What is your dream classic?

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rich.
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Re: What is your dream classic?

#21 Post by rich. » Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:16 pm

JPB wrote::mrgreen: Oh no he isn't! Those K10s are where it's at. Especially 3 door, CVT versions in red with a limited edition flag on the rump that takes the form of a drag quean's name; Collette, etc.

Apologies to any drag queans who may be reading, I'm not suggesting that you have any commercial affiliation with Datsun. :)
the only way to make my dream car better is to have scantily clad models carrying makita power tools driving it...
is there a drooling smiley??

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Re: What is your dream classic?

#22 Post by JPB » Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:20 pm

rich. wrote:....is there a drooling smiley??
:D

That sounds like a challenge. :lol:

Here, just for you, is my favourite drooling emoticon/smiley thing:

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Now I reckon that's me when I see one like this:
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8-)

There's an active Datsun Micra forum as it happens, I just spent a most enjoyable half hour dribblin' and a droolin' over the members' cars. Enjoy! I did. :)
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true.. :oops:

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Re: What is your dream classic?

#23 Post by rich. » Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:01 pm

JPB wrote:
rich. wrote:....is there a drooling smiley??
:D
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8-)

There's an active Datsun Micra forum as it happens, I just spent a most enjoyable half hour dribblin' and a droolin' over the members' cars. Enjoy! I did. :)

ohhh baby im having a crisis :oops:

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Re: What is your dream classic?

#24 Post by bnicho » Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:07 am

JPB wrote:
bnicho wrote:....I love getting the Moke out with the top down whenever I can. There is nothing better than limitless sky above and being out there with the world rather than cocooned in a tin box. I don't care where I am going, I just want to drive for the fun of it. The irony is that some summer days it's just too hot to take the Moke out, as I'd end up sunburnt in about five minutes......
:evil:

Shut yer gob please! :cry: ;)
Sorry! :lol:
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Re: What is your dream classic?

#25 Post by Minxy » Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:59 pm

Certainly up at the top of a list of cars I would love to own would be a Sport Quattro – like this but in red...

http://www.oakfields.com/html/showroom0 ... &dlr=10001

Its everything an old car should be, overpriced, impossible to get parts for, in no way does it look like 150K’s worth, unlikely to get a second look from most people, horrible to drive....!!!
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Re: What is your dream classic?

#26 Post by Martin Evans » Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:21 pm

bnicho wrote:The irony is that some summer days it's just too hot to take the Moke out, as I'd end up sunburnt in about five minutes.
Some friends of mine have just moved to near Angouleme in France and they too have found this and they mentioned that soft top cars are not that popular for this reason (They have a Lotus Elan Sprint, a Lotus 6 & 7 and a dismantled MG Midget, so lots of soft top stuff!!). However, the Elan has had more use this year than I think it's had for years :!: I think I'd put up with it, as I did gladly in 1984, the year I bought the Midget (That was a good Summer, not as long as 1976 but the local reservoirs were all low by September).

The major drawback for me (Apart from not being very good at French and liking British food) would be that the French don't have preserved steam railways like us. I suppose they didn't have a Dr Beeching, to shut down so many of their branch lines or a Woodhams scrapyard (http://www.penmorfa.com/Barry/), who sat on the locomotives so long that people began to buy them to restore.
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Re: What is your dream classic?

#27 Post by essexpunx » Sun Dec 25, 2011 10:31 pm

Got to be a MK1 Ford Escort RS2000

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Re: What is your dream classic?

#28 Post by Jupiter8 » Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:58 pm

Would be a mid 60's Citroen DS for me.
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Re: What is your dream classic?

#29 Post by Ron B. » Sat Dec 31, 2011 11:52 am

I am mad about Mercedes ( i have several ) but i saw on our local internet auction site a listing for a low light Fiat 850 spider. My mum bought one new in 1968 and it served us well for about 2 years before being traded on a New V6 Capri GTE . I would love to buy this one but with 13 mercs about the place I have no where to park it while I gather up bits to restore it. ( it's rotten as per usual) . A Miura would be nice too .. :D

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Re: What is your dream classic?

#30 Post by ecurie » Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:58 pm

Plenty, but I am working towards a Rolls Royce Corniche Convertible.

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