A second sports car anyone?

Very nice indeed :+1:

So many great cars, new and Classic, …the Bristol Bullet works for me, …along with the BBC East Weather girl :wink:

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I like the car! :+1:

I Love a Shiny Ducks Arse.

I prefer a touch of class

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My first sports car was a 2 1/2 year old 1500 Spitfire I then restored a Mk3 Spit that I had for 27 years, I sold that 2 years ago to get my NB, my wife had a Series 5 Sunbeam Alpine which I also restored over an 8 year period because it was such a wreck, had that for 21 years at the same time we had an MGB GT LE For 17 years and that was our daily driver but I liked the NB so much we got rid of our 2017 Mini Cooper and got an ND 1.5 Icon, I Saw the light with the NB and got fed up tinkering with the Alpine so that went. While I was doing the Alpine I was working doing classic car restorations and we specialised in Sunbeam Tigers, so with money no issue that would be my other sports car, as long as someone else did the work on it. image image image

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I always preferred a good old Triumph

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The classic Teddy Boy haircut with loads of Brylcreem!

Very nice, an early RF. :grin:

Lovely cars, especially the Spitfire, I had a 1500 from late 70s into the 80s, great memories , lovely car and luckily very few problems, although hitting a pothole was a jaw jarring experience .

Yes, body wise they did move around a bit especially with no hard top fitted and the roof down. It’s amazing the demographics of this club and how so many of us had British sports cars and now we own a car that the British car industry couldn’t build, except maybe the rust. :joy:

No wonder they photographed it in that long grass!

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MK3 Spitfire is my dream car but there aren’t many good ones for sale and those that are for sale are >£10k…

This isn’t my car, but a photo off the internet, I liked it so much I printed it out and have it on my garage wall , :grin:

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I run a stable of 3 “sports” cars … My MX5 SE+, a Mercedes SLC 180 auto and a VW Up GTI. All similar in that they have small engines with modest power outputs, but all very different to drive and as such complement each other nicely.

You said if money was no object, in that case I’d go for a Williams, fw14b to be exact…

If money was slightly tighter, it would be a BAC mono

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If I was heading down the dole queue I’d settle for an Aerial Atom, took one on a track day and loved destroying the Lambos out of the corners…

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Crikey, I obviously gave mine away, mind you I had lots of phone calls for weeks after it went, I would have sold it to you for less than £10k, £9k maybe. :wink:

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Bauer Millett I think you refer to.

That was the place!

If money was no object - a lottery win perhaps, my first choice would be an E-Type Jaguar. Perhaps one of the Eagle models.

Even Enzo Ferrari apparently once described the E-Type as the most beautiful car he had ever seen.

Having said that, I always fancied a Morgan. My wife took me to the factory a couple of years ago for a birthday present, and I fell in love with a red one parked outside on the forecourt - only 50 grand apparently !

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