In spite of my hatred for supercars and my profound disgruntlement with modern ‘car culture’, I have always liked cars generally, and continue to appreciate the vehicles that first attracted me in childhood.
In no particular order, here are couple of mine. What are yours?
My first car – well one like it. Keys fell out of the dash when I did 63mph. Could drive around on full beam at night and no one noticed. Got 8 up in it once. Reliable as a very reliable thing til I rebuilt the engine!
Roschach has already posted my favourite with a Karmann Ghia, so in a similar vein…
When I was a student and doing some part time work, the boss had one of these Scimitar Sabres in a garage under a load of boxes. My brother is into doing up classic cars and I begged him to make the bloke an offer (I was skint) but he wouldn’t help me out. Git.
This one recently sold for £50,650 at auction, one of two homologation production cars for the world rally championship, which the team won. This one had 196 miles on the clock!
160bhp from a normally aspirated 2 litre twin-cam was pretty respectable back then.
Oh for a lottery win!
Then I could get one of these as well:
Chevette 2300HS, loads of torque from a slant-four 2.3 litre, in a small package. Yummy.
Good call on the NSX. Needs to be a Type R though 😉 Still have a soft spot for these, owned 2 in my time. Fold down back seats meant they were dead good for getting 2 people to biking (and climbing, and camping, and etc etc) in a hurry
Walked past the newsstand today and spotted ‘Classic Car’ or something are doing an article on the Cavalier. Magnificent motor, I’ve owned at least three Mk3’s; 1.6GL, 1.8D and and an SRi (I think). The GL was the most I’ve ever paid for a car and I adored it. Looked a bit like this only less battered:
There was a Peugeot 205 1.9GTi on our car park this week. Ooh.
But as for the OP. I always wanted a Mk2S Capri. Never driven one, much to my chagrin.
Most of my car crush fodder has already been posted. And a Chevette. Which should just be crushed. I rank those owners alongside the ones that still rave about their ‘daily’ Maestro/ Montego. Daily what is the question… :p
Oh, depending which of the colonies I was in, a 70’s Falcon XB coupe or Mustang Mach 1 Boss.