree :laugh:

Post of the week goes to Simon


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[Carper]

Post of the week goes to Simon :

No debate needed about that !

 

[francisn]

Best or favourite?

There were no bests! He only had three in my lifetime (died in 1971) he first was a prewar Vauxhall which had been stored during the war and I only remember running for about two days. We borrowed my Gran's Morris 1000 Traveller. Then we didn't have a car for half a dozen years till my favourite, a green Austin A35 van, a cast off from a cousin of my mother, in which I first learned to drive aged about 12! JES 739. As a family of 5 we would drive from Edinburgh to my father's family home in Glos pre motorways, camping on the way. Loved that little van. My dad's favourite was an early 60s Hillman Minx automatic he inherited from his aged aunt in about 1965. It was a horrible car but he loved it. It broke down regularly. It had some complicated electro magnetic clutch or something, and the alternator couldn't cope with it. I will always remember the non automatic seatbelts which were a nightmare akin to trying to strap a child into a car seat

My Dad was NOT into cars! Funny how I turned out

My Mum meanwhile bought a Morris 1100 in which I took my driving test in 1967.

Happy days

 

[Modificato]

Toss up between Series 1 E type, lotus Cortina MK1 with BRM tune, or Lotus Elan. Yes my dad was a petrol head and all of these cars came to a sticky end. E type went after my mum caught my dad doing something he shouldnt with her best friend. I can remember to this day my mum smashing all the glass and body panels with a garden spade. The Lotus Cortina was stolen, and the Elan was returned to kit form after it was spun into a tree :laugh:

Your dad sounds like the model jag cad cliche....:dude:

My dad was a professional sportsman so often it was the local sponsors garage that supplied the iron.

The best ones were in descending order:-

Ford Escort Mexico in Orange
RS2000 in black
Rover 820 Vitesse fastback (PMSL)

However the real petrolhead in the family was my gran - raced in between the wars and delivered trucks in WW2
Standouts:-
Red sunbeam rapier V8
Lotus Cortina cream and green stripe

 

[Modificato]

My mount as a 18year old aerospace apprentice.
Look closely and you will see a ton of machined / turned from solid upgrades. Unseen is the giant killing
stage III tune with TZ350 parts...
The local filth spent many hours lecturing me...

 

[Mike01606]

LC’s are going to be the next Dino’s!

My dads best car was a 1976 Chevette GLS (he isn’t into cars at all). I learned to drive in it and promptly wrote it off 3 weeks after my test....

 

[A348W]

My mount as a 18year old aerospace apprentice.
Look closely and you will see a ton of machined / turned from solid upgrades. Unseen is the giant killing
stage III tune with TZ350 parts...
The local filth spent many hours lecturing me...
View attachment 152986

Very nice.

My dad’s has black chrome microns. Will definitely be illegal here as you can here the bike from miles away :grin:

I will be on the hunt for rh stock pipe when I get my hands on it. I broke it around one of the welds when I dropped it; the one and only time it’s been dropped.

 

[Modificato]

Very nice.

My dad’s has black chrome microns. Will definitely be illegal here as you can here the bike from miles away :grin:

I will be on the hunt for rh stock pipe when I get my hands on it. I broke it around one of the welds when I dropped it; the one and only time it’s been dropped.

Okay geek alert.

I know microns very well as I used to design two stroke exhausts. Anyway you can quiet the microns AND protect your engine for a long time with no loss of power as follows.
1) Remove The baffles with a pair of circlip pliers.
2) The baffle pipe in all but the latest designs was exactly the same length as the last ‘silencer’ section
3) What token silencing their was was wadding that was designed to burn out quickly to sound better !
4) if you have short baffles
5) simply extend them so that the pipe extends into the final convergent cone in line with its start
See below the classic quiet / longer stinger pipe and the stock microns baffles

The diagram below shows the stinger pipe concept.

Note power cut-off at peak power will be abrupt and reduce peak revs by about 400rpm BUT the bike will still sound cool but be socially acceptable-ish

 

[A348W]

Okay geek alert.

I know microns very well as I used to design two stroke exhausts. Anyway you can quiet the microns AND protect your engine for a long time with no loss of power as follows.
1) Remove The baffles with a pair of circlip pliers.
2) The baffle pipe in all but the latest designs was exactly the same length as the last ‘silencer’ section
3) What token silencing their was was wadding that was designed to burn out quickly to sound better !
4) if you have short baffles
5) simply extend them so that the pipe extends into the final convergent cone in line with its start
See below the classic quiet / longer stinger pipe and the stock microns baffles
View attachment 152988
The diagram below shows the stinger pipe concept.
View attachment 152987
Note power cut-off at peak power will be abrupt and reduce peak revs by about 400rpm BUT the bike will still sound cool but be socially acceptable-ish

Interesting; didn't know that and if I ever get my hands on it will give that a go as the pipes look and sound amazing. I do seem to recall the power delivery had a a massive kick and a big drop of at the top end of the rpm band.

Friends in Uni with LCs etc. certainly played about with the bikes a lot, but I cant recall this ever came up; but then I think at Uni "being socially acceptable" didn't feature high on the agenda :grin:

 

[Modificato]

Interesting; didn't know that and if I ever get my hands on it will give that a go as the pipes look and sound amazing. I do seem to recall the power delivery had a a massive kick and a big drop of at the top end of the rpm band. :

That’s classic two stroke power delivery - or McLaren 540 ;-)