We love cars.

[Raceworx]

The youngest car in this shot is older than most of you. The oldest is older than me.

Name them all and win the thread

(my Peugeot Quasar is in the loft)

OMG OMG OMG The green tank on the top right! i used to have one the exact same! what is it.. i have such vivid memories as a child playing with it and some small army men.. the men were the size of the tank but it always won

and for content..

first airfix model i ever made! spent ages on it with my dad.. then it got broken after a few years but i still love model making..

 

[Famine]

What's the van behind the RS200? It reminds me of the film Home Alone.

It's a Dodge Caravan. Sliding side door

Also, i remember being quite fussy with toy cars. They only made it to my 'best of' car box if they were real branded 'Matchbox' cars, with a proper metal shell. Anything plastic, or with rubbish wheels, was never allowed into my collection.

Only one of those isn't Matchbox, but it is a curiously high-quality diecast from another maker.

I have a bag of six or seven "others" in the loft somewhere, which I recall include another blue XR3i cab and a red BMW E30 323 cab. And the Quasar

 

[PureAwesomeness]

The youngest car in this shot is older than most of you. The oldest is older than me.

Name them all and win the thread

(my Peugeot Quasar is in the loft)

My word that brings back some memories. I think I had nearly all of those cars in my own collection. My grandparents used to buy me one car every week when they came to visit. As a child I had a thing for Corvettes (thankfully my taste improved with age) so naturally I had that red one in the middle of the 'T' in your picture. That burgundy truck thing with the radar on top was one of my favourites too.

 

[acidburns]

car for next race season, just finished license course @ hockenheim germany

Westfield AeroRace w/ Ford Zetec 2.0 170hp / 550kg (1212 lbs)

 

[ECGadget]

ooooh.... I used to have soo many Corgi Cars...

I think the ones I loved most was the BMW M1, Ferrari F40, Ferrari F355, Porsche 911... oh and I have this 20 year old Ford Sierra Cosworth! But I've got soo many that I just can't name them all!

 

[Khaddar]

The youngest car in this shot is older than most of you. The oldest is older than me.

Nice shot I had a number of the same cars as you, my older cousins had some more from your photo. Wish I still had them all, there were probably 150-200 in total after I inherited their collections. The 280SL and that Holden ute at the bottom of the G were probably two of the earliest of my own that I remember, the RS200 and Golf GTi perhaps two of the last I bought.

There's a few in there that bug me because I know I should be able to recognise them, and probably either bought or inherited them, but embarassingly I can't. The green hatchback on the left of the G, the light purple Karmann Ghia-like fastback just below it and the red-brown coupe just below the XR4 are ones I'd really like to know. I'm also going to spend the rest of the day trying to identify the white coupe across the top of the upright of the G, because I know I had that one.

Edit: By the way, is that a Matchbox 911? It looks similar to one I had, but I'm pretty sure I only had a Majorette 911.

 

[Famine]

The green car above the Batmobile is a Mercury Monterey wagon, the Karmann is a Karmann 1600 and the burgundy car is an Audi ur quattro LWB.

 

[Solid Lifters]

My favorite was an early 70's Vauxhall. My kids have it, now.

 

[GTP_ken_b]

Great question, it had to be the 1978 Porsche 935 Martini Racing car. But I must admit that this is only one of many cars that sparked my passion for cars.

http://tamiya-modelkits.com/wp-cont...rtini-Porsche-935-78-1978-Le-Mans-Entrant.jpg

November 2nd couldn't get her quicker!!

Peace.

 

[Stiggy]

After seeing Famine's GT logo made out of Matchbox cars I decided to make a GT logo out of 1/64 scale cars myself.

As well as that I decided to spell out "We Love Cars" using nothing but 1/64 scale cars

 

[Khaddar]

The green car above the Batmobile is a Mercury Monterey wagon, the Karmann is a Karmann 1600 and the burgundy car is an Audi ur quattro LWB.

Ah, thank you. Never seen the Monterey before, must have just reminded me of something else. Feel silly for not recognising that quattro though, I think mine was even in the same colour.

 

[XEPEGTP]

Wonder where the idea for this thread came from:
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=4018958#post4018958

Exactly! You are the Genesis .

Being Latin-American you know I have a natural inclination towards lowriders , first time I saw Lowrider magazine, I was speechless, it was better than playboy, women were hotter and skankier and the cars were from tasteful and stylish to plain over the top purple felt interiors and tiny chain steering wheels.

But I had to have one, and this was the exact one.

55 Ford Fairlane Custom on chrome with the "accountant-cap style" sunroof as I call it.

I still do love tastefully done Lowriders, first thing I did in GT4 when I got my Buick Special is slap on some Daytons!


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@Famine & @Stig13

Nicee pics, reminds of the first Grand Theft Auto!

My pops had some model train set cars, even smaller than those in the pics but with fully detailed rims\interiors, true Premiums!

Ill dig them up and get a shot for yall.

 

[civicgsir]

I had a brown Porsche from Cannonball Run toy car that i played with all the time.

 

[diegorborges]

Well... a 1/64 Nissan Skyline R32. Why?

I was really young and nobody in the world knew the R32 outside Japan... We didn't have much games with it and stuff... it was 1992 or something, I had like 10 years old. It was so nice to see that red stylish coupé shape, really different.

Then, I saw it on some foreign magazines, such as Car (UK) etc... and I got in love with that car (not as much as my dream car, E36 M3, but still love it too)...

And then I saw it on GT1... and that was like... OMG.

Actually I'm a HotWheels collector =D Looking pretty much more for the realistic stock car models.

 

[Forza!]

This was my very first scale model. The 1/24 Lambo Countach.
I was 13 years old, no Ferrari for me, 'cause everybody collected those!
But something happened along the way and nowadays my main focus is collecting Ferrari models
However, I recently bought the Kyosho Countach scale 1/18, for old time's sake that is .

I have about 70 1/18 models, read all the carnews on very regular bases and I just love cars. BRING ON GT5!!!

 

[FerrariMarv]

As for me there is only one thing that really makes me love cars:

the Jaguar xj 220,that is without doubt the best car ever made,it is more power full than some Zondas and the shape of the body its almost perfect,I'll like to say that I still have it but sadly it must be in some dusty box back in the city where I used to live,I got one on green,then silver,then silver/blue interior,then racing jag,then purple and a white one.

and there is another one:

just magnificent,I remember really well the plastic-you-can-see-the-engine engine cover,with the red colour(a bit black-red but still a-w-e-s-o-m-e)

WOW those are the two same cars that REALLY sparked my interest. whats the odds you would have had the same exact cars i had. both 1:18.

first was the GREEN xj220 with the mid engine. the first mid engine car I had ever seen period. I remember thinking wow its a race car but it SEEMS like a car someone could buy. must have been 20 something years ago. then there was the red f40, another mid engine. another amazement of a car that seem like a race car that could be bought.

then there was the introduction of LEXUS. I had EVERY book for every model mailed to me. All the pictures posted on my wall. the LS,GS,SC,ES. those where the days

 

[blaktek]

Was this in the 80s or 90s or recently?

Could be the 959 Rally Car, it had a Rothmans , so did the MG 6r4 and Escort MKII back in the day.

I was too shocked to care for the body, but the livery was something very much looking like that one. It was in the late 80's, and probably just a local event.

 

[stig's helmet]

i had the blue xj220, it's a matchbox car isn't it. loved that car

 

[FlyingSwissman]

These pictures of cars are used to represent my favorite models. The cars in the pictures are the same body color as the models I have, unless otherwise stated.

One of my favorites, a 1993 Porsche 911 Carrera (993). It is a Bburago model. Simple design elements and smooth all over. Love the sexy rear wheel arch.

I couldn't find a good picture of my Solido 530i Fila model, but this will have to do. Yes, I realize it isn't the same car in the picture, but so pretty in a, "I'm ready to brawl" sorta way.

The 1995 Ferrari F50. This was also a Bburago model. The SOUND! I'm a bigger fan of the F40 nowadays.

Dodge Viper RT/10 ('92 I believe) was another Bburago model in my collection. This is a very nice example of the car, but I had the "3-spoke" rims and of course she came with her top off.

Last, but not least I had a Majorette Mercedes bus. It was a PTT (Swiss Post Auto) version. I couldn't find anything quite like mine, but this will suffice. This was used on days I didn't feel like driving myself.

 

[lmanion]

I was too shocked to care for the body, but the livery was something very much looking like that one. It was in the late 80's, and probably just a local event.

Isnt the car in that picture a 911 although porsches can be

Cars that got me were Mclaren F1, I have a MP4/4 model that I never did get around to building but I think one day soon I will.
Also probably 4 Australian race cars, the Peter Brock HDT A9x, Dick Johnson greens tuff falcon and also his shell Sierras and the Gibson motorsport R32 GTRs. I had models of the 2 Dick johnson cars and a cousin had the Brock and Gibson cars

 

[With a EG6]

I had a 1:18 scale Mecedes 300sl in red with cream interior at 5 years old , but it all started before lots of car before 5 years old , it was a 2000' Dodge Viper GTS 1:18 scale when i was 3 years old !! it all started there and playing GTA 1 on PC probably helped me get intersted in cars and Driver1 on PSX to

 

[Revelation1115]

i collected hot wheels and tamiya cars.. lol.. hot wheels because they were cheap (.99 cents each car!) and tamiya because they were very detailed (to me at least, when i was 5)

 

[Techi243]

I have always loved european cars- mainly british (because I'm from there) like old Aston Martins and Jaguars but these two are the ones that really stirred my passion for cars.

The Lancia was the one that got me interested in Group B and made me wish I was from that era and the Plymouth just looked so cool to me, which surprised me because I really am not that big a fan of American muscle cars.

 

[Robin]

First serious model I got was a 1/24 Maisto 1991 Lamborghini Diablo when I was a kid. I loved that car, played with it all the time and it did start me off being properly interested in cars and collecting models.

Mine is still in good condition on my shelf!, the tubular chassis and engine under the rear are quite amazingly done on that model.

Robin.

 

[amar212]

I have just wasted an hour of my life to complete this operation

 

[Calcifer]

Collector's edition for you, I presume?

 

[Kubalivre]

My favourite model car from my infancy is either my 1/24 Bugatti Atlantic or my 1/18 911 Turbo.

 

[TorqueHappenS08]

these

and these.

 

[GT_Prologue5]

these

and these.

Collector's Edition for you also?

Seriously, that IS A LOT! All I have is three little cars and you got like half the world's auto production there! I kid, but nice collection. 👍

 

[XEPEGTP]

I have just wasted an hour of my life to complete this operation

Haa, I saw you lurking in the thread I knew there was something good to follow, I actually had the same Benz 300 convertible (back row, center) but in Green with Beige interior.


All you need is an SLS AMG and a '55 W196 and it's officially a miniature MB museum.