Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

who cares about reliability? i'd be bored out of my skull (maybe).

make mine a loud-as-fuck v8 in a 1100kg car and paint it in the ugliest colour you can find. the fact that it could bankrupt you at any moment only makes it more exciting! :P

i drove a chimaera, in the search for the mgb and was smitten with the whole experience. i had the money for a (very) average one, but not the balls. i should have saved for another year, really. it would have opened so many other options.

i'd take the risk, now

If you get another chance, go for it. Chimaera would be a great choice. Relatively simple (certainly not much more complex to the MG) but with proper v8 thrills. Don't cost tonnes to run either as most parts are rover/ford.

A guy I know bought an electrically fucked Cerbera for £2k and re-wired it. Spent maybe £500 on electrics and wiring. £2.5k and about 2 months worth of weekends laters, seriously cheap, TVR goodness.

It'd be a Chimaera for me too though, open top motoring is just too addictive.

Really want to get a cheap Cerbera, gut it and then take it drag strips/ top speed events to see what can be done with one. It's one of my ambitions to crack 200mph in a car. I think a Cerb could do it with few modifications.