I wish I still had my C series FIAT 124 Sport Coupe - it was with a mecco working out of a farm building when the Thatcherite 80s recession bit and then he lost the workspace and I didn't even have the money to get it towed away. I think the farmer put it in a hole in the ground and ploughed earth over the top. On a bad night I can still nearly cry about that.

Or my 2.6 litre (straight 6) Series 2A 109 inch Landrover with county body. Peak torque at about 1,000 rpm! That series never had synchro on first or second and it was reckoned the toughest Landrover gearbox until the recent ones designed for a V8. Unusually mine ate its input shaft bearings so the shafts dropped out of alignment and I was left with Low top and High top to get home - no reverse either. It did about 10 to the gallon on a good day.

Or my father's Rover 105s (basically the same 2.6 litre side valve straight 6 but with twin carbs) it would hum (a lovely deep hum) along at nearly 100. Not bad for almost two tons of portable London club, leather and walnut.

On the other hand I don't really miss my split-screen Morris Minor - the sort that originally had the headlights in the grille surround and a 918cc side valve engine that I think made about 22 bhp. Mine had grown the intermediate series front wings so it had four headlights (just wire them up in parallel, never mind a relay) and a later 948cc overhead valve engine with a very very radical head, and it revved to about infinity, but it had been given an A30 gearbox after eating its own one (to save changing the floor panel to get a remote in) and the A30 box has a shorter tailshaft so a man with a hacksaw had cut the A30 propshaft and the Minor one in half and welded them together with a bit of sleeving to make the propshaft longer - but he had never bothered to balance it so at about 65 mph it was like driving a kangaroo but it smoothed out at about 80 (basically went past the resonant frequency) and it would go on to nearly 100 screaming its nuts off (through a hybrid 2 inch exhaust mostly off a Cortina that came out under the driver's door and hardly included silencing).

The speedo showed about half true speed (because the speedo drive in the A30 box was a different gearing for a different speedo). It had a front antiroll bar off a Wolsely 1500 (the Riley 1.5s were thicker but scarcer in scrapyards) but the killer was that it still had the original brakes - 5 inch drums all round and both front and rear were leading/trailing shoes. Stopping was fun. Hell, slowing down was fun, but occasionally essential on 4.00*14 inch crossply tyres.