Thread 28553449

This thing was such a POS but it was fucking awesome

it was fucking cool.

My dad was a carpenter (and an alcoholic)

>>28553503
so he was Jesus?

>>28553449 (OP)
Those were simpler times...

>>28553449 (OP)
Picrel: dad's first car I knew

>>28553574
Second (total pos)

>>28553578
Third (based landbarge)

>>28553581
Afterwards he had a Mondeo, can't remember what came after it, but nowadays he drives an A6 touring and rides bikes.

>>28553584
Based. My dad just bought Ford SUVs afterwards

He gave it to me when I turned 15. Loved it.

>>28553498
My dad had basically that but with a Mazda badge on it

Volvo 740 wagon, manual, rwd, gas, not sure if turbo. Had the rear-facing seats.

>>28553688
The cb7 was my first car too back in 2005. Me and my friends beat the living shit out of it. Never broked

>>28553449 (OP)
How has your dad's choice in cars affected (you)?

The one I remember most is the XE ute with a 351 Cleveland in it. Good shit.

Shot a piston through the cylinder head so hard it bulged the hood in the early 90's, and instead of slapping in a new engine my dad thought it was easier to just scrap it and buy a fucking base model Renault 5.

Filename. I'm still mad to this day.

>>28553449 (OP)
hated it during winter time.

>>28553449 (OP)
Literal coolest thing in the world as far as I was concerned

Something like this except blue. Absolute brick, completely destroyed at least one econobox that dared rear-end it, with barely a scratch on the Volvo.
I think dad got rid of it after he got sick of the terrible fuel economy and the power steering developing a new leak somewhere every few months.

Always thought it was a waste of money.

>>28554387
God right is hideous

>>28553449 (OP)

My dad drove a Geo Metro, he's also very religious and in the 90s he looked almost exactly like Ned Flanders.

Drove a 94 NSX before me and my brother were born - Was a major street racer growing up and absolutely loved the car scene and also the motorcycle scene and got a 98 YZF-R1 when it released. Later crashed the bike couple years later, and he traded in the NSX for a Lexus SUV so we had a family car. Now chills and drives a W204 C63 and G80 M3, however he always tried to get me to subtly follow in his street racing footsteps by getting me quick JDM/German cars even when I was a teen.

>>28553449 (OP)

A blue Lebaron sedan, the previous owner was not Jon Voight.

>>28553504
No, but there was a story of a well respected carpenter in his old town who shared the same name that drank himself to death. My dad, a respected carpenter, almost died that way. Funny how history repeats.

It wasn’t the 4.2 Quattro, but I loved it.

>>28553449 (OP)
2007 gray camry le, he refused to sell it to me when I moved out and I bought a 2025 white camry le that comes standard with the hybrid. Buying used was more expensive. We are east euro.

The guy worked at a VAG distributor and drove a new VW/Audi every year.

Despite being brand new, he put a bunch of those "New Car Smell" things in it and they made me car sick all the time.

>>28553449 (OP)
dad?

There was this one dirt road near our house that we would take coming home after spending the day in town just so he could "practice" his drifting skills. It was so much fun, it was a manual too. Not because he thought manual was inherently better or anything he thought thieves couldn't drive stick.

My dad's was like this but blue.

One of my first memories is riding in a camper on the back with my mom when my family moved across the country when I was one or two. When we got to my grandma's house, all my uncles came and helped my dad take the camper off the back.

One time someone rear-ended us, and I bumped my head against the back of the cab. My dad got out and started walking back to the guy who hit us yelling about how his kid was in the truck, and he was going to rip the guy's fucking head off. I assume the guy survived.

Later, he sold it for an Astro van, which was bad enough for him to pledge to never buy GM again. Then he got an F-150, which I learned to drive in. A few years ago, he decided to give GM another shot and bought a Colorado, which I think he still has.

>>28553449 (OP)
You don't know suffering

>>28553449 (OP)
My step dad was cool. This is from a Google search but his was very similar.

He had an RX-7 before I was born
Crashed it on the way to a party, walked himself to the police station where he met my mom who was a clerk at the front desk
When I was a kid he drove a fucking Geo Prizm kek

>>28554352
Hellya anon. That's the same year my dad gave me his. I took it as far south as Key West, FL and as far north as Whistler, BC. Beat the ever living hell out of it and it never missed a beat.

I'd love to get a cb7 coupe some day and do the classic old school h22 swap.

>>28553449 (OP)
it had a hole in the driver's door because someone tried to steal it once (why). after my parents divorced my mother ended up with a guy with a peugeot cc that had no leg room in the back and i started to miss the multipla

>>28553449 (OP)
Cars my dad used to own when I was a kid
>1st gen Fort Probe
dont remember much but apparently it had zender bodykit and aluminium fenders for weight reduction
>Mazda 626 6th gen
dont remember much
>Mitsubishi galant 8
was modified(not picrel)
had 2,5L V6 with upgraded internals and supercharged, made sub 400hp Had stock 4speed auto since it was the only one that held power, had bodykit and coils
consumed like 20L/100km of fuel
Mitsubishi was the last "his" car I can remember. Afterwards most cars were registered in mums name. but mostly just BMWs.
>>28553581
based benz

>>28553449 (OP)
My dad got one of these when I was little and kept it until we came to the US permanently after 9/11. He never owned anything interesting here though.

>>28554763
Were u ever on cb7tuner.com?

That was my internet hangout from 06 to 09. Lol

>>28553503
My dad was a carpenter as well, but he wasn’t an alcoholic.
He owned several cars, throughout his life, but by the time I came around, he was driving a full-sized B series Dodge van. He eventually built a Dodge B100, in the mid to late 90s and got rid of the other van. I eventually started driving the van, myself, when I was old enough but it sat behind the house for too long to make it last long enough for me to enjoy it and ended up scrapping it.

If I wasn’t such a wrenchlet, at the time, I probably would have been able to save it and get it back in good running condition.

pretty much exactly like this
many fond memories riding in the bed on trips tot he beach

He had one that was this color, but obiously no where near top condition. This thing was held together with hopes, dreams, and had baking sheets stick welded in as floor pans. It was an absolutely death trap. He had shag carpet on the rear deck and floor, had the 2600 v6 rear end, in a 2000 so it was a dog to drive until you were reving it out.

>>28554387
Tomorrow I'm going to be mounting the Bazooka Tube from the Beretta my dad had when I was a kid in my Crown Victoria so that's got to be worth something

>>28557429
This is a shoop? Those proportions look really off.

I miss this lil ... like you wouldn't believe

XF wagon of course

>>28557433
No that's Swedish autism

Not sure if these were ever rare or just old and undesirable but I can't remember ever seeing another one on the road.

>>28553449 (OP)
1996 GMC Sierra. Looking for a pic I saw 3 of these going for $18,000, that's insane.

>>28553449 (OP)
first gen Legacy, totaled when grandpa drove it into a ditch
Renault 21 estate diesel, iirc the engine basically ate itself
3rd gen Grand Espace, dont remember why it had to go (i liked this one most)
4th gen Grand Espace (2.0T), nothing really ever worked but it never really broke either (until it did. three times. but luckily it only ever an hero'ed when on holiday in France so it could be fixed in a jiffy)

>>28553449 (OP)
Yes. He gave it to me when I got my DL

>>28553449 (OP)

One of these.

He let me and my sisters run around in the back while driving.
Then when he lost his license for doing so he drove this thing into the courthouse.

I think it was 1996 Mitsubishi Lancer 1600 . It was Mitsubishi and had the same colour like pic related, I remember all the light red paint crumbling off the surface and me shoving snow in its gas exhaust as a 4-year-old. My father was a surgical resident working for 150 euros a month in post-Soviet Lithuania + 2008 crisis, and my mother, an art student, was looking after us 2 young children when her dreams were collapsing. She wanted to work in a fashion house, but became an art teacher after all fashion houses and the soviet industry closed after independence due to foreign competition. I remember my father beating me with a belt after accidentally spilling a bottle of milk and us eating just potatoes and chicken cutlets every day, and if we were feeling fancy, bread with honey or honey mixed with milk. Now he earns min 8k a month as a surgeon. My mother still works as an art teacher but has her own private art studio business. They never took a loan, never were in debt and still work 6 days a week. They just bought me a 130k apartment in the capital while I go to uni for free. Life is good, except I think they will die quickly due to overworking themselves.

>more cargo space than most of today's crossovers
>Tdci sound that can't be mistaken with anything

>>28557919
>more cargo space than most of today's crossovers
>A minimum of 540 litres’ boot space and a maximum of 1700 litres up to roof height with the rear seats folded
>Length 4804mm
A fucking RAV4 has the same boot volume while being shorter and having a rear differential.

It's the main reason I don't have any interest in domestics now.

He had one of these he bought used from some boomer who carb-swapped it. the fake leather tan seats made it so i couldn't wear shorts and ride it because it would burn the fuck out of my legs. also i refused to ride in it for a year or more because when I was 7 the throttle cable for the carb somehow got stuck wide open and he nearly crashed us into a wall and then into a ditch before he got it to pull into a parking lot where he finally got it stopped and it sat there red-lining and doing a burnout before the jammed up ignition would turn off. thankfully it was at a harbor freight and he bought the tools to fix whatever had fucked up with the carb or throttle

>>28553498
this was my dad's next car after pic related. I remember him being able to hold a mt dew in one hand and steer, and a whopper in the other as he shifted and worked the clutch on extremely steep hill starts in bad traffic

>>28559040
forgot pic

Hard to find pictires of these anymore. He had an 86 that looked just lik picrel, except it had a luggage rack on the trunk. Was totaled at leas t4 different times. Eventually it go the later model smoothed over headlamps. I always liked the per-facelift more.

my dad had tons of cars when i was a kid, he was the type to get a new vehicle every other year and they were all very different
>plymouth voyager
>jeep liberty diesel
>3rd gen dodge dakota crew cab
>1st gen toyota tundra
>4th gen ram 1500 5.7 hemi 2wd quad cab 6ft bed
>2010ish jeep wk2 grand cherokee
>2016 jeep wrangler jku 4 door sport (base model) but hey it had a 6spd manual i learned to drive on (t. 2001 zoomerfag)
>another fucking wk2 grand cherokee but this one was a 2013 i believe and it was loaded, the first one was a base model i believe, in 2018 when he got the loaded wk2 i thought cooled seats were like nasa
>decided he didnt want a car with a payment and bought a MINT CONDITION 1998 jeep grand cherokee ZJ (it was purple which i liked)
>got remarried and bought a 2002 suburban with 496ci big block for larger family (we were still only a family of 4, the ZJ would have worked and i was an adult
>2011 gmc sierra 2wd he bought from florida from the original owner because the suburban frame broke in half towing a trailer (t. ohio)
>2012 subaru outback loaded he inherited from my grandparents with like 70k miles that they meticulously maintained, a true grandma owned retirement car, he still has the gmc but it has electrical issues with the TCM and he doesnt wanna spend a whole lot of money fixing it because its probably only worth $1500 because its 2wd and has 200k miles on it now

my dad is a car guy though and has also had project cars
>1967 power wagon
>several XJ cherokees
>several ZJ grand cherokees
>80s s10
>1986 jeep comanche (current)

>>28557420
It works

Same color and wheels.

>>28560741
My dad was like yours, but less cool

>>28554387
Is your dad alive to see this

>>28553449 (OP)
Yeah.. My father's real old. At least, he changed to American Motors and introduced me to them.
>>28554426
I remember my father driving a white 1990 one when I was growing up.

>>28554387
He had a peugeot,i never want to be anywhere near one of them again

He mostly drove around in a clapped out 78 F100, but in the garage he kept a mint condition widebody chrysler conquest that he never drives. It's still there to this day

>>28562298
No, but his 67 was in my possession at one point. Long story short, a rear tire exploded at the drag strip as he was shifting into 2nd sending him into the other lane. He narrowly avoided the other car and missed the concrete barrier by a few inches. He liked the street legal rules which, iirc, at the time meant it couldn't be faster than 12 seconds otherwise it would need extra safety equipment. He didn't want a roll cage or harness or any of that. When we got it back home he didn't want to look at it but also didn't want it to just sit in the garage.
Its kind of a weird feeling like "Hey son, this car almost killed me. It's yours now." and then looking down that steering column. pic related. We both came to the agreement to sell it, but man, do I regret that. If I ever come across it again I very well might sell mine to get it back.

>>28553449 (OP)
Stock pic but this. Still got it too

I think most of the posts itt are lying, and they're just posting the cars they wished their dad drove.
with how young the average poster here is, I'd be amazed if the cars being posted were even around when their dad was born, let alone them.

OldGenXFagHere

Dad was an engineer and had one of these for years. We would load it up every Friday afternoon during the summer and spend the weekend at the lake.
Great times.
THANKS DAD!

'89 Dakota ragtop. I fucking BEGGED him to buy this - never thought he would because old-school guys don't listen to their kids or waste money on fancy shit, like this. What I forgot was he had two ragtops, before he got married. Damn near fell over, when I saw this in the driveway. I still have it. New roof, body great but need a trans, that I'm pulling now.

>>28564024
Yeah, not a great pic - the roof isn't fully fastened down, yet. BTW aligning convertible roofs sucks.

>>28563992
Lucky

>>28557429
what the FUCK is wrong with your camber bro

>>28553464
Did he smoke cigarettes?

>>28553449 (OP)
2003 dodge ram reg cab long bed. 4.7 v8.

First one I remember. I remember slamming my fingers in the door jamb when I was about 5. I think it had gray cloth seats though. Definitely had the metal rear bumper because when it started to show rust he sold it. Was an automatic. This was well before I got him into cars.

'91 Ford Mustang. Interior was blue. Over time it started to fall apart, & was basically totaled over 10 years ago.

He still has this car to this day. I did have memories of his older riced out flame decal volkswagen convertible

>>28553449 (OP)
This, but with powder blue paint and a navvy blue vinyl roof.

>>28567186
*around 1977 he started dropping us of to school in it on his way to work. Comfy memories.

>>28553449 (OP)
>t. poor family, now rich

>>28563992
I’m a zoomer and I want one of these things so fucking bad

5 speed awd
i still have it, sucks to drive but it was fun to ride in the back as a kid