One of the coolest cars I have driven...

[vonsmog]

Got the chance to drive a 58' Mercedes 300SL. It looked real sharp with the bumpers removed. Had a great sound, but handled like crap on old dry rotted tires.

[herr_oberst]

Gallardo

[makaio]

The 86 911 Cab I bought from Chuck at Elephant Racing. One drive down the freeway with the top down working traffic and I was hooked like a crack addict.

I owned that car longer than any other vehicle I've owned. Had to make room for a car seat capable vehicle so I sold it and bought an E 46 M3. It was a way more capable car but lacked the soul of that 911 Cab.

[Embraer]

hope you got a tshirt when you bought it...

[p911dad]

1957 Triumph TR3A, my brother and I drove one in western NY and Ontario a lot in the mid - 60's, including the winter (I learned how to drift it in the snow). (This photo is not our car, but looks just like it did). Sadly, it rusted down into a scrap pile from driving on the salted roads.
It was a total blast to drive! Max speed was 103 mph indicated, and it took all day to get there!

[matthew-s]

1980's Testarossa. I can't recall the exact year (it was almost 20 years ago). Nothing like a flat 12!

[Drisump]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

I bought it in 1972 while in the USMC for $1,750. About the price of a used Pinto or Vega. It burned a quart of oil every 30 miles, the leather was like dried cardboard and the paint, rubber chrome were trash. I bought it in the UK from a British Colonel who bought it in the Sudan. It now belongs to the Prime Minister of Kuwait. His buyer had seen it at a concours in Pasadena, CA and asked me if I was interested in selling it. I said "maybe" he took a few pics and said that if his client was interested, he'd call me in a week. No PPI. He paid me stupid money for it in cash, as in his representative showed up at my bank with a brief case stuffed with $100 bills.

In the mid seventies I remember going to the UK as a young adult (many years ago) and seeing the coolest cars available for almost nothing. Ten+ year old Astons were very cheap ...as were Healy 3000's, etc. I would browse the Exchange and Mart, trying to think of a way to get one over here. Not like that now, cheers.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by recycled sixtie

Sorry teacher, we are too cool for school.

Huh? It's your thread. You want cool cars that I have owned not just driven and wished I owned? How much time do you have?

The list of just VWs will take me awhile. Other than several bugs, 3 converts, 1 van and 1 transporter. They are cool, every one. However, I wouldn't want one of them back.

Corvettes, I've had a few (5). Trucks, all of them.

MGs? Just 2, a '36 and a '50. Then there's Jags and Mercedes and s slew of Chevy trucks, 2 of them now expensive classics. All gone but the last one.

I do look around for something like my '60 Olds convert 88. Still to me a great looking car.

What else am I missing? Old Cadillacs and a '58 Buick? Yep, those too.

Not one stands out that much more than the rest.

But there is one that fits your original question and I've mentioned it several times. I found a Ferrari 212 Mexico with a Chevy engine in it in 1963 when I was 17. My dad wouldn't let me buy it. I've tried to trace that car and I've narrowed it down to a couple. Both are restored, have correct engines and are worth a million.

You know I would have thrashed it and sold it long ago. But that car would have opened some doors, that I know. You never know how life might have differed.

[lowyder993s]

Originally Posted by Zeke

You know I would have thrashed it and sold it long ago. But that car would have opened some legs, that I know. You never know how life might have differed.

Fixed it for you

[recycled sixtie]

[QUOTE=Zeke;6508596]Huh? It's your thread. You want cool cars that I have owned not just driven and wished I owned? How much time do you have?

The list of just VWs will take me awhile. Other than several bugs, 3 converts, 1 van and 1 transporter. They are cool, every one. However, I wouldn't want one of them back.

Corvettes, I've had a few (5). Trucks, all of them.

MGs? Just 2, a '36 and a '50. Then there's Jags and Mercedes and s slew of Chevy trucks, 2 of them now expensive classics. All gone but the last one.

I do look around for something like my '60 Olds convert 88. Still to me a great looking car.

What else am I missing? Old Cadillacs and a '58 Buick? Yep, those too.

Yes Zeke your are top of the class in English comprehension but seeing that we have all graduated, there is more leeway in interpretation of the question(call this the no adult left behind thread). I enjoy everbodies' responses but when purchase has not been made, there can be that moment of "darn I let that one get away".

[recycled sixtie]

Originally Posted by lowyder993s

Fixed it for you

Another post I can't show my wife

[exc911ence]

My friend's 68 Coronet drag car:



Runs high 9's in the 1/4 but is still streetable. Nothing I've ever driven has gotten the attention this car does.

[Z-man]

Cool thread - lots of neat cars mentioned. Here's my list:

- 2008 Merc CL63 AMG - unbelievable power and luxury in that car. By far the most expensive car I've ever driven.

- 1975 Ferrari Dino 308 GT4 - my friend's toy:


- Perhaps the most interesting car I ever drove was a prototype hydrogen powered (F-cell) A-class that MB was testing a couple of years ago. Not because it was sport or exotic, but because it is powered by what may be the technology of the future:

[rcooled]

'64 Corvette fuelie
'66 Corvette 327/350
'67 Chevelle SS396
'68 Plymouth Roadrunner
'72 BMW 2002 tii
'84 BMW M6 (gray market import)
'05 Merc S55 AMG
'11 Cadillac CTS-V coupe (acceleration was "explosive")

[Drisump]

I feel as though I've driven a few cool car over the years but I've owned very few. (perhaps a good thing) 52 MGTF, Singer LeMans 34(?), Morgan4/4, Lotus 7, GT350 Mustang, Austin Healy 3000, MG TD factory race car (aluminum body and super-charger) a couple of 60's/70's Alfas, a number of vintages of 911's (inc a 997), and most recently, a Ferrari California. I've also driven and owned quite a few Mercedes and Bimmers but none of them, I think, have achieved the status of "cool". So you can easily see my "vintage". Back in the day, English and European sports cars were quite common. Cheers

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by lowyder993s

Fixed it for you

That too. Although at the time I was driving a '57 Corvette in '63-64. As a pussy wagon it served well enough.

Too bad I didn't know that.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by recycled sixtie

Yes Zeke your are top of the class in English comprehension but seeing that we have all graduated, there is more leeway in interpretation of the question(call this the no adult left behind thread). I enjoy everbodies' responses but when purchase has not been made, there can be that moment of "darn I let that one get away".

Yep, you made your point in spades.

[foxpaws]

loud, raucous, hardly subtle, blind spot the size of a semi, a clutch that would put hair on your chest (this only applies to us girls ), and you knew you just wanted to break the law.... lots....

[mtnhopper1]

In 1989, when I was in my junior year of high school, I test drove a red 1968 Chevelle SS396 with a 4-speed. I ended up buying a 1979 Z-28.

It hurts to type that.

The z-28 was $2k more expensive.

... really hurts...

[intakexhaust]

McLaren F1 sports car. Honorable mention: (89 / 90) Acura NSX prototype only because it was before the US DOT certified crash test destroyed it. Oops, more... editing... Ferrari F40.... this is killing me.