If You Could Own Any Car Ever Produced & Brand New. What Would It Be?

[Biker67]

Some folk may choose a McLaren F1 or something produced by Ferrari or Porsche etc.

But purely based on its looks alone. I'd have a MK2 Jaguar aka "The Bank Robber"

What would you have?

 

[salty]

Good choice, that is lovely.

 

[Biker67]

Good choice, that is lovely.

I was also thinking of the Merc 300SL.
But I thought I'd keep it semi realistic

 

[MG Clive]

Mimosa Yellow Dolomite Sprint.

 

[Biker67]

Mimosa Yellow Dolomite Sprint.

Set your sights much higher Sir

A Dolomite Sprint wasn't a bad car. And if I remember correctly, it was also the first 16v standard production car?
But it's hardly a dream car in my book

 

[Archev]

Mimosa Yellow Dolomite Sprint.

Oh yes please that was a Bonny car.

 

[salty]

Capri 280 Brooklands. Super cool Back in the day...

 

[Biker67]

Capri 280 Brooklands. Super cool Back in the day...

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And ridiculously valuable these days Salty!

 

[salty]

And ridiculously valuable these days Salty!

Yep, 12 grand at launch in 1987. Way out of my reach, back then.
One 5500 mile example sold last year at auction for 63 grand. Way out of my reach now.

 

[Biker67]

The same rules seem to apply to any 70's to 90's fast Fords these days mate.

I used to purchase any car around £500 in late Sept to use during the winter months. Rather than freeze my bits off on a bike.
The idea was to purchase anything with 12 months MOT & 6 months tax.
Then sell it with 6 months MOT & no tax in March & go back to bikes only.
Often that worked out as free winter transport

Back then £500 ish purchased me XR2's & even an Opel Manta.
Not now though!

 

[OriginalBigAl]

The same rules seem to apply to any 70's to 90's fast Fords these days mate.

I used to purchase any car around £500 in late Sept to use during the winter months. Rather than freeze my bits off on a bike.
The idea was to purchase anything with 12 months MOT & 6 months tax.
Then sell it with 6 months MOT & no tax in March & go back to bikes only.
Often that worked out as free winter transport

Back then £500 ish purchased me XR2's & even an Opel Manta.
Not now though!

I did the same , usually ended up in a mini Metro. Still froze my bits off.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

Being daft and on the roads I'm on now it would have to be a Citroen AX . Absolutely hilariously dangerous.

 

[Biker67]

I did the same , usually ended up in a mini Metro. Still froze my bits off.

What was your first bike?
Mine was a Suzuki X7 (250cc two stroke) at 15yrs old.
It wasn't legal for a 15yr old
But at the time it was mega rapid. In fact it would out run a 750cc Triumph Bonnie. If you could keep the front wheel on the ground!
And the tiny width tyres had more nylon in them than my Mum's tights. They certainly didn't offer the grip of modern bike tyres, especially in the wet!

 

[Archev]

What was your first bike?
Mine was a Suzuki X7 (250cc two stroke) at 15yrs old.
It wasn't legal for a 15yr old
But at the time it was mega rapid. In fact it would out run a 750cc Triumph Bonnie. If you could keep the front wheel on the ground!
And the tiny width tyres had more nylon in them than my Mum's tights. They certainly didn't offer the grip of modern bike tyres, especially in the wet!

My Dad gave me a 1949 BSA C11. A 250 cc single cylinder bike. So it was the same age as me and I took it apart and transported it bit by bit to my Aunts house in Alloway where we visited every other weekend. We rebuilt the machine and I learned to ride it by charging and crashing through a bit of woodland. After a while and with my 16th birthday approaching, I dismantled it and took it home to Edinburgh and rebuilt it ready for the road. So on my birthday it was fitted with L plates and became my daily transport to school in Leith. It also carried me to Mull on an early adventure. Sadly its demise came one day in the way to school. The con rod snapped and smashed the crankcase. On those bikes the crankcase was bolted to, and became part of, the frame, so the bike sort of collapsed beneath me at 30 mph on Telford Road. I gathered as many oil spattered bits as I could off the road and called Dad at his work from the phone box up the road.
I had a day off school, Mum had some serious washing, we scrapped the remainder of the BSA, and dear Father borrowed a larger van in the next day or two and brought home a Triumph 200cc Tiger Cub. But that’s a different story.

 

[Biker67]

My Dad gave me a 1949 BSA C11. A 250 cc single cylinder bike. So it was the same age as me and I took it apart and transported it bit by bit to my Aunts house in Alloway where we visited every other weekend. We rebuilt the machine and I learned to ride it by charging and crashing through a bit of woodland. After a while and with my 16th birthday approaching, I dismantled it and took it home to Edinburgh and rebuilt it ready for the road. So on my birthday it was fitted with L plates and became my daily transport to school in Leith. It also carried me to Mull on an early adventure. Sadly its demise came one day in the way to school. The con rod snapped and smashed the crankcase. On those bikes the crankcase was bolted to, and became part of, the frame, so the bike sort of collapsed beneath me at 30 mph on Telford Road. I gathered as many oil spattered bits as I could off the road and called Dad at his work from the phone box up the road.
I had a day off school, Mum had some serious washing, we scrapped the remainder of the BSA, and dear Father borrowed a larger van in the next day or two and brought home a Triumph 200cc Tiger Cub. But that’s a different story.

Awesome!

 

[Archev]

Nah - one of the slightly older prefects (I was one also) had a fabulous Velocette Viper 350 in almost full race trim to commute to school. I was as jealous as a jealous thing that wished he was a bit older and a lot richer.
To make matters much much worse the same said older prefect had another bike. It was another blooming Velocette too. And he kept it in his bedroom !! But that’s not the best (?) part.
It was a full blown KSS 350 racing machine with overhead camshaft and I think it had desmodromic valve control - ie no valve return springs - I was green, nuff said.