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It started well:
My dad had a red Mk1 Escort 1300GT, followed by a blue Misubishi Colt Galant 2000DX.
Both are sought after these days.
Then it all went downhill for a bit when the Colt's reliability made him buy more Japanese cars and we had to suffer a Toyota Corolla 1600 DL followed by the next model Toyota Corolla 1300.
Getting over this blip he recovered well, with a black Citroen BX 19GTi, and he got promoted into company car territory around that time so my mum's red Fiat Uno 55 was sold and the Citroen was accompanied by a white Peugeot 405 SRi.
They were replaced by a 'Morello Cherry' (i.e. dark red/brown) Citroen ZX Volcane 1.9 which I hated and a red Rover 416GTi which I loved, then a dark green Citroen Xantia VSX and a British racing green Rover 620Si which looked lovely but was rather sparsely equipped.
After I left home and he retired he bought dull stuff like Nissan Terranos, and inexplicably, a Transit camper van.
Now he lives in Oz and drives a Holden Commodore 50th Anniversary.