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Which car, from TV or the movies, would you most like to own?

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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    This
  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,103
    Good choice, Muttley, but I'd get rid of those crap spoilers.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Mr Bean's Mini, or failing that, "crater face's" car from Grease
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    edited April 2020
    I must admit, I preferred the smoother lined later version, but not sure if it was in a film. Giugiaro is the greatest designer who ever lived and I have always been a Lotus fan.

    I'd get rid of the skis as well.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,588
    This
    Surely it should be this?


  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    I love that car too. I was devastated in the episode where it won and was disqualified. And it always frustrated me why Dastardly was about to win but had to stop to scupper his rivals. He really held Muttley back, the bastard.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,840
    I must admit, I preferred the smoother lined later version, but not sure if it was in a film. Giugiaro is the greatest designer who ever lived and I have always been a Lotus fan.

    I'd get rid of the skis as well.

    Likewise a big Lotus fan and Giugiaro is certainly a candidate for the greatest, purely for the breadth of his work - but I would put Gandini (Miura) and Sayer (E-Type) up there as well.
  • Great Fan of Sayer, not only for the 'E' type, but his previous work , as well as the XJ 13, tragic that he died so early. 

  • Hornchurch
    Hornchurch Posts: 902
    Lotus 7 from The Prisoner



    or

    Bergarac's Triumph Roadster


  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,976
    The Bangbus
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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,779
    edited April 2020
    Bond's Aston Martin from Goldfinger(?), the one with the ejector seat.  There are quite a few other road users I could with offing now and again so the machine guns and oil slick would be really useful.

    Morse's Jag - it's beautiful.

    The DeLorean - who wouldn't want to be able to time travel?

    Bond's Bentley from OHMSS - it won Le Mans at least once, maybe twice, possibly even thrice.

    All those are great cars but there's only really one.  Steve McQueen's Mustang.  As said above, he was the epitome of cool and that car would make me just as cool.  I'd have the totty flocking round me.  And then I'd wake up.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,779
    bobmunro said:
    I must admit, I preferred the smoother lined later version, but not sure if it was in a film. Giugiaro is the greatest designer who ever lived and I have always been a Lotus fan.

    I'd get rid of the skis as well.

    Likewise a big Lotus fan and Giugiaro is certainly a candidate for the greatest, purely for the breadth of his work - but I would put Gandini (Miura) and Sayer (E-Type) up there as well.
    The greatest designer whoever lived is Reginald Joseph Mitchell CBE, FRAeS and if you're British and you don't know who he is, you should be ashamed of yourself - go and look him up NOW!
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,840
    bobmunro said:
    I must admit, I preferred the smoother lined later version, but not sure if it was in a film. Giugiaro is the greatest designer who ever lived and I have always been a Lotus fan.

    I'd get rid of the skis as well.

    Likewise a big Lotus fan and Giugiaro is certainly a candidate for the greatest, purely for the breadth of his work - but I would put Gandini (Miura) and Sayer (E-Type) up there as well.
    The greatest designer whoever lived is Reginald Joseph Mitchell CBE, FRAeS and if you're British and you don't know who he is, you should be ashamed of yourself - go and look him up NOW!

    We are discussing automobiles!!
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,779
    bobmunro said:
    bobmunro said:
    I must admit, I preferred the smoother lined later version, but not sure if it was in a film. Giugiaro is the greatest designer who ever lived and I have always been a Lotus fan.

    I'd get rid of the skis as well.

    Likewise a big Lotus fan and Giugiaro is certainly a candidate for the greatest, purely for the breadth of his work - but I would put Gandini (Miura) and Sayer (E-Type) up there as well.
    The greatest designer whoever lived is Reginald Joseph Mitchell CBE, FRAeS and if you're British and you don't know who he is, you should be ashamed of yourself - go and look him up NOW!

    We are discussing automobiles!!
    There's a great CL tradition of taking threads off topic.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    Bond's Aston Martin from Goldfinger(?), the one with the ejector seat.  There are quite a few other road users I could with offing now and again so the machine guns and oil slick would be really useful.

    Morse's Jag - it's beautiful.

    The DeLorean - who wouldn't want to be able to time travel?

    Bond's Bentley from OHMSS - it won Le Mans at least once, maybe twice, possibly even thrice.

    All those are great cars but there's only really one.  Steve McQueen's Mustang.  As said above, he was the epitome of cool and that car would make me just as cool.  I'd have the totty flocking round me.  And then I'd wake up.
    Sgt Lewis had a different view:  Whately said: "I detested that Jag. It was an ex-stunt car that had been written off several times and really should have been on the scrapheap."  
  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    For those of you who remember a TV program called 'Hazel' I would love to have had his Triumph Stag soft top. Always wanted one and then in 1979 my mate, way back then,  went and bought one in Royal Blue, I was so envious as I was driving around in an old mini on an original C plate!!
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    ...anything Bond has driven
    2CV? 
  • muppetman
    muppetman Posts: 287
    The Ferrari from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Shut it!

    For me, the Ford Consul from The Sweeney.
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  • IT_Andy
    IT_Andy Posts: 477
    The DB5 from Goldfinger. The ejector seat would come in handy to quickly dump a bird.
    Bullet proof shield handy for Millwall game.
  • CafcWest
    CafcWest Posts: 6,166
    The one-off white Toyota 2000GT made for the James Bond film "You only Live twice".  A classic sports car.  Based on the Toyota coupe they sold at the time but only made (I believe) 6 convertibles.
  • Sarrf_London
    Sarrf_London Posts: 523
    Didn't appear in a film to my knowledge but movie connection.

    https://www.classicandsportscar.com/news/grab-some-50s-glamour-ava-gardners-facel-vega


  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,179
    Terry McCanns Capri from Minder. Geezers Car!
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,587
    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang would be high up on the list as well. Loved the film and had the Corgi Toy as a kid. That got ruined but bought myself a mint one with all the characters and working wings a few years ago. Sat in the original one at a car show about 20 years ago, it was owned by the guy who drove it in the film and used to show it to raise money for charity. It was sold a few years ago and moved to the states. It was also displayed outside the old toilets between The Woodman and the old Shell garage in Blackfen when I was very young. I was old enough to be amazed though. 
    Was chatting to a friend who's a couple of years older than me yesterday and he confirmed that it was displayed in Blackfen. Although I was pretty sure I'd seen I there, I'd always wondered whether it was just a figment of my very young imagination.   
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,352
    I seem to be getting nearer one of those little blue things that used to park round Chelsea's pitch. 
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,740
    edited June 2020
    As a family we should be allowed two cars:

    I'd like Rory the Racing Car because it comes with a chauffeur to taxi the kids about during the week. For the weekend, we'd use Peppa Pig's car so that we could have picnics with speaking animals at the top of absurdly shaped hills 
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    my top 5

  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,103
    Youre Nicked - Restored Sweeney Consul Heads To NEC Classic -
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,956
    MrWalker said:
    Youre Nicked - Restored Sweeney Consul Heads To NEC Classic -
    The seventies equivalent of a Chrysler 300.
    I wonder what driving one of those now would feel like compared to a modern car. Probably tremendously slow, thirsty and with feeble brakes.
    Always liked them though.