Beautiful Midget - my first car was a British Racing Green example from 1970 (flattened rear wheel arches) with wire wheels. How I loved that car, even though it became a bit of a money pit . My battery kept going flat so my girlfriend’s father gave me a birthday present of a new voltage regulator (as he ran an auto parts business). It still kept going flat so I bought a new battery, then a new dynamo, then spent more dosh exploring other things that could be faulty. Eventually I swallowed my pride and took it to an auto electrician who told me that the new voltage regulator was buggered - I didn’t have the heart to tell her father...

It was a sad day when I let that go (although next up was an Alfa Romeo Alfasud 1.5Ti that was great fun to drive) - I’ll try and dig out a photo.

 

Found it - a lot fewer pixels in those days . Surprise, surprise, the bonnet’s up - and a very suss outfit as well, lucky I wasn’t wearing my leg warmers that day (ah, the 80s). I used to love driving this car around, even in the coldest winters. You had to change the ‘heater’ to it’s winter setting via a lever under the bonnet, then you could enjoy driving as close to the road as possible in what was basically a warm coffin



(and yes, it was an Austin Healey Sprite Mk IV grille, soon swapped for the proper one)

 

As were having a Healey/MG Midget fest:
Here's my 1966 Healey Sprite

 

As Enzo Ferrari said, "This is the most beautiful car I've ever seen"...

 

Hey, I had one of them when I was in Malaysia in the mid 1980s. It was originally white but I had it painted in GSE yellow .

It was great for buzzing around Penang Island on nice days, not so great in the monnie season.

Sold it and got a Triumph 2000 saloon, I thought it was light years ahead of the Opels and Rovers my mates were driving.

 

Saab 9000 turbo. Best cockpit and seats of any car that I’ve ever owned, all inspired by Saab’s fighter jet technology in the Viggen.

 

I had a grey 1987 M3 with Cecotto engine. I sold it in 2010 and regret it dearly to this day What a car!!

 

I had the pleasure of driving a Saab. I loved that novelty feature where you can turn off illumination to all gauges except the speedo. It really does remind you of an airplane with its design language and overall feel.
Edit: Forgot about the ignition barrel placement, that I loved the most.

 

My classic Cinquacento in late seventies London - and beagle

 

My 1963 Chevy Nova SS - original 194 in-line 6 (whopping 120 hp). Verts made only in '62 and '63 and SS intro in '63 was just a trim package (vs. performance that it turned into). Included 14" wheels & hubs, auto on the floor, bucket seats and SS trim interior and exterior.

 

My first car in 04 was a 91 Chevy Blazer. I had it about 9 months and I got an 01 Blazer (2 door stick shift 4x4) that I had for about 10 years. Car was a piece of junk reliability-wise, but I loved driving it. I literally put more money into repairs in the 10 years that I had it ($9K) than I paid for it ($8,800) 80% of my dreams involve one of those cars for some reasons. I am not sure why, they were both piles of junk.

 

A basic 1995 Volkswagen Golf dark green that my parents had! Simple economic family car, ahh so many memories from simpler times.

 

Oh jeez.
I don't know, all of them? lol
All of my cars have been so different from one another, and I like each of them for what they were...

 

I can only imagine the scuffle around calling "shotgun" to sit in the front as opposed to being stuffed into the back. Lol. It could have been epic!

 

So...this one time...at band camp...

 

At 6’2” I had no trouble. Once got it up to 80mph on the M1 motorway (with a tailwind)!

 

I sold mine at 288,000 miles and it was still running fine. GM acquiring a stake in the automotive division of Saab-Scania was the beginning of the end. They still make trucks, buses, commercial aircraft and some seriously bad ass fighter jets.

 

Oh, man, do I miss my 9000CSE--best fishing car I ever had: it got me from Chicago to the Bitterroot in Montana in a blink. When the turbo kicked in at 70mph or so, it was just sooooo smmmmooooth, especially when you could open it up in Montana. An expanding family led to the acquisition of an XC90, which is more like a boat than a car, lol.

CSE in Montana, with my co-pilot, Kunya:

 

Alfa Romeos which I remember

'79 1.5 Sprint Veloce - the one which set me on the path of Alfa Romeo



'89 1.7 Sprint at Knockhill track



My last Alfa....2002 156 V6

 

So...I’m waiting with ridiculous amounts of humongous anticipation for my friend the obnoxious Camaro dude, @pseikotick, to sabotage my talk bubbles...so I’m going to make it really, really easy for him since he has text centering problems regarding talk bubbles, documentation bubbles, informational bubbles, blah, blah, blah.









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