[Closed] Classic Cars

This. 300 SEL 6.3

Or this. Currently for sale,

Vantage Le Mans V600 (number 7 of 40)

This week I'll take a 1968 Camaro

and a 1979 Chevy K10

Dino 246

Integra Type-R DC2. I used to have one!

Rover p5 coupe

Merc pagoda

Sorry for multiple posts - can't make the forum work.  If I didn't actually live in a european city a 59 caddy in pink.  Its the fins and rockets.

Aston Martin db4 zagato

lancia fulvia hf

I knew you weren't all bad, TJ!

Klunk, that Zagato makes me a little weak at the knees.

Mine, been a PITA trying to get it back on the road but still love it.

All sorts of wrong, but I'd really like a 1970's American 4x4, Ford Bronco, Jeep Wagoneer, Chevrolet Blazer, that sort of thing, the ones big rear windows and no C-pillar.

VW Karmann Ghia

Scirocco GTi mk1. Miss mine.

CFH's Aston please!

Maybe a 288GTO. Or a 3 1/2 litre Bentley

Since the update I have been unable to post pictures... Also coincided with a telephone update so could be that.

Klunk, that Zagato makes me a little weak at the knees.

there's a couple of issues, the humongous lottery win needed to be able to afford one and finding one for sale.

Today it’s the BMW 850csi

quite a nice replica still out of my price range !

bit disappointed in that merc CFH had you down as a blower bentley man :/

mmmmmmm...... twin su carbs

Klunk, was only allowed two, and spotted that glorious Benz a few days ago. Fresh in the mind.

Otherwise, I'd have included the Barnato Blue Train special. Even more raffish than a Blower!

Bueller? Bueller?

As my DB4Zagato has been mentioned, then second choice is Cameron’s dad’s ride.

Ferrari 250 California (1959)

tj, klunk and spoon. I used to work/service those cars😀😝

I stripped and rebuilt a P7 after it hit a dry stone dyke!!!  One of my all to,e favourites + TR6 & Stag

Drlex, that should be a '61 250 GT SWB if you're referencing Bueller.

It is so choice...

250 CE. It's always been the pillarless coupe for me. I'll have one someday...

Merc pagoda

When I was in my early 20s I worked for a guy who had a '69 280 SL, in cream. He came in one day just before I finished and asked if I had an hour spare to drop his car off back at his house - his wife would drop me back up for mine. I thought he meant his usual car, which was a Renault 25, so when he gave me the key to the 280, saying simply, "don't scratch it", my head spun. It was a 6 mile drive and I can still remember every last bit of it to this day. Nothing happened, I just drove this beautiful old car, with the top off (the car, not me), along a route I'd driven a hundred times. I tried really hard to look cool, calm and sophisticated, but I'm fairly sure I just had a massive, stupid cheesy grin on my face the whole way.

2 cars...?

Toyota 2000GT

and an Auburn Speedster

429 Boss Mustang.

Jaguar XKSS

Lotus Cortina

Escort Cosworth

1925 delage GP car. Still winning races against ERAs over a decade later!

The only

This week I am mainly lusting after one of these :

Lotus Europa Twin Cam

And my love for these is never-ending :

Mini Cooper S

used to have 1275s mk 1

the bonnet flying up in the middle lane of the m25 on the way to heathrow was quite an experience 🙂 Also wish I known the coke can trick when having to drive back from barrow with a blown rear silencer though he did alright sitting at 90 (most tolerable speed) for whole trip back

I wish I still had my 1600E. (don't want the ex mrs next to it though)

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Should never have sold mine..

A lot of cars almost beyond the 'if money were no object' threshold in this list. I find them alluring in the way that I might a bit of art in a museum but I'm drawn to the obtainable more for some reason.

One of these please:

or one of these:

Lovely lovely lovely

Early 90s

Today it's the Mercedes 190 2.5-16 Evo 2 'Cosworth'. (it's actually a Cosworth engine with AMG tuning bits, but hey).

Some great cars there.....lol at Weeksy, a man after my own heart! 

DB5

VW Beach buggy , in metalflake pink with chrome roll bar and KC Daylighters.  Jag XJS rear wheels.  (My fathers mate had one like this and it was a real fun car, in Portugal, not sure I’d want it in the UK)

Don't know why!

Suffix B

And a Dino

Can't believe no-one's listed an E-type Jag...

Or an early Porsche 911.

Not obscure, but both pretty cool.

Funnily enough BWD....I was thinking of both of those!  I remember when those early 911's were around ( I was a Kid) I thought they were were some cheap foreign cars, until I saw it pull away from a junction!

I had a P1800 and a Amazon 222 (Estate). Both pigs to drive & wallet eaters in terms of rust and MOTs.

Love my current Smart Roadster, fun to use, which is more important to me now.

Would love a 203 soft top or similar to do up when I retire

Range Rover Reborn [in Bahama Gold of course]

Lynx shooting brake

Jensen FF

That brake is an Eventer.

Early Skyline GTR "Hakosuka" for me, or a Datsun 240Z:

It’s not often Clarkson talks sense but he’s probably right about “Interceptor “ being the best car name ever.

“I’ll pick you up at 7. In the Interceptor.”

“Shall we take the Interceptor this weekend Darling?”

”I’m taking the Interceptor down to Biarritz”

or even

”I’m stuck in a jam on the A14 in the pissing rain. In the Interceptor “

Hmmm I have a VW Type 3, mate has Karmann Ghia. so in a dream world

maybe a Tatraplan 600

Or a Citroen SM

Mainly (possibly) because we borrowed one for our wedding car, but an Alvis T21 has a certain understated appeal -

Bristol 411 Siii

Ferrari 250 GT SWB

Audi RS2 as a bike car

Is it wrong that I'm scrolling down the screen muttering "yes, no, yes, yes, yuk, oh baby" etc at other peoples choice, and if I'm honest judging people too? 😉

P-Jay

Is it wrong that I’m scrolling down the screen muttering “yes, no, yes, yes, yuk, oh baby” etc at other peoples choice, and if I’m honest judging people too? 

Go on, give me the bad news...

My first car was a 1971 MG Midget that I resprayed in Ferrari Rosso Red! Different tyres on each corner meant it spend quite a lot of time going sideways around bends. It was replaced by a 2CV when the clutch bearing went (again) and I didn't have access to anywhere I could lift the engine out.

I had a 1939, Slough-built Citroen Traction Avant for about 10 years - it was like a gentleman's club on wheels with big leather seats and wooden panelling. It could do 70 on the motorway and surprisingly quick on twisty roads as long as you kept your foot on the gas. No seatbelts in the back meant the passengers had to hang-on and the monocoque wasn't the stiffest so the doors could pop-open cornering hard!

I now have a 1974 VW T2 camper with a 1640 engine with twin Weber 40mm carbs - pops'n'bangs a bit

Is it wrong that I’m scrolling down the screen muttering “yes, no, yes, yes, yuk, oh baby” etc at other peoples choice, and if I’m honest judging people too? 

As mine were third and fourth, this is fine by me

😉

For wafting about in, I'd have a Gordon-Keeble...also very exclusive but nearly affordable.

Or a Volvo Suga

Well if anyone does care about my odd sense of taste the only cars I actually dislike are:

Rover P5

Mini

59 Caddy

Range Rover

but mostly, and I’m aware even Enzo Ferrari thinks I’m wrong, but I think E-Types are revolting, equally oddly I chose a fat-cat BMW no one liked when they were new (apart from Prince) and a chaved up old Man’s Merc which is nothing like as fast as a car which such a spoiler should be.

Fiat 500 Abarth ideal for todays congested roads with limited space,

Porsche 356a, always fancied one even if it just a beetle thats been trod on.

There’s loads of classic cars I’d love, given the money, one of them is this one, which I’ve seen at its owner’s home, and I don’t think there’s a lottery win that would buy it, and it’s owner would never sell it anyway. Good to see that it gets used for what it was built for, and doesn’t languish in a garage somewhere.

I also have a bit of a lust for one of these, the Icon Bronco:

but I think E-Types are revolting

Even when it looks like this one?

Even when it looks like this one?

Not sure that better or worse, but I still don’t like them.

For my tastes the bonnet it too long and makes it look like the driver is in the boot.

The body, although it looks narrow because of the length of the bonnet, is actually much wider than the chassis so the wheels are far too inboard, the overhangs at the front are absurd and like most Brit cars of the era it relies on chrome bits for style and I hate chrome, so it’s not really for me ha ha

Low Drag!

p jay - I am hurt, devastated even!

p5 coupe - not the saloon - is a very usable classic and looks better in the flesh and the caddy - its got fins and rockets and things and is 20 ft long - whats not to like 😉

well, I have to admit having Richard Hammond draped over it didn’t help ha ha

very hard to pick two....

currently thinking:

mk2 Jag rally prep

Porsche 911

Realistically?

635CSi

NSX (1st generation)

Realistically?

635CSi

NSX (1st generation)

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Definitely a mk1 Mini Cooper s 1071. Maybe in appendix k race spec. And probably a Ford f100 with a v8 dropped in the front.

BMW 2002 Tii with S14 engine and running gear (E30 M3)

Just about the only variant I haven't yet owned.

And second choice could be from so many, but would love one of these.

3.0 CSL

GT40 Mk1

The body, although it looks narrow because of the length of the bonnet, is actually much wider than the chassis so the wheels are far too inboard, the overhangs at the front are absurd and like most Brit cars of the era it relies on chrome bits for style and I hate chrome, so it’s not really for me ha ha

The E-type has a long bonnet because it has a straight-six*, it needs some overhang at the front to allow for the radiator and the fact that the entire bonnet hinges forward. I take your point that on original models the tyres look too skinny and are set too far into the arches, but that nothing to do with the width of the chassis. There’s also very little chrome on an E-Type, and none to speak of on the Eagle in the photo, which has decent sized rubber on it.

*The V12 is best ignored, although it did have fatter tyres.

Eagle do a low-drag too; Inthink I’m going to lie down for a bit...

1st

Then the one on the left as the 2nd

I think I’ve just found a new, outwardly unassuming classic, and I want one!

https://jalopnik.com/246084/jalopnik-fantasy-garage-honda-1300-coupe-9

212 Barchetta

And to drive more often

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