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930 w Slant nose. I was in car business for many years. I took this on trade for a new body style ‘90 SL. Drove it for the wknd. It could run the wet out of your eyes...right now!
Also traded for a big Moto-Guzzi road bike that was an awesome ride. I’d a gotten killed on that thing.

You can bullet proof this issue for a couple grand.

1968 Dodge Charger 440 mag. Bitch could run.

I'll limit my response to cars I have owned:

1958 TR3A. Engine bored out from 121.5cid to 150cid and SU carbs replaced with Weber sidedrafts. Suspension upgrades. Wild feeling with your elbows almost touching the asphalt with those low cut doors. A classic English sportscar I thoroughly enjoyed back in the day.

2003 Honda S2000 AP1. 9k rpm V-Tec engine with several tweaks increasing hp slightly over 10. Added a beefier front anti-sway bar and tweaked the 4-wheel alignment to Honda UK racing specs which combined to mitigate "snap" oversteer. It is what a small two seater convertible is all about. Still have an enjoy this one.

I like that track video! I want one but my truck wheels haven't fallen off yet

I won't disagree





Here she is.........

My folks had a blue S2000 for a while. I’d borrow it for date nights with the wife occasionally. Usually have to wash it first since it just sat in the barn. I’d always be sure to air it out on good stretches of road. That little Vtech was a screamer but I always had to ignore my instincts because it doesn’t seem right to wrap a car up to 9k.

Had a Porsche 944 that was pretty sporty with excellent handling. But driving my friend's 350 Chevy V-8-powered 914 was more thrilling.

Best daily drivers were my BMW 2002's.

Got to drive a friends E Type Jag back in the 60's
Drove a friends Cobra clone too, in the 90's, 427 side oiler.
Good times

Slipped my mind...

drove a Std factory Nissan AWD GT-R /R33
for a little while.. A smooth in-line 6 cylinder
with quick spooling ceramic turbo
good in the cities, a nice responsive
highwaycar,.especially for overtaking... 😁

A great package but it wasn't sporty like
the modified Cooper - S

3 of note... 289 cobra early model w skinny tires. L88 corvette. i think it was a 67 scary fast but it wouldn't go straight over 90. Ferrari 250 2+2. i didn't own any of these of course. The L88 was owned by a friend of mine. when he got it, he sold me his 62 impala 340 horse 327. and i know they didn't come with that option, but
if one turns up in the local junk yard in a wrecked vette, you're in business.

those 2002s were special...saved bmw.

Oops, almost forgot. Had a 2005 GTO. 6 speeds and 400hp make it sporty, I guess. Nice car. Pretty classy.

'65 Shelby Cobra 427 SC replica with a big block 427 and two four barrels.

The sound of the old school big block V8 with the incredible acceleration is guaranteed to produce a smile.

A 2004 Shelby Mustang convertible was a fun car.

Apologies for the giant image, cannot figure out how to shrink it. Anyway, the sound is the good part.

You know, it may be the soapbox racer, a carpenter built while they were building the corn crib in 49.


All painted up in white, rope rolled on the steering shaft. My uncle took home 35mm movies of my cousin, and I pushing each other on the new feedyard concrete.. I'd have been going on six.

My car is a supercharged Cooper S [that my daughter in law gave to me] is what I am driving. 134 mph top speed is wasted on me. I have had it up to 85


My truck is a twin turbocharged Ford F150 F4 Lariat with the off road package.... wasted on me. No place to park it in suburban Seattle. I have hunted two seasons with it.

But in 1968 I had a friend who owned a Mustang fastback with a high performance 289 built by Precision Engine.....

This is a fun thread. Those three cars I noted as "sportiest" I have driven were just that, but even though I drove them quite a bit - some at Elkhart Lake and at Brainerd - I did not own them Being able to push fast/sporty cars is one thing, a family guy not having lots of money is another.

But, for several years in the late 60s through 1971 we owned a quick and nimble Triumph TR3A and had a blower (yes - supercharger) in it for much of that time. With that, it was very quick forward - quicker than it was nimble in those situations. Fooled and surprised a lot of guys in Porsches, etc. But, the heavy breathing in that OHV 4 was hard on valves and wrist pins. Sold it to get the 1967 Sting Ray we still drive today.

Another sleeper was our 1989 Ford T'Bird Supercoupe - supercharged 3.8 - and 5 speed manual. It had excellent suspension, ran very fast and was a fabulous road car. Drove it a bunch at high speed on lonely high mountain roads - kept "Z" rated or better tires on that one - not exactly "Sporty" but a very sporty 2 door sedan.

The 67 StingRay - almost 40 years now - no "powered" equipment of any sort with the 365 HP 327, is the sportiest we have ever owned.

I was in college in 1966 and had a 1964 Austin Healy Sprite. Not the bug eye, the one that looked like a MG Midget. A college professor of my acquaintance had a Jaguar XKE that needed routine service and a tune up. I suppose the professor thought that my Sprite qualified me as an expert on British motorcars and he asked me if I would drive his XKE from Natchitoches, La. to H.D. Rogers and Sons in Bossier City for the maintenance. It was a wonderful 80 miles there and back. The memories still linger.

Swift DB 5 Sports 2000 race car. Modified 1966 Shelby GT 350. 1996 BMW M3. 2016 VW Golf R

Impeccable handling and such a comfortable driving position.