What cars were cool to you when you where a kid

Conor_M1990

following on from the daddy cool thread

Anan1

I thought the W126 Mercedes 500SE was very cool. Still do.

ei.sdraob

Absurdum

The A-Team van was always my favourite vehicle on TV. So much so that I swore I'd get a black Hiace and paint a red stripe down the side of it. Thankfully I didn't.

spurious

Triumph Spitfire, especially in racing green, though I had a fondness for the two-tone Herald too.

Doom

Deloren from back to the future

dingding

Renault 18 turbo

Talbot Sunbeam Lotus

Nissan Cherry Turbo

squod

There was women in teh pictures with the cars when I was a lad.



Now people who buy new cars are quear apparently.:rolleyes:

hellyeah

Doom wrote: »

Deloren from back to the future

saw one of these in walkinstown today while i was doing a delivery parked in someones drive. done a double take while driving by.

anyway always liked the car in mad max(v8 inteceptor) knightrider car hence my obsession with black coupes to this day.;)

my dad had a lend of a brand new mazda 323f back in 1990 with the pop up lights. loved that car.

205 GTi 1.9 in blue was the thing. OP you must be in your teens?

Owen

I liked the 80's Ford Escort, the Rover SD1 for some mental reason, most Morgans (I'd a corgi dinky Morgan), and the Fiat Ritmo my neighbour had cause it had round door handles, and they were waaaay cooler than normal door handles. And a 205 Gti too now come to think of it after seeing RJs post.

.Longshanks.

My uncle has one of these. I thought the pop up lights were the dogs bollox


The 205 GTi was :cool: also!

colm_mcm

When my dad got a new datsun 120y, I thought itwas super cool,

Then his brother brought his 81 datsun bluebird ss coupe home from the uk.
First car I wanted, I was about 7.
Pillarless windows, electric aerial, spoilers, alloys. Awesome!

Then there was my uncles rx7 savanna which I only saw photos of

My grandad had a mint mark 2 escort 1.1 3 door in yellow up till 1993.
Sold it for £100. Is worth a small fortune now :-(
Loved that car except for the vinyl seats that would burn you during the summer.

His mate had a lovely bmw 2002, which in the 90s was super cool wheels for an oap, sub zero now.

Neighbours had a manta too which I wanted!

In 1998 I saw an article on grey imports in auto express with a 2 page picture of an fto, I had to have one. 9 years on I got my first one :-)

hellyeah

RoverJames wrote: »

205 GTi 1.9 in blue was the thing. OP you must be in your teens?

was thinking the same myself. making me feel old.

The parents bought one of those ritmo new in 1982, twas blue with yellow fogs and a black rubber spoiler, quite a decent looking yoke, they had it for 5 years then replaced it with a two year old beige mark 2 ritmo that looked **** in comparison and rusted badly.

bmw535d

Nozebleed

the dukes of hazard! that car..and the jeep from the fall guy.

salamander27

K.I.T.T. and his turbo boost!

Tropheus

We used to get exited when we so one of these:

mondeo

Neighbour around the block from us had an 90' Golf GTi with some sort of exhaust system on it. It was black and had a green pinstrip around the bumpers and along the rubbing strips on the doors. It looked and sounded unreal and everytime I heard it I would run outside tripping over steps, shoelaces and everything else just to see it drive past the house haha.
Wonder what happened to that golf, vanished in the mid 90's...:(

An 84' Gold colored 320i coupe a neighbour bought in the late 80's was another looker and still has it today but only sees May, June & July and then vanishes into his garage for 9 months of the year.

For Forks Sake

The old fella had one of these for a brief period; Lancia Thema Turbo. Mental yoke, I'd love to have a crack at one to this day.



Friend of the parents had a Saab 900 Turbo similar to the one below. Loved that car:

For Forks Sake

Personally though:

Renault 5 GT Turbo:



Escort XR3i



Sierra Cossie

bmw535d

oul fella had a lime green one, epic car

For Forks Sake

bmw535d wrote: »

oul fella had a lime green one, epic car

good call

Fishtits

Alfasud.

Eventually had a few of them.

There has never been a replacement, a most wonderful raw yet practical drivers car.

Drove a Citroen ZX Volcane once, came closest.

squod

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Sierra Cossie

360bhp/390ftlbs torques vids etc.....

For Forks Sake

Fishtits wrote: »

Drove a Citroen ZX Volcane once, came closest.

You've just reminded me, Citroen BX19GTi. I have no idea why.



and the Renault 19 16v, daft daft car. Very quick for the time.

x in the city

*And I dont mean that irelands got shoite whore....

alexmcred

Neighbor had an Opel manta with red interior loved that car.

The A team van,
Knight Rider,
MacGyver's Jeep,
mi16 Peugeot 407.

Iwannahurl

Several of the above, plus:


Bubble Car


Citroen DS21


Mercedes Benz 600

proon4

Datsun Cherry 1976..I bought it in 1980... thought it was the bizzz... great wee mover, but a rust box.. fell apart after 2 years

dgt

Some mentioned plus:

Dream car since I was 5


Because Ronin was released when I was 8, instant fan of these...


...along with one of my dream cars from an early age

That ones mine

My dad had 2 of these. His daily hack was white, 1.8 twin cam, crash repaired and had no exhaust. Coolest car weve ever had :D


Ive always had a soft spot for these


Found these odd and quirky


Along with its predecessor. If this is your car, looks absolutely brilliant


Finally, Ive always liked the look of the Mercedes W126 and plan to get one for myself one day. For the moment though...

...I'll just have to look at that one :cool:

Raskolnikov

The Audi Quattro was always the car that I coveted most.

Jimbob 83

Conor_M1990

RoverJames wrote: »

205 GTi 1.9 in blue was the thing. OP you must be in your teens?

21 this year

high horse

I liked these when I was about 8 since it looked like the Ghostbusters car


Then when I got a little bit older these caught my eye (had to be red, not blue, sorry Roverjames)



Soon after I started admiring the BMW E30 (again, had to be red) and eventually managed to get one which I drove as my daily for 3 years, great car, loads of fun to drive

Mc Love

maddness

bmw535d wrote: »

oul fella had a lime green one, epic car

Early eighties porn

CarMuppet

Audi 80. First car I legally drove. Still like them today. Don't know why.

johndaman66

alexmcred wrote: »

mi16 Peugeot 407.

??? You know something I don't know alexmcred?:) Maybe you meant 205 mi16?

For me the top choices (among many) would be Peugeot 205 GTI, especially in Miami blue as per RoverJames's recommendation and Peugeot 106 Rallye (loved the stripped out, no frills, hit the back roads, leave more powerful cars standing appeal of them, if that kind of makes any sense). Vauxhall Cavalier GSI, and Vauxhall/ Opel Calibra. Absolutely anything at all with a Cosworth badge on it. Honda CRX (1983 - 91) and Toyota MR2 (1989 - 99) which I reckon is approaching absolute zero on the cool scale!

Annuv

Voodoomelon

I'm like a stuck record I know, but when I was 13, there was nothing cooler.

For Forks Sake

johndaman66 wrote: »

??? You know something I don't know alexmcred?:) Maybe you meant 205 mi16?

Both wrong, 405 Mi16 very cool

rusty_racer94

In Pakistan....

Honda Civic ef Saloon:


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Datsun 510:


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Nissan 300ZX :

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Toyota Corolla 2.0D Jap import.

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Toyota ae86.

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cjmcork

Ford Escort XR3i White convertible - ala Dempsey and Makepeace

Tomebagel

Toyota Corolla gt coupe (uk spec ae86)

Toyota Starlet (ep70)

Toyota Starlet(kp60)

Toyota Corolla (ke70)


When i win the lotto...

pajor

My next door neighbour's 1988 (think so) Mercedes.
Can't for my life remember if it was a C or E class.

Big tank of a yoke though

peasant

This is what the older boys drove when I was a kid/teenager (all cheap used cars at that time)




and the king of cool

hardCopy

Nice to see the escort love. I always told myself my first car would be an late 80's escort with rally lights. (ended up buying a focus)

Loved the quattro too, was always my favourite dinky, seemed to weigh about twice as much as the rest of them.

Mr.Boots

Lotus Carlton.

Iwannahurl

hardCopy wrote: »

Nice to see the escort love. I always told myself my first car would be an late 80's escort with rally lights. (ended up buying a focus)

Loved the quattro too, was always my favourite dinky, seemed to weigh about twice as much as the rest of them.

Dinky -- I remember them.