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Look fantastic and were very successful in motorsport. They look lovely on the inside too. Until you drive one. The driving position is appalling, unless you're some lab escaped human mutant. The dials look great only they're kinda upside down and wobble like a bugger. They're also about as reliable as a baby's arse. Sooner or later it will shít itself and when it does working on them is a curse. Very chuckable though and makes you look like a better driver than you are. Real mile eaters. Until it shíts itself...
Cars like the Model T and the Beetle are icons. Citroen has had her fair share; the 1930's Traction Avant, the first mass market car with independent suspension all around, front wheel drive, monocoque chassis, even got a hatchback later on. The 2C another icon that was in production forever. And the Citroen DS. A space age car that still looks like the bloody Future(c) today.
Lotto win? Some of my choices would be:
Citroen DS. Obvs.
Though I might feck a leccy motor into it. For the greenness. And the engines were the least innovative part.
Renault 5 Turbo. Series 1 with the aluminium doors and roof and the wackiest interior ever. A car that will try to kill you. You hear guys say things like "my car went out of control". No sunshine, you did. However, park one of these up for the night and you're likely to wake up to find it upside down in your neighbour's hedge, a lit gauloises hanging out of it's radiator grill and your neighbour's wife looking disheveled and more satisfied than usual. Homologation specials are always a good bet. The companies cared not a jot for costs as a general rule.
Honda NSX series 2. Insane in the membrane. A stripped down racing snake for the road(barely). The base NSX being the car that proved you could build a thing like this, that was easy to live with, cheap to service and didn't fall apart like a clown car every 5000 miles, unlike the Italians at the time...
And sure I may as well throw a Fiat into the mix... Though one of the brand new ones made by that GTO crowd in the UK.
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Alfa SZ
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I know this is not as exciting as many here, but since I have one (albeit a coupe) I'm going to say the Mercedes W123 with 2.7 million produced between '76 and '86 in saloon, estate, coupe and limousine versions, with a wide range of 4, 5 and 6 cylinder petrol and diesel engines.
For many of a certain age this is the archetypal Mercedes and is still in use as taxis is some parts of the world.
PS just noticed this is post 123 of this thread :)
By M 93, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20974290
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Jag E-type
Mini
Beetle
Morris Minor
Except for the e-type that're all cars that were incredibly common. Here in Germany there's a car park near me where I see an old mini sometimes. It's amazing to stand next to it and marvel at how small it was. It was tiny.
I love the fact that beetles were made for about 60 years. I believe they were still making the original beetle in some parts of the world even after the new beetle came out. It's just amazing that any car could have a production run that long.
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Hi thanks :)
You are dead right, really strong mechanically and the door closes with a reassuring thud, especially if the sunroof is open and not damped by the air. Mine has 156,000 mines and in 3.5 years it's never not started on the button, springs into life in less than a second of cranking. Yes it's very easy top drive, helped by the auto slush box, great turning circle, and fantastic visibility out of it unlike modern cars. I viewed 4 before getting mine including a 230E with over 250,000 miles on it, all drove fantastically. If it were not for the worries about rust you could easily daily it even today.
Yes they can go in the sills and the arches, just like any car of it's age, perhaps a bit better than average I'd say
This is mine:
Anyway, another iconic Merc:
Granada, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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