If you could own one classic car, what would it be?

Either a 1966 Chevrolet Corvair,




a 1952 Hudson Hornet,



or a 1965 Lotus Seven painted like Number 6's(Hopefully with a KAR 120C Vanity Plate)

Anybody can find a photo for me, I'll buy you a beer!

http://fp05-142.web.dircon.net/'58%20CpdeV%20RU-L.jpg

or this:



No luck so far finding ragtop though :(

:loveya:

I can also get it for you in red, white or black...but no sea-foam green in stock.

Sure, it gets probably 8 miles to the gallon (on the highway); but it's not like I'd drive it everyday. Weekends. Special occasions. You know the drill.

Sure, there are a lot of cars more valuable. And some that are much more beautiful.

But I was born in '57 and wouldn't be shy about driving an old Chevy around. I wouldn't want something that was just a museum piece.

1958 Corvette ... Pearl White on Candy Apple Red ...



Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ...

window...1962? or was it 63?

that car is either:

a: driving itself down the street.
b: broken down and abandonded.
c: driven by Claude Raines.

anyway you slice it, I'm a wee bit disturbed.

I take it then, you're not a Nader fan. :evilgrin:

By the time Nader's book came out, Chevy had pretty well much fixed the handling problems that plagued the Older Corvairs. The problem is, because of nader's book, people didn't realize his.

That live rear axel was fun, but you had to know how to drive with it. A buddy of mine had it perfected in his. Cornered on rails, but very close to the edge, if you know what I mean.

A Ford Model T. Glossy black. Shiny brasswork. Supple leather upholstry. Mmm. What a beautiful car. Funny, in its day, it was a bare bones, no-frills kinda car.

Way ahead of its time.

http://www.seriouswheels.com/1962-Studebaker-Avanti-Tubbed-Prostreet-Red.htm

I would have said 1966 Chevy Impala, but I already owned one of those (in rough shape though).

Any Convertible 455/V8 4-4-2 between '68 and '72 would do nicely.

ragtop, white with black leather interior.


Plus a blond with a ponytail.


DDQM

Nice,nice car. Black interior,Cream/Ivory exterior Hurst dual gate shifer.

David

I love that car.

And the Lotus that took a dip in the ocean. :-)

My husband use to have a 72 Cuda, so I am partial to those but my pick would be any early 70's plum purple GTO. Shiny rims, fat back tires, the works.

A car from the 30's. An innovative car...one of the first cars to have front wheel drive. Retractable headlights. A clean, simple design.

I wish I could find a picture of one.

Terry

the "suicide doors" A beautiful car.

Terry

sweet.

What a gorgeous car!

Thanks for the picture,

Terry

is it just me, or is the front end reminiscent of a tractor?

Another beautiful car.

Terry

1937 Model 812 Cord. made in Auburn, Indiana.

1948 French Talbot-Lago



hey, if it's good enough for Dirk Pitt...

but Dirk had the '48...

is one sexy car!

Lead Sled

I'm flexible on the color.

hahahahaha

It might explode. :)

I always wanted one of those in red.

almost had to step DOWN to get in it :)

A guy I was dating many, many years ago decided to test-drive an XKE convertible. Well, we were on the Palmetto Expressway in Miami and it started to rain. Well, we might as well have driving with the top down because the rain came right through the roof. Needless to say, he did not buy that car.

Come on, is there any other choice?

You made me think of the car out in the garage. I keep putting off the restoration of my '71 340 Dart. It's a beaut with a perfect body, but needs front-end work and new gaskets all over the engine. The red poly paint is not original, the guy that owned it a decade ago changed the paint from Hemi Orange to a "Fire engine" red. It has twin factory scoops on the hood and a bumble bee stripe on the rear with ralley rims and chrome tipped dual exhaust. It's a 340 4bbl, 727 automatic with the 8 3/4 rear end.
I've always loved the Darts since my first car, a 65 slant six.

I had a '66 Chevy Impala, 396 and factory a/c. I swear you could see the gas needle nosedive when you punched it.

But, it needed FAR too much work that my limited knowledge and budget could handle so I sold it. The guy who bought it probably just wanted the engine and the centerline wheels (which were on it when I bought it).

It COULD have been a great cruiser. :-(

I WILL get that car on the road one day.
Parts are still available, I just need to find the time to rebuild the engine and it's good to go. It's garaged so it will keep.
Soon I would bet because my current car(85 Celica) has just about rusted into a pile of dirt. It runs great but it's become quite the eye-sore.
I wish I could put the handling of that Celica into the Dart somehow.

It would be expensive and time-consuming, but I've seen other people turn muscle cars into "g-machines".

For example, this '68 Charger.

I have the feeling I should try to keep it original,
though I can't do anything about the non-factory paint
without alot of work. Just dreaming about making the perfect car.

I like the original look, but with modern underpinnings. Safer and better ride. Of course that is more money...sigh...

Yeah, my first one was manual steering and an
unsynchronized 3 speed and manual brakes. You had to be moving in order to turn the steering wheel and you couldn't be moving if you wanted to shift into 1st or reverse and you couldn't stop moving without standing on the brakes.I can remember tugging that wheel around to park. It was like weight lifting.

It still took the length of a football field to stop from a decent speed. I had power steering too. Apparently, mine had just about every option Chevy offered in 1966. I can't imagine having to crank that bigass steering wheel with no power.

My first car, a 1980 Datsun, had no power steering an it was bad enough...

1962 Ferrari 250 GTO that is. It doesn't get any more classic than that.

My dad drove one of these for eleven years. Comfortable, reliable, and built like a tank!

n/t

I loved my Jaguar XK8 convert, which I believe will be a future classic. But I've been there, done that.

Still on the shopping list (feel free to post pics--I'm on a dial-up right now):

'63 Lincoln Conti convert in black. I rue the day I didn't buy one from the original owner (with 25,000Miles on it) for $3000 in '95.

any Lamborghini Muira

'68 Mustang GT Fastback 390 (in Highland Green w black Torque-Flite wheels, and de-badged, of course!)

Any Studebaker Commando (I even prefer the look to the Avanti)

'70 Dodge Challenger R/T

Any Porsche 911 Biturbo or a 959

Late 70s Aston Martin Vantage Volante


The nice thing is that none of the cars I've put on my wish list are truly out of the reach of the 'common man'. It's not the same class or price range of car as the classic Cord, Hispano-Suiza, Bugatti, Ferarri, etc... Well, maybe a genuine 959 is a little spendy.

120 mph, 30 mpg, 90 hp engine, and could park sideways...


Here's some more pics
http://www.washedashore.com/projects/dymax/pictures.html

and some notes;
http://www.washedashore.com/projects/dymax/

there was a great special on Speed Channel not too long ago about the special Camaros like the Yenkos.

Right after they were married in 1947. Needless to say, they neveer took delivery.

So a few years later, they bought a Studebaker. Like the one in this photo, only battleship grey.

Sister would love to haul ass in one of these babies.

I'll take the vintage Mustang, too!

rocknation

a maroon one, that I never fully restored to it's former glory before wrapping it around a tree

.

I'm a born collector, I've always tended to keep things. Went from collecting small things, like comic books, to now collecting big things, like cars and trucks.

I have:

A 1949 DeSoto Deluxe, it is the ultimate gangster car, long and black, with suicide doors and oval back window. I even keep an old violin case in the rear window just for effect. It's ride is like taking your living room couch out for a spin. Has 49,000 in the odometer

A 1951 Chevy 3600 3/4 ton PU truck. A great old truck, has a Powers utility bed. I'm thinking of getting a small tow boom to put in the back. Though it has 100,000 on the odometer, it is still a great truck, runs well. It's great for those days when you know traffic is going to be out to kill you, because nobody, but nobody wants to hit old iron.

1967 Ford LTD, the Galaxy for Grandma and Grandpa. This was my grandparents car, and with 50,000 miles on it, she still purrs. With a 399 engine, this pup was an upscale dragster. All that power went to waste until I started driving, but now I just baby her along.

1973 VW Kombi van: A great van to go camping in, and whatever else. I've upgraded the engine from a 1700 cc to a 2000 cc to help out on the hills. Love to drive this in deep snow, whistling merrily as my 2WD VW zips past all of those 4WD SUVs off in a ditch.

1987 Chevy Nova. Not a classic yet, but this is one car I can't get rid of, my wife and I first went out in this car, and it has a lot of great memories. Though at 200,000+ miles she has been retired from the daily commute, I still take her out and about to exercise her.

The two cars I would really love to have are a 1936 Packard Super Eight, the epitome of luxury and grace in automobile, and a 1952 Allard J5. The Allards are a hybrid Brit sports car, with massive Cadillac engines(I'll take the V12 version) shoehorned into sports car bodies hardly bigger than an MG Midget. The Allard won numerous racing trophies in it's day, and would still be a factor in any race it entered, even today.

Classic Cars, you just can't stop at one.

:D

One of 36 produced. Betcha Poop-Boys can't get parts for THIS one, either (they never could for my kombi)

Don't care about the engines size - just be happy with any of 'em.

a 59 caddy convertible-


but i'd be willing to settle for a '48...


or is it the other way around??

A Lancia Stratos would be cool, too.

with the porthole windows. I can't help it, I love that car.

http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/index_frames.html

I've been in love withthe styling of this car for over 40 years

Which I would proceed to drive at exactly the legal speed limit at all times and keep absolutely roadworthy. You know you're gonna be pulled over every three blocks just so the cops can look at it; no sense in giving them anything to write you up over.

Actually, that was the first car I ever owned, and I miss it.

Positive ground electrics (ran my 8-track backwards until I figured that one out), spoked wheels with knock-off hubs, dual Weber carbs I had to 'balance' with an orange juice can and a float, rack and pinion steering and a HUGE steering wheel, close ratio gears in the trany and a ragtop with optional 'tonneau' cover. Sigh.

I bought it for $800 and sold it for $400 four years later after an upper control arm snapped. The guy fixed it in 4 days, and loved to drive it past my house after that...

ah

Just want one as it looked when it came out of the factory. So many of them have been hacked to bits.

1941 Chrysler Town & Country:

navy blue. Next would be 66 XKE red convertible.