What car did you fantasise about owning when you were 16?

Let's say you dad came to you and said: "Son/daughter, you'll be 16 next month and you're going to need some transportation. Your mom and I would like to get you a new car. What reasonably priced car would you like to have?"

Ok, that's the fantasy. So what would it have been? I know exactly what mine would have been. I had a life changing experience when I was 15. An older high school friend let me drive his bug-eyed Sprite.

So, on my 16th birthday this was new:

However, since I fell in love with a Bugeye I would have asked for this instead:

So what would you have asked for? If you can, please take time to include a picture(s).

I had the $3k it cost to buy one, but not the "bread" needed to pay the insurance.

I have now become that stereotype middle-aged guy who has just bought the car he wanted in high school. This must be my midlife crisis.

I really wanted a Celica GT-S

The FD RX-7 was love at first sight.

A GMT400 Z71, extended cab 4x4

SN95 Mustang GT

All the rich kids in school got a Mustang GT when they turned 16....I was so, so jealous.

FWIW, I would've wanted the outfit, too. Don't judge. It's not my fault I was 16 in the late ’70s.

Margie

It was between the stealth rt and the Mk iv supra for me. Should have known I would be a turbo junkie. I didn't even know what turbos were back then.

Easy answer. I was 16 in 1972.

A Lotus wasn't very reasonable but I had a really nice 68 Firebird convertible and a project MGA so I was pretty happy.

1992 Camaro RS 305/5-spd or ...

A scout leader was selling one just like that (73 Monte) with a 350 4bbl and a 4spd with ralleye's.

New car? Money not a real object? It would've been an S351

Realistically/used car: 92-94 talon TSi fwd in this color

I might be in wrong place.

Maybe not.

Marjorie Suddard wrote: FWIW, I would've wanted the outfit, too. Don't judge. It's not my fault I was 16 in the late ’70s. Margie

Margie, for some reason I can't see your picture. This is the car though, right?:

Same color and all

Slippery, you were one of the weird kids in high school, weren't you?

In reply to Keith Tanner:

Keith, it was your thread about this car that inspired my thread. I knew it would be interesting to see what other forum members dreamed of owning. I'm surprised we haven't seen a "reasonably priced" Countach dream car.

My first 86 CRX was monochrome white with white alloys, inspired by some of the European tuners during the 80s. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures.

I was just getting over my Countach obsession by 16-

Started falling in love with these at driving age-

Keith Tanner wrote: Slippery, you were one of the weird kids in high school, weren't you?

I would guess that goes for most of us.

I was 16 in 98 so new I would have wanted a Trans am or camaro, but realistically I would have liked an 80s gti, fiero, or maybe a celica.

I thought this thing was the business for my first two years of highschool.

Then I got an automotive education and realized, by the time I could afford one, it was just a nightmare waiting to happen

70/71 Z28 in this colour

But with black stripes like this one

Cone_Junkie wrote: I was just getting over my Countach obsession by 16-

Yep, I even had a poster of the white one on my wall. Finally at age 47 (2 months ago) I got to drive this at least: