Dream cars

@roger, I’m lucky enough to see a 356 quite regulary here in London and had a quick spin in one as a friend has the only one in Dubai, beautiful.

What’s the car you are building ?

Kudos to the Karman Ghia and the Mk1 and Mk2 Golfs.

+1000 for the Karman Ghia. absolutely beautiful

Numbnut: how does the gullwing driver fit all those bollards and chains in the back of their car at the end of the show?…

A fella in the year below me at school’s mum one the football pools and bought him a delta integrale for his 17th birthday.

And I once spent two days walking the streets of hounslow looking for a karrman ghia I had seen rotting away on some ones front drive about five years before.

I eventually found it in an even more sorry state but the owner refused my continued pleas to sell it to me.

Three for me

I can see a common theme here 😀 (in heaven)

If I have one regret car wise it’s not buying either a Karman Ghia or Merc SL 20 years ago, they where 1/3rd of the price they are now 🙁

My dream bike car, have loved these since I first saw them as a teenager in rural France way back in the 70’s. Best pic I could find.

Ha. My first ever car was a Dyane 6 (before I could drive) – in this colour (not my pic)

This is on fleabay at present & I’d be quite tempted to chop the Abarth in for it if I didn’t know how stupendously fragile they are:

At some point I have to own one of these, no matter how flawed:

More quizzically alluring Italian idiosyncrasy:

Hob Nob – Member

The Panoz was always crazily loud at Lemans.

The sound is probably one of my most prominent memories. They made sleep difficult!

I still miss ‘proper’ GT-1 🙁 All my dream cars are from that era, but wont bother drowning the thread in photos:

McLaren F1 ‘Long-tail’
Porsche 911 GT1 (Evo)
Mercedes CLK-GTR (still have a signed poster)
Nissan R390
Lotus Elise GT1
Panoz GTR-1 (obviously)
Toyota GT1

Even the slightly flawed attempts at glory like the Marcos, Lister and Viper 🙂

Anything from Magnus Walker’s garage.
Silly stuff? McLaren P1 has to be up there – quite simply one of the most stunning things I’ve ever seen.
Old stuff? I’d kill for a Bullit-esque Mustang.
Sensible / stuff I could actually buy? I’ve a serious hankering for a mk2 Golf GTI that I can play with. Big power 1.8T in it etc. If we ever sell our T5 then I think its replacement couldn’t be anything other than a B7 RS4 Avant (which weirdly we could have easily bought and had a load of spare change for what we paid for our van – thats one of the things I struggled to get my head around!). The new RS4 looks good, the B5 looks dated now but the B7 shape with its huge flared arches, lovely interior, sensible boot and that V8 – yes please. In dark grey as well. Thanks.

Ha Ha Uno Turbo the most bonkers car I have ever driven, like being in a Coke can with a Warp engine, I have been lucky enough to have driven faster more exotic cars but for sheer lunacy it is hard to beat 😆

I have a few dream cars, but this one I can touch as I have one at home in the garage in as new condition

Koenigsegg Agera R – The doors alone are a work of art.. Its pretty fast too with 1124bhp. The One:1 has closer to 1400 ponies which does sound appealing but the styling is a bit OTT. Guess I’ll have to make do with the slower model if my numbers come up!

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Mattoutandabout, Diglover and Brant have this thread won.

If I won the jackpot tomorrow there would be none of your fancy, willy-waving supercar exotica for me, just a couple of early Golfs (Mk1 1600 GTI and a Mk2 16 valve), an Integrale and a large poster of Pigface’s Alfa on the workshop wall.

one of these, in right hand drive, with a modern engine and brakes & a sorted steering rack… thanks

Might have to add this to the list of Escorts I put up yesterday

Dribble…

And oh…

my..

we shouldn’t forget…

Time for a lie down now.

Everyday car – RS6 Avant
Long trips with the bike – VW T5
Weekend fun – 911 GT3RS, Toyota 2000GT
Project cars – VW Variant (also known as a Type 3), Golf Mk2, BMW 2002 (to convert to a track-day car)

For me it is this

I’ve had the fortune to either drive or own 4 of my dream cars. Never driven in the UK. My Dad lives in South Africa so all my driving experience was out there. Hated driving in the cities though.

1972 V-12 Jaguar E-type – Belonged to my dad. Brilliant at speed but scary when moving slowly due to really heavy steering and accelerator. A bitch to park too. Probably made more scary by the fact it was my dad’s pride an joy.

1969 Dodge Charger – Belonged to a family friend – Was a bit let down by this after my formative years were spent watching the Dukes of Hazard. Felt like steering an oil tanker.

1963 Mini Cooper 850 – Loved this great little run around. I owned this for 2 years till some drunk smashed into it.

Then I bought a 1972 Leyland Mini Clubman 1275 GT with the insurance payout. Picked it up from Capetown. Bodywork was perfect. Someone had put water in the oil so the engine was full of a lovely version of Maynonaise and seized up. Tried stripping it and it didn’t work even after boring the cylinders. So we bought a Type R conversion kit and dropped a Type R engine in it. Upgraded brakes front and rear and it was the best car I’ve ever owned. Went like stink. Handled like a go kart. What more do you need? Since coming back to the UK my dad killed that round a cow. 🙁

1963 Mini Cooper 850 ? 997 or 998 surely

too many dream cars to mention but some of them have already been mentioned already such as
jensen interceptor
lancia delta integrale
audi RS6
lambo miura
lancia stratos
ac cobra
vw campervan (splitscreen)
koennigsegg agera
ariel atom

i would also add the
mclaren f1
maserati quattroporte
maserati shamal
bmw m5

@Jambalaya – it’s a 1969 Karmann Ghia Coupe. It’s my winter project and will run a 2.5 Subaru engine and coil over front beam and a few other trick bits to make it go as well as it looks. The idea came from the Bader Racing Ghia but on a smaller budget!

Nice project Rogerthecat, Bader one looks ace apart from those wheels 😯

My Midget, but with a 1.6ecoboost engine, 5 speed box, and frontline brakes/suspension kit when I get the money/time………..

I’ve always liked tuned midgets, something perverse about building something probably worse than a Caterham.

Always loved these….

Can’t believe no-one has said an XJ220 yet!

OK it wasn’t quite all it could have been, but that is definitely what a supercar should look like.

Still staggeringly quick as well

(And yes, as my username suggests, I should really put a word in for one of these as well 🙂

Particularly like the Evo review of it – good score considering they rate out of 5 stars…

TVR Speed 12 EVO Review

A couple of engine builders I know seem to think the speed 12 engine block was fabricated, not cast or machined.

Edit: is that yours? 😯

Dream car? Well for me it’ll be something medium sized that’ll get me a mate and some bikes or me and the family where I want to go without having to do all that boring driving faff to get us there. Just as soon as google/whoever start selling one I’ll be first in the queue….

for a second hand one a few years later 🙂

If I was minted I’d probably have some of those up there ^^^ and a track on which to dick about in them, but public rd driving is basically a chore no matter how powerful/beautiful your car is.

@roger I thought so but the wheel hub centre details threw me (they looked like Porsche ones). The Ghia is another car I’ve lusted over for years. Would love to see the finished article.

@jambalaya – it’s currently stripped completely and in crates in my garage, the body and floorpan are under tarps on a trailed outside the office. Should be all tucked up warm and tidy by the end of September, then we will have a view on how big the job is going to be. Ghias are notorious for having water traps that rust out.

This, terrifying and surprisingly driveable Volvo Amazon please.

When I was little my grandad was a live in caretaker at a posh apartment block in Kensington.
I was there when one of the two very rich Arab brothers who lived there part time’s BMW M1 was delivered in white with the bmws multi coloured racing stripes.

He saw me watching and said did I want to go for a drive, so I did.
It was beautiful, his brother had some Ferrari or another, I can’t remember what model.
And his dad had a gold roller with solid gold handles which he had his chauffeur drive my mum to the shops in once.

I held the door open for a woman leaving as I was going in and she stopped and gave me a tenner over thirty years ago, I was 8 years old.
There were many beautiful cars in that underground carpark but the M1
Was by far the best and most memorable..

Edit: is that yours?

I wish!

Just to follow up on @chip’s post, I now work in Belgravia and the number of spectacular cars around the area is stunning. My “record” is 7 Ferraris seen on the 10 min cycle to office (including that daft all gold one the UAE wrestler has). There are 2 Maclarens (one dark grey, one orange) I see regularly. Any number of Porsche, Bentley, Lambourgini, Masserattis. I sent @cynicalal a picture of a beautiful vintage Merc Coupe which lives on the street. As someone who lived in Surrey and had a Bugatti Veron in the neighbourhood and was used to seeing nice cars this is at another level altogether I have to say.

The Speed 12 is currently on a SORN with no MOT since August 2013. Be interesting to know what happened to it.