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Re: List All The Cars Your Family Has Ever Owned... - 12-09-2006, 11:42 AM

I'll also mention my Uncle & Aunt's vehicles:

Cadillac STS (last generation, can't remember exact year)
1997 - Jeep Cherokee (black)
EDIT: 1997 - Mercedes-Benz E430 (silver)
2004 - Ford Explorer V8 Limited (dark red)
2005 - Mercedes-Benz ML500 (silver)
2005 - Mercedes-Benz E500 4Matic
2006 - Mercedes-Benz ML320 CDi
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Re: List All The Cars Your Family Has Ever Owned... - 12-09-2006, 12:30 PM

Excluding brothers, cousins etc. since I can't keep up with what all they are driving - suffice it to say that currently my brothers car is a C class Mercedes and his son's car is a 3 series BMW. My cousins have also had the occasional BMW over the last 3.5 decades.

Grandfather (born in 1896 but only got his first car in his 40's) - all cars bought as new:

The two cars that I only have heard about were some 1940s model
Opel Olympia and Hillman

Cars that I knew:
1952 Mercedes-Benz 170Va
1962 Wartburg
1964 Wartburg

at that point lanes were introduced on the streets and he couldn't understand them so he had to stop driving at that point.

Father - all cars bought as new:
1960 Auto Union 1000S (Donau) (note to cawimmer: I noticed your family had the same car badged as DKW, in Finland the 1960 model was not badged as DKW but Auto Union, and called for some reason - a Donau)
1964 DKW F102
1970 Volvo 144
1976 Volvo 244
1984 Volvo (?)
1992 Ford Mondeo
1998 Ford Focus
2005 BMW X3

My own cars starting in 1974:

late 60's or 1970/1 Chevy Firenza (used)
1976 Valiant VIP (new)
?1960? Anglia (used)
1974 Alfa Romeo Alfasud (used)
1980 VW Golf (used)
1986 Buick Century (new)
1989 Buick Century (new)
1992 GMC Vandura2500 (new)
1989 Nissan Sentra (used)
2001 Mercedes E320 (new)
2003 Mercedes E320 (new)
1989 Porsche 911 Turbo RUF Conversion (used)


EDIT: Excluding the current cars, if I could bring back 3 cars from the past, 1 from my Grandfather, one from my father and one of my own, they would be:

MB 170Va
AU 1000S
Anglia

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Re: List All The Cars Your Family Has Ever Owned... - 12-09-2006, 01:53 PM

Wow, you guys have some really long lists!

Mine won't be long enough, since dad bought a car when he was already old enough...

Renault R4 (i can't remember when he bought it though...)
Citroen Ponny (it had the 2CV engine and it was built in Greece. Very cheap and crappy)
Alfa Romeo 33 (i don't remember the exact date it was bought, but it was completely destroyed after a crash in 1994. Two people killed, one serious hurt. Luckily not father/mother/sister in the car at that time)
1990 Renault Clio (it has a registration date of 19-12-1990. Now i still drive the car and it has 280.000 problemless kilometres)

After that, dad made some great investments so he prefered to spend his money on other thing other than cars. Only in 2002 he had enough money to spend on a >15000eur car.
1998 Renault Clio (II) (we needed a new car but strangely enough we cept the old one too)
2002 Renault Laguna. (it's black on black and it is still his daily drive)
2004 Volvo S60 (investments paid us a lot of money so here our first real car. He handed it to me after some months.)
2006 Volvo XC90 (dad recently got it and it's great!)

BTW, Christian, Can i ask what did you do in Philippinese?
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Re: List All The Cars Your Family Has Ever Owned... - 12-09-2006, 03:03 PM

Well I rarely ever post here, not sure why. I like to read the posts I guess more so than post. I should stop being so lazy.

Anyway, I thought this was a cool list.

I would have to do a bit of research as to what my grandparents drove. But I know that had some pretty cool American and Foreign cars for the time.

1970s MG Midget
1967 Mustang
1985 Chevrolet Blazer
1989 MB 300CE
1995 MB C280
1978 Porsche 911 SC Targa
1998 Chevrolet Tahoe
2001 Chevy Suburban
2004 Chevy Silverado 4-door
2004 Dodge Durango Hemi
2006 BMW 325i
2007 Porsche Boxter

Those are the ones that have been around for quite a while.

My father has been the one with the Mercedes. My step dad has been with the Porsches.

My dad for a while had a 220D circa 1969. Crazy car. I remember thinking it was so vintage.

Before my parents divorced my mom was the one that got to drive the Mercedes, while my dad drove the blazer for most of their marriage! hah.

That's my list.
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Re: List All The Cars Your Family Has Ever Owned... - 12-09-2006, 03:09 PM

The list of cars my immediate family has owned is not as impressive as some of you.

1970 VW Beetle (my father's first car in Hong Kong before I was born)
1977 AMC Spirt (my father and mother's first car in Canada)
1984 Plymouth Reliant (the famous Chrysler K car)
1988 Honda Civic Wagon
1991 Honda Accord EX
1994 VW Golf III GTi (my first car as a young adult)
1997 Toyota Corolla CX Sedan
1999 Honda Civic EX Sedan (my brother's first car as a young adult)
2002 Mercedes Benz C240 (my first car after I became a staff physician)
2004 Audi A4 Avant 1.8T Quattro (my wife's first car)
2005 Mercedes Benz C55 AMG (replaced my C240 after i wanted a bit more power )
2006 Acura TSX (my brother's first car after becoming an accountant)
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Re: List All The Cars Your Family Has Ever Owned... - 12-09-2006, 06:18 PM

Cars I know of in my family
1985 SEAT Ibiza was taken home from hospital in this in Canaries where I was born
1970s GM-Holden HQ Sedan Great Car
1970s GM-Holden EH Wagon don't remember history
1970s Chyrsler Galant Most Reliable Car
1963 VW Karmann Ghia "Carmen" (still have) Collectors car will not let Mum sell
1975 Merecedes-Benz 280CE "Ursula" Most unreliable car
1975 Passat Wagon Bomb "Sir Dub" or "Sardine" sold for 20$ to wreckers.

All used
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Re: List All The Cars Your Family Has Ever Owned... - 12-09-2006, 11:39 PM

Family
197X Peugeot 404
197? Citroen
197X Nissan Datsun Sunny
198? Toyota Corrola
1980 Mercedes 200
198? VW Beattle

Personal
1992 Honda Accord- First Car
2005 Toyota RAV- Wife's current
2006 BMW 330i- Current car
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Re: List All The Cars Your Family Has Ever Owned... - 12-10-2006, 12:06 AM

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Alfa Romeo 33 (i don't remember the exact date it was bought, but it was completely destroyed after a crash in 1994. Two people killed, one serious hurt. Luckily not father/mother/sister in the car at that time)


BTW, Christian, Can i ask what did you do in Philippinese?
That's tragic Giannis! Luckily nobody from your family got hurt... I never got into such serious accidents before.

I'd guess his parents were selling San Miguel beer.
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Re: List All The Cars Your Family Has Ever Owned... - 12-10-2006, 06:40 AM

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Now you see why I like Toyota so much, I was brought up with them (born you could even say )
Yep. Thank God you're an open-minded Toyota fan and not a fanboy though. Guys like you are rare to find. On C&D for example, the Toyota fans are all trolls.
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Re: List All The Cars Your Family Has Ever Owned... - 12-10-2006, 06:41 AM

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BTW, Christian, Can i ask what did you do in Philippinese?
I lived there because my father worked for San Miguel Beer. He's a brewmaster / chemist by profession. I miss that country. The climate was awesome, there were no speed limits, the girls were hot...miss it.
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