What car from your past would you like to have driven?

17 & two weeks after passing my test! at a party, guy turns up in a brand new 911SC, banker, all flash.

I comment, nice car mate, he smiles and throws me the keys!

Beat the metro I learnt to drive in I can tell you 😉

18, virgin and new at University, two girls (friends) at the bar offered to deflower me at the sametime, took me back to theirs and did.

Not my story but a true one from my boss (one of the girls).

Almost forgot! My girlfriend’s granddad had one of these, (it may well have been this one…)
I really thought he was going to let me have a drive of it. Never did though, the basteward. He’s dead now. So ha!

Beautiful.

Peter, Lada bought the licence for Fiat 124, not 131/132. Sorry.
I’d like a Fiat 127, 128, 131, 132, Trabant (with the real 600cc 2-stroke engine) and many others.

DezB +100

The Dino, in my eyes one of the most beautiful cars ever, a neighbour had one in blue when I was 8.
Renault 5 Turbo 1&2
Lancia Delta Intergrale
205 T16
MK1 Works Cooper S

Oh the list goes on

Never did though, the basteward. He’s dead now. So ha!

Lol – class

I worked, in a very minor capacity, on the Thrust SSC.

I saw the 714mph record but ran out of leave before the (still standing) 763.035mph record. The fastest I saw it run was about 730.

What do I win?

Always wanted 3 cars from my childhood.

And I’ve half-got one of them. 🙂

coffeeking – Member

Always wanted 3 cars from my childhood.

Pretty much every kid I new had a Lambo poster on the wall, plus that tennis/arse poster 😉

James May review on TG showed what a monster it was to drive mind, one of those things, better to keep as a dream, than acually drive I guess.

I really want my old car back 🙁
wish I’d never sold it

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always wanted a go in this one though.
My Bro is in the process of building something pretty similar though so will get a go in that eventually
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James May review on TG showed what a monster it was to drive mind, one of those things, better to keep as a dream, than acually drive I guess.

Yeah, I’ve sat in one – zero visibility and not overly comfortable, but I’d still like to own one as I’m a bit masochistic at times! The grin from driving/looking at it would out-do the difficulties.

Lotus Talbot Sunbeam. The original hot hatch. I would love one, but they are getting quite expensive for a decent one.

Also on the Lotus theme:

VW Corrado- Always thought they looked lush when I was a kid.

TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR – Member

With regards to Capri’s, this was the daddy – a Tickford. They had some association with Aston Martin, but without researching can’t remember what.

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Like this

I’ve seen and briefly considered one of these, but the combination of a fragile Maserati engine and Citroen complexity meant common sense prevailed. Pity.

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F40 is the daddy and always will be to me.

Has to be.

catflees46 – Member
F40 is the daddy and always will be to me.

+1, been in one to, a special factory upgraded one 😉

Always wanted a Lancia Stratos when I was young……… still do!

Drove one of these just after passing my test at 17. ‘tWas lots of fun 8)

Coffeeking – you and me think along the same lines … the first thought that came into my mind on this thread was this car … the black lambo:

that sound sends shivers down my spine 🙂

Although the rear wheel on that cossie lookes horse mucked!!

“They had some association with Aston Martin, but without researching can’t remember what.”

They were a 2.8 special, like a 2.8i but with a limited slip diff, stiffer anti-roll bars and shocks. Tickford, who were Aston’s coachbuilders and tuning shop took standard 2.8 specials, stuck a turbo in them to give 125 /155 / or 175 bhp,retrimmed the interior in full conolly hide, built a couple of extra consoles in, fitted a decent exhaust and tyres.

Many of them were fitted with that bloody awful bodykit, and front grille that caused the motor to overheat almost instantly. A very small percentage of them left Tickford without the body kit and just the mechanical and interior mods done. I own one of the latter un-bodykitted ones in black with the 175 turbo bhp kits and it’s absolutely hilarious in the snow.

One of these:

I had road going version which I lost during the 2007 Sheffield floods but would love to have a crack in one of the proper DTM versions.

Also love to have a go in one of the Cossack Mk2 Escort Rally Cars

Always fancied one of these:

But only because I could never afford one of these:

No pics but i loved my Pug 205 GTI 1.6 rare as hens teeth now,was on about 130,000 miles when i sold her !!!

Mini Moke

Had several in Oz throughout the years. Wish I still had one.

Had a red one just like this.

One car from my past that I wish I could drive again? Without hesitation, it would be The Widowmaker:

Proper fly engine, innit?, but mildly understated outside apart from the impossibly trick 16″ Volk TE37s with uber-rare dish in the rears.

Sadly, my lack of ability got the better of it, and it ended up down a ditch. Backwards, you ask? How did you know?

😥

LP400 is way prettier than LP500s IMO, timeless design.

Used to love this mag as a kid

And everything in it!

The Flying Ox

If you know of anyone who does the same let me know, I need an engine and running gear 😀

that sound sends shivers down my spine

then you need to see Lelouche’s Rendezvous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DSyEarRAKo

rj – Member

Always fancied one of these:

We had one of these, if I remember correctly with a 2.8 Ford engine

We also had one of these…

… and I know which one I prefer. 😆

As a young un’ – I don’t have much past to draw on. My parents owned rubbishy cars*.

As the slightly faster version of my first car;

or a friends parents’
(in red)

or my old boss’

(she sold it without letting me know :-()

* My dad still owns one of these which I DO get to drive when I go back home… 🙂

My uncle used to drive this

I did drive it and steer (it’s one man to drive and another to steer) in the early eighties. 32 turns lock to lock on the steering!

If you know of anyone who does the same let me know, I need an engine and running gear

Don’t really keep up with the MR2 kids now, but if you’re on imoc/mr2oc then Jaffa and Larry93 are in Edinburgh and seem to keep their hand in with parts, engine swaps and the like. Give them a PM.

EDIT: I have the LSD gearbox and rear driveshafts from that very car if it helps?

When I was a kid and knew nothing about what makes a good car I used to think these were awesome, in a Thunderbirds type of way!…

…I now of course realise they were very wrong indeed! I still wouldn’t mind having a drive in one though.

Now you mention it, I want My old MR2 AW11 T-bar back as well :(.

Can’t even find any nice pics of it.