Your Bucket List. Drive Before You Die.

[warren t claim]

What's the shite you simply have to drive before you die?

 

Due to spending my late teens as a driver for a banger auction I suppose I'm pretty fortunate to of driven most cars that would give most of us a healthy stick of celery in the front of our underpant gardens but there's still a few I'd like to sample before I shuffle my mortal coil. Primarily one of these...

 

 

The Lancia Thema 8.32. even WAT telling me that it isn't really a Ferrari engine and just a Cagiva lash up hasn't put me off. I simply HAVE to get my arse in the front nearside seat of one of these before old father time catches up with me.

[scooters]

For me....two letters

 

SM

[Guest]

Mega money and I will never be able to have one but I have allways loved the look of the Gordon Keeble

On one hand its a wish to drive one - but I feel it may be a dont meet you hero's sort of affair.

[chaseracer]

My Dyane...

[RoadworkUK]

 

456 GT, in the same colour scheme as the Burago model I got when I was 12. I know it's not really in the shite category, and I know it tooks a bit too much like a Ford Probe, but I have such amazing memories of reading Andrew Frankels review of it over and over in '93, while listening to David Bowies Black Tie White Noise.

 

Left one hell of an impression of me as a pre-teen and I've sorely wanted one to this day.

[trigger]

Oh the 456 GT is one my favorite Ferraris, I used to drool over the feature of it in the Top Gear magazine and even went out and bought a 1/18 model of it.

 

 

I want to drive a Lotus Cortina Mk1 before i die, I suspect I'll end up disappointed, like meeting one of your all time favorite celebrities and finding that they are a real jerk or shagging Liz Hurley and finding she's useless in the sack but at least i can say that I've done it.

 

Like Warren I was lucky enough to drive a LOT of cars when i was younger as I used to have to collect and deliver a lot of cars from the local garages for bodywork, back in the late 90's, Good times.

[Manbearpig]

A deifinite possibility due to hire companies offering them;

 

 

 

 

Probably will never happen . Not exactly shite but a friend who used to work on them said most were shite to drive:

 

 

 

Genuine shite I have yet to sample;

 

 

[ashmicro]

There was a 456 GTA for sale at the Jaaaaag dealer last time I was up there, I think it was about £20k with a very low mileage. Trig my Dad had a mark 1 Lotus Cort and he said it was eveything he'd hoped it would be.

[Manbearpig]

On one hand its a wish to drive one - but I feel it may be a dont meet you hero's sort of affair.

Spoke to an owner at a show and he said it was deeply, deeply crude and unappealing to drive

[Manbearpig]

X

[CIH]

 

456 GT, in the same colour scheme as the Burago model I got when I was 12. I know it's not really in the shite category, and I know it tooks a bit too much like a Ford Probe, but I have such amazing memories of reading Andrew Frankels review of it over and over in '93, while listening to David Bowies Black Tie White Noise.

 

Left one hell of an impression of me as a pre-teen and I've sorely wanted one to this day.

 

By modern day Ferrari standards they're deffo shite. Though, they're the only ones to ever have any mileage on them so I guess that says something about them.

[tonedepear]

I'm very wary of the don't meet your heroes issue, but ignoring that for a second:

 

+1 for the 8.32 - top of my "if I win the lottery" list

 

 

Also:

(I'm not saying it's likely)

 

In fact, fuck it, just about everything on this list, if ever possible:

 

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1658545,00.html

[Pete-M]

[Felly Magic]

It has to be a Capri 3.0 S for me, and a De Lorean DMC-12

[eddyramrod]

+1 on the TR6, it was always my fave TR, I've lusted after one for donkey's years (and that's a pretty elderly donkey now). Also, a Rolls Royce. Almost any model will do, but I think I'd prefer a Shadow 1 or 2, or Bentley equivalent.

[Pete-M]

It has to be a Capri 3.0 S for me, and a De Lorean DMC-12

 

I had a yellow 3.0S. Brilliant. Somehow more fun than the 2.8i. Not as capable, but much more of a giggle.

[Albert Ross]

[DSdriver]

Mr Bickle is my new best friend

[ashmicro]

 

just to see if that 4th gear ratio is as duff as it's reputed to be

[Lufthansa-Terminal]

[Cavcraft]

Piece of cake:

 

Lotus Carlton.

Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow 1 and Silver Spirit.

[Lufthansa-Terminal]

And to mine I will add

[andrew e]

959. I borrowed a lad ay works 996 (and scared him in it ) but the real deal 959 I'd like to try. I wouldn't mind a go in Muira either, but in the long list of dream wheels, they need to be tried in he appropriate riveara backdrop rather than an empty airfield or the like - I did an NSX round Milton keynes once... Tokyo hell yeah! A lap of MK John lewis....

 

Embarrassingly I have never driven a mini, or knowingly been in one!

[dollywobbler]

Trigger - in my experience, you would not be disappointed by a Lotus Cortina. It's the original hooligan's saloon car.

 

Amazingly, I've still never driven a Citroen XM. I feel I must remedy this at some point. Perhaps I should actually buy one. I've never driven an Ami 6 (on the road) either. Not sure I'll ever be able to actually afford one.

[Pete-M]

Billy - Silver Spirits are like giant, beautifully trimmed Mk2 Granadas.

 

Jensen Interceptor - Properly weird feeling to the Interceptor. All the controls are very very light. Steering has zero feel and is utterly overservoed, brakes are the same, and the throttle has three stages all felt by little variations in feel. First is from idle to about 2000 rpm, then the pedal feels a bit different as the second stage of the carb opens, then you get to a stiffer bit of pedal action where the kickdown kicks in. If you get this far then three more things happen, the nose rises making the steering even lighter, the leaf-sprung arse end squats, the diff tightens up as the back tyres start to smoke and the sounds from the tailpipes become more than slightly epic. You don't want to nail an Interceptor in the wet, on greasy roads, or anywhere near traffic as it's like trying to tickle a charging hippo into submission whilst blindfolded.

 

IT is possible to make them shift pretty well, but the brakes will set fire to their FX4 pads very quickly indeed if you push it too far. The 440 lump is very, very capable of pushing things too far for the Interceptor chassis... The ride quality isn't bad in a floaty barge way, the gearbox is bloody good for something with three speeds and the V8 shimmy at idle will make you grin. When it boils the fuel in the carb in heavy traffic and you're staring at the temp and volt meters going mental as the two huge cooling fans fight it out with the heat from the V8 and the thing is stuttering between a 200 rpm tickover and 1500 rpm of wheelspin they're not so much fun.

 

The 'fuel flap open' warning light is a nice touch, and one you'll see every day. Flicking between the Town and Country horns doing an impression of a 70's Cop Car only rarely gets boring. The Transit accelerator pedal for the headlight dip / main beam used to make me chortle.

[eddyramrod]

MMMMMMMMM, Interceptor, yes that should be on the list, of course! Also, I think, a couple of proper Citroens: 2CV and DS, seeing as all I've driven is modern, starting with the BX and coming forward. And the Miura, preferably in Italy with Matt Munro on the stereo... yeah, I know, cliche, but they get to be cliches for good reason! And, erm, pretty much any Aston Martin built between 1960-1990, ish. This list is getting long....

[trigger]

Trigger - in my experience, you would not be disappointed by a Lotus Cortina. It's the original hooligan's saloon car.

 

I'm going to have to find myself one that i can hire for the day!

[hairnet]

keeble - but theyre only 35-40k all fav classic car

 

205 t16

 

405 pikes peak

 

panhard dyna z

 

lambo 400gt (moderns? meh)

 

ford pilot v8

 

64 thunderbird conv (like goldfinger)

 

corvair

 

theres lots of others but this lot doesnt normally change

[Wilko220]

 

and

 

 

are a couple that spring to mind, as I'm unlikely to ever be able to afford to run either of them!

[sporty-shite]

E-type for me, but in true AS tradition it would have to be the least loved Series 3, a coupe and a V12.

 

I have considered trying to rent one, but it's bloody expensive, and I am nervous of the "meeting your heroes" effect.