What do you drive? How much attention?

[Billwoledge]

Nothing in my daily ‘07 Forester turbo, which my 5 year old calls ‘the bread van’

Orange e type just makes everyone smile.

[lowdrag]

This one got quizzical looks but virtually no one had any idea as to what it was. and most didn't like the looks anyway:-



I'll be surprised if many here know it either.

Edited by lowdrag on Wednesday 5th April 05:22

[TikTak]

Use it as the daily driver/only car.

Moderate amount of attention from car type people but parked in Tesco/sat in traffic most people don't know what it is (or that the noise is coming from it ) so it's bit of a sleeper. Got more attention in the 350z before I sold it.

[DickyC]

lowdrag said:

This one got quizzical looks but no virtually one had any idea as to what it was. and most didn't like the looks anyway:-



I'll be surprised if many here know it either.

As it's you, I'm going Jaguar. And having an idea of the numbers of C types and D types, I'm going special bodied C type.

[lowdrag]

DickyC said:

As it's you, I'm going Jaguar. And having an idea of the numbers of C types and D types, I'm going special bodied C type.

Good deduction. It is a replica of one of the three 1952 Le Mans C-types, all of which failed and which were destroyed in 1953. I built one in 2007 just because I felt one should exist.

[DickyC]

lowdrag said:

DickyC said:

As it's you, I'm going Jaguar. And having an idea of the numbers of C types and D types, I'm going special bodied C type.

Good deduction. It is a replica of one of the three 1952 Le Mans C-types, all of which failed and which were destroyed in 1953. I built one in 2007 just because I felt one should exist.

Marvellous. Knowing how chuffed I am when I give a run-of-the-mill car a new lease of life I can only guess at how satisfying re-creating a historically important car must be.

[CABC]

lowdrag said:

This one got quizzical looks but no virtually one had any idea as to what it was. and most didn't like the looks anyway:-



I'll be surprised if many here know it either.

excellent

is there a story as to how that tail was developed? elements of "long tail", but impressive for 1952.

[cymtriks]

Caterham 160
Masses of attention. Kids love it.

[lowdrag]

CABC said:

excellent

is there a story as to how that tail was developed? elements of "long tail", but impressive for 1952.

The story dates back to the Mille Miglia 1952 when Stirling Moss phoned the factory and said that Jaguar had to do something for Le Mans because the Mercedes were very quick. Malcolm Sayer, the designer who had arrived at Jaguar from Bristol Aircraft set to and came up with this design. You'll note the nose is more aerodynamic and the tail resembles an aerofoil, and that is what it did, except that it lifted the tail up instead of clamping it down! One of the cars self-destructed when the chain tensioner broke and the other two overheated because somebody, when painting the car, painted not only the outside but the inside of the header tank. The paint peeled away with the hot water and blocked the system, causing head gasket failure. Here's one with steam pouring out at Arnage and a second at Mulsanne with a quizzical Ian Stewart looking on.:-

[Chubbyross]

SuperNiceBig said:

Very much a weekend car, so no local journeys. I'm not driving through the local high street. Go's fairly unnoticed. Nice rumble sound and petrolheads will know it's an AMG and what that means. Wife thinks it's a thug's car!
Main give away is when in Sport+. Thunderous up changes and pop's and bangs changing down. Which I'll save for deserted A roads on an early morning blat'

I love that! If you’re going to go AMG then go in hook, line and sinker.

I also love the photo. It reminds me of wonderful lyrics from a Divine Comedy song:

“The cars in the churchyard were shiny and German,
Distinctly at odds with the theme of the sermon.”

[stinkyspanner]

I've got this, people seem to like it. Lots of people tell me about when they had one/Dad had one/mate bent one round a tree!

[SuperNiceBig]

Chubbyross said:

I love that! If you’re going to go AMG then go in hook, line and sinker.

I also love the photo. It reminds me of wonderful lyrics from a Divine Comedy song:

“The cars in the churchyard were shiny and German,
Distinctly at odds with the theme of the sermon.”

You made me play that Divine Comedy track!

First (very) fast car, owned for 2 years, super pleased.

[KelvinatorNZ]

I've had a couple of people stop me at the gas station to take photos of the car and ask questions, and tend to get a few thumbs up on the road from fellow classic owners. It does seem everyone's grandpa owned one though

[BrokenSkunk]

KelvinatorNZ said:

David Attenborough said:

And here we see the Rover V8 Fastback in it's natrual habitat.

(It's lovely by the way!)

[renmure]

stinkyspanner said:

I've got this, people seem to like it. Lots of people tell me about when they had one/Dad had one/mate bent one round a tree!

I’d bore you to death about how much I always wanted one

[Neith]

DC5 Integra: The only attention I tend to get is from hot hatch owners wanting to race unfortunately. Apart from that it actually doesn't get much attention which surprised me, as the rear spoiler isn't exactly subtle

On the other end of the spectrum, when I owned a S15 Silvia I'd constantly get people asking about the car (usually people mistaking it for a Skyline?)

[TREMAiNE]

My (mostly) daily driver gets a lot of attention.

It generally gets positive attention, everyone smiles and takes photos.
It doesn't (appear) to create jealousy like some higher-end stuff would.

Unfortunately, it does mean people driving up your arse to take photos or looking at you (side by side) and not the road to get a quick snap while they're driving.

I commute on the M25, so seeing that is always worrying.

[Square Leg]

Only had this 5 weeks and already had several chats in car parks / petrol stations about it with strangers.
One negative is that I’ve already had an X3M, M2 and a Merc cab right up my chuff clearly trying to egg me on.

I’m too old for that st.

The Stelvio QV I had before it garnered zero response from anyone…

[KTMsm]

Recently I've been driving this:




It's been getting ridiculous amounts of attention

[LastPoster]

Six years of Toyota Avensis. Invisible

BMW 330i in lease silver. Still invisible

Porsche 991 Sapphire Blue Metallic, only owned it a couple of months. Almost invisible, just one young lad in a Civic gave his approval at the lights.

All of the above suits me just fine