First car I ever owned was an old Morris Minor. Nothing like the minor as we know it. It was a two seater with the "cheap" side valve engine so must have been made after 1930. It was a wreck and I wrecked it more by thrashing it round the fields. Interestingly it had the throttle pedal in the middle between the clutch on the left and brake on the right - other manufacturers used this convention too in those days. I'd just like to drive one again as it must be some 50 years now in the past!
Then a 1939 SS Jaguar 3 1/2 litre sports saloon. My grandfather had one which, on his death, my mother inherited. I was very occasionally allowed to drive it but remember it most vividly as the first car in which I exceeded, with my father recklessly at the wheel, 100mph! It had a lovely sporty exhaust note from its 6 cylinder engine but interesting braking performance from its rod operated brakes!
Next, a car I first saw in France at Le Castellet (circuit Paul Ricard) whilst driving up to it on one of the mountain roads. A De Tomaso Panterra it overtook our Renault 16 hire car as if we were standing still and the blast of V8 heaven which accompanied it is a sound I can remember to this day.
The middle years of my career were unremarkable and rather boring involving a fair bit of very boring "desk time". On my way to and from the office in the centre of Edinburgh I used to detour down a mews lane so I could walk past the Alfa Romeo garage there. If I was lucky there would be a Montreal in being worked on and if very lucky the glorious sound of it's V8 engine running might be heard. Always wondered if driving it would be as exciting as listening to it!
And finally, although I don't think I could ever drive one, I would love to be a passenger (if they could squeeze in a seat for me) in a Can Am car from the good old group 7 days! Almost any of them would do, but a McLaren or the awesome Porsche 917/30 would just be perfect! And a trip round the old long circuit Spa Francorchamps or the Nordshliefe with maybe Derek Bell at the wheel!
So there you are, trouble is there are so many others I'd like to try too! AC Cobra but not the big engined version, Gordon Keeble, Facel Vega HK500, a well sorted '60's Mustang with the 289 engine, a bucket T with a humongously large V8, Bloody Mary (the hill climb special), John Gott's Austin Healey 3000 (SMO 746) I could just go on and on and on!
