School run - Page 2

Octanejunkie · 23-04-08, 10:56 AM

My parents used to take me to school in a rusty Triumph Dolomite. Later followed by a navy blue Talbot Alpine

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When i first started taking my step kids to school i had a 1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am (the smokey and the bandit one- in black 6.6l).
They were at a "church of england" school so my squealing tyres and straight through exhausts didn't sit well with the lord, or most of the mums come to think of it.
Every single kid at that little school loved it though.

snorky · 23-04-08, 12:36 PM

Ah, the faint memories of school...

Started off getting dropped off in a Moggy Minor Traveller (still hanker after one for some unexplicable reason); got upgraded to a Morris 1300 Countryman called Jingles (cos it rattled so much) and then a yellow Viva HC estate called Daffy. Walked after that (er, to school!), but my folks had some pretty cool cars imho. Renaults 4, 14, (when did you last see one?), 18 wagon (again), 30TS (and again?), mk1 Golf in mars red, Citroen CX Safari...

Happy days...

TheTwelveQuidKid · 23-04-08, 09:30 PM

I got dropped off at school in a MK1 Escort most of the time, and occasionally in an Austin Princess

Got a lift home in a mates's dad's MK2 Granada 2.8 once.

SteveCat · 23-04-08, 09:58 PM

Nice one Amanda!

Prefer yer red one to be honest!

My delivery wagon was a 1974 Datsun 120Y.

Any car mentioned previously in this thread is superior to that pile of cacka!

Cool you dont have to suffer an A2 as a loan car!

Coxy · 23-04-08, 10:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stu67

I hate flash parents!, but you would win the one upmanship at our local school!

I used to get a lift to school in a Morris Marina TC ! didn't think it was cool at the time but in a perverse way I'd really like a go in one now. Cannot remember the last time I saw one.

Damn, my old man traded in his 1971 Capri for a 1976 Morris Marina TC back in the day! Blue with blue vinyl roof and that lovely 1800 engine!
The Capri was better cos me dad had put a chrome spangly badge bar on the front with genuine AA and ramblers association badges on it and them plastic louvred blinds on the back rear window!
If dad finished work early on a Friday and it was raining then we'd get a lift in the Capri!

I do remember one day when both mine and my best mates mom's had come to pick us up as it was raining. My mom had a disabled blue colour Austin A35 and his mom had a yukky beige A35 and we both refused to get in them and instead walked home in the pouring rain and got totally drenched.
It was still the better option than getting in that A35!

Stu67 · 24-04-08, 08:09 AM

The marina TC was the blokes next door, it was a horrible sick beige/ green / yellow, I think that BL called it "Harvest Gold" strangly I had a Spitfire in the same colour years later!

It's funny the cars your parents had, if like me you are in your 40's, european cars were still seen as exotica! My dad was a complete petrol head (probably where I get it from) and would have a different car every month. Big and English was the order of the day Rovers, VP princess's, Vauxhall Viscount's, Ventora's with a sprinkling of exotica thrown in Lotus Europa JPS!, I quote "plastic crap" (bloody wish I had it now!!!!)

Coxy · 24-04-08, 08:38 AM

Just thinking back to my childhood and can't remember any European cars in our street.

My dad has his Capri and mom had her A35 (although this changed to an Imp after the A35 got totalled).
My next door neighbour had a brand new Ford Cortina ANT447L in red. It was superb!
the next door to them had a Mk1 escort and later changed to a light blue Mk2 Escort , and next door to them, he had an old E Reg MK1 Cortina which he cleaned religiously, every Sunday! I used to think he was a real nobber for cleaning his car so often!! I was only 6 or 7 at the time though!!
Can't remember much else apart from friends the other way had a Hillam Hunter and their next door neighbours had a Vauxhall Viva as that Viva ended being my eldest brothers first car back in 1980 when he passed his driving test!

The Milkman · 24-04-08, 12:21 PM

I used to get dropped off at primary school in a 1976 Renault 12 (MCS326P). It was originally grey, but my dad had it painted dark blue bottom half and lighter blue top half. This was roughly between 1985 and 1988. I can't remember how crap it was, but being 70's and french, it probably was a heap.

The car after that was a D reg Fiat Uno. It doesn't get much better than that.

snorky · 24-04-08, 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stephen P

I used to get dropped off at primary school in a 1976 Renault 12 (MCS326P). It was originally grey, but my dad had it painted dark blue bottom half and lighter blue top half. This was roughly between 1985 and 1988. I can't remember how crap it was, but being 70's and french, it probably was a heap.

I remember my grandad had a metallic bronze R12 sedan. It's another one of those cars which I'd love in my collection; were I in a position to have a collection.

Irrational? probably. But hey?

Stu67 · 24-04-08, 01:48 PM

Not irrational at all, strange actually Renaults were the only foraign cars I can remember around my way as well. There was a 17 ts (well think it was, strange mid 70's coupe?) in a rather fetching yellow down my road and I can remember lusting after a Fuego? turbo a couple of years before I left school, I mean a bloody Fuego! I've had meals that have probably lasted longer!

23-04-08, 09:58 PM	#14
SteveCat 4 ring whore! Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 3,523	. Nice one Amanda! Prefer yer red one to be honest! My delivery wagon was a 1974 Datsun 120Y. Any car mentioned previously in this thread is superior to that pile of cacka! Cool you dont have to suffer an A2 as a loan car! __________________ Mercedes E220 Sportline Coupe

24-04-08, 12:21 PM	#18
The Milkman Empty Wallet :( Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Kilmarnock, Scotland Posts: 755	I used to get dropped off at primary school in a 1976 Renault 12 (MCS326P). It was originally grey, but my dad had it painted dark blue bottom half and lighter blue top half. This was roughly between 1985 and 1988. I can't remember how crap it was, but being 70's and french, it probably was a heap. The car after that was a D reg Fiat Uno. It doesn't get much better than that. __________________ 1984 Audi Ur quattro [A10VOT]

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23-04-08, 10:56 AM	#11
Octanejunkie Grown up member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Clevedon, North Somerset Posts: 293	My parents used to take me to school in a rusty Triumph Dolomite. Later followed by a navy blue Talbot Alpine . When i first started taking my step kids to school i had a 1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am (the smokey and the bandit one- in black 6.6l). They were at a "church of england" school so my squealing tyres and straight through exhausts didn't sit well with the lord, or most of the mums come to think of it. Every single kid at that little school loved it though.

23-04-08, 12:36 PM	#12
snorky Grown up member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: The Wood of Bears, Birmingham Posts: 226	Ah, the faint memories of school... Started off getting dropped off in a Moggy Minor Traveller (still hanker after one for some unexplicable reason); got upgraded to a Morris 1300 Countryman called Jingles (cos it rattled so much) and then a yellow Viva HC estate called Daffy. Walked after that (er, to school!), but my folks had some pretty cool cars imho. Renaults 4, 14, (when did you last see one?), 18 wagon (again), 30TS (and again?), mk1 Golf in mars red, Citroen CX Safari... Happy days...

23-04-08, 09:30 PM	#13
TheTwelveQuidKid Grown up member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 422	I got dropped off at school in a MK1 Escort most of the time, and occasionally in an Austin Princess Got a lift home in a mates's dad's MK2 Granada 2.8 once.

24-04-08, 08:09 AM	#16
Stu67 Grown up member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 117	The marina TC was the blokes next door, it was a horrible sick beige/ green / yellow, I think that BL called it "Harvest Gold" strangly I had a Spitfire in the same colour years later! It's funny the cars your parents had, if like me you are in your 40's, european cars were still seen as exotica! My dad was a complete petrol head (probably where I get it from) and would have a different car every month. Big and English was the order of the day Rovers, VP princess's, Vauxhall Viscount's, Ventora's with a sprinkling of exotica thrown in Lotus Europa JPS!, I quote "plastic crap" (bloody wish I had it now!!!!)

24-04-08, 08:38 AM	#17
Coxy 4 Ring Mafia Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: on the side of a hill in Shropshire! Posts: 28,215	Just thinking back to my childhood and can't remember any European cars in our street. My dad has his Capri and mom had her A35 (although this changed to an Imp after the A35 got totalled). My next door neighbour had a brand new Ford Cortina ANT447L in red. It was superb! the next door to them had a Mk1 escort and later changed to a light blue Mk2 Escort , and next door to them, he had an old E Reg MK1 Cortina which he cleaned religiously, every Sunday! I used to think he was a real nobber for cleaning his car so often!! I was only 6 or 7 at the time though!! Can't remember much else apart from friends the other way had a Hillam Hunter and their next door neighbours had a Vauxhall Viva as that Viva ended being my eldest brothers first car back in 1980 when he passed his driving test!

24-04-08, 01:48 PM	#20
Stu67 Grown up member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 117	Not irrational at all, strange actually Renaults were the only foraign cars I can remember around my way as well. There was a 17 ts (well think it was, strange mid 70's coupe?) in a rather fetching yellow down my road and I can remember lusting after a Fuego? turbo a couple of years before I left school, I mean a bloody Fuego! I've had meals that have probably lasted longer!