Automotive Ambition

Hear hear! Plenty of cars in the 5-50k bracket I'd love that are currently well out of my reach but wouldn't break the bank with a small windfall.

I don't think liking 'cheap' cars is a lack of ambition. I'm doing a degree in vehicle design and I'm far more interested in cheap daily cars, simple vehicles such as bicycles, and (dare I say it) public transport than I am in any V12 engined monsters. To my mind, it's not hard to make a car that costs upwards of £100,000, or even £40k, special. If a car that costs (as new) £6 or 7k is special, then that's a far more exciting piece of design.

Whats a 350 mondial? I know what a 500 mondial is and 'modern' mondial (8,t,QV ect)??

to answer the question though , hell no, the limiting factor on all my cars is budget though I'd still like similar cars..

My '72 351 mustang would be replaced with a Boss 429 cammer for example and my '87 Z28 camaro with a '67 SS.. I.e I'd still have a big body mustang and a camaro but it'd be a 250k car instead of a 6k one..

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No lack of ambition but i'd certainly start small.

I think its a mistake if you win and go stright for the veyron or simular as it'll cheapen every lesser car you own from then.So therefore i'd probally start with a mint mk3 spitfire or sprite,austin 7 etc

I do like old cars, and prefer them, but for goodness sakes lads, if someone handed me 10 mill the third thing I'd do is go find myself a V12 Ferrari.

It's not a crime y'know.

If your my size you cant get comfy in most of em, but they do sound lovely, lots of money would allow access to soem nice bits of kit in the salvage yards i reckon, with all the tools and a workshop to build stuff.

I believe I have automotive ambition. This is infact a conversation Janie, Janies dad and myself have on a very regular basis.
Theres a hell of a lot of cars I need to own before I'm too old to enjoy them,

One of the first things I'd buy would be a mid 60's - mid 70's fullsize 'sedan', be it an Olds' or Buick or a fusulage styled something or other, it would obviously be packing many, many cubes making it obscenly rapid whilst still carrying 8 people

I would have a 'bomb' of some description, probably a Packard SuperEight or DoubleSix, and I'd have the '52 and '38 back from their current owner.

I like the idea of buying an established restoration business to work on your own cars and learn whilst there, it'd be nice to have those sort of skills on the payroll

Oh, and the Escort would be rather special if I had money to play with.

I have bucket loads of ambition, it just so happens that ambition revolves around older shaped cars and bringing together all that I like into a particular unique package and if I had the money then I'd still do the same things - but to a higher standard than circumstance allows now - XJR V8 engined Mk1 Granada Coupe or an LS400 powered CROWN Custom Coupe anybody? but to the same extent a perkins prima engined A60 countryman has a strange appeal and were time/space/money not constraining factors they'd be built along with a 101 other slightly leftfield ideas.
It's not that I have anything against supercars, as a left hooker GT3 for pounding across europe would be cool, but such thing just wouldn't reach the top of my list compared to a creation that came from deep recesses of my imagination.

She keeps popping up on threads to tease!

I did have a few things to say about what i'd do if i won the lottery til i saw that pic again lol

erh, yeah i think i'd be buying the same kinda stuff i do now, a few new ish motors, but certainly no "top end" stuff