Off Topic Fantasy Garage

Limited to three cars. No specific order required. An explanation would be good but not necessary.

Mine:

Bullitt Mustang, The BEST American muscle car ever!

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Range Rover Overfinch.

A touch of luxury and oooooodles of power.

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Golf GTi MkI. The BEST car I have ever owned.

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We share similar taste ............. Love the Bullitt Mustang.
Here's one l posted some time ago.
I'll add to it later.

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My fantasy garage would be large enough to convert into a studio apartment to rent out, or a garden office. As it is the one I have is in danger of falling down, probably on to other people's property, which would be awkward, I would never put anything as valuable as a car in it. The car I would put in it would be this classic. My Dad had one in exactly these colours in the Seventies. He and I loved it, he stayed loyal to Citroen for the rest of his life, even though their cars quickly became crappy, as I reminded him regularly. Not beyond the bounds of possibility, but the hydraulics are so complicated I fear it may spend too much time in the repair shop.

 

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I read this as 'Fantasy Farage' - not a pleasant topic. What a toxic thought!

 

I'm seeing a few of the F Pace around - we are very close to the JLR factories in Solihull and Coventry and their facility in Gaydon, many employees live in Leamington and get test models to play with, often in those weird camouflage colours. I don't understand the business case for the F Pace. I'm assuming it's a rebranded Land Rover, for people who want a Jaguar badge, but surely it will simply eat into Land Rover sales? Brighter people than me must have worked it out. Perhaps it's for China. The Evoque is a car that I actively hate.

 

McLaren F1 - still the best supercar of all time
Ariel Atom 3.5 (310bhp version) - I've been hugely fortunate to own two Atoms in the past and dealing with Ariel is a total pleasure. The cars are more fun than anything else on the road too.
Ferrari Dino 246 GTS - surely the most beautiful car ever built.

 

That's a bit spooky. I never learnt to drive because I never had the inclination - or need, as I worked in Central London - so have no particular interest in cars. As a small child, though, I had quite a few Dinky cars and my absolute favourite was this old Citroen model - I always told myself that this would be the first car I would buy. I still find them beautiful to look at.

 

Lamborghini Aventador. A real eye turner.

 

More realistically: very nearly bought one until worked out not enough room for the grandchildren. Oh well, maybe next time.

 

You have impeccable taste my friend. Neither of my brothers (aged 51 and 49) can drive, for similar reasons to you. Both have wives who ferry them around though. I didn't have a car for many years living in London and Hong Kong (a truly ridiculous place to need a private car), but now I could not conceive of life without this particular privilege.

 

Sorry, l can't control myself around cars ............. l thought you said, all your favourite cars!
Here are some of my favourites, limited to just four pages.
I love the American muscle cars from the sixties and the chrome from the late fifties.
The 1958 Buick Limited was the most chromed production car ever made.
Also, a couple of Australian panel vans from my era ( late seventies ) ......... great for everything!

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Only a builder could love vans so much.

 

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The AC Cobra, just WOW

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The Morgan 3 wheeler, my Dad had 9 of these in the 1930s, including a brand new one from the factory. Pity he didn't hang on to another of them for me

 

I often look at Top Gear when they're driving these fast cars around the track and going "Wo-Ho-Ho-Ho!" at the acceleration and cornering and ****, and find myself thinking that must be quite fun. But then I immediately think what the hell use to me would one of those be. I can't take sacks of garden refuse down the tip in one. The dog wouldn't fit in the back. There's no room for Uber Minor, Uber Major and Little Miss Uber (OK, that's possibly an advantage) and it'd be crap over the myriad 'traffic calming' initiatives down our way. Oh, and I'd doubtless look a bit of a prick in one too. So the accountant in me rushes quickly to the fore and promptly tells me that something practical, like my A6 estate, is the best option.

So I'm not sure what I'd put in my fantasy garage, but I can tell you that my current garage is full to the rafters with: the running machine that Mrs Uber wanted for her fortieth five years ago, but has never used, four broken pallets that I was lumbered with after ordering pea shingle and bark mulch recently, three kids' bicycles that the little bastards never use because their mother drives them everywhere, a pile of cardboard boxes, each marked either Amazon or IKEA, that Mrs Uber conveniently forgot she'd dumped in there, bags full of empty Zinfandel bottles that Mrs Uber thinks float down to the bottle bank on their own, several bags full of general household refuse and unwanted toys that Mrs Uber also believe dispose of themselves, a lawn mower, a pasting table in the event we break 17 years of emulsion-festing and decide to wallpaper something, plus an assortment of storage boxes harbouring everything from old school books to Chinese immigrants.

I'd never get a car in there.

 

Someone cloned my garage.

Agree with you on cars for day to day use Ubes, I have never craved a super car or anything close to actually own. But I do highly recommend a track day every now and then to drive a couple of super cars fast under supervision and perhaps a rally car on a gravel track (much more scary). That satisfies my need for speed for a couple of years, only 6 points on the licence at the moment.

 

Yeah, did the car thing a few years ago at Thruxton with Tiff Needell. Good fun, but I'm not really cut out for that sort of thing (too chicken at speed).

 

Only one from me, oh for a lottery win!

 

I never get anywhere near the capability of these cars when I have a go. I know I am not good enough to floor it on anything other than a very long straight.

I had a close encounter with a Ferrari yesterday as one (red, soft top down, two hooray Henry types in the seats) came hurtling round a corner at me on a country lane. It wasn't a single track road, and I was well over on my side of it (even though I had the Golf in 'sport' mode and was enjoying myself) plenty of room to pass. But of course Ferraris are very wide cars and this bloke may not have had the experience to judge the gap. So he swerved left quite alarmingly and scraped his lovely paintwork along the bramble hedge bordering the road.

To my shame I couldn't resist a small smile to myself. Schadenfreude is truly the most universal and satisfying of human pleasures.