Your Parents Bought You a Car in the Year You Were Born
Your Parents Bought You a Car in the Year You Were Born
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RGG

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1,110 posts

47 months

Friday 18th April 2025
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Your parents bought you a car in the year you were born - and kept it in storage until you could drive - What do you wish was that car?

I'll go first -

Aston Martin DB3 S




CanAm

14,040 posts

302 months

Friday 18th April 2025
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I was going to say that I wouldn't have wanted any of them, but then I found it wasn't as bad as I thought:-






anonymous-user

84 months

Friday 18th April 2025
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Skyline GTR two door or Dino 246..assuming you meant a car introduced the year I was born?

TwigtheWonderkid

49,125 posts

180 months

Friday 18th April 2025
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Mk1 Lotus Cortina


Riley Blue

23,205 posts

256 months

Friday 18th April 2025
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I'd like them to have bought this:



but they'd have been far more likely to have bought this:



Robertb

3,870 posts

268 months

Friday 18th April 2025
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1973 Ferrari Daytona Spyder.

Though actually, invest the then asking price into a US index fund.

Obi Wan

2,295 posts

245 months

Friday 18th April 2025
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F40

Ryyy

2,047 posts

65 months

Friday 18th April 2025
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Off the top of my head an e36 but I'm sure there's something a bit better out there smile

RGG

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47 months

Friday 18th April 2025
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CanAm said:
I was going to say that I wouldn't have wanted any of them, but then I found it wasn't as bad as I thought:-





biggrin You had rich parents.

RGG

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Friday 18th April 2025
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Riley Blue said:
I'd like them to have bought this:



but they'd have been far more likely to have bought this:

biglaugh

sherman

15,261 posts

245 months

Friday 18th April 2025
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1984 Ferrari Testarossa




marine boy

1,237 posts

208 months

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Halmyre

12,617 posts

169 months

Friday 18th April 2025
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Aston Martin DB4 Zagato please.



Or a Jensen 541S.

Although this would be worth it for the name alone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongfanghong_BJ760

Edited by Halmyre on Friday 18th April 18:15

RGG

Original Poster:

1,110 posts

47 months

Friday 18th April 2025
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
Mk1 Lotus Cortina

clap

Master Bean

5,227 posts

150 months

Friday 18th April 2025
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AB

20,528 posts

225 months

Friday 18th April 2025
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1985 Countach LP5000 QV please

RGG

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Friday 18th April 2025
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Master Bean said:
smile

Frankthered

1,688 posts

210 months

Friday 18th April 2025
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I'd go for either an Austin Healey 3000 mkIII or its successor (ish) an MGC GT.

Back2theFuji

358 posts

53 months

Friday 18th April 2025
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