what is the rarest car you have come across

Pegasus were built in Spain in the old Hispano-Suiza factory during the mid 50s. Very few cars were built and they bring big big big money.

 

'37 Coffin nose Cord Beverly Convertible Radrod converted to rear wheel drive with '54 Caddy engine and front suspension, Chrysler rearend.

 

I'm at Pebble Beach....Now...

Pictures later on tonight....

 

check out this thread!

 

my friend bought the Gordon Diamond at a Harrras auction in the 80's. It was a flathead powered one off car built by a guy in sanfrancisco in the late 40's it had two wheels in middle and one on each end,hence the diamond name. parallel parking was a super easy!

 

A 1903 Stevens - Dyryea

A 1911 Herreshoff, they mainly built boats

Both cars are in town in excellent condition

 

1901 Locomobile,......... Owned by Frank Mack

1902 Cover,................. Owned by Frank Mack

1910 Buick Roadster,.... Owned by Frank Mack

1963 427 Galaxie Factory Lightweight,

1968 428CJ (R code) Mustang Fastback

 

Lets see... rarest car that I´ve owned, or to be more honest: The poor remains of a car, was a 1912 Berliet. I got it for free at a farm, not much left of it as it had been burned, and rusted into to pieces ages before I found it. I had to dig it up in muddy soil... I sold the parts 25 years ago.
But one of the most outstanding cars ever was offered to my dad in the early 1950´s: A 1938 Mecedes 500K Spezial Roadster with a body made by the coachbuilder Erdmann-Rossini. A piece of art. The car was built for Hermann Göring who strong connections to Sweden and spent a lot of time between the wars here. For some reason, maybe due to its first owner (no one wanted a car with nazi heritage then) it was in a Swedish junkyard. Sorry to say, my dad didnt buy it (the pricetag was about one hundred dollars!)Though belive that the car was finally saved from being turned into scrap metal...

 

Here's a pic of the Davis military three wheeler. Found it at http://www.suarezweb.com/davis/davishst.htm

 

There's this....the 1966 Ferrari F1 Team Fiat truck....crappy cellphone pic....

 

I always thought that the '51 LeSabre was a huge car! In this picture it looks more like the size of a Corvette. How big is it really??

 

I did some drawings of a 31 cadilac v12 and a 31 marmon. I did the drawings next to the cars. The caddy had ostrich skin interior and about 40k in chrome.

 

I guess this one's pretty rare...again, crappy cameraphone shot, proper ones later...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1289/1171744108_d449a76a35.jpg?v=0

 

Saw a Ghia 450SS parked in front of Lowes a couple of years. As I understand it was some sort of manufacturing proof of concept car that Ghia built in the late 60's. I think they were trying to sell the design to someone. It had a 273 V8 and a torqueflite transmission. I gather only 40 or so were built.

Here's a pic of the one I actually saw. Neat looking car, could've been a nice competitor for the T-Bird:

http://www.ohioconcours.com/2003/CF_IMG_1823.JPG

 

We helped restore Arnie" The Farmer Beswicks 1961 Pontiac Ventura Super Duty is 1996. It was one of 12 built, 1 of 6 known to exist.

 

I have a 1926 Henney Hearse. I don't know the exact numbers, but it sold for $5,000 in 1926! There couldn't have been too many...

 

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I'm surprised that nobodies mentioned the illusive

Alfonso Decredenza yet..





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I own this 1948 Simca 8 ... not many in the USA

Black car is a 1959 Triumph Standard 10 .

 

Lil John and I know a guy in Iowa who has a '35 or so Stude Presidential 4D sedan. This thing has a hood that's like 5 feet long. The guy who owns it says he's never seen another one like it and has gone thru Hell finding replacement parts.

I'll see if I can get Lil John to post a photo of it, it's pretty cool.

Vance

 

WOW! I have in the er..uh...reading room where I sometimes take an old mag with me to read. I just so happen to have the May 1965 copy of Hot Rod telling about his Arnie and that car. I was thinking to myself..."I wonder where Arnie or that car is now..."

 

There was one of those Triumphs on ebay last year and the owner claimed it was the only one left known to exist. Guess he was wrong. His was green I believe. Kinda reminded me of a Hudson Jet

 

I was shocked by how small it and the Y-Job were when I saw them displayed at the Henry Ford Museum when I was there.
It's an optical illusion.
You look at the car s in pictures and assume they are proportional to 15" or even 16" wheels,
but the wheels on both of them are only 13"!
They are both about early Corvette size, if not a bit smaller.
Notice the Le Sabre has the same shape windshield as the first Corvettes?

 

A guy in my club has a 27 Star.... Looks like a model A but more wood like a chevy sedan... all origianl it was his grandfathers high school car. Its just cruising for a chop job. I know I will never be able to talk himinot to that. To much sentimental value I guess.... He said he would like to find another one and chop it though...

 

Arnie is alive and well in Morrison, Illinois and still racing. The car was sold this spring at the Mecum auction in Belvidere, IL. It sold for $262,000 but I'm not sure who bought it or what part of the country it went to.

 

Ok so I saw the Moxie car in Dover NH this weekend here is the pic. It is a LaSalle chassis and body with an aluminium horse attached to the top, there are some other pics of it here with the rest of the show....

http://homepage.mac.com/mrakdesign/PhotoAlbum11.html

 

here are a few more rare (orphan)car badges .you can only imagine what these cars looked like.i find this stuff fascinating.every single manufacturer has a history and it should not be forgotten .mitchell. viking . wolverine .huffman six .sinclair

 

here are a few more rare car manufacturers grill badges

 

here are a few more .some interesting artwork and design in these emblems .would make interesting tee shirts at least you would know you had something rare and different (until an older person tapped you on the shoulder and said i used to own one of them )

 

The rarest car I have owned I think is my corvette. 1 of 1287 in 1970, but if your asking what is the rarest one I have seen... well there's lots of 1 of 1 cars at pebble beach and concorso italiano so it is hard to say.

 

the whole purpose of this thread is to show hoodlums worldwide that there were many other manufacturers other than ford and chev and these manufacturers produced 5 .75 . 200 . or 20thousand cars .started usually by guys like us tinkering in garages with the dream of building their own car unfortunatelythey are long forgotton but still a part of automobile history