Best looking car of all time.

[twentysix by twentyfive]

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Ah - the 'Wendy House on Wheels'. We had one of those when we first came back to the UK in the late 1970s. I really liked it.

I had two - the first was great fun so I had a second after the first died.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I've said before, I think the R4 was the pinnacle of car design, we had 2 on the trot when I was a kid. Mind you my expectations of fancy cars was pretty low, I remember thinking the Fiat 127 sport was a racy looking car.

70hp, check it out!

 

[Simontm]

As soon as I saw the thread title i was prepared for the usual E Type cliché comments. What is it with that car? I just. Do. Not. Get. The appeal. The soft top I can sort of see it but the coupe is positively ugly.

The soft top's lovely - my problem with them is that they are an absolute pig to drive.

 

[Simontm]

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I've said before, I think the R4 was the pinnacle of car design, we had 2 on the trot when I was a kid. Mind you my expectations of fancy cars was pretty low, I remember thinking the Fiat 127 sport was a racy looking car.

70hp, check it out!

Used my R4 to transport 2 bikes and all the camping kit to France and Finland amongst other places. Even had the first born in with all her "extras" on the French trip. It had picnic seats built in - open the rear hatch and sit. Such a versatile design. Even the gear lever in the dashboard was excellent. Park up against a wall on one side and an easy slide over to the other.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

So much wrong here. :-)

1962 Corvette, the twin lamp front end with the facelift back end ready to be used in the '63 Stingray. You may close this thread now.

My mate was obsessed with Dolomite's in the mid eighties (everybody else liked Ford's). He had an 1850HL and then his dream car the Sprint SOHC 16V, he drove both like a complete lunatic and was always destroying diff's and clutches. The Sprint was scary as the noise from the engine was extremely loud when it was murdered and it seemed to be very wobbly at the back end, it was also a pretty quick car for its time. It's the only BL car I like, never liked Mini's, more so when I finally drove one. I always remember the wooden dash on the Dolomite and the extra gauges it had compared to Ford's etc. The overdrive switch on the gear lever knob was also a novelty.

I came within half a day of buying a Sprint to move all the bits in to my drop head TR7 when I was 19 but fortunately the breakers yard screwed me over on the deal. I think the TR7 would have looked great on the Sprint alloys, but considering how much of a twitchy handful it was standard I'd have been so much twisted metal round a lamppost if I'd actually got the Sprint engine running in it! Replaced the engine with another standard one (head had gone) and sold it on using the money to buy a Mk1 Escort with a 3.5 Rover in it. Lovely car.

 

[Chromatic]

I agree with @stumpy66

Mine was this colour and R reg too. Should have kept it.

 

[mthorpe2014]

With deptfordmormoset, it has to be the E-Type ....

 

[w00hoo_kent]

I like Stags

Saw one broken down by one of the roundabouts in Colchester last Friday night, judging by the look on the owners face he'd have let you have it for a tenner.

 

[John the Monkey]

This would be handy. Also, I find the pennants quite jaunty.

 

[Paulus]

E-type Jaguar

But which model? The hard top or the soft top?

For me it is the soft top, the hard top looked a bit too top heavy.

 

[Paulus]

I always wanted one of these.

There was something about the shape that i really liked

 

[Beebo]

This one makes me laugh, just thinking about it.

 

[martint235]

I like the body of the E Type but in the flesh as it were, it just seems to high. It's like they forgot to lower the suspension on it.