What's the most fantastic car you've ever seen just drivin' around?? - Page 5

ChevronB16 · 24 Nov 2003, 15:26 (Ref:793014)

Most of the exotic machinery I have spied has been on the way to, or from, Le Mans. Earlier this year the standouts were an original Jaguar C Type LM racer (The same one that took part in the historic parade on the morning of the race - It was making one hell of a racket and smoking the tires coming out of roundabouts!) and a Ferrari Enzo.

Ryo28 · 24 Nov 2003, 15:36 (Ref:793020)

This guy who lives down my road has a Lotus Esprit (one of the 70's ones) and an AC Cobra replica. Also, theres a Ferrari dealer about 10 mins from my house!
Other sightings include a Lamborghini Diablo driving past my local shopping centre, and a Viper RT10 at a banger racing event, bizarrely!
Oulton Park is usualy a good source as well. Went to a TVR race there the other year and counted 45 different TVRs in attendence!

**garcon** · 24 Nov 2003, 16:12 (Ref:793053)

Same Ferrari, Maserati, Porsche dealer (Stratstone) is two minutes from my house!

Can't move for Porsche Cayennes in Wilmslow now. There's hundreds of them! Started off hating it, then began to love it, now I'm thinking it's a bit common!

Keep seeing a Lambo Murcielago around - and I've nearly crashed every time I've seen it. Truly stunning. Beautiful, in fact.

Ryo28 · 24 Nov 2003, 16:32 (Ref:793067)

Yeah Wilmslow is full of expensive cars and expensive dealerships! You get almost used to seeing Ferraris and the like round there, but now im at uni in leeds and i hardly ever see any nice sports cars - just boy racers in their Novas and the occasional modified RX7

Smokey 6 litre · 25 Nov 2003, 12:16 (Ref:793875)

3 occasions come to mind.

1) Walking through Attleborough (my home town) i saw a dark green Diablo parked at the traffic lights.

2) Rowan Atkinsons Mclaren F1 parked by his trailer at Snetterton.

3) The MG X-Power SV parked in Snetterton paddock last sunday!

kmchow · 25 Nov 2003, 18:05 (Ref:794298)

Since we're in NA.

On the road--I would have to say a Nissan Skyline! I was just in awe. It was a US car, no doubt imported by Motorex.

On the track, to be able to see a Supertouring car for first time back in '96, in my hometown! I was a like a kid in the toy section of a department store!!

Smokey 6 litre · 27 Nov 2003, 15:07 (Ref:796137)

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Originally posted by kmchow
I would have to say a Nissan Skyline!

there's 2 of them in my home town, a little boaring now, i get more excited by the Triumph Stag that occansionally burns around.

Alpina · 29 Nov 2003, 01:49 (Ref:797799)

Kenny McInstry's WRC Subaru whic I saw driving around Knockhill

MichaelC · 29 Nov 2003, 11:31 (Ref:798151)

In my local Audi dealership of all places, this very Tuesday. Their "prestige" department has on display on very attractive Ferrari 550 Maranello. Yours for £75K Sir.

Alas, I was only there to buy an A4 cabriolet. Perhaps I'll have the 550 next time...

TimD · 29 Nov 2003, 12:25 (Ref:798190)

There are advantages to working for a car book seller. Often the customers roll up in something nice either to show off or to shake the machine down at Silverstone.

Just lately we had what seemed to be half the Porsche Owners Club parked outside the shop when a track day was rained off. Regular shoppers include the man with the exquisite black Jaguar E Type and the chap with the insane Ferrari BB512i with flared arches to fit the tyres under!!

And just occasionally we get to try the cars. I had a go in a 1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1 the other day (the "Diamonds are Forever" shape) but the boss got the keys to a real Ford GT40 the other day for a blast up and down the A43. Dare I say his personal Nissan Skyline GTS-R probably seemed a bit tame after that?

Christopher · 3 Dec 2003, 23:52 (Ref:803186)

Well not exactly fantastic, but there's a Calibra driving around here with BMW badges. It has a BMW grille, BMW badges on the wheels and even a BMW steering wheel, it's really odd.

Eau Rouge Flat · 16 Dec 2003, 16:58 (Ref:813227)

About ten years ago I spotted what I thought was a Ferrari 288 GTO. I followed it and pulled alongside when the driver parked in a car park. I was right, it was a 288 GTO. What a great-looking car. I had a quick chat with the owner, he was a nice bloke, he even seemed interested in the Mk1 Escort RS2000 I was driving at the time.

I live near Blackpool, so I'm sick to death of TVR's. Only joking. A short stretch of road near the place I work is used to road test new TVR's and there aren't many better sounding cars out there.

whitlock · 16 Dec 2003, 17:19 (Ref:813251)

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Originally posted by Eau Rouge Flat
I live near Blackpool, so I'm sick to death of TVR's. Only joking. A short stretch of road near the place I work is used to road test new TVR's and there aren't many better sounding cars out there.

I know. Im at the college on the road they pass. Its always nice to see a pre-production TVR rumbling up and down.

Jensen · 18 Dec 2003, 16:21 (Ref:815342)

The Mclaren F1 road car, through a mate of a mate and whilst on a smile and shake evening I was introduced to a chap who to say the least had a few quid, one thing led to another and we discussed motorsport etc, I informed him that I owned a TOCA team and he should come in and see us for a coffee and chat one day, a week later my mechanics eyes lit up as he turned up in his McLaren, not only did he spend the next hour giving rides to my chaps and I he actually let me take the wheel for what will remain the best 10 miles of my life so far. Driving that car makes you feel like Bill Gates and Michael Schumacher. Words cannot describe what it feels like. Awesome untamed sheer neck snapping sledge hammer in your back tear squeezing fast. It is also quite possible the only 100% game on lady magnet. even if your ginger you will have beautifull honeyies at your beck and call.

TuscanR · 27 Dec 2003, 03:27 (Ref:821067)

When I was a bit younger and I did a paper round in the village where I lived I used to see some great cars F355, Porsche 911 and a 911 turbo, Aston Martin DB7, AC cobra replica, that car was a beast! And then when I was an apprentice mechanic I had to service a Lotus Eclat ( not that great but rare, well its the only one Ive ever seen) We had an Escort RS Turbo come in that had everything chromed on it. And my best mate used to work for a maserati restorer so when I used to visit him at lunch time there was usually something exotic in the workshop. Now where I work in centeral london you see so many flash cars TVR's Lambo's Ferrari's Porches and even a genuine Cobra! I'm green with envy every time i walk form oxford circus tube to where I work . If only I could get six numbers on the lottery!

rdjones · 31 Dec 2003, 16:28 (Ref:824656)

Seen about half an hour ago, about half a mile away from my house here in Wakefield - A Lamborghini Murciélago

Mattracer · 5 Jan 2004, 11:20 (Ref:828146)

Saw one the other day myself. Geez you'd be paranoid about scratches and scrapes with one of those.

MacMan · 5 Jan 2004, 11:34 (Ref:828162)

I was in Staines in 98 and had the pleasure of seeing a McLaren F1 driving down the main road followed closely behind by a Ferrari F50.
Here in Glasgow the best things I have seen is a red Countach, Yellow Diablo and a Yellow F355 and a black one as well and one summer back in 99 we were driving up to Inverary(SP) and had to stop along the way for a rest. I got out of the car for a stretch and heard a fantastic noise in the little valley we were in then all of a sudden a Ferrari 250 GTO comes flying around the corner. Sadly I had left my camera in the car with my preggers wife. The sight of it and the sound of it just blew me away. I haven't seen it again since

but oh what a day that was.

Plus back in Oz when buying my property for my house we were building the agent asked me after much talk if I would like to drive his 911 as he was about to sell it. I couldn't say no now could I? to this day that is the best car I have ever driven.

JGM · 8 Jan 2004, 19:29 (Ref:831901)

I was in South Africa about a month ago and while strolling along a street in Cape Town I saw a nice looking car approaching. Well,it just turned out to be a McLaren - Mercedes SLR. I watched it go by in amazement. Then a few minutes later another one went by ... and then another one. Like the buses, you never see one and then three come together. I'd realised by now that this was obviously a press 'jolly'. Eventually I found a fourth car still parked and had a good look at it.

SydLee · 9 Jan 2004, 04:22 (Ref:832280)

Have seen this parked up in Sydney recently - not sure if it counts as fantastic, though.

clicky

C R Box · 9 Jan 2004, 13:27 (Ref:832633)

Ex-Fangio, 1950's Maserati 250F grand prix being reversed off a covered trailer opposite my work.

**GTRMagic** · 10 Jan 2004, 06:01 (Ref:833354)

3 hours after finishing the Bathurst 24hr, having 1-2'd the class, a pair of Toyota Celicas with trade plates driving home from the circuit to Sydney... another 180-odd km away

Now that's showroom production

KA · 12 Jan 2004, 16:03 (Ref:835533)

Stuck in a traffic jam on the M1 a few years ago (coming back from spectating on a rally), looked across the lanes of stationary traffic to see a Group B Lancia 037 (ie the production version) alongside us...

Ralph Nader · 12 Jan 2004, 23:36 (Ref:836029)

About 24 years ago I'd taken a Morris 1100 for an MOT to a garage in Hindhead, Surrey. All of a sudden there's a V8 rumble outside so naturally I dash out to see what it was. Only a genuine roadgoing GT40. Out gets the driver walks over and asks if the garage can do an MOT while he waits. 'Come back in an hour' says the owner 'we're a bit busy at the moment.' Guy walks back to GT40 and then asks if I'd mind pushing him back out onto the road as reverse gear was gone. I oblige and as a thank you he gives it full throttle back up the A3 towards London. Awesome.

rdjones · 13 Jan 2004, 19:43 (Ref:837037)

I drive past the same Porsche dealership where Mackmot saw the 917, on a daily basis. Anyway as well as sell Porsche's they also sell Ferrari's and this evening sat in the show room was an Enzo.

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