OK its Friday,lets indulge in a little nostalgia and see what were backroomers favourite cars when growing up,and did their choices have any influence on what they have owned or own now.
For me ,and I canot remember which came 1st,I loved the Capri 2.8 and even the Capri ?laser? Thought they looked really cool.then the Renaul Feugo. Guess I was drawn to coupes! I did for a year or so own a ford Probe!
I guess most my favs were fairly mundane,and I had many dinky replica's of my favs. Many, thinking about it, (I grew up in the 70's) were Fords (Consul,Zephyre)
I was mad about Magnums Ferrari ?308 I think that still is in my present top 5.
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Growing up I always wanted a Lancia Delta Integrale. The money no object car was a Ferrari F40.
Got an Alfa now so how much influence there I dont know!
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"I always wanted a Lancia Delta Integrale"
I still do! :-)
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SO funny you should mention that. I saw an absolute minter yesterday. I don't mean clean, I mean sparklingly amazing. Bright red, left hand drive and two young lads in it. It was so nice it looked brand new. Obviously someone's looked after it well.
Gorgeous cars.
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Adam
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"I always wanted a Lancia Delta Integrale" I still do! :-)
So did I so I bought one :-))
My dream cars were the porsche 911 & Jaguar E type when younger.
I'm mostly wanting an aston martin v8 vantage from the late 70s/early eighties and a jensen interceptor. Oh and I really wanted a Dodge Charger while watching Dukes of Hazzard. I also want an old VW beetle every time I watch any of the Herbie films but go off the idea as soon as anyone that has driven one tells me more about them.
On the list at the moment is also the Ariel Atom & a crash helmet. A lotus Exige to play tick with a helicopter and anything with a TVR badge for sideways fun/brown trouser moments in the wet weather.
Oh and a really really big garage to put them all in :-)
teabelly
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You have an Integrale Teabelly?
You're my new best friend.
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Adam
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>> "I always wanted a Lancia Delta Integrale" >>
So did I so I bought one :-)) I'm mostly wanting an aston martin v8 vantage from the late 70s/early eighties.
You own a 'Grale and lust after an 80's vantage?
You're me, but better!
Most of the 'famous' cars you've mentioned have appealed to me too, although I have to strenuously deny ever having wanted a Beetle *shudder*
I think I may have, at one point, wanted The Fall Guy's truck too.
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You own a 'Grale and lust after an 80's vantage? You're me, but better!
How true :-)
I never really watched the Fall Guy. I have a feeling I might have wanted one of those trucks anyway!
For some strange reason I quite liked Austin Princesses when under 10 but probably best to gloss over that ....
teabelly
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Ferrari 365GTB. Funnily enough, there's a (much rarer) soft-top version outside a garage not far from here. Absolutely gorgeous.
Prior to that, I wanted a Mustang...
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Growing up I wanted KITT from Knight Rider ;o)
Closer to reality I always lusted after the Renault Alpine GTA too..
Neither has had ANY influence on the mainstream family cars I've been able to afford in my driving years so far
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PhiL
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I'd forgotten about KiTT. I wanted one of those too :-)
teabelly
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How about this for exotica.
A De Tomaso Mangusta.
My uncle bought me a matchbox model of one and I've still got it. Believe me there were not that many cars that looked like that in 1969!
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Several for me:
Jaguar XJ-S (V12 of course)
Range Rover
Jensen Interceptor FF
Escort Mk2 RS2000
Triumph Stag (had one, but never finished restoring it)
Audi Quattro
That's enough for now.
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I forgot the Starskey and Hutch car ,Was it a ford Torus or something?
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Its probably a classic BMW M5 for me for the weekend, i would still drive a ford ka during the week!
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Its not what you drive, its how you drive it! :-)
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not so much a childhood dream but certainly from a few years ago the lotus carlton, the ultimate "Q" car. supercar performance but it looks normal ish . only problem is i think i would lose my licence quite quickly, too tempting to drive it fast...cheers...keo
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1. Triumph Dolomite Sprint.
2. XJ12 and XJS
Very very very nearly bought an XJS a few years ago - it was a V12 and standing on a Mitsubishi Dealer's forecourt for £5.5k - just to say that I actually had one.
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I remember seeing in my youth (only in a magazine) a reworked Audi Coupe. It was called the Audi Tresser Roadster and some company took one of the Audi Quattros and converted it to a hard top convertible. It was stunning for its time.
When asked I was always said that I wanted a Lancia Delta, just felt that point to point with 4 people inside you could not beat it. Still dreaming!!!
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Talbot Matra Rancho. Ok they were poor off road as they were only front wheel drive but they looked cool for a car designed in the late 70's.
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In my childhood I dreamt about having an Austin A90 Atlantic. I've always wanted to be a bit of a flash git, but I've never had enough money to be able to realise my dreams!
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L\'escargot by name, but not by nature.
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Didn't Leslie Thomas have one ?
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One of our neighbours in the late 40s had a cream and black streamlined Armstrong Siddley, each saturday he would open his garage doors and polish his beautiful car (never drove it,petrol rationing). I DID want a car like that, dream on.
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A few on my list - when I was very young an MG TF (yes, had the Dinky toy!) In the '60s a Ferrari Dino which was then knocked off its perch by the de Tomaso Mangusta I saw at the '69 (?) Motor Show and being a little more realistic (!) an Alfa Guilietta Sprint GT. Sadly none have, or are likely to, come to fruition.
When my kids were very young and very impressionable they called our black BX RD "Kitt" and sang the theme music when they got into it!
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Didn't Leslie Thomas have one ?
Now that's the sort of image I'd like to portray!
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L\'escargot by name, but not by nature.
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It always was and still is my dream to own a red E-type Jaguar roadster. My second and third dream cars as a youth were, Steve McQueen's Mustang in the film bullit and as mentioned above Starsky and Hutch's Ford Gran Torino.
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Audi Quattro that took rallying by storm.
Capri 3.0S or Ghia
Lotus Carlton
The Red Ferrari that Mark Hately drove past me in on the M8 one day!
A Team Van.
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Back in 1982 when i was just 15 a getting seriously interested in motoring, my dream car was a Ford Granada 2.8i Ghia X the flagship of the Ford range. Also a car that got me hooked on luxury saloons that has continued to this day.
Luckily in 1991 i was able to be able to afford my dream car and became the owner of a 1984 Ghia X which i kept until 2003.
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Imagos,
I loved the Granada Mk2 as well when I was younger, and last year I bought a Y reg 1982 2.8 Ghia in Champagne gold which I love driving! Currently busy doing a rolling restoration and took it to several shows last year where it got a surprising amount of attention - often when I'm out and about in it people sometimes stop me and chat about the car. Of course it has the fog lights and driving lamps.... I also love the TRX metric alloy wheels. Mike has the 14 inch Ghia alloys, but the trx ones fill the arches better!
Cheers
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Oops, don't know a MIKE with Trx wheels, I meant Mine!
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has the 14 inch Ghia alloys, but the trx ones fill the arches better!
Fantastic, no Granada Ghia was complete unless it had the TRX's, but oh such a pain when you needed to replace them. Apparently Ford fitted the Michelin TRX's to the Granny so that it was impossible to fit cheap tyres to it so that they would ruin the handling and ride.
Champagnge gold too was a fav. colour, Any Ford of that era looks great in it.
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Mercedes-Benz SSK ("38/250").
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If this is the one you mean Tomo - you have good taste. Didn't my old favourite Caracciola win the 1931 Mile miglia in one??
www.autogallery.org.ru/k/m/34mbSSK_BRO.jpg
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RR Silver Spirit,
I know, I've always liked them. I suspect having one would be so impractical though, The wife would drive it though, being an Auto!
Another car was the Range Rover, they didn't make Discoveries when I was a youngster! I may still get one of those soon, if I can get a good 7 seat conversion. P38 sounds nice but I don't like the new ones too much.
h
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I wonder what the kids of today will be wishing they'd had twenty years down the line........
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Chavved up Clios with blue neon lights underneath probably.
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Totally impractical, some of my choices, but we are talking childhood dreams!
Batmobile
Lotus 49B
Lotus Elan
E Type
Pontiac LeMans
And heaven knows why, but a Brabham Viva. Used to be one parked by my school and I spent hours gazing out of the classroom window at it. Which explains my current station in life.
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"Which explains my current station in life."
LOL! Same here, I'm afraid - much too much time daydreaming.
The comment above about Matras has reminded me that I had a soft spot for their Bagheera, too. Three abreast seating (fnaar, fnaar) always seemed eminently sensible to me, but the nearest I got to that was my Pa's Land-Rover... :-(
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That's the one, Philw. Saw my first one in Sauchiehall Street, rather more plated and decorated, in Sauchiehall Street when I was quite a nipper, and was dragged away looking back!
I think you are right about the Mille Miglia too, but perhaps a greater feat of Rudi's was winning that wet Ulster TT in '29 in one of these seemingly quite unsuitable big beasts.
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When I was a kid, woad had only just gone out of fashion and they were still showing live tv coverage of the Spanish Armada.
So the Renault 5 seemed like a stunningly new and modern thing, a geometrically-shaped space-age wonder which made Cortinas and Minis etc look like relics of the stone age. Mercs and Jaguars and suchlike looked flash, but the Renault 5 was cool. Thirty years later, I still think it's a design masterpiece, perfected a decade later in the SuperCinq. Newer Renaults have their charms, but none has ever been as cool as a five.
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I can actually picture you in a 5 NW....that or a Twingo.
Odd really.
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Adam
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when a child on my wall was a picture of a Lancia Fulvia.
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For may Dad to buy as a family car;
Sunbeam Rapier, but it must have twin rear radio aerials.
For me to buy, a few years later;
Lotus Elan Sprint or Lotus Europa
John
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Thank you, JH, for reminding me about the Europa. I think that first came to my attention as the preferred transport of Tara King (swoon!) in the Avengers.
For those similarly afflicted, she's here:
home.scarlet.be/~pvandew1/avengers/episodes/144.htm
I always wanted a 427 Cobra, too, although I'm sure I'd be quite happy with a 289...
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Interesting that Teabelly dreamed of an Austin Princess and L'Escargot of an A90 Atlantic.
Perhaps because my father had an A40 Devon in the early 50's, and my fist car in 1969 was a 14-year-old A50, it was always the A125 Sheerline for me. I still think there's something majestic about one of those. Driving behind that flying-A mascot made you feel good to be British (and a taxidermist's curse on the health and safety people who will say it's unsafe).
As I grew older and more realistic, I longed for a top-of-the-range Audi Avant....maybe dreams come true, or else I'm too easy to please!
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Following the odd occasion when I was allowed to stay up late enough to see The Professionals I always hankered after an Escort RS2000.
Other fancies were for a Ferrari like Magnum or James Bond's Lotus Esprit.
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Mine was an Opel Manta GTE in White! Great looking car.
Also loved the Consuls/Granadas in The Sweeney. One of the kid's Dad in my scout group had one, a 3 litre blue auto and we used to fight to get in it to go to camp.
I have never really liked "exotic" cars. Give me under-stated flyers like the Lotus Carlton. Awesome car in a family saloon shell.
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Rover SD1, probably the Vitesse. Then the Rover 800 when it came out-something like a 827Si I think it was. Pestered my mum and dad for ages to get a Rover 800!
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Triumph TR4, Sunbeam Alpine, MGB in descending order.
OK, an E-type Jag, but this was far beyond the realms of reality.
Oz (as was)
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Jensen Interceptor or FF
AC 428 (Cobra with Frua body, looked like Maserati Mistrale)
Original Range Rover
MGB
Never got to own any of them - suppose I could now if I looked around, but.....!
Cheers, Sofa Spud
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MGB V8 - Remember the original test in Autocar a long hot summer long ago before discovering girls !
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Ever since seeing the film "Vanishing Point", I have always
wanted a Dodge Challenger. There are a few over here that
come out to classic car events, and they are amazingly low
and lean, with the coke-bottle side profile and the ring-type
grille.
Not as nice as my Series 3 XJ12, though, so I'm not changing.
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