Christian Williams spends his life at the wheel of a supercar as he dashes across the UK and Europe surprising people with the car of their dreams for BOTB.com.
In the latest high-octane column, Christian reveals his own motoring bucket list!
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Christian says: You can see the car from a mile away…even in the dark.
The Giallo yellow is so bright that I’m half-surprised the world doesn’t revolve around it.
Admittedly, were this rather special Lamborghini Diablo mine, it would certainly be the center of my world: the black flash of text down the side revealing this was no ordinary Diablo but an SV (Super Veloce), two letters which hadn’t adorned a Lamborghini since the Miura in the early 1970s.
And here I was, not just standing in front of it but actually getting to sit in the driver’s seat. And touching the steering wheel. And smelling the leather.
And imagining I was careering along a windy road in the Swiss Alps without a care in the world — other than the rear-wheel drive sending me into a tailspin down a ravine.
It’s not very often I get to have my own dreams fulfilled, mainly because I’m out on the road with BOTB making wishes come true for a whole host of other lucky motorists who’ve won big, but it got me thinking about all the other cars I’ve never sat in but hoped one day, I’d get to drive.
It goes back to those teenage days when every corner of my bedroom was plastered with pull-out pictures from car magazines — a Countach here, a Ferrari F40 there, a Ford GT40 in the corner.
That 13-year-old I would never have believed that a career in motoring was to beckon, and I never stop pinching myself. Ever.
Yet although I get to drive some of the world’s most amazing cars — with some of the not-so-great ones throw in, of course — there are still loads of incredible vehicles I’ve yet to go anywhere near. And not for the want of trying!
Thankfully the people at The Car Crowd, a fantastic company we’re partnering with to talk about how you don’t need to be a squillionaire to have ownership of a classic car, enabled the Diablo to happen, but there’s a list as long as your arm of dream drives I’ve yet to experience.
Top of that bucket list has to be the Ferrari LaFerrari — a car which is the pinnacle of what Ferrari has done.
If I won the lottery tomorrow — and maybe I’d have to win it twice to afford one — the LaFerrari would be the first on my buy-list.
I love the looks, I love the power, I love the way the doors lift up…it’s everything a supercar should be.
While not in the same bracket by any means, my fascination with the Dodge Viper began at an early age.
In fact, it was the first die-cast model I ever bought, so I feel compelled to include it in my list of car heroes.
Looking at it now I don’t think it’s as nice as when I first clapped eyes on it, and if you read any review of the Viper it seems like looks can be deceiving, but it really reminds me of my youth and the time when I first started getting into cars.
Weirdly, one car I’ve never been in is a limousine!
It’s something I always thought was the ultimate in cool — you know, packed with celebrities or people popping champagne corks and having an amazing time, yet I’ve never ever ridden in one.
Maybe we could do a drag race a pair of limos for BOTB one day?
And while this next car is definitely not on my bucket list, it’s a regular award-winner — although always for the world’s ugliest car to have ever been manufactured.
As a result, I have an odd sense of admiration for the humble Fiat Multipla, even though I’m clearly in no rush to own one.
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