User:RoverP6

A 17-year-old (as yet) non-driver whose parents have owned the following cars:

Humber Sceptre of 1964 (I think), 1725cc, modified piston crowns (flat, not bowl-shaped, for extra performance) - this car's engine was donated by my grandfather to the Engineering Department of Dundee University, whose library he effectively built up from scratch.

Rover P6 3500S, Mexico Brown, known (thanks to a friend of my dad's) as "Battlestar Galactica". Just sold as a donor car - shot with rust, but very good engine and gearbox, the engine modified with electronic ignition and a header tank to stop it chucking coolant overboard.

Ford Cortina Mk III (bright red, long scrapped)

Old Mini (long gone)

BMW 318i Touring (one E30, bright red, just sold to become a track racer, one E46, dark Orient Blue, the current car, 102000 on the clock so far)

Something really horrible by Citroen, an 80s hatchback

Peugeot 205 1-litre, dark blue, called Pogo, after its registration, D96 PGO - sold in early 90s for...

Peugeot 205 Roland Garros 1.4, dark green

My wishlist:

Rover P6 3500S (another one), perhaps another brown one, maybe Arden or Cameron Green, Corsica or Scarab Blue, Brigade or Monza Red. Maybe even Copperleaf or Richelieu Red. See this if you've no idea what I'm talking about.

Rover P5 Coupé and Saloon 3.5 litre.

Rover P5 estate conversion, coupe-styled, with custom-built twin turbo diesel using a Rover V8 block. I shall upload a rendering I've done of what this would look like.

The P5s would be in either Admiralty Blue (the dark one) or the dark red, with the roof and rearmost pillar in either silver or the body colour, probably silver to be practical in hot summers...

Austin Westminster/Vanden Plas Princess 3 litre, maybe. Perhaps a MkII Jaguar, probably red.

All would have EFI conversions, streamlined exhausts, etc, to maximise efficiency

Perhaps also the Sultan of Brunei's Bentley Sports Estate...

But the first car will have to be either a Morris 1000 Traveller or an estate car from the Morris Oxford/Austin Cambridge family...

As you see, I'm into old-fashioned well-built British cars, but, like anyone, concerned about the environment. However, I want character and practicality - I sometimes need to carry bicycles in cars... I won't have some expensive-to-run modern Anonymobile!