Best looking car of all time.

[Vapin' Joe]

Or Frank Cannon.

At 6'1 and 68 kilos I don't think so.

 

[Paulus]

I also really like the shape of this, my first car--The Ford Anglia 123e. This is the Deluxe version with a 1198cc engine.

 

[derrick]

I also really like the shape of this, my first car--The Ford Anglia 123e. This is the Deluxe version with a 1198cc engine.

We used to customize these, Twin cam engines, 1650 crossflow lumps. and finally squeezed a V6 ford lump. The good old days.

 

[screenman]

We used to customize these, Twin cam engines, 1650 crossflow lumps. and finally squeezed a V6 ford lump. The good old days.

My last one had 10inch wide tyres on the back, along with just about everything else.

 

[slowmotion]

At 6'1 and 68 kilos I don't think so.

Frank Cannon could sprint like a whippet. I always wondered about that.
BTW, 68 kg has got to be wrong.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Frank Cannon could sprint like a whippet. I always wondered about that.
BTW, 68 kg has got to be wrong.

Only when they rolled him down a hill.

 

[JtB]

For me the E-Type is my all time favourite, but the Growler is a very close second.

 

[jonny jeez]

late addition, I always thought the Z8 was a stunning car and was built like a bespoke unit. they only made around 5,000 so those still around must be worth a few quid

 

[jonny jeez]

For me the E-Type is my all time favourite, but the Growler is a very close second.

beautiful car, shame it doesn't produce a very favourable google search result!

 

[Piemaster]

I like the estates, & would also be very happy with a Skoda Rapid S110

My Dad had the 4-door version. I was reminiscing about awhile ago and the search came up with a few photos of that. Can't help but agree it is a good looking car.

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.

I actually did it. Sprint engine in a TR7. Much better suited to the car than the standard engine

I agree with @stumpy66 View attachment 94262

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

I had a K reg one. Had a Rover V8 in it a previous owner had dropped in - together with the bonnet bulge of a Capri to clear the carbs.
Saw it again a few years after I sold it. The new owner had swapped the V8 for a Triumph 2400 straight 6

It also sort of goes in my 'old Italian cars' category as it was done by one of the Italian design houses. Pinnifarina?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

For me it's got to be this AC Cobra
View attachment 94322

Plus the Folder might go in the boot..Bonus!!!

Gorgeous, not quite a petite as the 289, but still highly desirable

I take it you've seen 'Gumball Rally'?, with the scene in the Los Angeles 'storm-drains'??
Best part is from about 1.45

For me the E-Type is my all time favourite, but the Growler is a very close second.

It reminds me of the Morgan Life Car, but I think I'd prefer the offering from the Malverns
http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/mmc/researchanddev/lifecar.html
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/morgans-lifecar-hybrid

 

[screenman]

It depresses me to think about it but here are a few of the cars I owned and the prices sold for.
E Type £1,000
MK2 Jag £250
S Type jag £400
MGB and GT loads from £500 upwards
308 gt4 £7,000
308 gts £24500 sold 6 years ago, now worth £65,000++ I think. it was the one given away by CE on TGIF
Silver Cloud 1 £5,000
Fiat X/19 loads of them around £1500
P Reg Range Rover without power steering £2,000 maybe less
Fiat Strada Abarth 130 £5,000
Capri 3.0
VW camper vans £1,500 That brings pain and lots of it I sold loads of them
More fast Fords than I care to remember
That will do for now as I cannot see through the tears.

I was a busy car dealer from 1976 through to 1988 when I moved up north.

 

[Andrew_P]

Opel Manta MK 1 closely followed by the MK 2 but only in the 1.9SR Belinetta

 

[screenman]

I just thought of some more, the Manta above being one which I sold to my brother. The Fiat 130 with I think the Masserati engine. If only I had had a crystal ball back then.

 

[Andrew_P]

I have buckled and broken 3 Opel Manta's between 17 & 21