The Family Car

[anotherbob]

Presumably there is a similar car entered in the Paris-Dakar named Sandy?

[vinteuil]

... and yours for a mere £168,400 -

http://www.carclassic.com/stock.asp?StockID=103645

[Nick Armstrong]

As an infant petrolhead, I had difficulty with the family car in the 1970s...

I give you...



The Morris Marina


(Ours driving away from the front gate laden with grandparents)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

In the '60s, we had a Ford Cortina in that very shade of green, Cali.

[amateur51]

There's alot of unjustified prejudice against swedish cars it seems to me. These two pictures show that both SAAB and VOLVO have a degree of street cred.
.... and this SAAB was driven by the original STIG.

I remember well how Erik Carlsson made the rallying reputation of those Saabs - it led to handbrake turn competitions in the large car park of my local on a Saturday (we made our own fun in them days )

[Stillhomewardbound]

As an infant petrolhead, I had difficulty with the family car in the 1970s...

I give you...



The Morris Marina


(Ours driving away from the front gate laden with grandparents)

Priceless picture, Cali. It's all going on there, isn't it? What with the new look champagne Ford Cortina and the canary yellow Volvo.

Isn't that Leadbetter's house?!

[Nick Armstrong]

Priceless picture, Cali. It's all going on there, isn't it? What with the new look champagne Ford Cortina and the canary yellow Volvo.

Isn't that Leadbetter's house?!

It was in the Midlands, mate, not the Home Counties!

But yes - you nailed British motoring in the 70s!

[mangerton]

It was in the Midlands, mate, not the Home Counties!

But yes - you nailed British motoring in the 70s!

The decade that taste forgot! My father by that time was driving an Austin Allegro. Colour bright yellow. . The reg no began EGG.

[Beef Oven!]

The decade that taste forgot! My father by that time was driving an Austin Allegro. Colour bright yellow. . The reg no began EGG.

There were quality control issues with them - I heard about one bloke who had to send his Allegro back because it had an almost rectangular steering wheel.

[Stillhomewardbound]

It was in the Midlands, mate, not the Home Counties!

But yes - you nailed British motoring in the 70s!

You had cars in the Midlands, then?! Ha ha.

Fortunately there was a new dawn in motoring ahead and we had Petula Clark to tell us all about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Om9oOGh9Y

Do report back once you've viewed the commercial but it seems to me that a Chrylser Subeam had all the handling of a jumbo matchbox with plasticine wheels connected by cocktail sticks. I doubt even the Queen Mary rolled that much.

[amateur51]

On the same page as shb's Chrysler Sunbeam ad (with Pet Clark ) i found this rather arch advertisement for an Austin A30...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-AIj7Gy6mc

[Karafan]

Aah, yes the generic mustard coloured Austin "All-aggro".

I had high hopes of this site http://www.drivearchive.co.uk/home.asp when I added one of our old VW Beetles from the 1960s (whose reg plate I still recall) - sadly no-one has emailed me to say they know what happened to the old girl. Sniff.

[Serial_Apologist]

On the same page as shb's Chrysler Sunbeam ad (with Pet Clark ) i found this rather arch advertisement for an Austin A30...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-AIj7Gy6mc

Ah for the days when ads actually showed you something about the product - but employed child labour to do the PR.

[amateur51]

Ah for the days when ads actually showed you something about the product - but employed child labour to do the PR.

Oh and there was me thinking that they were employing the 'inner child' in all of us to sell a motor

[anotherbob]

There were quality control issues with them - I heard about one bloke who had to send his Allegro back because it had an almost rectangular steering wheel.

The correct term was QUARTIC