Over the years, we have had the good fortune to drive a number of exceptional cars and have written about a few here in these pages. Those of us who instruct with various driving schools whether it be with the BMWCCA, Driving Concepts or Precision Performance Driving, have had the good fortune and fantastic opportunity to drive world glass cars as they were meant to be driven; on real race tracks……pretty good work if one can get it.

We have also had the good pleasure to meet a number of wonderful students and not only drive their great cars, but also share the knowledge that we have acquired over the years and help them to become (as a good friend of ours says) “the driver that their automobile deserves”. We think that all of our instructor comrades would agree, teaching others how to dance with a 3,000 lb partner is a rather cool thing to do; particularly with those who “get it” rather than with those who “think” they already have it.

It was not until just earlier today however, that we started making a list of all the cars that we have been given the opportunity to drive on a race track, a real race track were one turns both left and right. It is a rather long list …..we may have missed a couple, but…….here goes:

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