Rwc13
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Gorgeous in that coloursame for me....So wanted one and never got one. Did manage to get a later 1990 Esprit Turbo For my 30th birthday View attachment 77271but the early car started my love with a Lotus and cars.
Gorgeous in that coloursame for me....So wanted one and never got one. Did manage to get a later 1990 Esprit Turbo For my 30th birthday View attachment 77271but the early car started my love with a Lotus and cars.
a friends brother got a car, was a nice car and knew it was special but the Lotus Cortina just seemed like most other cars and dated.
anyho, I was into music and cycling not cars. one day cycling up Maldon hill (about 14% up hill) I heard a sound I hadn't heard before, as it slowly came around the corner, this low red car like nothing I've seen before. I also remember stopping in the road and watching the car. I didn't at the time even know what it was. Jumped back on my bike and cycled as fast as I could, but lost it once the traffic got out the way. I remember seeing a horse on the back. so that was the day that I become a petrol head and wanted a nice car... cycled back to my home town and to the library... car section...car section... and that was it... maybe just maybe one day...
I think the car I saw was a 328GTS but this was the car that I wanted.
At the time I had no idea what it would cost... I found ferrari was in colchester so used to cycle to the showroom look at he cars from the grass outside and cycle back.
One day I went in and got the impression I shouldn't be in there but a nice guy gave me a broucher and showed me around the cars outside...
I had the same experience when a neighbough bought a new impreza in 2002 a STi type UKIn 1996 he swapped it for a nearly new Impreza the performance was on a whole different level. It actually scared me enough that I wouldn’t drive it.
It’s in your blood....I was born in a Alfa Giulia Super so I really wanted a Cavalier GSI like the touring cars.
My detailer has one of these, always used to mistake them for a Ferrari back in the day.Wasn't particularly into cars as a lad, but my only recollection of a car I said I would have one day is the Mitsubishi 3000GT View attachment 77285
I love these too Alex but Russ says he’ll shoot me if I ever ask him to work on oneI remember as a child seeing a De Tomaso Pantera GT5-S at a supercar showroom in Johannesburg (where we lived at the time) in the late 80s: it had such presence, and the rear wheels and exhausts were the most imposing I’d ever seen. I loved the plush interior too.
Made a real impression on me, and I dreamt of owning one when I grew up. I’m still waiting!
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Likewise it wasn’t cars but motorbikes and I was still a lad in my 20's so the latest model of the Kawasaki ZXR750 would be my choice.Avenger Tiger or rather the Mexico eater!
Want cars for me it was biles. Ducati 900 SS Desmo
Before I was a Maserati man, I used to love Porsches (still do love some of them) and I would still love a 993 Turbo S, preferably one in green....View attachment 77331
The Porsche uk Turbo press car was for sale about 20 years ago, think in the twenty thousands. Decided it was too rough for the money and who really wants something that was thrashed by journos. Wonder how much it’d be now?!
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nice, but i much preferred the 240 in the backgroundMotorbikes were always what I spent my money on as a yoof as I could never really afford the cars I wanted .... and I still have that passion now and have now owned almost every one of my childhood dreams (except for a Britten and the Norton rotary).
For cars, the first time I really remember thinking "I want that one" was seeing one of these:
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nice, but i much preferred the 240 in the background
Now the Britten, what a story that was. Gorgeous bikes proving that form follows function yet is still pretty.Motorbikes were always what I spent my money on as a yoof as I could never really afford the cars I wanted .... and I still have that passion now and have now owned almost every one of my childhood dreams (except for a Britten and the Norton rotary).
For cars, the first time I really remember thinking "I want that one" was seeing one of these:
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