Weekend runabout:

Summer best:

Impractical lunacy but OMFG look at it!

Lancia Fulvia HF

MK1 Austin Mini Cooper S

MK1 Ford Cortina 1500GT

Preferably I’d like two of each, one for road use, and one proper stage rally car.

Coz I can’t post pictures from work you have to imagine them

1. McLaren F1, don’t care which one or colour but if we’re going to be really silly one of the 6 LM’s
2. Jaguar D-Type, longtail with short nose, full width screen in BRG
3. MK1 1071 Mini Cooper S, Surf blue

I only said 63 cause it said so under that picture when I googled beetle split rear window

Perhaps tis been modified. Charletans

The AM collection is WRONG!

Any classic AM collection that does not have one of these in it is inexcusable (and can only be explained because the OP didn’t know of its existence):

I’ve was lucky enough to see this exact same car in real life once. I was on my way home very early in the morning in London, around 4.30am and sat at the traffic lights on the south side of Blackfriars bridge when this thing pulled up alongside me. I knew what it was and was so gobsmacked I persuaded the owner to pull over and let me drool. He was a lovely chap. I remember he said that the best thing about it was that it went like absolute stink.

Here you go

Thank you! Good match on the Mini.

And the D-Type just needs the fin-tail and full width screen to be perfect.

Hope this works, this one is blue but other than that…

I think the F1 would just about do.

It may be but these things are important. If you don’t take it seriously, the next thing you know is some ignoramous somewhere will pillory someone for posting this:

And then make some fatuous claim that this is some how ‘classic’:

It’s the thin end of the wedge I tell you (pun intended)

V silly. Traction control flickers at 120 if you keep your foot down. I have never had such a traction limited car, even my old Cl600 AMG which had monster torque gripped better. I am sure the TC light will be the first bit to break through over use but you can’t turn the system off, just down a little

WCA. Have you go a slipper fitted to it? If not it would make a huge difference. I can’t believe AMG didn’t fit them as standard. My CL55 was desperate for one the SLK must be virtually undrivabke in the wet without one. If you ever decide to sell it. Let me know, the Wife would love it.

The best description I vividly remember reading was that it looked like a cross between a demented grasshopper and a brick.

They are utterly contentious in their looks (which is why I picked it) but they are genuinely an unsung hero of a car. They corner like they’re on rails and at least look like nothing else ever made either before or since.

Ooooo. Some lovely stuff here.

My 2 penn’orth:

Lotus Cortina Mk1
AC Cobra 289
Ciroen DS 23 for my everyday car. Maybe an estate for the bikes.

WCA. Have you go a slipper fitted to it?

Not sure what you mean. LSD, custom ECU programming,blue printing engine

Yes

I only buy cars where the previous owner has spent a lot of money so I don’t need to

WCA. Yes LSD. Great to hear it was done properly.

Alright then,
daily driver, 429 Boss Mustang.

Practical shopper, GMC Syclone.

For taking the missus out at the weekend:

The 429 because it’s butch as ****, and way more powerful than you would expect a ’60s Yank tank to be.
The Syclone because I’m one third hill-billy and love pick ups. Especially those that will out accelerate a Porsche.
The Jag because stylistically it’s perfect. Rip off the badges and you still know it’s a Jag (which is why I don’t like the XF). It will do over 200mph without wanting to throw you off the black stuff (unlike the McLaren F1 which gets well twitchy according to my mate). As a road going supercar, nothing else comes close.