Your dream car

[uphillstruggler]

As for me
My Money no object car
Although I'd probably be dead within the month, as it has a reputation as a killer
AC Cobra 427 S/C

A true beastie!!
Even now, over 55 years later, they're still one of the fastest accelerating (naturally aspirated) cars in existance
Gearing dependant, you're looking at
0-60MPH = 4.2 Seconds
0-100MPH = 9 Seconds
Standing 1/4 mile = circa 11 seconds
Top Speed = 165MPH
However, one Cobra recorded 198MPH
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/shelby-cobra-427-s-c-csx3035-1965.302618/
That's with;
No forced induction
No aerodynamics
No electronic stability control
No fancy bits, just a big V8

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ienk3gWgOI


Sounds like a huge powerboat trapped in a harbour

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF8An64G2eo


There was also the Cobra, in Gumball Rally

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VOUR5RApkM








One of the very few M-Bs I like
Others being;
'Ponton' saloons
1960s SLs ('Pagoda roofs')
The 80's W123 estates (seen with chrome roof-rails, & colour coded hubcaps)
And... a G-Wagon, in original 80's spec - not the tarted up pimp-mobiles they are now


Did you see the one that featured in the 'Sin City Motors' series?
Have a look at their other builds - I love the '57 'Wagon-Rod'
https://welderup.com/pages/tuxedo-rod

My barbers husband has a 'full on' GMC Vantura (as I believe the model is called)

If I may backtrack on my original quote, I would have to agree on this

I thought that just before I saw this

Beautiful and beastly in equal measure

 

[screenman]

I own my dream car, Octavia estate DSG I could drive far more expensive cars but this one is just my type of car. I have owned a lot of exotic stuff

 

[Fab Foodie]

My second choice....

 

[raleighnut]

If we're allowed 2nd choices it'd be this for me,

 

[Bonefish Blues]

A toss-up for me between a Khamsin and an SM. The former would probably win, but very close run thing.

For a bonus point, what do they have in common?

 

[Deleted member 23692]

For those feeling the shared Xj13 love, here's a vid of one of the very few cars that is beautiful from whichever angle you view it.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMP7fW7tj3w


A special thing it is

 

[derrick]

For those feeling the shared Xj13 love, here's a vid of one of the very few cars that is beautiful from whichever angle you view it.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMP7fW7tj3w


A special thing it is

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVLv1El1vh4

 

[EltonFrog]

For those feeling the shared Xj13 love, here's a vid of one of the very few cars that is beautiful from whichever angle you view it.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMP7fW7tj3w


A special thing it is

The very visible personification of perfection.

 

[DRM]

As for me
My Money no object car
Although I'd probably be dead within the month, as it has a reputation as a killer
AC Cobra 427 S/C

A true beastie!!
Even now, over 55 years later, they're still one of the fastest accelerating (naturally aspirated) cars in existance
Gearing dependant, you're looking at
0-60MPH = 4.2 Seconds
0-100MPH = 9 Seconds
Standing 1/4 mile = circa 11 seconds
Top Speed = 165MPH
However, one Cobra recorded 198MPH
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/shelby-cobra-427-s-c-csx3035-1965.302618/
That's with;
No forced induction
No aerodynamics
No electronic stability control
No fancy bits, just a big V8

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ienk3gWgOI


Sounds like a huge powerboat trapped in a harbour

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF8An64G2eo


There was also the Cobra, in Gumball Rally

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VOUR5RApkM








One of the very few M-Bs I like
Others being;
'Ponton' saloons
1960s SLs ('Pagoda roofs')
The 80's W123 estates (seen with chrome roof-rails, & colour coded hubcaps)
And... a G-Wagon, in original 80's spec - not the tarted up pimp-mobiles they are now


Did you see the one that featured in the 'Sin City Motors' series?
Have a look at their other builds - I love the '57 'Wagon-Rod'
https://welderup.com/pages/tuxedo-rod

My barbers husband has a 'full on' GMC Vantura (as I believe the model is called)

Regarding an 80’s G-Wagon, I have just finished a really interesting book called Brixmis the last Cold War mission, where the British army & RAF used G-Wagons touring East Germany, as liaison missions to the Soviet forces in Germany, taking photos and gathering intelligence on what kit &what the Soviet & DDR forces were up to, as they accidentally on purpose stumbled across them.
In one part the author describes being chased off a soviet training area by a couple of T80 tanks in a G Wagon and popping out straight onto an autobahn, they took a real hammering including being rammed off the road by soviet military trucks, they were highly specced, but definitely not like the pimp mobiles they have become,it’s a good read.
I saw one of the drug dealer G Wagons the other week at a car wash, shiny black, the poser driving it came back and made the cleaner buff his windows and mirrors, then walked round, pointing at stuff, just as this idiot decided he was happy, a van flew into the car park, straight through a muddy puddle covering it in muck, I didn’t laugh......much!
https://images.app.goo.gl/eiQMrukz5UCXC5PX9

 

[Proto]

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In today's lexicon .. pure filth :

Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale. The decent 33, not the crap mid 80s version ...

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That is lovely looking thing. Would they be Campagnolo wheels?

 

[swee'pea99]

Still remember seeing one of these as a boy and thinking it not just the most beautiful car I'd ever seen but the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. Wouldn't go that far now, but certainly no other car has come close in 50 years.

It's one of those rare cars, too....

That looks equally gorgeous from any angle.

 

[Jenkins]

[QUOTE 5575918, member: 9609"]I do like the look of that - is it a real car or an artists impression[/QUOTE]
It's the Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Shooting Brake - unfortunately all sold out.

As a second choice for when not transporting bikes and, if money was no object, I'd see if I could lay my hands on an original McLaren F1

 

[Gravity Aided]

And whatever you do, don't show them a corner...

It had a light on the back of the turn indicator out on the hood, which lit when you were wasting gas. Few were the times that light was out. Easy cars to work on, you could stand inside the body, next to the engine. There was an alternate starter in there for working on the engine. Mine was reliable, a good enough machine for the time I had it.

 

[Gravity Aided]

 

[derrick]

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Am glad i don't dream like you.