What makes you a petrol head? Your ideal car.

[Wattie]

What a Great thread Wattie.
Im going to have to write a list as have been driving for 40 years passing my test first time days after my 17th birthday.
Was gutted at the time that I couldn't get my test on my birthday.
Even wrote to Jimmy Saville to see if he could fix it.
More later.

You’re lucky he didn’t “fix” you.

 

[Andyk]

My father was a mechanic and used to look after an old Lotus Elan for a friend. I remember it on our drive everytime the owner went on holiday as he used to stay away for months through the summer and used to ask my Dad to run it once a week. The first time my father took me out in than car I was hooked. Past my test at 17 and found a Fiat X19 that needed lots of love and attention. As my father was a mechanic this was handy. Mechanically it was sound but was rusty so we bought it back to its former glory....Rust gone and full respray. Paint £700 for it and sold it a few years later for £1600.

There are so many cars I would have in my garage...but if I had to have one dream car it's the Aston Martin GT12.....and this one...

 

[allandwf]

Would love to see a pic of your Espada! What a fabulous car that was. A genuine four seater and 155mph in the late 60’s-70’s..Brilliant bit of kit I thought. What series did you have?

1974 series 3. RHD Originally a bright metallic blue someone had painted it white :/

 

[RobinL]

So after driving motorbikes which I could do at 16 back in the day, a pal of mine from a local car club was offloading a Ford Galaxy 500, so a 500 cubic inch bare V8 muscle car with twin 4 barrel Holley's, a vinyl bench from seat. All I needed was to pass my test!
From then on I was hooked on the idea that I needed either 8 cylinders or huge engines, or both!
I have owned ordinary stuff, all forgettable.
Apart from a Triumph Spitfire which blew up when I tried Nitrous to see how fast it would go.

The good ones were a supercharged Hummer H2, a 95' limited edition Firebird pace car (700 bhp supercharged), a Chevy SSR also supercharged, a Hennessy Venom Dodge SRT 1500 truck (twin turbo 800 bhp) a Dodge 2500 4x4 Turbo Diesel with 600bhp and 1000 ft-lb of torque then a couple of Range Rovers, a Bentley GTC, finally my Maserati 4200cc and just now a C63 CSL AMG S.
Oh yes and an i3........

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[Wattie]

So after driving motorbikes which I could do at 16 back in the day, a pal of mine from a local car club was offloading a Ford Galaxy 500, so a 500 cubic inch bare V8 muscle car with twin 4 barrel Holley's, a vinyl bench from seat. All I needed was to pass my test!
From then on I was hooked on the idea that I needed either 8 cylinders or huge engines, or both!
I have owned ordinary stuff, all forgettable.
Apart from a Triumph Spitfire which blew up when I tried Nitrous to see how fast it would go.

The good ones were a supercharged Hummer H2, a 95' limited edition Firebird pace car (700 bhp supercharged), a Chevy SSR also supercharged, a Hennessy Venom Dodge SRT 1500 truck (twin turbo 800 bhp) a Dodge 2500 4x4 Turbo Diesel with 600bhp and 1000 ft-lb of torque then a couple of Range Rovers, a Bentley GTC, finally my Maserati 4200cc and just now a C63 CSL AMG S.
Oh yes and an i3........

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Some mental figures on some of those trucks!
Did you like the Bentley?