Your ideal motor from the year you were born

[chaseracer]

I'll take this '65 Sedan de Ville just as it is, thanks... 

 

 

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[hairnet]

mmmmm

[bub2006]

1987 volvo 240 glt,ford granada mk3 hatchback or last of the line sd1. Thank you!

[Shep Shepherd]

1977 Ford Granada:

 

 

 

[solid61]

61 pontiac bubbletop for me.

[egg]

Impossible, but...

[Tamworthbay]

Mk1 3.0 Capri, still the unsurpassed pinnacle of automotive brilliance.

[eddyramrod]

1959 Buick Electra 225, in the 4-door hardtop body style.  I even like green!

[DeeJay]

Introduced in 58

 

Alvis 3l td21.

[SiC]

 

959 porker.

 

Actually maybe...

 

 

Nah really this...

 

 

Yue Loong Feeling 101/102

 

 

 

 

 

1986.

[egg]

Better add TR7 sprint and Matra Rancho. Hard choice.

[Captain Furious]

1979 Pontiac Trans-am

 

 

With the Sally Field option

 

[DodgeRover]

1974

 

Ford Falcon XB Wagon V8 auto with GS rally pack

Can't find the exact car but here's the brochure pics to prove it could be done

 

https://static.carthrottle.com/workspace/uploads/posts/2017/05/87674fba0e468a95672e0e4029f099ab.jpg

 

 

Chrysler Valiant VJ 770 V8 Charger supplied from Warwick Wright only if I couldn't manage to get them to supply me the straight 6 R/T option

[Schaefft]

Mercedes C126 SEC from 1989

 

[vulgalour]

 

 

EDIT:  Actually, I'm being daft with the above.  I've already done this in the real world.

[dougiefourspeed]

Probably one of my ultimate cars from any year. It was a toss up between this and the Escort Cosworth but we all know I'm making the right choice.

 

[Junkman]

https://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/details.html?id=230259575

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[danthecapriman]

1984, the year of the beast!

 

1984 Ford Granada Mk2 by Scott Barrett, on Flickr

[Dick Cheeseburger]

*Edit: My original choices were a Mk1 Escort and Mk1 Golf. Having seen others rather more indulgent choices, I've settlen on a seventies Italian favourite.

 

Money pit solution would be a '75 Merak. I've still not forgiven that twat Clarkson for buggering up the red one below, which he put through some TG challenges a while back. It was sold to a specialist breaker after, stripped and the shell scrapped.

 

 

 

[Asimo]

 

or possibly Jaguar XK150 coupe, but the Tatra is more "me" somehow.

[mercrocker]

Eddy beat me to it with a '59 flat top so I will make do with this, please.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ford.  Thunderbird.   1959.   

 

T'was a good year...........

[HH-R]

 

I don't think the RAGING HORN will ever go away for one of these.

 

Post 1986 but designed in the early 80s - what's Junkman's stance on this?

[JeeExEll]

1968.

 

Far too much choice, my brain hurts.

If there was money to spend then my arm may be twisted to take a Buick Riviera Gran Sport.

 

 

 

But if there was less money then I'd still be happy with a FD Ventora or a basic little euro car or a Mk2 Cortina 1600E. So much choice. Mini Cooper 1275 S, Imp Sport, . . . . .

[Split_Pin]

Not really much floats my boat from 1979 tbh but there were obvs lots of older cars still in production. I'd go for a last of the line one of these. I used to lust over this one in Linlithgow Loch car park in 1990.

[adw1977]

1977.

I'll go for a Chevette, like my parents had when I was little.

[eddyramrod]

I didn't realise we were supposed to display a bit of economic realism, so either of these would work.  I've owned an Anglia of my own, and my L plates were on the family Herald.

Er.... except either of these, in really nice condition, is probably worth about the same as the Buick.  Oh well, that's what getting old does!

[cros]

'54 Vickers Vigor, twice as fast as the US competition with supercharged Rolls Royce diesel. Slurps 9.8 gallons per hour. Tractor also thirsty.

[Heidel_Kakao]

1983 Lynx Eventer for me. One of my lotto win cars that I have wanted for a long time.

 

[cort1977]

1977 Ford Granada:

 

1977-ford-granada-engine-wallpaper-9.jpg

 

I came here to post that exact car and year.  Spooky.  

[AlabamaShrimp]

This please, in this colour

 

 

Well OK it was only in Germany in 1976 so it'd be the bus for a year but it'd be worth it.

 

Saying that I've already got one