Lets Say You Get Unlimted $ to Spend on 1 Car...

[Hugh R]

Originally Posted by kiwiokie

I actually know someone who owns one here in Los Angeles. I've ridden in it. He bought it for $10K in 1970 or so. I paid $1,750 for my regular DB4 at about the same time. He could sell it for $3Million on a bad day. 12 Plug head, dual distributors, 3 side draft dual Webers. Same 4 sp David Brown trannie as a regular DB4, I believe, possible different gearing. His is red and left hand drive. He and I pulled onto the 101 freeway once an he tried to blow past my DB4 and when he down shifted to pass, I heard a mis-shift, (grounch!) I doubt it hurt it, but I had to laugh.

[regency]

I'm a simple man........a 1967 El Camino, stock with rally wheels ( gun rack for my L C Smith )

Steve

73 911 T MFI Coupe, Aubergine

[DonDavis]

Originally Posted by ckissick

MB 500K Roadster

Word.

[enzo1]

Originally Posted by ckissick

MB 500K Roadster

[berettafan]

Ok a couple comments about the covering of related costs have me wondering....would campaigning the car in a race series be covered? If so I might consider a change to a modern race car for an entry level pro series.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by speeder

That would look sweet with chrome license plate frames.

[Scott Watkins]

[john70t]

(just an observation: the Lambo and AMG will probably end upside when those rims break with the first pothole at speed.

[foxpaws]

Or

[scottmandue]

Tough call... but I always drool when i see one of these on the road:





This would may a more comfy ride, but still fast as he11:



Or for something completely different:

[scottmandue]

Oh yeah... Scott Watkins post reminded me...



and the obligatory Ferrari...

[TGTIW]

Any one of these..

[flipper35]

An Auburn Model 851 Speedster would be great for my wife. Two tone blue and silver or burgandy and silver. I would even take a Glen Prey model.

[GG Allin]

1993 600sl?

[speeder]

Hahaha...you'd kill the benefactor with the maintenance. Well played.

[Seahawk]

At the risk of being pedestrian, I keep coming back, at least in my mind, to what I would enjoy owning and using on a daily basis or at least would want to.

Something I would relish using and not regret adding wear and tear, or wrecking. There has to be more than one or two in other words. I assumed maintenance isn't an issue.

Then there is the practical aspect: I sold a perfectly sweet 356 because entering and leaving the birth canal multiple times running errands became tiresome. I also wish the Italians were taller.

Lastly, there has to be a visceral connection, that thing, usually from youth, when you saw it and just knew. This is after all, not about money, it is about desire.

That leaves me with the BMW E9.





The first one a saw was at Fox Field in Thousand Oaks, where I took, against my wishes, horse riding lessons as a kid. This was 1969 or so. A man named Victor Massich (sp) owned a 2800 in green and tan. He was a friend of my parents and pulled up one day in his brand new BMW.

It was, for the time, the most beautiful sedan I had ever seen, ever contemplated seeing. Simple beauty without pretension or vanity.

I plan on owning one should God not laugh at my planning: It is the car for me, one I would make my own.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by ledhedsymbols

Lincoln Zephyr... I would take any of them, but the two door convertible is to me; as cool as it gets.

this ain't NO Zephyr....This is a 41 Lincoln Continential MK1 V12

[daepp]

[scottmandue]

We all have our own version of the "ultimate car"

At my age my ultimate would have to come with a measure of comfort (says the guy commuting in a seventeen year old Miata ) and reliability. I would like to be able to (nay NEED to be able to) jump in the car and drive coast to coast and not have my mechanic on speed dial... but that is just me.

Yes, the 250 GT is the number one car on my lust after list... and yes I know there are uber rich folks that drive them on the street and/or track... but for me, just for the historical value of the car... I would be terrified to drive it on the street...

That and I'm not the type of "trailer the car to the event and sit under an umbrella chatting about my car" guy... not that there is anything wrong with that! I have been to many car shows and chatted with owners of many beautiful cars! just not my thing to "show" a car.

Nor am I like my friend that bought a cool little Datsun roadster, had his mechanic fix it up, showed it off to his friends, joined the Datsun roadster club, went to Datsun roadster events... again... not that there is anything wrong with that! However in contrast I bought a 944, stuck it in the garage, drove the poop out of it on the weekends, and enjoyed the heck out of it! (I did meet some 944 pelicans)

Sorry I am rambling, I guess my point being there are many flavors of car people... and many kinds of ultimate cars.

[ledhedsymbols]

Originally Posted by tabs

this ain't NO Zephyr....This is a 41 Lincoln Continential MK1 V12

Oops... That'll teach me to do a quick photo search and post. I apologize for the mistake. Either vehicle would do fine by me. This is the four door, but also very high on the list.