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[mab01uk]

What are the two classic cars you’d love to see parked side-by-side in your fantasy garage?

Vote for your favourite two-car garage!
"The Classics World magazine team is gearing up for the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show on November 10–12, 2023 at the NEC in Birmingham. The two-car garage exercise was chosen to coincide with the theme for this year’s Classic Motor Show, ‘Perfect Partners’. They are hoping that one of their dream two-car garage pairings fits that bill – but which would you choose? Vote for your favourite pairing by following the link below. The winning two-car garage will be featured in the metal on the Classics World stand in Hall 2."

One of the Classics World pairings is by an ex-editor of Mini magazine and includes a 1275GT...

Dream two-car garage: Jeff Ruggles – Editor, Classic Car Buyer
Mini 1275GT (1969-1980) & Lancia Delta HF Integrale (1987-1994)
"For many years, it was the lazy journalist’s default position to label the GT as a poor substitute for the Cooper S it supposedly replaced in 1969. The BL boss at the time, Donald Stokes, resented paying royalties to John Cooper to use his name, and so ditched the Cooper S for the side-striped GT with its detuned, single-carb 1275cc motor and controversial Roy Haynes-designed Clubman front end.
That’s how the story is often told, anyway. In reality though, the Cooper S soldiered on alongside the GT for almost two more years, though it was never really advertised and there was little to tell it apart from a bog-standard Mini 1000. It would be more accurate to describe the GT as a direct replacement for the outgoing 998 Cooper, and in that regard, it stacks up a whole lot better. You got funky Rostyle wheels, better trim, a rev counter wind-up windows and a more contemporary colour palette, plus extra room under the bonnet.....)
https://classicsworl...lassic-garages/

 

[Stevie W]

That's a tough one!

 

Would have to be my current Mini (which is the same colour as that lovely 1275 GT above). Then...?.

 

Maybe a nice MG BGT or roadster. My first car was an Austin 1100, that'd be a strong contender too......! See im already one car over the maximum    .

 

Cheers, Steve

[Designer]

My choice would be any Mini plus either an E Type or an Aston Martin DB4 or 5 keep it Britsh.

[DeadSquare]

Unipower GT and a 4 1/2 Bentley.

[stuart bowes]

1 x Escort Cosworth

1 x RS200 evo spec 

 

sorry they're not minis lol

 

I was brought up in Dagenham what do you expect

[Designer]

I was brought up in Dagenham what do you expect

 

A Dustbin!?

Edited by Designer, 24 October 2023 - 02:06 PM.

[Shooter63]

A Brit and an Italian for me, since I was a kid I've always loved series 1-1.5 E types, and the Italian is a Bizzarrini 5300 GT. If I'm honest I would have gone for a BD4GT instead of the Bazza, but a few years ago I was lucky enough to take an E type and a DB4 around Goodwood, and discovered much to my horror that a DB4 is a dog of a car to drive, so for me

Lightweight E type
Bizzarrini 5300GT

Shooter

[Homersimpson]

Mine would be:

 

Ferrari Dino 246

Jaguar XK150 Roadster

[stuart bowes]

..DB4 is a dog of a car to drive..

 

funny that isn't it, you'd think anything with aston written on the front would be amazing but by all reports the DB5 is absolute dogsh.t to drive as well, how bond managed to evade all those baddies in it we'll never know

[Quinlan minor]

If I'm honest I would have gone for a BD4GT instead of the Bazza, but a few years ago I was lucky enough to take an E type and a DB4 around Goodwood, and discovered much to my horror that a DB4 is a dog of a car to drive

Shooter

You may have driven a dog of a DB4. I have driven DB5s and DB4s, on the road and found them fine. I think the 4 is better looking, but they both sound glorious when pressed.

Of their time, they would shock drivers of cars manufactured sixty years later, but should be enjoyed by those of us who love a Mini.

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[Shooter63]

..DB4 is a dog of a car to drive..

 
funny that isn't it, you'd think anything with aston written on the front would be amazing but by all reports the DB5 is absolute dogsh.t to drive as well, how bond managed to evade all those baddies in it we'll never know

As I said a massive disappointment, from memory the brakes were dead with absolutely no feel, the steering was the same but vague and it didn't want to turn in, on the other side the jag was great, responsive brakes and loads of feel on the steering, as I said on the day, I could live with that. But the DB4GT is just stunning to look at.

Shooter

[stuart bowes]

oh yeah works of art man, fully 

 

would never disagree there 

[Cooperman]

At one time my wife and I had a 1963 Cooper 'S' 1071, a Mk.2 Cooper 'S' 1275, a Mk.2 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow and a 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera 2.7 RST. Before that we had the 1071 'S', a Merc 450SL and the Porsche 911. I loved the Porsche, but my wife opened a wedding shop and needed the Rolls as a wedding car. then she made me wear a chauffeur's uniform and drive it on Saturdays. I did sometimes get a tip! I could never take it seriously though and it was hard not to laugh at the whole palaver. 

That was in around 1990.

Now I just have the two Coopers, a Mk.1 1275 'S' and a 1990 Cooper. Times change come retirement.

I hated the Rolls-Royce - nasty lumbering thirsty heap of a car suitable for only old men and poseurs (I must have been a poseur, now I'm just an old man).

[DeadSquare]

We lived on the East side of Chichester, and as a boy, if I heard cars at Goodwood I'd often cycle up and hang around the Paddock, especially in the Easter hols as after the Bank Holiday meeting there was usually a bit of 'testing' ahead of the coming season, and nobody appeared to mind an enthusiastic 12 year old getting in the way.

 

One afternoon in the mid 50s there was an Aston Martin with bits of engine lying round it  They had just got it back together and started, when a car swept in, and the driver, pausing only to don his driving gloves, roared off round the track for three or four laps before pulling into the pits for the mechanics to do a bit of fettling.

 

After about an hour, when everyone seemed pleased, the driver ruffled my hair and asked "Would you like a ride ?"  "YES PLEASE".

 

I had about a dozen laps, gripping the sides of a rudimentary seat for dear life, as Roy Salvadori drifted the car through Madgwick, in what was maybe the Reg Parnell DB3s.  It was a schoolboy's dream, until somewhere near St Mary's, an Owl smashed a headlamp cover and I came back down to earth.

[OzOAP]

Delta Integrale and Singer 911 would do me