Following on from the your first car / bike thread, what cars from your past do you still wish you could drive / have driven?
Daimler Majestic Major. My dad bought one during the 70s fuel crisis. A large Saloon and Limousine. 4.5 Litre V8 engine BHP 220 5,800 rpm, max torque 282 ft/lbs 2,700 rpm. Top speed 123 mph, 0 to 60 in 9.6 seconds.
Citroen CX in the 70s.
Citroen Dyane. We once got our Venture Scout 5 aside team and my dad home in one. Cured the body roll.
Would love to have a spin in a works Mini, just to see how it differs from a standard one, even better, would be to be driven in one by someone who new how to drive one as it intended to be used 😉
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3107/2859596121_d7c37cb374_o.jpg
MUST be the 3 litre one like in The Professionals.
Had a MK1 Capri 3000E manual for a few years, both fun & scary in equal measures + the fuel consumption was a bit frightening. Think I averaged about 15mpg in the time I owned it 😮
The 80’s rally cars are an area I could collect if I had the money (shed loads of money)
Agree, no great driving experience although a great tourer (and as a young man in those days, it had the desired effect on young ladies 😯 )
Pretty bomb-proof motor, had mine for a couple of years – metallic purple with white roof and detail when I got it!! Resprayed it to its original red (similar to the one in the picture).
Now, the Porsch; went off them when a mate of mine took himself and two others out several years ago 🙁
Mk1 Escort Mexico. Loved seeing them blat round Breckland Forest in my youth and spent a lot of time in the sixth form daydreaming about doing the same thing in one.
I sometimes wonder why I got rid of my Mk2 Golf Gti. But the feeling doesn’t last long. About the same length of time as wishing I had my Omega MV6 back in fact. Then I remind myself that fuel has almost doubled since I had both of those, and that they would make me a pauper in a month.
I had a 4 door 1600 sport with a tarted up motor that went like something that I’m not allowed to say but will leave it to your imagination off a greasy stick.
RS2000 Mk1, Mk2 or Mexico would be a hoot.
Muy sexy!
Came close to buying an S1 many years ago, but didn’t. 😥
My dad used to rally (as in properly) a Mini Cooper back in the 60s. Wouldn’t mind a bash at that.
And I know it sounds odd but he used to have a Fiat 132 as well…. And I have a weakness for old, crap, Italian cars. Becasue they have soul.
I once drove a 131 Mirafiori and I still have a soft spot for a 131 Supermirafiori Sport. Yes, they look like a Lada (IIRC Lada bought the design) and they’ve mostly rusted into the gound by now, but that engine…. ohhhhhhhhhhh…. You can trace its bloodline to this, a proper mans car. Love ’em:
Have some more 70s-90s Italian metal/rust that floats my boat:
Lancia Beta Volume X (Same engine: Fiat 2.0 TC. But Supercharged!)
Alfa Romeo SZ
Fiat 131 Supermirafiori Sport (Sorry)
Fiat X 1/9
And an Alfa 33 Permenant 4, Lancia Thema 8.32 (Ferrari V8!) Lancia Stratos….. etc etc…..
But one silly car I once saw in a dealers in Southend (They had it in for a while…) has always been top of the list. Italian again, I’d be impressed if anyone else has ever heard of it, let alone seen one…! A quick Google reveals only 300 were ever made between 86-93. Pig ugly? Yup. Countach v12 under the bonnet? Check! Love it.
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Laydeez and gentlefolk, may I present the Lamborghini LM002 😯
OK already. Enough old crap Italian cars. My apologies. (But if I win the lottery, I’m having a garage FULL of them!)
Dad had one of these when we moved back to Leeds in ’77
I have always loved Jags but this one was always special(random internet image but it was the same colour)