Ultimate Garage

[Bush Tucker Man]

I know this one was on 'DOC.com, but it was a popular choice, so I'll start it again.
Please list your vehicles & reasons (if there is one, please)

1. 1969 Dodge Charger 440R/T.
On merit of being the best actor in a certain 1980's TV series, whilst painted in 'Hugger Orange'. Also used as the assassins car in 'Bullitt'.
Has to be a 440 'Magnum (7210c), as 426 'Hemi's' are way too expensive & rare.

2. 1968 Ford Mustang GT390.
Frank Bullitts (Steve McQueen) car in 'Bullitt', last of the real classic Mustangs before they started to get too big (Mach 1 onwards)
Don't want the 20-speed gear box from Bullitt though - well you only hear one down-change during the entire chase.
Over-dubbed from a GT40 apparantly.

3. TVR Griffith 500.
'Blackpool Power'. A real 'Brit Bruiser'.
Magnificent performance & looks, on both counts equal to the Maranello products (Ferrari)
No traction control. No ABS.
Power steering optional. Oversteer compulsary.
I want mine in British Racing Green, with 'digestive biscuit' leather interior.

4. AC Cobra 289 & 427.
'60's excess. Sadly the car to blame for the 70mph speed limit, as a Le Mans bound varient was witnessed testing on the M1 at over 180mph.
Questions were asked in 'The House'
Most beautiful car ever, 289 looks even more delicate.
Killer performance (in more ways than one!!) 0-60 (4.0sec), 0-100 (8.8sec) - in the mid '60's as well.

5. Land Rover Defender 110Tdi CSW.
My ideal Landie, just the 'biz'. Must be Coniston Green.

6. Ducati 916.
Motorcycles at their sexiest. The pinnacle of 2-wheeled art. Worth having just to look at.
Ducati & Foggy are synonymous (four times World Superbike Champion)

7. Alvis Stalwart.
Just for the fun of it, great bit of kit. See www.stalwart.org

8. Skoda Octavia 1.8Turbo 4x4 estate.
Anonymous, fast, economical, good looking, well 'screwed together', spacious, comfortable.
And it's a Skoda, they've got a long Motorsport pedigree.
Fact. There's more German manufactured parts in an Octavia, than a Golf or Passat.

9. TVR Cerbera 4.5 (or Tuscan S)
Giant killing performance. A claimed 185-195mph from them. You need a Murcialago, Zonda or McClaren to beat these Blackpool boys.
At under £45,000 they're the performance bargain of the decade.
See 'Swordfish' for the Tuscan as a movie star, it's almost as sexy as Halle Berry.

10. Triumph Dolomite Sprint (or Chevette HSR)
Always fancied a 'DollySprint' as a lad, someone local had one in Mimosa Yellow.
Seemed to go like 'brown stuff off a shovel'


Could also list the 'Big Boys Toys' like the Moxy, Antar, Pioneer, Vulcan & Bucyrus-Erie 1150. However there's links to them on another thread on this particular forum (see; 'Nothing Like A Land Rover')

[Bush Tucker Man]

Just in case anyone reading this is questioning my choices I'll try to justify them.

1. Charger. Muscle car supreme, even by the genre's standards this was a big, fast car. In 'The Dukes of Hazzard' we all believed a Charger could fly. Looked very menacing indeed in 'Bullitt'.  A true film & TV icon.

2. Mustang. Just looked so 'right', and sounded good in the lead up to the actual chase (starts properly at the stop-lights as the Charger takes off)

3. Griffith. Looks absolutely drop-dead gorgeous, sounds like the Apocalypse has arrived, took the MPH-per-££ fight to Italy.

4. Cobra. It's the ultimate '60's icon.
427cubic inch (6997cc), 425bhp, 480Ib/ft in only (about) 950kg of aluminium & tubular chassis/spaceframe. The 'Dogs Doodahs'

5. 110Tdi CSW. All round practical winner (for me)

6.916. Art on wheels. Keep a towel with you to wipe the drool off it.

7. 'Stolly'. Just for the hell of it. Big daft 'Cold War' inspired bit of Khaki kit.

8. Octavia. Far removed from being a joke nowadays. This & the Fabia were designed by the guy who was also responsible for the new Bentley.
A very sensible modern, understated all-weather performance car.
Simply think of it as a sensibly priced Quattro estate/hatchback.
(That'll set 'the Cat amongst the Pigeons'!!)

9. Cerbera/Tuscan S. Both have film-star looks.
The surviving Tuscan was bought by John Travolta after the 'Swordfish' was completed.
Mental performance, nothing comes close in a ££-per-MPH contest.
I know things like the Radical do, but they're not really day-to-day drivers.

10. Dolly Sprint. Those were the days......

That's how I see it..