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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22784 Location: UK

Are there any vehicles that you're determined to drive, or at least ride in, before you hang up your string-backed driving gloves for good?

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kevin2306 · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2015 9:46 pm Post subject:

S type, Healey 3000 plus I do want to buy a modern xk.

Kev

badhuis · Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1468 Location: Netherlands

Not necessarily to own but at least to have a go in:

amc pacer
austin seven / heavy 12
austin atlantic
chrysler new yorker / imperial / desoto 56-61 and 65
hudson commodore
ac 2 litre
armstrong siddeley whitley / typhoon / sapphire 346
bond 875
bristol 405 / 406
clan crusader
daimler dart
daimler majestic major
hudson commodore
humber super snipe mkII-IV
jaguar xjs
jensen 541
lea francis 1800
lotus europa / elite (70s) / elise
reliant scimitar gte
riley rmb / rmf
rolls royce silver shadow / bentley t1
studebaker 2dr coupe
sunbeam alpine (50s) / 90
triumph gt6
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goneps · Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 3:10 am Post subject:

Citroën DS or SM, or a modern Citroën for that matter, mainly to experience the fabulous ride. Always admired them but have never driven one. Had the opportunity to drive a DS21 about forty years ago, but like a clot turned it down on the plea that it was late at night after a long day on the road, and have regretted it ever since.

Richard

badhuis · Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1468 Location: Netherlands

You may be surprised that modern Citroëns are nothing special anymore.
I remember that when I test drove a new Xantia back in 1998, I was not impressed at all at the suspension. The salesman was not happy when I asked him what was so special about the suspension. I bought a Renault Laguna instead which was at least as comfortable, but ended up owning a Xantia estate a few years later.
In the mean time I had a few CX - these were a really different kind. You should try one of these, especially a series one (the series two seem a tiny bit firmer). I love those CX.
For practical reasons I have a BX now (big versatile boot, easier to park in our street where it has to live outside). This is more like the CX and much softer than a Xantia or later Citroëns. Still a CX is the better one to have I feel.
I had a friend with a DS and have had many rides with it (this was 30 years ago). Fantastic suspension again.
Even the little 2CV is an eye opener - it could take any speed humps without slowing down. My first road-going car and happy memories.
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Ashley · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 1426 Location: Near Stroud, Glos

I love Citroens but agree that when the C6 finished that was the end.

I've owned a new GS1220, several 2 CVs, a BX19GTi and two XMs, all brilliant although service and back up was often dodgy.

I remember riding in a Light 15 in the early from fifties and also in a new DS in 1955, it was like a spaceship then, albeit with a rattly old engine.

My last XM was an everything on it job that I paid just over half price for with 400 miles on it. It arrived with an electrical fault that they could fix, but I remember well driving towards Paris at considerable speed on a Sunday afternoon with it and first hearing a noisy wheel bearing and then having a warning light come on. The book said go immediately to a Citroen agent, I couldn't and we had another 2000 miles to drive! But it went like stink, cornered at incredible speeds and had the best ride I've ever experienced.

I can't recommend Citroen's highly enough.

Ray White · Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 7110 Location: Derby

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mercedes+benz+600&biw=1440&bih=699&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwik1OuFrYbKAhXEshQKHYwoAc0QsAQINQ

When I was just a kid in the sixties, I was invited (because my parents were invited) to go to Adam Faith's wedding. I went with family friend song writer Les Reed and his wife Pat in their brand new Mercedes Benz 600 Pullman (SWB). Finished in metallic gold, this car was simply amazing!

I have never been in another one but I would like another ride in a 600 one day.

alanb · Joined: 10 Sep 2012 Posts: 517 Location: Berkshire.

Between 1990 and 2000 I had 4 Citroens as company cars, 2 petrol BX's and 2 diesel Xantia's, the last was a 2.1 turbo, the ride on all of them was unsurpassed in their class they may not have been the tidiest handling when pushed hard but few others could match it's overall grip. The 2.1 turbo diesel was also a superb tow car the self levelling suspension meant it was extremely stable and with its 12 valve engine could reach 60 from a standstill in 14.5 seconds towing a 1200kg caravan. I bought the last one from the company and kept it a further 5 years and it never once let me down.
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Rootes75 · Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:40 pm Post subject:

To own or drive a 1920's British made car, Hillman, Humber would be the preference but also anything unusual.
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Bitumen Boy · Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 12:23 pm Post subject:

I don't even know if there are any still surviving, but I'd love to have a go driving one of those big old open charabancs - no idea why they interest me so much though.

peppiB · Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 3:26 pm Post subject:

I have always wanted to drive a Routemaster

alanb · Joined: 10 Sep 2012 Posts: 517 Location: Berkshire.

A 1904 Darracq just like Genevieve, always loved that car ever since seeing the film as a young boy in the early 50's
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RotaryBri · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 465 Location: Warwick