Anyone got a 'drive' bucket list?

[Lord Sterling]

What I mean by this, is any cars you want to try/drive etc...

Maybe threads like this have been done before, but hey, here is one.

I was inspired by a BBC Archive video about London cabbies. Now I've driven a LOT of cars up and down the country, but there are some that have absolutely alluded me.

I'll start, in no particular order.

1. LTI FX4 and LTI TX1 cabs. Yeah, basically because of above. I've always found them utterly interesting. The thing is, I've driven private hire cabs small distances when in for repairs or needing to be moved but they are just normal cars with 'taxi' plonked on top. Never tried the real taxis:

2. Jaguar XJS. Some years ago, I nearly got given the chance to drive an XJS (delivering it to someone) but this never came to be. I'd love to try one, just to try one:

3. Jags XJ6 S1/S2/S3. So I've got a derivative of all of these in a modern coat and I love it. Thanks to @Imhotep I got to try out the S-Type but I'd love to try out the proper Jags, the ones that made Jaguar who they are today:

4. Austin Allegro. Yeh, I'm aware there is a couple on here and one may even be for sale, but if I haven't made it abundantly clear, I have no space and no money, and if I did, I'd have bought an S-Type by now. No, I love the Allegro and would dearly love to try one.

5. Reliant Robin & Supervan II. Just to try a 3 wheeler. That's all. 

6. W140 Mercedes. To be fair, I had an S124 Mercedes E280 so I'd imagine a S280 wouldn't be much different, I'd still like to try one, although I'm more erring to owning one than just trying one.

7. R129 Mercedes SL. Speaking of Mercs, an R129 SL would be nice to try. An old mate of my Dad's had one, I may have been a passenger but I've never driven one.

8. BMW 7er E32. When I was growing up in Brussels, I used to see quite a few of these. Never drove one though. I have driven its smaller brother, the E34 5-series, whilst the car looked great, the interior wasn't anything to talk about.

9. Rover SD1 3500/2600. Now I have driven a Rover P6 V8 courtesy of a former autoshiter, but never an SD1. I'd like to try both the 3.5 and 2.6 to see what they're like.

10. Renault Avantime V6. My mate Brad had one of these. Although I never drove it, I have been a passenger in it and he did let me drive a Espace V6 which to me was a fine machine.

11. DeLorean DMC-12. They say never meet your heros and what have you, but I'd love to drive one just for experience of driving one, I'msure they're not as great as they seem so say people of whom have driven one. I certainly wouldn't want to own one, but I would love to try one. 

12. Aston Martin DB5/DB6. I doubt very much there would be a realistic prospect of this ever happening, but I cam always dream eh? I probably have more prospect of buying a mid-90s Aston Martin than ever trying one of these. 

[ProgRocker]

FSO Polonez

I'd love to have a drive in a Citroen 2CV and Visa too. And a CX. 

[bezzabsa]

 MK2 RS2000 just because I think they look gorgeous

2cv to see if I can change gear in it!

Robin to see if they are as 'fun' as they look

An Old Rolls to see if they're as good/bad as folk make out

1966 Mustang V8 for the sound

1977 Trans Am because of Smokey & the Bandit

 

[Imhotep]

Quite a few but I’ll shorten it down a tad!

An original Toyota AE86, Levin or Trueno

A mid 1980s Lincoln Town Car (I have no reason for this, but I want to try one)

Citroen BX GTI 4x4

BMW M3 E30

Dodge Viper

Manual swapped Ford Crown Victoria

Hyundai i30 N

That’s the top of my list at the moment 

[chaseracer]

59 minutes ago, ProgRocker said:

I'd love to have a drive in a Citroen 2CV...

52 minutes ago, bezzabsa said:

 ...2cv to see if I can change gear in it!

It's a Dyane and it's not quite* factory, but this could be arranged.

[chaseracer]

This, SVP.

[sdkrc]

Tata Nano MK1

[Knotty Ash Towers]

Here are 2 of mine:- 

The HR Holden, which started my love affair with Australian cars way back in 1980.

The Mazda Roadpacer, a rotary-engined tie-up with Holden, which could achieve an earth shattering 9mpg!

[barefoot]

No, but I sat in a Jenson Interpretor this morning and it was a fine place to sit.

[Bear]

DeLorean DMC-12

Plymouth Prowler

SLK 55 AMG

Citroen DS Decapotable

Bentley 3-litre or 4 1/2 Litre

TR7 V8/TR8 DHC

Dodge Challenger SRT 6.4 (not fussed about the stupidly powerful ones)

1976 Cadillac Eldorado convertible

Any GM Commercial Chassis American hearse

Vauxhall VX490 (the last generation FE with five-speed 'box - I tried to buy USA 333S a couple of times but when it was available, no money, when money, not available) or a Victor 3300SL estate...

[bangernomics]

 MK2 RS2000 just because I think they look gorgeous
2cv to see if I can change gear in it!
Robin to see if they are as 'fun' as they look
An Old Rolls to see if they're as good/bad as folk make out
1966 Mustang V8 for the sound
1977 Trans Am because of Smokey & the Bandit
 

I can help you with one of those.

[bangernomics]

A nice old rover p4/5/6 sort of thing.

An original s type jag

A porsche 912

A gt6

A Maserati something

Bmw 16/20 02

60’s alfa

[artdjones]

[Asimo]

Ami 8

Mk5 Corvette. (manual)

1970 Eldorado

Tatra 603

[Billy - Medhurst]

Two chalk and cheese cars  -  Loved the look of the Gordon Keeble since I was a kid and the Morris Minors were in the family as a kid .

 

[hairnet]

9 hours ago, chaseracer said:

This, SVP.

Saw one of these today and mildy twisty bumpy road and it was wallowing all over the place 

108 woulda been quicker

[hairnet]

Gordon keeble

Amc thing that did the jump when chasing scaramanga

Biffs 46 ford

Siegfried farnons p4

Street hawk ( i know)

Six cyls 308

V10 audi

Fiat twin air

 

[artdjones]

2 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Fiat twin air

I wouldn't build on it being a very significant experience.

[Billy - Medhurst]

5 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Amc thing that did the jump when chasing scaramanga

AMC Hornet.

Edit - here

AMC Hornet | James Bond 007

[HMC]

Id certainly over rev the engine and become

bankrupt and or dead. What a way to go.

[dozeydustman]

My list is far more staid as a general rule I like your everyday car

HB Viva GT
HA van
Hillman Avenger
Sunbeam Rapier H120
Peugeots 204, 304, 305, 404, 504 & 604
Citroen DS/ID
Renault 16
Renault 14
Landcrab
Victor FD & FE
Simca 1300/1500/1301/1501

Non-car but still porridge
AEC Mammoth Major 8 with the dirty sounding engine (AV690?)
 

Couple of exceptions to the porridge class
Ford GT
Gordon Keeble
Jensen Interceptor
 

[catsinthewelder]

Something beginning with W.  I've done the rest of the alphabet (mostly FoD and other AS meets)  finally got a U last year driving a mates Up but have a nagging feeling that driving a Westfield mower doesn't really count.  Annoyingly I used to own a Wolseley 16/60 but never got it running.

[Bear]

Oh, and mine are ones I might theoretically get to drive still. If I'm going for wild dreams - Vector W2, Porsche 959, blah blah.

I forgot one which may as well be as exotic. Buick Grand National/GNX. I had a '79 Regal Limited Coupe which is the base vehicle, but way, way, way different...

[Bear]

2 hours ago, hairnet said:

Saw one of these today and mildy twisty bumpy road and it was wallowing all over the place 

108 woulda been quicker

Someone doesn't know how to handle SM DIRAVI then - they do wallow if you oversteer and correct (two turns lock to lock) but as with CX if you put the right input in... you make very swift progress and float... DS is the same but without the DIRAVI gearing and self-centre behaviour so people find them easier!

They should have let you drive it!

[RayMK]

1 hour ago, catsinthewelder said:

Something beginning with W.  I've done the rest of the alphabet (mostly FoD and other AS meets)  finally got a U last year driving a mates Up but have a nagging feeling that driving a Westfield mower doesn't really count.  Annoyingly I used to own a Wolseley 16/60 but never got it running.

I considered a Wartburg for my list but I've been a passenger in a Saab 96  Sport (2 Stroke), so a Wartburg Knight seemed like overkill 😀.  

Similarly, I've ruled out a Tatra 603 because I was a front seat passenger in one for about 10 metres as the chap trying to sell it drove us (me and a friend) out of his large garage on to the front drive.   I also ruled out a Citroen DS as I owned a CX GTi Turbo 2 for about a year and have driven a GSA many miles.

So, it's got to be:

1.  NSU Ro 80

2.  Oldsmobile Toronado

3.  Lloyd Arabella                                (By Lothar Spurzem - own work by Spurzem, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3789656) 

4. Trojan RE                                           (Lane Motor Museum)

5. Bond 875                                           (By Charles01 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3267125)

[hairnet]

36 minutes ago, Bear said:

 for wild dreams - Vector W2, 

points for not obvious

@Floatylights volvo

not @cms206 beemer

[MantaGTE85]

An early 1990s Primera 1.6 L, just to see if the handling and performance really is as good as What Car said.

A digital dash R-series Maestro with the talking lady.

[vtec-e]

3 that I would like to try first before possibly owning

Alfa Romeo 1300GT (in my dreams )

Peugeot 406 saloon

BMW F10

[cms206]

I've been lucky in having driven lots of stuff off my bucket list, but there are some glaring omissions - never driven a Mk2 Cavalier, for example - but if we're throwing the net really out there for obscurity I really would like a shot of a Yue Loong Feeling.

 

Partly so I can wind wife_cms up by pretending to forget where I've left it so I can serenade her with a Paul Shane-esque rendition of "I've lost my Yue Loong Feeling"...

partly for the tail lights...

but mostly for the absolutely astonishingly brilliant seats.

[Dan the van]

I was fortunate,in a previous job,to drive most of my exotic/posh stuff bucket list.(Lotus Esprit was a big let down,to tall to safely get my foot on the brake pedal🙄) but the Porshe 911 has always alluded me.The closest I got was as a passenger in a very Autoshite brown 1975 911s.And I'd love to try one of these because V12 diesel +dustbin sized turbo(s).

And one of these too.