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[Marks DTM Calib]

Here are your options for early 80's cars of the SD1 ilk


SD1


Senator+Monza


Granada


Jag


And thankfuly, most of the above went round corners....except the SD1.

And I dont care what anybody says....the Rover V8 is a shite, under powered and unreliable engine.

[TheBoy]

To answer OPs question, yes they were bad.  For some reason, always fancied an SD1 though.

Austin Rover didn't really improve until their tie up with Honda.

[Webby the Bear]

nice pics mark. that aint you with the senator is it??? 

is that granada not a cortina???

my mum and dad had this in the 80's..............

[Marks DTM Calib]

Lol, a Jetta

Thats all you see in Beijing today!

[TheBoy]

nice pics mark. that aint you with the senator is it??? 

is that granada not a cortina???

my mum and dad had this in the 80's..............

It looks like a MKII grandad to me, even before I read the numberplate...

[Marks DTM Calib]

One of the key benefits of all the above is they had a proper rear axle setup!

[Webby the Bear]

Lol, a Jetta

Thats all you see in Beijing today!

i remember my folks getting it from the local dealer when i was a little'un. i was amazed it had arm rest in the middle of the rear seats 

[Crazycarzowner]

My first car was a Dolopofshite dolomite. To be honest 1850 Sprint, could really pick up its feet, although try to put it around a corner quickly and you'd come unstuck 
My dad had one of those Granada's 2.8 Ghia X now that was a car. Was very comfortable, reliable & bloody quick. As for the Jag...... Well I can dream...... Had the series III 4.2 was a rotten old thing but was pure luxury & the engine was bomb proof. Keep dreaming about getting myself a series III V12 to tinker with...... if only 

[TheBoy]

my mum and dad had this in the 80's..............

My dad, in the 1970s, had a Citroen DS Safari


Mum had a Fiat 850 Sport Coupe



(and I've found pics with same colours as my folks).

Mum's Fiat needed 5 star...

[Webby the Bear]

now that citreon is an awsome looking car!!!!! my dad in his youth had what he calls an ''anglebox'' whareva that was lol

[aaronjb]

I think in the 1980s my Dad was knocking about in:



Followed by, when I came along (poor dad!):


And then:


Followed by, at the tail end of the 1980s:


The last two were diesels, although I also (much later) owned a Bluebird 1.8GS autotragic, which was an absolute shower of ..


[edit] P.S. Who else thinks TBs parents were rich?

[Marks DTM Calib]

Man father changed cars more often than his shirts.

We had Mini's, Renaults, Vx's, Triumphs loads of different ones......I guess thats what happens when your a motor mechanic and keep buying broken wrecks!

[TheBoy]

P.S. Who else thinks TBs parents were rich?

Far from, sadly. They would have been had they not had so many bloody kids

[YZ250]

I had a Moonraker Blue twin plenum 3.5 Vitesse SD1 (like the one in Marks photo's) for about five years. Went OK and was quite ahead of it's time with the 'on board computer'.  It had ETA on it so the faster you went the earlier the ETA got, obviously. When I got home one night my ETA had been cut from thirty minutes to just ten minutes and the mpg for the journey was 6mpg. 

Contrary to Clarkson's tongue in cheek review, it was the door skin that came away from the inner, not the hinges. Oh, and you needed 22" rims to fill the gap in the rear wheel arch as the rust got higher.      Apart from that it was a comfy car.

[YZ250]

my mum and dad had this in the 80's..............

My dad, in the 1970s, had a Citroen DS Safari

Was it the Maserati version