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Dad had very few cars considering he drove for nearly 50 years - I can recall all of them.
194? Morris 10 (which I can remember breaking down on numerous occasions)
1960 Ford Anglia (which he passed to me as my first car)
1969 Mk II Ford Cortina
1982 Mk V Ford Cortina
1987 Ford Orion Ghia (which passed to my son on Dad's death)
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My Dads favourite car was a series 1 rover p6 3,500, he loved in it was in tobacco brown with black leather, it had issues the engine went and so did the gearbox but he poodled around in it for years, I keep looking and am tempted to buy one same to relive many memories anyone else had thoughts like that?
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I recently saw a tv programme about the P6 and I think a car SOS on an earlier series? Farmers around us as kids had them as they could get a lamb or a calf in the boot!!!
I think they have quite a big following ...and a club?
Might be worth a look on Catch up??
Last edited by RoadsterBoy; 16/02/17 07:37 AM.
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My uncle had a 1975 P6 3500 as his daily driver up to 10 years ago and kept it in near concours condition
He was a mechanic and owned a commercial garage though
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I remember my dad speaking fondly of the ex German Volkswagen jeep type vehicle he drove in n africa and italy during ww2. A Kubelwagen  You can still find them and much newer ones than that period...
Graham (G4FUJ)
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'90 LR 90 SW
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Vauxhall Wyvern
Morris Minor (JPR 354) - I was about eight years old at the time and loved that car)
Vauxhall Victor (FB model - BXE 288B) - bench seat and the windscreen whistled.
Vauxhall Viva (HB model)
Vauxhall Victor (FD Model)
Vauxhall Chevette.
He died aged 45.
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I dont know that they had one. My father was in the motor trade, what you would now call a dealer principal for the then Rootes Group so we had a yearly new car from Rootes. He always promissed himself a Ferrari but didnt get round to it before he died, and this is in part the reason why I bought one
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I recently saw a tv programme about the P6 and I think a car SOS on an earlier series? Farmers around us as kids had them as they could get a lamb or a calf in the boot!!!
I think they have quite a big following ...and a club?
Might be worth a look on Catch up?? Will look into those, thankyou sir
Superdry
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My father started really well with a Morgan Matchless-engined 3 wheeler, which he missed dreadfully when he sold it.
However he was struck down with MS in the late 40s/early 50s , so all he could manage after that were the AC built "invalid carriages" that were every bit as bad as you can imagine.
He did give me that "mechanical curiosity" that has helped me through so many issues, but he was sadly unable to pass on much in the way of his obviously well learned skills.
Andy G
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Ex-John McKecknie/Mike Duncan 1955 +4 racer.
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No delay, no hesitation, Mk2 Jaguar end of!!!
Here for a good time not a long time!!
Reg
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