what was your parents most embarassing car?
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my old feller had a wartburg knight!he was always shall we say"economical" by nature(read tight as a fishes arse,and really only bought it cos it had a freewheel system on the gearbox.he never bought a bottle of proper two stroke oil in his life and used to have one of those old-fashioned milk bottle carriers in the boot with milk bottles full of the cheapest 20w50 money could buy!i will never forget being dropped off in chester le street to get the bus to durham for college when i was 16 years old and for anyone who knows the area,him lifting off the throttle at the top of newbridge bank and virtually taking the last bend on two wheels in the most evil handling shite that ever came out of east germany.it was weird to work on though,3 coils and 3 sets of points which were a delight to set.i'm proud to say that i killed it on the a1m through co.durham on the way back from croft autodrome as it was called all those years ago.thrashing(or trying to!)its arse off and seized the motor up.he was gutted when he couldnt get a new engine and went on to buy a datsun sunny (the one with the awful wheel trims)
My dad had a yellow Cortina estate that was more filler than bodywork. A proper mess. However, he suddenly found a fondness for Volvos when I was about 9 or 10. We owned three Volvo 340s, two of them at the same time, one of which was in such a shade of grey that it was practically invisible.
Horrible, horrible cars.
Horrible, horrible cars.
My dad once had a Morris Ital in a sort of Navy Blue colour. Don't know why he had it, just seem to remember we had it for a few weeks. I think it might have been a loaner whilst his car got fixed (I think he had the TR7 at the time). I was only young but I can remember it was pretty crap, even though it was the newest car we had ever had.
My Mum had quite possibly the worst example of the Austin Metro ever to rattle off the production line. Beige on the outside, brown on the inside, a piece of plastic rattling around in the passenger footwell that we never identified, rock-hard (probably collapsed) rear suspension, moss growing in the window gutters that wouldn't budge no matter how hard you scrubbed at it, the parcel shelf had split in two at one point, and best/worst of all, at one point the passenger door handles snapped on both the inside and the outside, meaning everyone had to enter through the driver's door. It was a three-door.
I think the only good thing going for it was the fact that it had a 1.3-litre engine rather than the 1.1 that was around at the time. I still remember when it finally shuffled off this mortal coil - the scrap dealers wouldn't give her any money for it, and my Dad made her take the stereo out before it went as he reasoned it was more valuable than the car. It was a PYE auto-reverse tape deck - and this was in the late '90s when CD players were the thing to have. So he was still probably right.
I think the only good thing going for it was the fact that it had a 1.3-litre engine rather than the 1.1 that was around at the time. I still remember when it finally shuffled off this mortal coil - the scrap dealers wouldn't give her any money for it, and my Dad made her take the stereo out before it went as he reasoned it was more valuable than the car. It was a PYE auto-reverse tape deck - and this was in the late '90s when CD players were the thing to have. So he was still probably right.
ocks!thought i had the ace in the hole with the wartburg but the crown is on uk89camaros head at the moment!
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