Coolest car you remember going in as a kid?
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Friend of a neighbour took me out in his Morgan +8 - he also had a V8 Disco - my Dad had a 4/4 at the time which was nice but this thing was a hoot
These days we'd probably have got stopped after someone reported a young person getting into a car with an overweight middle aged bloke
Car was amazing, and looking back his driving was very good as well
Sadly the guy died of a very rare cancer a few years ago
These days we'd probably have got stopped after someone reported a young person getting into a car with an overweight middle aged bloke
Car was amazing, and looking back his driving was very good as well
Sadly the guy died of a very rare cancer a few years ago
996 911 Turbo. I was about 8/9 at the time and had never been in a sports car, let alone a Porsche before!
The lady driving it was my Dad's boss, and she drove the car pretty hard (in a good way - especially fun as I'd never experienced 'enthusiastic' driving at that point). I was a very quiet/ shy child at that age, but when I finally plucked up the courage to ask how fast we were going the reply was 'only 90', and then she accelerated more!
And I've been a Porsche enthusiast since!
Second to this would be a 1958 Ferrari 250 Tour de France. Incredible car and a very down to earth owner who even let me start the car! The attention the car received on the road has been unlike any other I've been in!
The lady driving it was my Dad's boss, and she drove the car pretty hard (in a good way - especially fun as I'd never experienced 'enthusiastic' driving at that point). I was a very quiet/ shy child at that age, but when I finally plucked up the courage to ask how fast we were going the reply was 'only 90', and then she accelerated more!
And I've been a Porsche enthusiast since!
Second to this would be a 1958 Ferrari 250 Tour de France. Incredible car and a very down to earth owner who even let me start the car! The attention the car received on the road has been unlike any other I've been in!
Wierdly my aunties MG Metro - think it was the early 80s and I was 4 or 5! Remember going over a hump back before and allegedly getting air! Ever since I was obsessed with these cars - so 15 or so years later I bought one as my first car - and quickly realised it was not quite as good as I remembered!!
Wierdly my aunties MG Metro - think it was the early 80s and I was 4 or 5! Remember going over a hump back before and allegedly getting air! Ever since I was obsessed with these cars - so 15 or so years later I bought one as my first car - and quickly realised it was not quite as good as I remembered!!
t!!Being taken around Goodwood in a Lotus Elan during the lunch break at a London Car Club sprint. I was in the St John Ambulance attending the circuit and obviously being a petrolhead showed a lot of interest in the cars.One of the officials kindly offered to take me out on the track.
Did my first Sprint at Goodwood aged 21 so achieved what I said I would do that day.
Did my first Sprint at Goodwood aged 21 so achieved what I said I would do that day.
A mate's Dad used to very occasionally get to look after his boss' Sierra Cosworth for the weekend (the whale tale version, not Sapphire) in Grey.
It was a thing to behold and felt so bloody quick. We're talking probably 1989 or thereabouts, so it was probably not that old (were they from a D reg/86' onwards?)
It was a thing to behold and felt so bloody quick. We're talking probably 1989 or thereabouts, so it was probably not that old (were they from a D reg/86' onwards?)
I have three coolest cars from way back
130 MPH in my mates dads E Type Jaguar - two boys sharing the front seat and three more squeezed in the back.
Another mates dads Lotus Cortina - driven in the manner intended by a Ford test driver.
Yet another mates dads 3.8 Mk 2 Jaguar racing through London late at night on the way back to school.
And my dad always bought nothing but bloody Volvos...
130 MPH in my mates dads E Type Jaguar - two boys sharing the front seat and three more squeezed in the back.
Another mates dads Lotus Cortina - driven in the manner intended by a Ford test driver.
Yet another mates dads 3.8 Mk 2 Jaguar racing through London late at night on the way back to school.
And my dad always bought nothing but bloody Volvos...
One of our neighbours when I was little was in the USAF, and not long before he was posted back to the US he ordered a left hand drive Triumph TR6. In magenta with black interior. He drove me to school in it when it arrived and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
But then my parents' friends arrived in their brand new Citroen DS Safari and we all agreed that was the coolest thing ever.
But then my parents' friends arrived in their brand new Citroen DS Safari and we all agreed that was the coolest thing ever.
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