Motoring Bucket List...
Discussion
Inspired by a couple of other threads, I am now nearer 60 than 50, partner just taken early retirement although I will be working as long as I can, but I've started thinking about motoring bucket list..
1. I'd love to own a Morgan, even if briefly.
2. I'd want to do a trackday.
3. I want to drive the Nurburgring, cliche I know, but I've always wanted to do this.
4. Le Jog AND NC500 in something truly slow. Sounds bonkers I know but having done NC a few times now, I'd reqlly love to do it in a 2CV Van or Ford Model A or similar...
5...oh, buy a 2cv van...or Model A or Model AA truck...
6. Enjoy Europe, never been abroad as an adult, we would love a suitable car, old Lexus or the like, and just take off on driving holidays...
Thats kinda it for now. I have many cars I'd love to own but probably won't have the time, although I did sell cars from home when I was younger so a tentative number 7 might be getting involved in buying and selling my kind of car and owning as many as I can....
Happy new year when it comes all, these are the witterings of a car obsessive, I look forward to reading yours...
1. I'd love to own a Morgan, even if briefly.
2. I'd want to do a trackday.
3. I want to drive the Nurburgring, cliche I know, but I've always wanted to do this.
4. Le Jog AND NC500 in something truly slow. Sounds bonkers I know but having done NC a few times now, I'd reqlly love to do it in a 2CV Van or Ford Model A or similar...
5...oh, buy a 2cv van...or Model A or Model AA truck...
6. Enjoy Europe, never been abroad as an adult, we would love a suitable car, old Lexus or the like, and just take off on driving holidays...
Thats kinda it for now. I have many cars I'd love to own but probably won't have the time, although I did sell cars from home when I was younger so a tentative number 7 might be getting involved in buying and selling my kind of car and owning as many as I can....
Happy new year when it comes all, these are the witterings of a car obsessive, I look forward to reading yours...
I don't really subscribe to the 'my life won't be complete unless I' sort of thinking, but things I'd be happy if I get the chance to:
1. Hit 200mph. In theory I have a car that could do this, in practice reaching 98% of your car's top speed takes a lot of space.
2. Own a super-lightweight, roofless car, both for the experience of something truly light and of the closeness to the elements
3. Learn to drift properly
On yours, for (6) I'd suggest any car is fine, just go do it. Most people speak some English now, and it's fun and pretty easy to get out of the country for a bit. For (2), somewhere like Bedford or Blyton Park is a nice safe place to start.
1. Hit 200mph. In theory I have a car that could do this, in practice reaching 98% of your car's top speed takes a lot of space.
2. Own a super-lightweight, roofless car, both for the experience of something truly light and of the closeness to the elements
3. Learn to drift properly
On yours, for (6) I'd suggest any car is fine, just go do it. Most people speak some English now, and it's fun and pretty easy to get out of the country for a bit. For (2), somewhere like Bedford or Blyton Park is a nice safe place to start.
biggbn said:
3. I want to drive the Nurburgring, cliche I know, but I've always wanted to do this.
Do it.But not for the 'Ring. For the road trip getting there, the people you meet and hang out with, the farmers who have small, personal-interest specific car museums near Dusseldorf. The young lads who just wrote off cars worth more than your salary and are laughing about it. The middle-aged guy there with his wife and three kids who tells you to get out there and have a crack at it. Helping people fix their broken s
theaps in a car park. For driving out to Burg Eltz to walk through the woods and see it.I did it. I put in a lap, and tbh the lap wasn't really that enjoyable. But everything else was a great experience.
The car parks alone are one of the greatest meetings of like-minded car geeks you'll find.
Yours all seem quite reasonable and attainable.
I strongly recommend you take the plunge into Morgan ownership.
Residuals are strong, so even if it is a financial stretch to get one, you likely won't lose much other than running costs.
For me:
1) Own a Ferrari - realistic aim is a 360 but the ultimate goal would be an F12 (as I accept an F40 won't happen!)
2) Road trip across every US State - I've road-tripped 35 States so far and reckon the remainder should take another 4-5 years.
3) Road trip Europe and give the NC500 a go, too.
4) I don't think it would happen but I'd love to drive a car across the world. I have no mechanical knowledge or ability at all so I couldn't do this by myself.
I strongly recommend you take the plunge into Morgan ownership.
Residuals are strong, so even if it is a financial stretch to get one, you likely won't lose much other than running costs.
For me:
1) Own a Ferrari - realistic aim is a 360 but the ultimate goal would be an F12 (as I accept an F40 won't happen!)
2) Road trip across every US State - I've road-tripped 35 States so far and reckon the remainder should take another 4-5 years.
3) Road trip Europe and give the NC500 a go, too.
4) I don't think it would happen but I'd love to drive a car across the world. I have no mechanical knowledge or ability at all so I couldn't do this by myself.
TREMAiNE said:
For me:
2) Road trip across every US State - I've road-tripped 35 States so far and reckon the remainder should take another 4-5 years.
I don't want a full US road trip. Maybe just enough to run out the Cannoball Run theme 2) Road trip across every US State - I've road-tripped 35 States so far and reckon the remainder should take another 4-5 years.
But at some point I want to buy a Willys CJ2A Jeep and do stuff like Moab and the Rubicon.
A few years ago now, I picked up a Dodge Challenger and went out to Norfolk (VA, not the webbed feet east England flatlands) to go and do a guided tour of an Iowa class battleship. Matting the throttle across Virginia wooded highways while Alice Cooper DJs a classic rock radio station for your soundtrack is a hell of a thing.
Something that is incredibly unlikely - spend a day with a Bugatti Type 35 and a Delage straight eight GP car, and possibly a BRM V16, at an easy track like Silverstone where I could just open the cars up and enjoy the engines.
More attainable - buy an Austin 7 and go trialling with the VSCC, whose HQ is a five minute walk from my house, but I'm never in the country for long enough to have a crack at it. If I'm spared, that's my aim for ten years hence.
More attainable - buy an Austin 7 and go trialling with the VSCC, whose HQ is a five minute walk from my house, but I'm never in the country for long enough to have a crack at it. If I'm spared, that's my aim for ten years hence.
OP. Great thread 
Having driven to southern Europe a number of times (France, Italy, Spain and Portugal) for family holidays when the children were young I would like to have a long motoring holiday in Southern Europe at a relaxed pace.
The Route 66 thing in America has always appealed.
I’d like to own a classic Italian Car from the late 70’s, 80’s or early 90’s.
Having driven to southern Europe a number of times (France, Italy, Spain and Portugal) for family holidays when the children were young I would like to have a long motoring holiday in Southern Europe at a relaxed pace.
The Route 66 thing in America has always appealed.
I’d like to own a classic Italian Car from the late 70’s, 80’s or early 90’s.
I’d love to commission a build on my 996 C4S. Get really geeky about the engine and suspension, Retrim and improve the interior.
The Werk96 YouTube videos are an inspiration but I’d look for UK based specialists.
It wasn’t on my bucket list but I drove much of the Wild Atlantic Way in Southern Ireland in the summer, plus bits of the ring of Kerry and into Connemara. It was fantastic and highly recommend it.
The Werk96 YouTube videos are an inspiration but I’d look for UK based specialists.
It wasn’t on my bucket list but I drove much of the Wild Atlantic Way in Southern Ireland in the summer, plus bits of the ring of Kerry and into Connemara. It was fantastic and highly recommend it.
Driving across Europe, experiencing how well foreign motorways work compared to ours, how utterly mind-blowing some of the scenery is and how joyous it is going on a car ferry opposed a plane, is just wonderful. So easily doable and very fulfilling.
I visited the Nurburgring this year for the first time. It is much maligned, but it is an astonishing experience. I did 3 laps, my wife did one and that was plenty. It was so much more than the laps though, the place is in a beautiful part of the world, the village is lovely, but most of all it is a place of automotive happiness. You just enjoy cars, yours, other people's, museum cars, slow, fast whatever. A wonderful place, as long as you are extremely respectful of the potential risk and don't muck around like many Brits do. Basically, don't be a dick and be wary that others probably will be.
I really enjoyed driving in Iceland. We had a great little trip (10 hour round trip along the coast) in a Kia Picanto rental and it was so much fun. Certainly beats sightseeing from a coach.
I would also like to learn drifting. I have slid around a little bit in cars and am now good at it, but I did a drifting experience in the spring and it was great fun. Same with off roading, I did that in 2024 and would really like to have some more 4 wheel muddy fun.
The biggest thing for me, after having had plenty of car trouble over the last few years, is to spend a little bit more time simply enjoying cars.
I visited the Nurburgring this year for the first time. It is much maligned, but it is an astonishing experience. I did 3 laps, my wife did one and that was plenty. It was so much more than the laps though, the place is in a beautiful part of the world, the village is lovely, but most of all it is a place of automotive happiness. You just enjoy cars, yours, other people's, museum cars, slow, fast whatever. A wonderful place, as long as you are extremely respectful of the potential risk and don't muck around like many Brits do. Basically, don't be a dick and be wary that others probably will be.
I really enjoyed driving in Iceland. We had a great little trip (10 hour round trip along the coast) in a Kia Picanto rental and it was so much fun. Certainly beats sightseeing from a coach.
I would also like to learn drifting. I have slid around a little bit in cars and am now good at it, but I did a drifting experience in the spring and it was great fun. Same with off roading, I did that in 2024 and would really like to have some more 4 wheel muddy fun.
The biggest thing for me, after having had plenty of car trouble over the last few years, is to spend a little bit more time simply enjoying cars.
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