MrA
Free! Free I tells ya!
r34 Skyline GTR
#Any old school James Bond car ( Espirit/ Aston with Skis)
and my current car....
You should really blank out the registration
The ONE car you wanted to own as a kid & still do
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You should really blank out the registration
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
classic cars are much better looking than modern cars!
(although i don't actually remember wanting any cars when I was a nipper)
Awesome. But you'd haver to stand on the running boards with a Tommy Gun for full effect...
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
The baddies always drove these cars in the Sweeney and since I was a kid I'd always wanted one and finally did a few years ago.
Yeah, Jags are great cars. That's the old S-type, right? I remember when I was about 10 telling the garage owner up the top of the road a pack of lies about "looking at a car for my dad" so I could go and have a look at one of those
I don't think he was fooled, but it was a cool car anyway.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Another Sweeneyesque motor (guv), but doesn't qualify for this thread on the grounds that I bought my father-in-law's 2.3GL off him.
But a great car for finding pubs with gravel car parks, and waving bye to your mates with the window down and elbow on the sill, before flooring it in a somewhat posy and gravel-spraying way as it blundered (they weren't racing motors by any stretch of the imagination) out onto the road.
Shame it was a rather annoying blue. Even more of a shame that, even driven gently, it only got 22mpg, and that hurt badly enough even at 50p/litre.
At least the void bushes were easy enough to change.
MrA
Free! Free I tells ya!
Yeah, Jags are great cars. That's the old S-type, right? I remember when I was about 10 telling the garage owner up the top of the road a pack of lies about "looking at a car for my dad" so I could go and have a look at one of those
I wanted one for years, and when I could just about afford one I felt like the dogs bollocks when I drove it home. That car was cleaned every day, I almost cried when I had to sell it,
Another Sweeneyesque motor (guv), but doesn't qualify for this thread on the grounds that I bought my father-in-law's 2.3GL off him.
I love those things.
I've coveted one since I was a kid, when a friend's dad had one of the 2.8 ones. It was big and comfy, much cooler than our Volvo 340, and it made a wonderful growl when he put his foot down. I like big, four-square, dignified cars. Perhaps that's the reason for my weird liking for these:
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
I love those things.
I like big, four-square, dignified cars. Perhaps that's the reason for my weird liking for these:
I stopped laughing at Volvos when my stepdad helped me clear out my gran's former house with his 240 estate. It was amazing how much stuff we managed to cram in there.
No wonder antique dealers like them so much.
Addy
cooking...
At least the void bushes were easy enough to change.
Aint that the truth!
Changed many void bushes on Cortina's and Granada's.
The 3L Auto Granny was a fun drive.
I miss going sideways around corners
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
E-type Jaguar
Surprised no one's mentioned this one so far;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_E-Type
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SeriesoneJag.jpg
It was one of the most iconic cars ever, and yet not so exclusive that you didn't see one or two around the town.
Surprised no one's mentioned this one so far;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_E-Type
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SeriesoneJag.jpg
It was one of the most iconic cars ever, and yet not so exclusive that you didn't see one or two around the town.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
The racing version of the E Type was the 'E Type Lightweight' as raced by a young Scottish chap named Jackie Stewart, early in his career. Whatever happened to him?
Regarding the D Type, it was continuation of the C Type racing sportscar and was revolutionary at the time for its use of disc brakes, chassis and aerodynamics. Interestingly, another Scottish driver who got his bih break racing the D Type (for the Scottish privateer team 'Border Rievers') was a modest yet rather gifted chap named Jim Clark.
Addy
cooking...
not-bono-ever
meh
always wanted a Zephr / Zodiac IV, but never found one that was any good
so got one of these instead
so got one of these instead
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
The 1966 shunt at Spa (a circuit well known for both incredible speeds and equally nasty crashes, Richard Seaman in 1939 and Archie Scott Brown in 1958 both had fatal shunts at precisely the same spot) was a bad one, definitely.
Still it did spur him on to make the sport immeasurably safer than it was during his racing days, albeit at a certain personal cost as he didn't win any popularity contests by making racing safer, even a lot of other drivers thought he was going soft until his drive at the Nurburgring in 1968.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
I was going to choose the E Type as it is my all-time favourite road-going sports car, but I'm also a Le Mans nut and have great respect for the drivers who raced the D Type. That and simply seeing and hearing one allows me to indulge one of my favourite fantasies about being Mike Hawthorn, blasting down the Mulsanne Straight (long before they put in those silly chicanes).
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
always wanted a Zephr / Zodiac IV, but never found one that was any good
so got one of these instead
One of my dad's workmates in the '70s had one of those as a company car and I used to regularly have lifts home in it. It was lovely to ride in, like a big motorised sofa / armchair. I could have cried when (probably because of the running costs) he had to swap it for a Hillman Avenger instead; interior plastic at its worst
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
One of my dad's workmates in the '70s had one of those as a company car and I used to regularly have lifts home in it. It was lovely to ride in, like a big motorised sofa / armchair. I could have cried when (probably because of the running costs) he had to swap it for a Hillman Avenger instead; interior plastic at its worst
Travelling in a Hillman Avenger would be enough to make anyone sob, I reckon.
A more honest slogan for it would have been:
'If you want style, handling, build quality, reliability, economy and class...
The Hillman Avenger has absolutely none of these qualities.'
