Originally Posted by Image
Another facet of getting old is that I just can't see these as 'sports cars' ..... 'big mega-powerful very fast saloon cars' but not 'sports cars' 🙂


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100% agree. My user name is Chris Convertible as I feel a sports car needs to be a convertible which I know will upset MGB GT owners and other GT's but to me the convertible feel adds to the sports car experience. I also like the idea of the car being small and light, I don't count a Volvo C70 a sports car just because the roof can come off. Having said that I would still like a drive of a Skyline just to try, but not to buy. If a place hired them I would be interested in a try for a day just for fun.

Originally Posted by Luddite
.Thus ChrisC if you are reading this I suspect your MGB thinking may fit well with my own, even if you may perhaps be 30 years behind my initial line of thought. thumbs smile



luddite, that sound right to me and I am 58. I owned a Honda S600, great fun to drive but had so many things go wrong with it I spent more time fixing it than driving it and i would be scared to take it any further than say 10km's from home. Next I had a Mazda MX5/Miata, Great fun to drive but felt a bit too perfect, around town a bit too docile if driven within the limits but good when taken out on a nice country road. Last sports car was a Nissan Silvia S13 Convertible, more fun than either of the others and I liked that is was rare, but not expensive so was more a car chosen for its merits than any symbol of status. Main issue was like the Honda s600 that parts were getting impossible to get and was wearing out. Getting written off by a hail storm was the end of it for me

I have enjoyed the posts by Peter Gambalunga on his Morgan plus 4 with throttle bodies and liked the supersports like this car https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/2012-morgan-plus-four-supersport so I am hoping my MGB with 2.0L Duratec engine and Throttle bodies will be similar. Hopefully feel very engaging to drive with nothing modern trying to take away from fun but also nice and reliable. Similar reason I was attracted to Morgan cars.

In the UK I probably would have gone Morgan but after hiring one which my wife didn't enjoy and much later taking her for a ride in the Aussie frontline which she was happy with I made my choice. I feel like a Morgan it is not a sensible choice but a fun choice. Really we have to have some fun in our lives and I feel these small cars without lots of electronics are going to be the last of fun motoring.

Gary - I do love this thread. I remember as a kid we used to play a game choosing which 10 cars we would own when we grew up. I feel looking at these cars is a bit like playing that game but in an adult way. Funny thing is years ago I would have wanted as many cars as I could afford and was allowed, now I have reached the age I just want one fun car and totally enjoy it.