Your ideal motor from the year you were born

[Bren]

 

72 granny is for winners.

[LabRat]

I've got a strange hankering for one of these. Must be the dried frog pills wearing off. (1984, so whatever launch spec lunacy was available)

[Steve79]

1979, so steed of choice is AMC Spirit AMX with the 304 V8 please

[mercrocker]

I didn't realise we were supposed to display a bit of economic realism

 

Neither did I!      

 

OK here is mine for real life - 

 

 

 

 

Series IV Oxford Traveller - just scrapes in as a 1959 model.

[xkjagnz]

1961 so obviously the E type Innit m9

[NorfolkNWeigh]

These were rolling out of a factory about 3 miles from where I was born in 1964, it'd be rude not to, money no object Lottery win conditions permitting of course.

Staying with the quad headlight , challenging looks hand built express theme

And I live 2 miles from Newport Pagnell now( this is where an expert tells me they were made in Feltham or something)

[Angry Sheep]

A rare supercar that appeals...

 

 

Or something a bit more shite. Cos V6.

 

[Louise2cv]

How are some of you people so young? I only passed my test a couple* of years ago.

[fordperv]

Im a 1984 model and ive got the ideal motor from the year i was born it is my sierra base

[Bren]

1979, so steed of choice is AMC Spirit AMX with the 304 V8 please

Looks like a celica that's been sniffing rush.

[richardthestag]

Is this a creepy stalky way of sussing out who the oldies are on the forum?

 

for me either a Fastback Stang or a P6 v8

 

Going pipe and slippers on this one with the P6 v8

 

edited to add The 3500 was introduced in April 1968

 

Bollocks, the Stang then

[SiC]

How are some of you people so young? I only passed my test a couple* of years ago.

Kids who were born after the year 2000 are now old enough to start taking their driving test now!

[adw1977]

I didn't realise we were supposed to display a bit of economic realism

 

You think I wouldn't still choose a Chevette if money was no object?

[Lacquer Peel]

Nyayo car

[11001010]

'72 Beta saloon.

 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Economic realism? I'd still choose a Merak, but would be relying on coming into a reasonable wad of money and / or doing a bank job, or something. I'd imagine fighting galloping rot would be pricey enough.

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Economic realism, you say. Well, if I was doing what I do now for a living, I doubt I'd be driving Mercs or Volvos, rather be making a choice from these 3 and dreaming of affording a P5 Rover.

[Junkman]

These are economically realistic for you?

You have achieved more in life than I did, that's for sure.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

These are economically realistic for you?

You have achieved more in life than I did, that's for sure.

Not now, but they compare to the sort of things I buy for work cars , ie Volvo V70, Merc E Class, BMW 5er, I think.

The sort of car a mid to senior manager might get as a company car whilst climbing the corporate ladder towards a Rover or Humber ( or if a spiv or in the media a Jaguar).

Saying that, £5000 would buy a reasonable example of a big Farina , mk3 Z car or PB VX. Pretty good value, even for low achievers...

[Supernaut]

1988, so...

 

 

Hmmm.

 

 

Oooh, yes please! The 25th anniversary model.

 

 

 

I'll save the best 'til last though.

 

 

 

 

Ooooh yeah. That's the stuff. Honda Prelude... with POP UPS.

[Junkman]

Gosh, some of you people are hardly born yet!

[danthecapriman]

Gosh, some of you people are hardly born yet!

We are the future old man!

[DodgeRover]

1979, so steed of choice is AMC Spirit AMX with the 304 V8 please

That's wrong in so many ways! Where do I sign?

[LC Torana]

Either an EJ

 

Or an Elite

 

Or a 24/80

[Junkman]

We are the future old man!

 

That's what I'm afraid of.

[eddyramrod]

JM: don't upset them, they will be choosing our nursing homes!

[95 quid Peugeot]

1958. My year, my car

[brickwall]

[johngarty]

Mine has to be one of these, Also my first ever car/vehicle.

[chaseracer]

I didn't realise we were supposed to display a bit of economic realism...

 

RLY?  Since when??!