One Of My All Time Favourite Cars

Pinto eh - give it fuel and a spark and away you go. No computer malfunctions required.

 

Talking of classic Jags, back in the early 70s when I lived in Liverpool a violinist with the Liverpool Philharmonic used to restore Jags in the old stables he'd converted into a workshop at the back of our house. One day he was driving in North Wales when he spotted a car that had been dumped under the river bridge he was crossing - there'd been a bit of a drought and the car that had previously been submerged was now showing its its tail fin which caught his expert eye. He rapidly hooked it up to his Land Rover and pulled out a treasure find - a D Type like the one that won the Le Mans back in 1954 iirc (after the glorious C Type in '53). It was as good as new once he'd completed the restoration. In British racing green iirc. Even before the find it was always one of my favourite cars, on a par with the E Type.

 

I've been looking for somebody to take one of my kidneys, (or even both of them) for years in exchange for one of these, a Jaguar XK140

 

A Jaguar XK150S for me - YUMMY !!!!!

 

Nurse he needs more meds!

 

Why?

 

Why?

 

Why....... FFS!

 

4 spark plugs last longer in a 2CV

 

And what's not to like? They make great getaway cars as in this scene from one of my all time favourite films, 'Dead Man's Shoes', starring Paddy Considine and a 2CV crowded with East Midlands drug dealers.

 

Young lady friend of mine at Uni had one. We called it the 'POT' wagon

 

Your Jag looks like a Suffolk built on XJ6 mechanicals

 

Renault 4 for me, had one that was seized, took 4 weeks and cans of wd, paraffin etc to unstick, did many more miles and was great fun as well as cheap to run and had a starting handle!
Only car I've had where you need to wear elbow pads going round corners!

 

Lover of fine Britisch motorcycles, but it all began with my Triumph TR3A, still the owner of "her".
Triumph is and was great!!

 

TR3a - very nice classic British sports car !!!!

 

I am with you there!
And they let me keep my kidneys...

 

I had a Renault 4 many years ago. Quirky, fun, reliable, and I loved it. Other cars I've owned that I liked (nothing fancy), MG Magnette Varitone and a Ford Corsair 2000.
Recently, a local classic car dealer had an Astin Martin DB4 Zagato for sale - a snip at £4.75m. And it didn't seem to hang about in the showroom for long.

 

My first car was a Triumph Herald 1100 with sunroof. Loved that car and did many thousands of miles until, par for the course, it disintegrated into a cloud of rust coloured dust.

 

Here's a few of my favourite cars, that I have owned (sadly no longer )

1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 convertible - black with cream roof, sidewinder exhausts, 351 cubic inch motor;

1976 Triumph Stag V8 3ltr with manual+o/d gearbox;

1987 Porsche 911 3.2 ltr flat 6 convertible, Guards Red with wide body and whale tail.