Dream cars of your youth....

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Re: Dream cars of your youth....

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Not sure I had a dream car as a teenager, apart from the Escort Mexico I mentioned, I just wanted 'some wheels'. :lol:

Later I rather desired a Citroën DS but having a Citroën CX gave me some inkling of what it would be like actually owning one.

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Re: Dream cars of your youth....

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Escort Cosworth when I was younger, then it was anything jap related especially big power. Supra, Skyline etc.

I went down that route in the end up, owned quite a few jap cars one being big power.

I never did own a Cosworth though and never will, far too expensive now. Even if I could afford one I wouldn’t buy one, I’d rather have something newer and more powerful, something that could be used almost as a daily.
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Re: Dream cars of your youth....

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As cheb has mentioned, it has to be the Lancia Stratos. I saw a couple at a late 1970s RAC Rally and everything else just looked and sounded so tame, so dull, so boring. Here's one I snapped at Goodwood festival of Speed about 10 years ago. Still looks like it was beamed down from an alien galaxy.


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And a replica kit car owned by one of the Lancia Beta forum guys...:


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I used to really like the Alfa Romeo gtv. (Referred to at times as an Alfa Romero by the people who also say Pacific rather than specific). I loved the shape. I consider myself lucky to not have owned one as other than the shape they are not that good.
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Re: Dream cars of your youth....

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Oh yes the transam was another one,along with the AC cobra and corvette and also the Renault alpine a110. None of the above really good cars but I liked them as I had not driven them and it was the lines and the look.
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