The first Car you ever really wanted Thread.

Jag XJ220.
why? Because it was the fastest car in the world and it was the first ever car poster I put on my bedroom wall as a kid!

205 T16, because I had a jigsaw puzzle of one when I was about four.


SDC16919 by dbizzle_, on Flickr


Also, F40. Because nineteen-eighties.


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McLaren F1



I kept a magazine article on this until it fell apart. Just what a supercar should be; totally focussed...

Actually, I'd have to stick a Beetle like this in my list too. Someone bought me a book on VW custom culture when I was very young (still have it on the shelf), and I was a little obsessed with luridly-hued Cal-look Bugs.

It has to be this for me

Bedford Rascal in early 90s.

No sure why but I used to see them and they really stood out on the roads to me.

I didn't miss the point of the thread. I just hoped that, like me, there were more people who liked more modest (but customised!) cars from day one.

For me, it was the Police 'Spinner' from the film Blade Runner.



Before you dismiss this as unsuitable because it's not really a car (even though it does actually drive in the film), I was so obsessed with wanting one that I actually designed one to work as a car for my main project at school when I was 15 (back in 1987). I de-cluttered it from all the police markings and various other bits of unwanted stuff then set about designing a suspension set-up for it, how it would steer and even down to the finer details like a special wiper mechanism.

I even designed it to have an on-board computer that could hold hundreds of 'digital' tracks of music that could be recalled at the touch of a button. This was when CD's in cars was a luxury and my shool mates ribbed me for such a ludicrous idea! How things have changed.

I've still got some of the project somewhere, complete with all the suspension designs etc... They probably don't work in reality, but back then I thought it was a great idea and my teacher was obviously pleased with it too because I was the only person in my year to get an A grade!

This was the actual picture that really inspired me, the picture that made me lust after a 'Spinner'



If that wasn't enough, my obsession continued after school and into my A-Levels where I managed to convince my tutor to let me take my shool project a stage further and make an actual model of my design. It included various vacuum formed body parts made from MDF moulds, MDF wheels turned on the lathe and the rest was created from shaped bits of MDF. I didn't have the facilities to make the trye treads or working lights or other finer details (the workshop didn't have much in the way of equipment back then) but I was still pleased that I'd managed to realise my childhood dream of owning (of sorts) the first car I ever wanted.









Sorry if it's not 'conventional' but it does answer the original premise of the thread (for me) because I was never really big on supercars or their ilk back then. I certainly never had any posters of cars on my wall. I'll have to see if I can dig out some of my original drawings from the school project.

Had an 8v when i was young and stupid enough to let her go. Always wanted another