If you could have one car...

[Canrider]

Allowable?

 

[cookiemonster]

Allowable?

How can anyone refuse?

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Always loved these as a kid, would probably be horrible to drive. But I would just like to look at it and drive it slowly as it looks so much better than the boring euro boxes that cars are now. I just used to love Italian cars as a kid from the 70's and 80's. Fiat 127 Sport, Fiat 128 3P, Fiat 131 Mirafiori just about any Lancia at all. Used to also love Alfasuds until I drove one lol. The gear change was like stirring soup.

Lancia Beta Monte Carlo (not standard, but nice).

 

[mr messy]

Nice!

Scammells were out of my reach too, so back in '93 I built one using a LWB Land Rover as a starting point.

The rear suspension is inverted leaves allowing 12" of wheel movement up and down.
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All three axles are located with rigid A frames as on a Scammell Constructor and driven with its own prop shaft. The axles are widened Land Rover Salisburys with long shafts in both sides.
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The front axle was also suspended on an inverted leaf spring giving 18" of wheel movement up and down.
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To get 'Scammell' gearing I built a remote mounted three speed transfer box with three prop shaft outputs and a PTO.
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That was mated to a 5 speed ZF box with a low crawler first gear giving 1.5mph at 4000rpm in first gear low range, powered by a Ford York 3.6 litre 6 cylinder diesel.

I'd quite like to have it back*, as it still exists in West Yorkshire (without engine and main gearbox last I heard) but it would be next to impossible to get road legal again with the IVA test.


*This means we are still on topic....

Looks like the perfect school run shopping trolley to me!

I've never went that far but did start measuring and gathering bits for a wee practical runaround mini pickup.....with a blown 500cu v8 and transaxle in the back. Wanted to keep it looking original on 10" rims but twin wheeling, well it is a commercial. Never found the time to figure out if could get gearing to work....maybe dig out again after cleared the decks a little and tidied milly....

 

[tyred]

What about a Range Rover convertible

 

[Boris Bajic]

The Beta Monte Carlo makes the list, especially as it seems to have a Vx motor. But only for looking at. Not for driving.

The crazy Scammell stuff looks timewarped from the timber yards of my childhood. It would get on the list if it were a motor car. But it is not.

MGC? definitely in! Doomed before it was conceived, but what a cool thing to try. The V8 (factory or otherwise) is a bit too 'nearly' for an only car.

And why has nobody gone for the Citroen CX Prestige? As they haven't, I'm going to have to add it to my list of only one car. And a simple, 2-litre petrol CX estate (not the Familiale), just because these things should go in pairs. And a CX GTi Turbo, because it's like a matching set and wouldn't increase the total number of cars on the list, which is still only one.

On which point, a BX 16valve is needed too. Because everyone else was too silly to mention them.

And wartime German half-tracks are not allowed. Those are the rules. Although Lancia Thema 8.32s are allowed (because they're the only car named after the Surbiton-to-Waterloo service used by men of taste. Similarly All those crazy Maserati Bi-Turbo, Ghibli and similar things that looked like Hyundai Ponies with cheap body kits. they are allowed because I say they are.

I fear this thread is now dead, but it has given me hope that some of us still understand the difference between video games and real life, between Clarkson and real taste, between right and wrong...

 

[donnydave]

I've given this a bit more thought and would like to politely suggest a lotus elan, probably S2 or S3, not quite sure of the differences but basically not the 90's reincarnation, and not the early 70's one where the lights moved inboard.

This little chap:

 

[Boris Bajic]

The Elan is allowed in. Even the later models with the lights moved inboard... particularly if they're the hard-top.

Also.... Peugeot 505 V6. Seems a pointless and anonymous car, but in truth it's an indestructable, comfortable, fast monster.

Also... Alfa GTV6 from the 70s and 80s. Daft. Pointless. Almost perfect.

Oh.. and the Lotus Sunbeam is allowed in, as are all the Mk 1 and Mk 2 rally Escorts, but not the Mk 2 RS2000, which was just a silly piece of tinsel and parts-bin expediency with a slanty nose.

And the Fiat Dino Coupe, because Rafaele Vallone was driven around in one in The Italian Job.

And the Lancia Aurelia B20, because Tintn hitches a lift in one in 'L'Affaire Tornesol'.

And the Citroen Mehari 4x4, because it has no idea what the word 'impossible' means.

 

[Profpointy]

How can anyone refuse?

well you might have a few problems taking it on a holiday in Prague

 

[cookiemonster]

well you might have a few problems taking it on a holiday in Prague

Or Warsaw

 

[oldfatfool]

something like this when its cool out



This when its warm out



and this for special occasions

 

[albal]

Gotta be a Veyron.....

 

[ayceejay]

To be honest I think someone who makes a statement like this-
I fear this thread is now dead, but it has given me hope that some of us still understand the difference between video games and real life, between Clarkson and real taste, between right and wrong...
Would feel comfortable driving something like this - Perhaps a little polish (Polish) and the tracks may be slack innit?

 

[400bhp]

 

[Primal Scream]

A mark three Zodiac with bench seats but only because it was my first car at 20 and the back seat was both large and well used I doubt if I had one now it was have the same use