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With Father's Day this weekend, I was looking for a present for me Dad and came across this book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Top-Gear-Dad...1761892&sr=1-1
and it set me off on a right nostalgia trip...all the family holidays, packed to the gills (got 3 sisters) in a Cortina estate, at least 2 of us car-sick (they wallowed, a lot!), with Neil Diamond, or John Denver, or Nillson on the tinny tape player...
Or before that, the burger van (converted from an ice-cream van), that Dad thought would be a good business venture...and the first one I have a memory of, I think a Mark1 Cortina, with the lights in a circle split into 3rds...
And when he became a rep., and the first company car he brought home, Alpine/Chrysler, new car smell... Aaahh

Anyway, wondered if anyone else had fond memories of Dad's cars/music that was played in 'em?

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Sarah

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My Dad always used to drive a Rover 2200 TC because the TC was his intials, it had an 8 track and he always played the Rolling Stones or Herb Alpert/Tijuana Brass

Sarah
I remember Dad's cars always breaking down! The trips in the AA breakdown trucks were fun, though... Like you, Dad's favourite music including Neil Diamond on a strange thing called an eight track (I think). Big cassette like things, probably more the size of video cassettes!

Oh happy days of childhood!

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Julie

Hi TEB,
Glad I wasn't imagining the 8 track!

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Julie

Good heavens, you lot are very young!! My Dad always rode motorbikes until the family increased (by twins) so he had to get something bigger. He got a Bond 3-wheeler (anyone remember them?) cos you could drive that on a motorbike licence. He used to like Val Doonican and Jim Reeves.

We had various cars when I was a nipper, but my fave was the Ford Anglia. Had it when I was about 13. Music was mostly Queen, the Quo and Dire Straits. Would explain a lot of my taste in music now.

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My dad always drove sports cars (until my sister came along and there was no space for 3 in the back). I remember a Sunbeam Alpine, MGBGT, Volvo P1800S (which I now own), Scimitar GTE's then sister came along and he moved on to bigger cars. I remember (also) the 8-track - T Rex one of my fave's! Often think it is dad's fault that I love older cars. Madmax is passing on a good legacy for this thread with our older cars and his '50's jukebox collection!

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Like you Rustylady my first transport memories were being packed into a small sidecar attached to dads motorbike. Then he got a Morris Minor when my second brother was born (I was 10 then) and eventually we upgraded to a Ford Cortina.

My Dad liked the Supremes - at one time we only had two records (we did have a record player). Baby Love by the Supremes and My Boomerang Wont Come Back by Charlie Drake.

Such a cultural upbringing I had ..........

I remember my Dad driving a bright yellow Ford Escort Mk1(I think) when we lived in Dover. I can even remember the license plate TWF 603H.

It got dented by a French lorry driver!

Much better then the white Austin Allegro we had next.

Dad's first car Austin A35 pale green XAL 178 bought second hand in 1961
when we lived in Nottingham.

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Great thread Sarswix. In the 1960s, my dad was famous for his ancient black beetle, you couldn't miss the sound of it. When I was a year old, apparently he used it to tow a caravan on a tour of Scotland, with me and mum in the back of the caravan! Several scary moments going up hilly terrain on single track roads according to my mum! Wouldn't be allowed today, then - just foolhardy. .

After the beetle there were a trail of even more decrepit modes of transport, until one day he must have grown up, cos he bought a proper car, a new white BMW. We kids suddenly had to wipe our feet before embarking! Sadly he didn't get to enjoy it for more than about a year before he died, but the backfiring beetle is the car he is most associated with by friends.

Music, I have managed to find CDs of a couple of the LPs I remember in the rack, Elton John's Tumbleweed Connection, Lesley Duncan's Sing Children Sing and Isaac Hayes Hot Buttered Soul. They all stand the test of time too IMO.

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of all the cars my dad had I can remember dads old ford anglia, never started first time and he hand painted it after it got scratched, it also had an eight track player in it. the only song I can recall was the one eyed, one horned flying purple people eater

sis and me used to ask constantly for it to be played (i now know how my parents must have felt - i get it now with High School Musical )

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My dad had a pushbike!

Queer how things have went full circle these days with everyone being asked to get on their bike!

He used to love listening to Sachmo whom I used to hate the sound of.(not while riding his bike to work of course, but on the ever so popular 'radiogramm' at home! )

Now I've matured and my Dads passed away I get tears in my eye whenever I hear Sachmo singing 'What a wonderful world'

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Yeah, we used to ask for 'The Point' by Nillson over, and over again - if you don't know it, it's a story, half sung and half narrated - we loved it
My kids mostly like stuff that I play anyway, thankfully!

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Sarah

“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

The OH sez he has a lot of memories about car-sickness in the back of a Cortina or Granada Estate... His Dad was a rep too

I get a lump in my throat any time I hear Simon & Garfunkel - Feelin Groovy, was me Ma's singalong tune
Whereas me & Dad always used to singalong to Dire Straits and Fleetwood Mac on long journeys. Never forget the day he kept me out of school for a day to fly to Glasgow and drive an artic back to Newcastle, I was about 10... Ooo I've got a little tear in me eye...

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Sarah

“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

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 :-(

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.

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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!

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!

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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]

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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"

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take only what you need
give all you can
and your produce will be bountifull

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 shit 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

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