cars you will never own but wish you could

[Junkman]

Facel Vega Excellence

Bentley Mulsanne Turbo

Aston Martin Lagonda

[Noel Tidybeard]

in no particular order

• citroen cx prestige
• mg maestro/montego turbot
• allegro equipe/1.7 hls
• nissan sunny zx
• bug eye scorpio
• poxhall omega
• poojoe 505
• daf 66/marathon
• mini 1275gt

[LC Torana]

In order of the pang these sh!te cars give me:

• Morris Isis

 

• Vanden Plas 4-Litre R

 

• MG Magnette ZA or ZB

 

• Morris Six MS

 

• Humber Super Snipe

 

 

• Rover P5 (edit - not sh!te)
• Jaguar Mk II (edit - not sh!te)
• MG RV8 (edit - not sh!te)
• 1980s Maserati Quattroporte (edit - not sh!te)
• Morgan Plus 8 (edit - not sh!te)
• Armstrong-Siddeley Star Sapphire (edit - not sh!te)
• Lancia B20(edit - not sh!te)
• Riley RM (edit - not sh!te)

[I_am_Diesel]

Range Rover Classic with 300Tdi

Rover SD1 with VM diesel

Mk1 XR2

[OwdChina]

More chance of finding an unmolested Lion in Zimbabwe I'd have thought?

LOLs ...........I know................3 left.....and I only want one of em.

[purplebargeken]

Some interesting stuff. I have said it before and will do so again. Plenty of Daf love on here which is fab.

[Sudsprint]

Audi 100 Coupe

Alpine Renault (any of 'em frankly)

Vauxhall FD VX490

RO80

Series 1 XJ6

Visa GTi

Mk 2 Triumph 2.5 Pi estate

Early Porsch 911 Targa 

AC 3000ME

[face]

Renault 5 Turbo 1

Renault 5 Turbo 2

MK1 Metro Turbo

Nova GTE

Fiesta Supersport

Honda S2000

Honda Beat

Honda S660

[Essex V6]

Mk2 RS2000

Capri RS3100

Early Cooper S

Sunbeam Lotus

[Asimo]

 

[Essex V6]

My dad ran big Peugeots in the 'seventies which is probably why I like them - very smooth riding cars.

 

I would also like to own an ISO Fidia or Lele. And a V12 Jaguar or Daimler - Series 2, XJ-S or XJ40, I'm not fussy. And a Mk2 Granada 2.8 Ghia. That has to be crystal green with a brown velour interior and quite specifically the higher grade Ghia which Ford made before the Ghia X was introduced. I'd quite like the 604 to be metallic brown, metallic red or light Ivory, with a tan leather interior. Automatic, obviously. Early car please, with nice mirrors and round fuel filler. While I am at it, I think I shall also want a Camargue - pre facelift with the wonky rear suspension but lovely chrome highlights on the flanks they so egregiously deleted from the late ones. A crime against style, that was. And an SD1. Richelieu red, very early series 1 automatic.

Snapped here in NZ a couple of months ago

[derskine]

Fiat 131 supermirafiori
FSO 125P

Lotus Sunbeam

Avenger Tiger

Triumph GT6

[Coprolalia]

The Renner 4 Van I turned down 5 years ago at £400 because I didn't have the cash to my name. Was a proper barn find and just needed brake tinkering.

 

The Mk1 Golf C 1.3 Formel-E that I was offered at £350 by a scrappy mate and was entirely rust free. Had it running round his yard with some tinkering. Ran away from that because the owner was in prison for using it in a ram-raid on the local Somerfield. No kidding.

 

BAH!

[Tamworthbay]

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I have nearly bought a 914 twice and went for a 944 and a 480ES (of all things) instead. Crazy money now.

[Royale80]

Renault 30TX

Peugeot 604TI

Granada Ghia mark 1 (had a 3000L manual years ago)

Rover SD1 3500 ( had a 3500 manual years ago)

facel Vega HK500

 

Steve

[DSdriver]

Fiat 2300S coupe - the poor mans Ferrari.

 

I have wanted one since I was a kid and was driven around the Brands club circuit in one, but have a suspicion that all these years of want will leave me hugely disappointed as I wouldn't get to drift it around long sweeping bends.

[PiperCub]

Lucky to have owned alot of stuff that I've wanted but some have escaped me, among them are:

 

Mini Cooper S - a proper 60's one, pref Mk1 slidey windows, cordpull doors, could've had one for a grand or so in the 80's. Stupid boy.

 

Cit XM - as someone said, the good ones are a bit pricey now (but I still might....), cheap ones are moneypits.

 

BMW M3 (E30) - though not a beemer-man, these are something special to drive, never cheap as such but not that long ago £5K could get a pretty reasonable one.

 

Escort RS2000 (Mk2) - in a Bodie&Doyle style, that being my era! Really missed the boat big-time on these, kicking myself for not getting one in the 90's when they were bargains compared even then to Mk1's. I'm an Idiot.

 

Citroen Mehari:

[Biggy Shackleton]

Jensen Interceptor MK. 2

 

Me mate bought one when he was 22 for £3800, taxed and MOT'd. It had one area of rust around a wheelarch, but other than that there was nowt wrong with, engine spot on, this was only in 2003 - no way you'd find that now.

[pshome]

Ever since dreaming of this...

 

 

if only they wouldn't be that expensive

[J-Rod]

 

I adore these. Maybe if I ever have a big enough garage... 

[brickwall]

[Tamworthbay]

you might be taking the mick but I always wanted a Daimler ferret but they are stupid money now.

[Lord Sterling]

â— D-reg Rover Sterling

â— Jaguar of any sort

â— Austin/Rover Montego

â— R8 Rover 200/400

â— Mk2 Cavalier

â— Ford Orion Ghia

â— Vauxhall Senator B

â— Rover P6 V8

â— Rover SD1 3500 V8

â— Renault 14TL

â— Ford Sierra Sapphire Cosworth

◠Ford Fiesta XR2i - missed the boat on one of these years ago for £300

â— Ford Escort XR3i

â— Renault Vel Satis/Avantime 3.5

â— Audi A8 (1st Generation)

 

There are probably others but I can't think off the top of my head...

[Sudsprint]

FAB 1

[Inspector Morose]

Buy a Bedford VAL and build your own.

[vulgalour]

My perception of 'ordinary' is a little skewed.

 

Daimler DS420

 

Austin Sheerline

 

Riley RM

 

Humber Imperial estate

 

Sunbeam Rapier

 

VW Beetle

 

Austin Princess hearse

[Taff]

 

don't bother. they blow their turbo's for a pastime, you can't get R12 for the APU and don't even get me started on the robustness of the RBJ...

 

it won't rust, though

[Essex V6]

Driving to work this morning, I realised I had omitted an Abarth 130 TC from my list

[AlabamaShrimp]

This

 

 

And this

 

 

But really I can just put the seats down in mine and it's nearly the same

 

These

 

Oh and this

[Sigmund Fraud]

 

Those have slowly moved from "expensive" to "obscene" over the last few years. Having said that, they're still a bargain* compared to later/earlier models...