What was your most memorable ?

[CharlieH]

Following on really for the "First car" topic made me start to think of what was the most memorable car ?

 

 

We all have a lot of motoring experience and memories behind us, so what was your most memorable car, Loved it or hated it, or maybe had a great road trip in it?

 

I have a few, but one that sticks in my mind was a 1968 Red Mini. Jeez, that thing was a heap, but it went like the clappers and was great fun. The memorable part about this was how soaking wet it got inside if it rained; carpets were soaking, probably from all the holes in the floor! Minis were notorious for floor rot. The real memory of that car was driving back from Cornwall with only the handbreak !! yep, the master cyclinder had gone and I had no brakes. It was a bank holiday weekend, and there were no garages to be found open down there so areturned 150 miles on just the handbrake, scary as hell but a memorable experience.

 

How about you ?

[Rimmer]

The first car I drove after I passed my test was as a mini van delivery driver for a flower shop in Harlow,  I was amazed at how it went around corners, remember one day the girls making up the order for a funeral were late and of course that made me late getting to the house and they had all left so I ended up having to find then follow the procession along the road to the cemetery and hand the flowers over at the grave site, not good how embarrassing.....

 

 

[giddyup]

TR2A

[KhunLA]

Besides being my first, definitely the one I had the most sex in 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

About 1987: BMW 323i, 143HP, it was a rocket at that time.

 

The picture is from the internet. My car looked very much the same.

 

[OneMoreFarang]

I had the opportunity to test drive a M3 Evolution about 1992. Wow! Unfortunately, only for a couple of hours.

 

[Classic Ray]

I was posted to London, needed a cheap car to get around and bought a £300 LHD Opel Kadett off the side of the road. Did many thousands of miles in it for about 5 years with only repairs being £150 of sill welding to get it through an MOT. Didn’t care about bumps and scratches, eventually passed it to a mate who ran it for a couple of years more. Most memorable deep toned horn, I loved it.

[Qman]

18 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

About 1987: BMW 323i, 143HP, it was a rocket at that time.

 

The picture is from the internet. My car looked very much the same.

 

I owned a 1980 BMW 323i which was the top model of the 3 series at that time.  Had nice dual exhaust and was fast for that era.  Sadly was stolen while I was at work in the Netherlands one day and police made you come in to their station for auto theft.  Police said it was probably already on a ship in Belgium never to be seen again.  Only had it a few months and was heartbroken to lose it. 

[alanrchase]

A 1992 2.4 litre Nissan Pathfinder. Nothing fancy about it and a bit underpowered compared to Land Cruisers, Patrols, Range Rovers and Cherokees. Used it mainly for fishing trips to the Red Sea. It could go anywhere and never got stuck. Pulled numerous more powerful 4X4s out of the sand and mud with it. Abused it for ten years and it never let me down.

[Thingamabob]

The  Cortina Lotus.

[soalbundy]

I've never had an emotional feeling for a car, if it drives and doesn't give me problems it's a good car as far as I'm concerned. When I came to Thailand 20 years ago I bought a 2nd hand Honda Jazz for 450k, 200,000 km later I still have it, it has given me very few problems, a very reliable car.

[Kinok Farang]

22 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Besides being my first, definitely the one I had the most sex in 

 

Solo sex doesn't count.

[KhunLA]

1 hour ago, soalbundy said:

I've never had an emotional feeling for a car, if it drives and doesn't give me problems it's a good car as far as I'm concerned. When I came to Thailand 20 years ago I bought a 2nd hand Honda Jazz for 450k, 200,000 km later I still have it, it has given me very few problems, a very reliable car.

Wasn't a car person either, and with one exception, all my vehicles were quite practical and thrifty values.   Nothing to impress anyone.

 

Did buy a Firebird to sell for profit, from a govt auction, but after driving for a week, quite fun, decided to keep it.

 

Never paid more than $5k for a vehicle, in the USA, and only bought 1 new one, a work truck, so practical and needed the dependability.

 

Really the opposite here / TH, and on my 5th new car, along with 3 new MC 

[Wrwest]

1994 Mercury Capri, convertible with separate hardtop.

[Hervey Bay]

My old Peugeot 504. Simple, almost agricultural, but sophisticated mechanically. Body designed by Pininfarina.

They had the first outboard rear disc brakes of any car. Jaguar beat them but theirs were inboard...near the diff...and never worked well. Won the South Africa car rally 5 times against Mercedes who had helicopter backup.

You still see them in North Africa a lot.

Slow-revving pushrod engine, but fantastic suspension.

 

I went everywhere in it. You could sleep in the early ones and I had some of the most comfortable sleeps of my life in it.

 

 

[happydreamer]

1993 Rx7 R1, with every bolt-on mod one could do.  Ran 12.4 in a quarter mile on street tires.  I loved that car.  Purchased in 1998 gave her up in 2001

[newnative]

   Had a Nissan Pulsar NX which was a fun car.  My most memorable was the first New Beetle I bought, when they started making them again.  Had a couple of them and loved them.