The ONE car you wanted to own as a kid & still do

[Griff]

So when you were a nipper what was the one car you really wanted to own and that want has never really gone away.

Sat in a Citroen SM when I was a kid back in 1972 when my dad bought his GS, and fell in love with it.

Buying one would be an absolute money-pit and I'd be scared to drive it in case (when) something went wrong with it.

But if I had the money, it's my childhood fantasy to have one.

What about you?

 

[Onket]

TR7.

Next?

 

[Roadkill]

All I need is a spare million or so...

 

[stupid dogbot]

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I wanted a pontiac firebird, but I don't anymore. I don't really want or need any car.

 

[marty21]

Ford Capri

 

[Griff]

LOL at the Berlinetta Boxer & TR7 comparison.

 

[Doppelgänger]

As a kid I always wanted this car. Not so sure now though.....................

 

[marty21]

I liked the starsky and hutch car too

 

[kyser_soze]

I actually know how scary and shit these are to drive (having driven one 1 mile, stalled twice, half spun it once), but I don't care. I'd just have it in a garage and gaze at it's complete mentalness:

I'd also get the missus to do this in honour of my fave Lambo poster...

http://www.synlube.com/collector.htm

 

[zenie]

Mini convertible pram top, I got close.

I always fancied a Rolland Garros 306 or 205 too, maybe it's a racing green thing?!

 

[Onket]

As a kid I always wanted this car. Not so sure now though.....................

I've sat in that car.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

 

[Roadkill]

As a kid I'd no doubt have thought Escorts were a bit boring, but these days a good MkI or II is high on the list of 'cars I'd buy if I could afford it.'

 

[kyser_soze]

I've sat in that car.

Actual KITT, or just a Firebird with a red light under the bonnet and a tape recorded playing the cylon noise?

 

[Onket]

Actual KITT, or just a Firebird with a red light under the bonnet and a tape recorded playing the cylon noise?

Well, they said it was the actual one. It was at Universal Studios and the voice was the exact voice.

I was only ten though.

 

[Dr. Furface]

A '66 Ford Mustang

 

[hiccup]

obviously

 

[RaverDrew]

Ferrari 512 TestaRossa

 

[5t3IIa]

One day....one day....

 

[Griff]

One day....one day....

I've had a couple and they're a bit meh to be honest.

Had a V8 BGT and loved it though.

 

[kyser_soze]

Well, they said it was the actual one. It was at Universal Studios and the voice was the exact voice.

I was only ten though.

Did you tell it it was shit and that you'd heard better in a Maestro, or was this a period of your life pre-grump?

 

[5t3IIa]

I've had a couple and they're a bit meh to be honest.

Had a V8 BGT and loved it though.

A neighbour had one. It was the be all and end all of what I thought was glamorous when I was a little kid

 

[g force]

 

[Onket]

Did you tell it it was shit and that you'd heard better in a Maestro, or was this a period of your life pre-grump?

What are you talking about? That doesn't even make sense.

I asked it how it was bulletproof and then switched off during the answer cos it was too spoddy for me to be interested in.

 

[5t3IIa]

What are you talking about? That doesn't even make sense.

I asked it how it was bulletproof and then switched off during the answer cos it was too spoddy for me to be interested in.

lol

 

[ajdown]

I always wanted a Sinclair C5.

Despite looking like a woman's shoe and powered by a washing machine motor, I just thought it was cool. Mind you, I did have a Sinclair Spectrum computer at the time so anything "Sinclair" was cool as far as I was concerned.

 

[plurker]

As a kid, when i fist started to notice cars, around 8/9 years old so 1981, I was totally in love with the Golf GTi. Remember the first time i saw one, bright red (now I know this to be MarsRed) i just stared at it for ages.

Now i own a 1983 GX, the final year's run-out model with GTi interior spec, but a 1.5 as oposed to 1.8. I decided against the GTI as so many had been ragged around for 25+ years, and this had a new engine

 

[kyser_soze]

TBF, in the pictures they did look pretty cool.

Then I saw one, and saw how awful and plasticky and shit they actually are.

Another example of how SD telly let the people down.

 

[kyser_soze]

As a kid, when i fist started to notice cars, around 8/9 years old so 1981, I was totally in love with the Golf GTi. Remember the first time i saw one, bright red (now I know this to be MarsRed) i just stared at it for ages.

Now i own a 1983 GX, the final year's run-out model with GTi interior spec, but a 1.5 as oposed to 1.8. I decided against the GTI as so many had been ragged around for 25+ years, and this had a new engine

Had they sorted out the athlete's calf clutch by that point?