Cars?

[Amanda P]

Always quite fancied a Lomax, something like this:

Utterly impractical, I know.

 

[Fnaar]

For long trips, or just swooshing about feeling wonderful, a Citroen DS

Oh yeah, we had this before sometime. I love these kiddos! The French may be generally objectionable, but the make a nice car!

 

[Arch]

Always quite fancied a Lomax, something like this:

Utterly impractical, I know.

Not utterly. It seats more than one, doesn't take up excessive space on the road, and being based on a 2CV, wil be pretty economical to run and maintain, I imagine.

 

[Joe24]

You don't see 'em 'cause most are in the garage getting repaired. Anyone who runs a TVR needs to run two cars and have deep pockets. Most come with their own breakdown truck as part of the deal.

And that is why they are cool.
A person up the road has an old-ish TVR, we went out one saturday and it had broke down. Next weekend i was on my way back home on my bike and there it was again, on the back of a break down truck.

 

[Joe24]

I've never driven the FH16, but I've had a few FH12s over the years. Not as good as the big DAF 95s, in my opinion.
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The dafs just dont look as good, only looked in the cab, not been out in one. The long daf looks good, but the inside is just plywood. My dad has drove a FH16, and the room in it is amazing, it pulls well, but in the wet it gets abit twitchy, and that was only the 480.

 

[simonali]

Anyone fancy one of these handsome beasties?

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/230103/

 

[Rhythm Thief]

RT

Did you ever see the 2CV that the 2CV dealer from south Birmingham turned around? He lifted the body off, turned it round, and stuck it back on backwards.

He reckoned it went faster afterwards.

I remember that pretty well, it was around on the club scene for a while. Interesting idea well carried out, I thought.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Always quite fancied a Lomax, something like this:

Utterly impractical, I know.

Not always the most important thing. I borrowed one of these for a week once and they're tremendous fun. A guy I used to know in the 2CV club has run a four wheel version as his only car for about twenty years. He goes all over Europe in it with his wife and their dog with all their camping kit in a trailer. So, not even that impractical really!

 

[Hover Fly]

A Citroen Traction Avant. Understated style. First saw one in the TV series "Maigret" when I was knee high to a hub cab and thought it cool even then

There was one of those outside my girlfriend's chateau for a while last summer, along with a smaller Renault of similar age, the T.A. was georgeous. The French TV were making a film and using her hangar for safekeeping at night.

 

[mickle]

Right then.

Any list of dream cars must feature the Bugatti Royale, the finest car ever made, right at the top of the list.

If rarity, beauty, value and historic provenance are the selection parameters for our fantasy dream garage then the Sharknose Ferrari has to make an appearance at number two. None survive, disappointed by their performance Enzo sent them all to the crusher.

In no particular order, and I cant choose between them; Alfa P2, Bugatti Type 35, Bugatti type 57 'Imaginaire', 1930 Bentley 8 litre, 1907 RR Silver Ghost, 1947 Cisitalia 202 Penin Farina, Lambo Miura S, Daytona, C type Jag.

 

[spandex]

Now you have all put down your best cars. What colour do you think is the best for that car?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Depends on the car, but my Jaguar D type would (obviously) be in British Racing Green. My Rolls Royce estate would have to be black and my Citroen 2CV would be in that gloriously 1970s burnt orange colour.

 

[simonali]

I saw a couple of unusual cars today at extreme ends of the scale. First one was a Renault 4, haven't seen one of those in years and the other was a Lamborghini Gallardo in retina-melting yellow. Both nice to see, but I know which one I'd like to own!

 

[Nortones2]

Can't see the point in getting a car that is too big, too cumbersome, too finicky, so Porsche 911 would do.

 

[spesh]

Apropos earlier posts, the Bugatti Veyron looks f'kin awful, especially in a two-tone paint job. It's not a car, it's monument to the ego of the VW chairman.

I'd rather have a Bentley or a Jaguar myself.