Cars you wish you had owned

[pistonbroke]

 

[SootySport]

LC1  The twin 40's made them the best sounding car of the time.  Remember them well when Jim Clark and others raced at Crystal Palace and Brands Hatch, cocking the inside front wheel.
Always just out of my reach when I thought I had enough money to buy one.

[TAFKARM]

MX5

 

[Stuart Davis AO - Devon Cornwall & Somerset]

https://www.facebook.com/portspec/videos/5160023347426469/

 

Actually, take your pick from my ‘toy’ collection 🤪🤣.

[pistonbroke]

5 hours ago, fatblokestu said:

https://www.facebook.com/portspec/videos/5160023347426469/

 

Actually, take your pick from my ‘toy’ collection 🤪🤣.

Out of that out of reach lot it have to be the 250 GT0 

 

[SootySport]

7 hours ago, The artist formerly known as Rush Motorsport said:

MX5

 

But you do have one already

 

[Richard (OldStager)]

3 cars come to mind straight away.

 

Classic Mini - either Cooper or 1275GT

E Type  - series 1 ideally or series 2 if pushed.

Healey 3000 - in red and rally spec.

All British cars I notice...

[Alan France]

Lancia Stratos. Had a Lancia beta coupe but every time you braked a bit more of the bodywork came off.

[TAFKARM]

9 hours ago, SootySport said:

But you do have one already

 

 The correct number of mx5s to own is n+1. 

 

[stephenh]

13 hours ago, Richard (OldStager) said:

3 cars come to mind straight away.

 

Classic Mini - either Cooper or 1275GT

E Type  - series 1 ideally or series 2 if pushed.

Healey 3000 - in red and rally spec.

All British cars I notice...

Well, I'm not so sure about cars I wish I had owned, but I did own a Mini Cooper S 1275 (actually it was 1293, because it had over-bored high compression pistons) and a Healey 3000 but mine was a lovely blue. Also a couple of Capri 2.8i back when they were new. And an Aston Martin DBS Vantage (not the modern one, the one with a straight 6 engine which was the replacement for the DB6). And I've got a 4.2 Jaguar XKR, but that is going to Buxton, for a classic car auction on Wednesday. (H&H Classics, lot 11 if anyone is interested!)

[BigSkyBrad]

Abarth OT2000 - a Fiat 850 Sport (a pretty wee car in it's own right) with a 2000cc twincam stuffed in it. 0-60 in 5.3 sec, back in the late '60s!

[corsechris]

8 hours ago, BigSkyBrad said:

Abarth OT2000 - a Fiat 850 Sport (a pretty wee car in it's own right) with a 2000cc twincam stuffed in it. 0-60 in 5.3 sec, back in the late '60s!

Oh yes!  What a cracking choice. I had an 850 Special as my first road legal car. I can only imagine how badly that would handle with the 2l TC hanging out the back!!

[BigSkyBrad]

@corsechris That would be the OT1600 Mostro.

 

 

[pistonbroke]

That sump looks as if it could level a few speed bumps 

[corsechris]

That rear view with the back panel removed was, apart from the engine in mine being the wee 850cc engine, a very familiar one!  It felt like I was swapping engines almost weekly. I kept trying to find a decent 903cc engine from scrapped Sports but they always seemed to be knackered. In true wannabe style, I even put a Sport interior in my Special. Sadly, it was still a dumpy little thing on the outside, but of course, it was my first car and I loved it.