8bit

Anyone here have a classic car from the old days they admire? I have always liked the Boss Mustang, and there was that cool Shelby Mustang replica in Gone in 60 Seconds.

http://bradbarnett.net/mustangs/concept/71boss302/

http://www.er3.com/firebird/

http://www3.sympatico.ca/f.bevil/My1970Swinger340.html

nickel

oh.yeh.baby!

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Maarchk

my baby

I hope to make my babies. 2 1

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Merlin

The Porsche 550 Spyder..

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nickel

are these what you guys have or would like to have?

Merlin

Classic car I admire. I don't think I would ever get one. A kit car maybe for fun, but not the real deal.

IrishSS

Ya, the Shelby GT500 is a pretty drool worthy automobile. Everytime I see one on Barrett-Jackman I wish I had the means to be there and purchase it.

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Maarchk

The GTO is what i have. The GT-500 is what i imagine having. Angelina Jolie is just a nice mantle piece.

mechmike0034

I can guarantee you that Angelina Jolie would be much higher maintenance than your Goat and a GT-500 combined...

Pristine Goat - '67 is my favorite year. I have a good friend in Concord, NC that has several '60s GTOs and is well known within PHS and GTO circles as an authority on those cars.

My pop-in-law and his brother owned a Pontiac dealership in Kingston, PA from 1962-1970. The glory years...

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Maarchk

Thats very awesome. My grandfather bought a 1967 GTO right off the lot and gave it to me a few years back, so i could keep it up and clean it up. I really enjoy them. Family cars with a lot of power.

mechmike0034

That it was inherited from your grandfather makes it even more special.

My dad was a Ford man in his youth, buying $50 Model As and installing Ford flathead V8 engines in them. He also liked sports cars - he dated my mother in a '53 Jag XK-120 roadster in the late 50's.

He couldn't get a Mustang equipped the way he wanted in late '64 (demand for the Mustang was ten times higher than what Ford could produce after it was first introduced - the dealer would not even take his order...) so he ordered a '65 Plymouth Barracuda fastback, 273 4-barrel and Torqueflite.

Bought a new one each year - '65, '66 and '67, all gold. The '66 and '67 were Formula S cars. (Formula S was to a Barracuda as GT was to a Mustang and Super Sport or SS was to Camaros, Chevelles, and Impalas of the era - the performance option package...)

Kept the '67 as it was his favorite. Mine, too. It was hit in the rear and totaled by a UVa student driving drunk in the early fall of '69, and it was replaced with a brand-new 1970 'Cuda 340. Wish I had that one, too.

That car was traded in on a '73 240Z, which I inherited upon my departure for college in the fall of 1979.

Just before I graduated from high school, one of my neighbors offered my a mint 43,000-mile '70 Boss 302 Mustang. The asking price? $1200! I had the money, but Dad said no. I'm still kicking myself 25 years later.

I've had some interesting cars over the years, too, but mine have been more oddball than classic. But I have rambled enough...

mechmike0034

I had the honor and pleasure of meeting and having my picture taken with Chuck Beck at the SEMA show in Las Vegas a couple of years ago. He invited me to visit his shop in Cali whenever I got out there.

He was a helluva sports car racer back in the day, and builds some beautiful replicas now.

He's now farmed out building 550 Spyders to a facility in Texas.

Now he's doing a replica of the '60s Lister-Chevrolet:

psycho-

For some reason, I'm totally enamoured with this car

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nickel

the classics are so much more classier

look_ma

I like some of factory five's designs, freakin neat.

car and driver did an article on them:
http://www.caranddriver.com/article....&page_number=3
and here is there website:
http://www.factoryfive.com/

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usedillusion

darn, wish i had a pic of my dad's '73 corvette stingray that he says will be mine in a couple years. it went in the shop just after i was starting to drive it. and no not as a result of me driving it

this one's similar



i too like the old mustangs and this, the '68 camaro. come to mama...

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nickel

no wonder mojo has the *hots* for you

kimchicowboy

1955 MB 300SL Gullwing.
yeah. i know some of y'all think it's butt ugly, but it was a good car in its day and the gullwing doors are really unique.

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I have a '68 Vette, a 64-1/2 Mustang, a '57 Chevy, a '79 Mustang Pace Car and an '83 Chevy Stepside Lowrider.

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mechmike0034

That's my Dad's ultimate...

It has always been a dream of mine to make enough money to buy him one and suprise him with it. Don't know that it'll ever happen, but...

8bit

Yeah, there are all kinds of classic cars. I would even say the Viper is reaching an age where it could be called a modern classic.
GM made a few cool cars too back in the day, I will give them that.


Camaro, Trans Am

http://www.nastyz28.com/camaro/camaro70.html

http://www.geocities.com/wrenchplus/73xtra.html

http://www.78ta.com/international.htm


GTO, Chevelle

http://www.gtoheaven.com/images/GT0/...stGtoTiger.jpg

http://www.gtoheaven.com/images/GT0/...parkPlugCp.jpg

http://www.chevelles.com/feature/february2004.html

mechmike0034

Zora Arkus-Duntov's '72 Chevelle... Wow!

http://www.chevelles.com/feature/october2003.html

Zora was the chief engineer of the Corvette, and the man who literally created Chevrolet performance in the '50s.

I owned a '71 402 Chevelle back in the day. Hot rod station wagons are all the rage now - I had one 20 years ago.

IrishSS

Totally agreed. I was so excited when they remade it. I still think it's one bitching car. I had forgotten about that...