cruiser647 Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 Saw one on the way home from my mum's. Still look quite imposing and brutal. In the lovely dark green metallic. Also, it's amazing how high they sit. Ground clearance many an SUV would be proud of now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M8CKN Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 Can't be too many left now. Great spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 I frickin love these, would have one on my lotto garage, no question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazdot Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 Lovely, every school boys dream, at the time, i bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-bmw Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Still one of my top 10 of all time cars. When I used to fly offshore from Beccles heliport in the 90s there was a disused (looking) hanger at the entrance that I saw open when I arrived once. The thing was full of about 20 of them all in rows!!!!! I had to have a closer look! Roll on to about 10 years ago at South Mimms services, at the back of the car park was a gathering of a group of LCs/GSIs/Senators calling themselves the Autobahn Stormers. Trust me they still have that attention grabbing look today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Awesome car, good spot. Last time I saw one was at a service station at the top of the M62 about 10 years ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burble Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 I still remember one rumbling past my house as a kid and setting off car alarms as it went by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 (edited) I remember seeing them when they were new out. They had a fantastic yet understated presence about them. However, I can't say I recall them being the pin-up car or every schoolboys dream car. I think they were too subtle for that. The dream cars of my much younger days were very much the Countach (and still the King as far as I'm concerned), Testarossa, 911 Turbo, De Tomaso Pantera, Lotus Esprit Turbo, etc. Edited April 4, 2016 by NewNiceMrMe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Dont forget the Vector W8 Most people have 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Well I was one of the schoolboys who had a picture of a Lotus Carlton on my wall, next to the obligatory Countach. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bangle Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 I had a large section of my wall devoted to the Tickford Capri and various AM lagonda's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Wow, I had completely forgotten the Vector! Renault Alpine GTA, Aston Martin Vantage (the proper one), Porsche 959 (oh how I loved that car). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 (edited) Countach LP 500S on the wall. Two posters. One white, one black. Edited April 4, 2016 by NewNiceMrMe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burble Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 One of my prized possessions as a kid was a brochure for the Aston Martin Vantage - the 5.3l twin supercarged one. A family friend who worked for AM in Newport Pagnell got it for me. She also got me a passenger ride in one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Talking of passenger rides, one of my earliest car memories not involving a car my parents owned was in a Capri. It was a 280 Brooklands which had the Turbo Technics conversion from new, it had also apparently been 'modified' but I didn't really understand what that entailed as I was only about ten. Anyway, it belonged to a mate (Anthony) who lived up the roads dad, he took us out in it and it might as well have been an F1 car, I'd never experienced anything that fast before despite my dad owning some pretty nice sports cars. At one point he pulled out to overtake, floored it, the back squirmed about, and all of a sudden we had overtaken six cars and arrived at the horizon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted April 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 (edited) I was always a big, fast saloon fan. (and the odd AM, in V8 Vantage guise from the 70s) I bought the Fast Car magazines when they had the AM Lagonda, Lotus Carlton, Merc 560 SEC or Ferrari 412i on the cover. Was never really into the Lambos or other Ferraris at the time. Autobahn Stormers - I remember that name and having seen a few bits about them on the web when I had my Senators Edited April 4, 2016 by cruiser647 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 (edited) The Lotus Carlton is one of those cars that has some sort of 'created a speed limit' myth around it I think, either that or it was slated by the press for being dangerously fast, something like that. Just makes it all the more cooler. Edited April 4, 2016 by Tipex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patently Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 The issue was that it was quicker than the Police cars of the time, combined with the fact that journalists don't understand that Plod have radios and can call ahead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Bit daft really, the Police have always played catch up and never had the fastest cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patently Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Shock news: journalists know nothing about anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted April 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 The Lotus Carlton is one of those cars that has some sort of 'created a speed limit' myth around it I think, either that or it was slated by the press for being dangerously fast, something like that. Just makes it all the more cooler. IIRC, the press were in shock that this 4 door humble Vauxhall 'saloon' could piss all over the fast Ferrari/Porsche of the day. I think it was more the fact that it was a Vauxhall and NOT a Ferrari/Porsche. Move along a few years and BMW, Audi & Merc have their own equivalents. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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