Mini Metro

Ford Escort Mk2 1978. It was orange so my brother Trevor and I hand painted it black one sunday.

Aston Martin DB6 & Morris Traveller

Rolls Royce Silver Cloud 3 Park Ward Convertible

Ferrari Daytona

My Dad

James Hunt. do I need to say why?

1958 Morris Minor  ( Mothers ) / Austin Metro ( BSM driving school car )

1969 Landrover series 2A 109 inch with a truck cab and canvas back when I was 18.  I was into bikes from around 14 so started off with a moped at 16 then a 250 at 17 and various others . Took my car test at 17 but first car was at 18 I used to go to the local garage each Saturday to collect a gallon of used engine oil as the Landrover would burn or drop that amount each 7 days

1934 Rolls-Royce 20/25 Carlton sports saloon

1966 Jaguar E-Type 4.2 Roadster

1930s Rolls-Royce Phantom 11 Gurney Nutting 3 position drophead Remember watching a great 1950s film when I was a child with John Mills and Herbert Lom called Mr Denning drives North which featured this model and was captivated by it.

My late Dad as we always had pre-war Rolls Royce cars when I was a kid and I was fascinated by them. Though the 14 hour drive from Merseyside to Cornwall in the late 1960s , early 70s for our summer holidays was an endurance test and challenged the love when I watched other families travelling at speed in there new Jaguar XJ6,   Rover P6 and other modern machinery 

Got to be Graham Hill . Always super suave , playboy , English gent , great driver in many different disciplines and taken too young.

Trans Am Firebird 6.6 LHD (lived in the states so not as left field as it sounds) went on to fail 2 driving tests in a Nissan Sylvia, eventually gave in and had proper lessons in a Micra.

2CV6 Dolly Special in Rhubarb and Custard. Known as ‘the 3 wheeler’ based on its cornering & it was so light I could get enough speed up on my own to jump in and bump start it.  Reg E104 BNE and I can still hear She Sells Sanctuary by The Cult whenever I see one!

Definitely my 1995 Corvette Indy Pace Car that’s the last of my dads cars, and my Chesil Speedster is a keeper.

So many.......the one that most recently got away is a RR Camargue with a Harvey Bailey Sports Pack, one of my favourite cars anyway but the HB Pack completely transforms them. My favourite car that we have ever owned was a RR Cloud III Continental chinese eye drop head, black with red, reg 3 WPH, actually..... if sitting on my dads knee and steering counts then this is the car I learnt to drive in.

So hard, I can’t pick just one! RR Cloud III Continental chinese eye drop head, Ferrari California (I’ve had a few Ferris Beuller moments over the years), an AC 428 convertible, Lotus Esprit Turbo and a Muira of course.

My beloved late dad, classic car dealer extraordinaire!

James (the Roger Moore years) Bond. Why? …..Lotus Esprit Turbo, S1, AMC Hornet, Alfa GTV6, Chevy Impala, RR Silver Cloud II, an unbreakable 2CV and the best double decker bus chase ever

1998 Vauxhall Corsa, after receiving driving lessons for my 18th birthday

1985 Vauxhall Nova 1.2 given to me by my cousin, the fuel gauge didn’t work after about half way but it was a good little starter to run around in

My scale model of James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger, with fully working ejector seat, revolving number plate, etc.

I once had the opportunity to buy a private number with ‘N1K’ in, which went well with the way I have always spelt my name

I already own a miniature version, but James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5. I’m not fussy so either Connery’s, Brosnan’s or Craig’s…

Movies and TV shows from my childhood such as Back to the Future, James Bond, Batman, Dick Tracy, Herbie, The Dukes of Hazzard, etc.

James Bond - cool cars, action and adventure! Nobody does it better…

Ford Zephry 1962

Ford 1957 Anglia

Singer 9

1967Ford Cortina GT reg LKF 456E

Aston DB 2/4 1952/3

My late father GEORGE Jesse Turner. He owned a 1937 Singer 9 Sports in the late 40s which is still in the family, I’ve owned it since the mid-70s. Since restoration being completed in 1982, I’ve driven over 15,000 miles and next year will part of  a Singer Car Club Rally to Jersey

Trevor Wilkinson TVR. From the very beginning in 1947 making some truly great looking cars, my first TVR  being 1967 Vixen reg LTD 111F. Would love to own it again!

Peugeot 306

Mazda 3 TS

Volvo V60 Inscription

Mazda 6 Sport Estate

Morgan Aero Max

Interest evolved from photographing secondhand sports cars for various customers

James May

1982 Y-Reg Talbot Horizon 1.3 LS Red with beige trim I will be amazed if anyone else learned to drive in one of these and passed ... took me 2 attempts! The gearbox was like stirring porridge and you had no idea which gear you would find next, but they were all in there somewhere ... Just checked on "how many left" only 1 known survivor which is declared sorn, probably just as well !!

5-year old 1979 T-Reg Vauxhall Viva 1.3 GLS Metallic Green with black Vinyl Roof and 29k on the clock. Cost £1295. Within a week of buying this I had added those essential period extras of Clarion Stereo Radio Cassette (first play was the Eurythmics "Love is a Stranger") and white painted tyre wall lettering ... I wish I still had that car now. LFM 849T if anyone has her tucked away somewhere?

I'm a little greedy as I currently own 4 FTO's including 2 rare GX Autos of which there are only 9 left on the road in the UK. Almost as rare as the Talbot Horizon! Pick of the crop is a 1995 GPX MiVec which I stumbled across last year after she had been slumbering in a heated garage for 16 years.

There have been so many great cars that I've let go over the years, this is a tough one ... however I will choose a 1980 Peugeot 604 STi 5-speed Manual with factory optional twin exhausts in a lovely crystal green metallic. I remember this one very fondly. HDC 778V was quite simply an amazing piece of kit for the time. I bought this one in 1988 for £130 after I had sold my Mark 1 Granada Ghia (another I should have kept), ran her for 2 years then put the engine in a Renault 30 TX, kept the gearbox and scrapped the rest. Many of my weekends back in the day involved scouring local scrapyards for parts for my constantly changing kaleidoscope of cars (anyone else remember filling their pockets full of spark plugs, condensers and anything else that may come in handy, while pretending to look for an alternator?). I remember constantly looking for part worn 390mm TRX tyres for the 604, as new ones cost more than the car!

Hmmmm? Probably something from America. Either a '69 Chevrolet Camaro SS or maybe a '69 Ford Mustang Mach 1?? Something from 1969 anyway! However I would rather have a diesel ... I'm going to cheat here and go for a 1974 International Transtar II Tractor Unit with a Detriot Diesel 8V92 Sleeper Cab and air ride suspension, even though it's not a car and not from 1969. An early to mid 1970's LWB twin-rear wheel Tranny Van modded & lowered with a big engine in it and converted into a camper van also wouldn't go amiss.

My Mam tells a story that the first words I uttered in this world were "Ford Cortina" and I used to reel off the names of not just cars but vans, buses, wagons (trucks or lorries to many of you, but always wagons to me) long before I could construct proper sentences. I've always been interested in road, rail & air transport in general. When I joined the library all the books I borrowed were transport related from the adult section, none of that Enid Blyton rubbish for me! I think the interest just happened organically from within and has never left me.

At last an easy question, as there's really only one answer? The man himself, Steve McQueen. Mr Cool. No need for any other explanation.

I had driving lessons in a Hillman Hunter. Just before my test the instructor bought a Nissan Cherry. I can remember thinking that the new-fangled self-cancelling indicators were fantastic!!

After selling my highly coveted Yamaha FS1E (Fizzy) and scrimping and scraping I purchased a Mk2 Escort.

1922/25 Aston Martin TT2 “Sajito”. One of two built for the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy in 1922. Rebodied in 1932 by “Sajito” to the latest 1930s style.

AC 16/80 Competition Sports Sloping Tail 1938. I carried out a comprehensive restoration over a ten-year period. On its first outing it won the Vintage Sports-Car Club’s Cheshire Life Concours Trophy and the following day won the AC Owners Club’s Concours (HurlockTrophy). The following year it went onto win the AC Owners Club’s David Brownridge Trophy for the most used Post Vintage Thoroughbred; also that year winning a First-Class Award in the VSCC’s Northern Rally and an invitation to display the car at Goodwood’s “Festival Of Speed”.

For pure pleasure/thrill it would have to be a Bugatti Type 35B. With a o-60mph in 6 seconds and a top speed of a 130mph it would give a Porsche 911 a run for its money!! Not bad for a car produced in 1927.

I have genuinely no idea! At school I excelled at metalwork and was good at art. When doodling it was predominantly cars and if you had asked me what I wanted to do when I leave school – I would answer, make bodywork for Vintage cars!!

Sir Stirling Moss. Every-time I see footage of him driving in the 1955 Mille Miglia and hear the statistics of his performance it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up! Widely regarded as the single greatest drive in motorsport history. I was lucky enough to meet him at Goodwood Revival a few years ago. What a gentleman.

Nissan Cherry

VW Golf MK 2

Jaguar XKR

Audi A7 Sportback

E-Type or a Lancia Delta

The boss man! SJA!!

Gene Hunt – ‘Fire up the Quattro’