BS: My Dream Car?

Subject: RE: BS: My Dream Car?
From: Greg B
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 03:57 PM

E-types aren't aero-dynamic. They're peno-dynamic.

But a great drive--- I 'babysat' a 1969 drophead 4.2
for a friend for a year. A real pleasure.

Subject: RE: BS: My Dream Car?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 04:09 PM

A Bombardier Deuce And A Half. I'd build a "camper" for the box with a wood stove and a roof platform that would raise another 2m.

Okay.... it ain't a car, but, it's my dream ride.

Subject: RE: BS: My Dream Car?
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 04:16 PM

For some reason the masses seem to agree with Mark and pick the "63 or '64 Chevy, of the years with that basic body. For some reason I've always had more of a weakness for the '62. Thinking just of style, I could easily live with any '57, a '58 Impala, or a '65, either ragtop or the fastback coupe.

Subject: RE: BS: My Dream Car?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 04:38 PM

RangerSteve, if we can't find you that Hudson, how 'bout a Kaiser from the same era? Better tailfins...

A friend had a '49 Mercury well into the 1980s. Big bulbous exterior with a huge toothy grin of a grille, two big fat sofas inside, and plenty of power. We rode quite comfortably in that car from New Orleans to the Houston Astrodome, going to see Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue (whatever year that was).

Subject: RE: BS: My Dream Car?
From: Don Firth
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 07:43 PM

E-type, Schmee-type!

HERE's a Jaguar!

Lookout!! Here it comes AGAIN!

Look who's complaining because he doesn't have wire wheels:   Snarl, mutter mutter. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: My Dream Car?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 09:13 PM

PoppaGator, a Kaiser would be fine. And if I can't get a Metropolitan, a Henry J will do.

It slipped my mind when I first contributed to this thread, but a Studebaker, one with the bullet grill, and a curved back window.

Subject: RE: BS: my NIGHTMARE car!
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 09:35 PM

Then there's THIS, which to me is the most inexplicable stying mess in American automotive history! It would just be a nondescript styling failure, except for the way they clobbered those taillights on, with the big rumples to try to them "fit".

Subject: RE: BS: My Dream Car?
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 10:18 PM

Correction: this variant has to be the worst. I didn't even know about this version until a few minutes ago.

Subject: RE: BS: My Dream Car?
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 11:21 PM

E type schmee type right back at you, Don -- I loved them.....!

Subject: RE: BS: My Dream Car?
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Jun 07 - 01:33 PM

I'm not putting down the E-types, far from it! But there's something about the XK-120 that really appeals to me. An E-Jag could undoubtedly leave an XK-120 in the dust, but I figure, with traffic congestion what it is these days, 0 to 60 in 6 seconds with a top speed of 132.596 mph is quite probably sufficient. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: My Dream Car?
From: Greg B
Date: 14 Jun 07 - 08:29 PM

Oh hell, just have an SS100, then and be done with it :-)

Subject: RE: BS: My Dream Car?
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Jun 07 - 10:14 PM

I'll take it!!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: My Dream Car?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jun 07 - 10:26 PM

I always said that if I ever found a 1970 Hemi 'Cuda I would sell the farm and buy it. Unfortunately the farm isn't worth what the car is. Shit!! Trouble is, I could have bought one from a buddy in 1972 for a couple of grand. I would like to have that chance and my old baseball cards again.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: My Dream Car?
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Jun 07 - 10:40 PM

The Jaguar SS-100. The fellow who owned one of the coffeehouses I sang in a lot owned an SS-100. Right hand drive. He would often give me a ride home in the thing at the end of an evening, after he'd closed up.

Three SS-100s:      Clicky #1.      Clicky #2.      Clicky #3.

Oh, yeah! That was some machine!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: My Dream Car?
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 14 Jun 07 - 11:58 PM

You win -- that is a hell of a car......