Little different from the normal 'dream car' threads

For those of you that love to restore/build cars from scratch and make them your own, what is your dream project car?

I'll start off with my dream, the one that got me into the car scene and has remained the 'one day...' project i still have to do.

The very minivan that i fell in love with at my 1st car show, wanted one ever since.

Then you add this....

Then one of these two

(just the one, obv haha)

I aim to get one once I've finished with the polo, but i know I'll end up with an old ford

the 'one day...' project i still have to do.

I know that feeling!

dribble dribble dribble

Edited 5 March, 201115 yr by Iscariot

Mk1 escort for me, with a yb cosworth engine and 4wd. yes. yes. yes.

OPEL GT...love those cars

I want to do a Jag; black XJ6 with the round headlights, swages removed, dropped cali style and suicide rear doors. central convenience from a 3C plumbed in to give you every gadget going including keyless entry and the kenwood volkswagen satnav.

man I know every detail of this car... and I will... WILL do it one day

or an old beetle body dropped and the pie shape from the center, roof chop and scoobydoo WRX and join the 10 second club

Lanchester Hod Rod :)

Fiat 126 with a Supercharged Hyabusa. :)

my dream project has got to be making my own car,

i'd build something mid engined and vag based (obviously not the chassis, not unless modified to take the mid configuration)

want to do a cool little classic like a ford popular :)

Mine would have to be -

Mine would definately be

a Porshce 914/6

Mk1 Fiesta

Mk2 escort

Beetle!!!! for me

I had a matchbox beetle race car left to me by a great uncle when he died, that was me hooked.

want to do a full resto job, metallic purple with chrome

Beetle

Mini pickup

mk1/mk2 Escort

Morris 1000, with a nice little V8 dropped in

2CV van

Citroen H van, again with a nice little (big) V8 dropped in the back

Whether any of them will ever happen is another matter

Exactly like that, just stripped and rebuilt to as-new condition, a few things upgraded to make it fully reliable.. Decent tyres, maybe some KW's, bigger Brembo or AP brakes, more modern turbo.. Around 250bhp would be plenty, the car's so balanced and I wouldn't want to ruin it's originality with cages and bucket seats..

All I'd do is make it RHD, which can be done using an earlier model as a donor..

I can just imagine driving the B-roads across Wales or something in the summer for hours, that's my dream right there lol.

Gotta be a Buick Grand National for me, stick some dirty great Turbo on it, but keep the outside original and immaculate, same with the interior,

And also one of these, would be the ultimate restoration project

Mine would have to be -

Nooo, you couldn't have that as a project. Too good as it is, i wouldn't touch a thing. Perfection.

i agree with smithy, it'd have to be a integralle for me!

Toby, mini's are wank face it!

Always had a softspot...

Edited 6 March, 201115 yr by SCO_OLOP

Gotta be an old school trans am for me ....

There are a few id like to build,some off the top of my head would include..

E30 touring 357i (850csi engine)

MGC GT (with M535i engine)

MK1 Lotus Fiesta

Peugeot 205 GTi-6

MK2F Polo VR6 carb

Fiat Seicento Turbo i.e

Citroen AX GTi 16v

Renault 5 Campus 182

VW MK2 Scirocco R32

VW Santana 1.8T

Audi A2 1.4T

Tatra T603

Toby, mini's are wank face it!

If you didn't own a TT I'd take that to heart...

Buick Skylark please...

Toby, mini's are wank face it!

If you didn't own a TT I'd take that to heart...

Id love a properly restored early '60s 1071S or 1275S. Preferably in Fiesta yellow with silver brocade interior and Austin spec,with a few custom touches.

But i dont know if id like to do the restoration,and it'd take a lottery win to pay for it.

Toby, mini's are wank face it!

If you didn't own a TT I'd take that to heart...

Id love a properly restored early '60s 1071S or 1275S. Preferably in Fiesta yellow with silver brocade interior and Austin spec,with a few custom touches.

But i dont know if id like to do the restoration,and it'd take a lottery win to pay for it.

If you can weld it wouldn't cost a great deal.

All panels are still made, in the original press'es. But they aren't cheap.

You can buy a brand new shell, Silly money though.