what is the rarest car you have come across

Last year I came across this seemingly normal, somewhat common VW doublecab left in a field in southern Mississippi. After looking at some pictures I took of it I relized it was not a "normal" double cab. In fact it was a 1958 Binz double cab. Binz was a coach builder that took a VW single cab and converted it to a double cab before VW every decided to build a double. Later, VW relized the market for the double cab and started building them from there factory. Anyway, I saved the VW and passed it on to someone with a passion for that sort of thing. I have sence found out that it is believed to be the third oldest known Binz.

Here are a few pics from the day I pulled it from death

 

this is the rarest car i have come across .and it has the coolest name (the dixie flyer) made in america louisville kentucky between1916 and 1922 by the kentucky manufacturing co about 7.500 cars were built.if you go back in this thread you will find a picture of a 1917 model.try and google it ive had no luck. afriend of a friend has discovered one here in australia 1922 model and wants to restore it .he knows of one in santa rosa california and one in iceland and is looking for parts if you have any leads on this rarity pm me and i will pass it on dave

 

Maybe not HAMB approved...but I think so. Long story short.
Friend (NOT a car guy) at work goes to Downtown Detroit to look at an escort for his step-daughter. Comes to work the next day and says there is a sports car under a bunch of boxes with AC marked on it. Tell him to ask a price. Ends up the non-caucasion lady living at the house said her uncle was in the military and brought cars over here from EU. They're moving and he won't come get it....6K and it's yours. Buy it before I do, I say. Next day we go at lunch and drag this car out of the garage and out from under the moldy boxes...before someone changes their mind...or comes looking for it. He ended up needing money and wanted to put it on the bay...which I knew would lead to someone with more money than brains that knew someone with an awsome SBC that would fit right in. So I found a collector that paid 32K. Great investment on his part...just wish I had bought it first...or had the money he found out it was worth. BTW...That's me firing it up in the pic. Funny thing is this car was an export to the US...so I'm not sure I buy the whole "uncle sending cars here" story.

 

I really wish they would have put those into production (or at least have a company that makes replicas of them). That is one of my all-time dream cars.

 

This is definately the rarest I've come across.
I bought this barnfind Sportscar Special 2 weeks ago.

It's a drvable prototype intended for production. Made in Norway in 1950-51.
Body is all aluminium and handmade.
One piece Flip-front. Chassie parts are 39 Ford and engine is prewar Merc/Truck Flatthead.40-48 Trans with homemmade linkage to a floor stick.
I'll do a separate post later when it's more sorted out.
Has survived several owners without to many mods. Have not been on the road since around 1970.

There never where any sucsessfull car production in Norway. A lot of atempts have been made over the last 100 years.
This is one of them.

Paul

 

There were no factory built 427 Beaumonts. The only big block Beaumonts had either a 325 or a 350 horse 396.
James

 

This is Canada. We can do what we want. Fuel injected 283 powered 57 Pontiacs, dual quad 409 Pontiac station wagons, 427 powered Pontiac Custom Sports, 396 two barrel powerglide 65 StratoChiefs and the odd thing that was built that wasn't supposed to be

I'll give the original owner of the Beaumont a call as I am sure he still has pics of the car. The heads are still on his speedboat and I think I even know where the original block is. Not doubting your info, but I have seen this car. It was built and bought that way.

 

i restored a ferrari 500 superfast. i was told there were only 36 built.

 

Chevrolets,ever heard of a rare one?
My Mother had a 1932 Confederate Deluxe Coupe..Not Rare you say?
It was one of 6 right hand drive cars built.

The other is a moonlight speedster,I went to the owners house about 7 years ago,to look closer at a car I first read about 40 years ago.

Built by Holden ( Australias GM manufacturer) in 1932 on a 1931 Chassis ( as were all OZ '32 Chevs) .It was a body style handed to them by GM Englands Vuaxhall Motor company.Originally Called a Vauxhall Hurlingham ( I have seen one of those close up too) they were pretty swoopy for the depression era.
This car was found in a dealers yard in the late 50's or early sixties and featured in the US vintage Chev magazine ,' generator and distributor' around the mid sixties.
A car restorer in Sydney bought it,and found it was pretty rough and just hanging together with a wooden Frame and alloy panels. He then heard of my mothers Chev Coupe and organised a "dealer" to talk my mother out her car,spinning a line of shit about how he was going to cherish it etc .
The plan was to remove the body from mums car and put the speedster body on.
Problem was...my mums car was genny '32 and the speedster is a '31.Quite a few differences in basic design,especially fenders etc .
Also mums car had only done 14,000 miles from new. The coupe was sold to a dip stick GM dealer in Sydney who locked it up so and I haven't seen or heard of it for years.
The guy that owns the speedster now,picked up the speedster in the mid 70's really cheap and spent years restoring it. While restoring it he was handed a spare door and windscreen from another speedster... proving more than one were built. A really nice guy,he was in fighting off a former spouse who was trying to get his car off him.He has to keep it under lock and key and out of sight.

 

This isnt old school or anything, but I once found a Dodge Daytona C/S at a local car lot. Not just a shelby daytona, but the stripped, factory racer daytona. This would be compared to like the Dart Super Stocks and such from the 60's. They were basicly a Shelby Daytona with a turbo II motor (forged internals, intercooled, roller cam) in a stripped body. No ground effects, no power anything, cloth interior, usually no radio and no A/C. They were over the counter for road racing. This lot had it for $300 and it was beat to hell. I kinda regret not buying it...

 

Oh, and my friend's uncles have some 1920's/1930's hearse. I forget the manufacturer, but there were only maybe 20 made. The thing is HUGE. Everything except the frame, running gear, and hood/grill are made from wood. Its rotting in the back yard.

 

Don't know how 'rare' they are, but real nice 42 Lincoln 3 Window

 

Dear old dad had a couple rare ones, first being a 54 corvette with 25k on the od... And Second a 1965 396 c.i. 425 h.p. Goodwood green Corvette coupe....

 

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I'll take that MG if you don't want it anymore.

I know where the last Hemi car is.

 

With the Canadian built GM cars, you can call GM of Canada and give them the VIN to get documentation that tells exactly what engine, tramsmission and other options the cars had from the factory. A 69 Beaumont SD is a rare car with only a couple hundred being built. I own a 68 Beaumont SD 396. There were only 702 of these built.
There were big cars built in Canada with the 427 like the Parisiennes and Laurentians but no Beaumonts or Acadians. Below is a link to pictures of my car.
James
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/460059

 

A guy I worked with in California had a 1903 Columbia Mark XXX something or another. He said there was only one or two known to exist in the world. He had found it from a Hemmings Motor News ad from Washington state. It was lying in the dirt next to a barn and only had the running gear and a few bits and pieces to start with. He fabricated the rest from measurements made from a survivor car that was in a museum. It was 4 cylinder gasoline powered (most Columbia's were electric) chain drive. Lots of brass and red and black paint. Wheels were very large and must have been 30" or so tall with white rubber tires. Getting in was like mounting a horse.

 

Sold the MG to Gene Ponder in Texas over 10 years ago . He recently passed and his collection was just recently auctioned .

 

i work at GM in the summer 94 .
95 impala ss, calypso green ( cadillac color ) .only one made .total two days later by a hail storm .

 

1937 DeLuxe Ford Roadster Ute.

Reportedly they made 28 Roadster utes in '37, 6 of which were DeLuxe's. All early records were destroyed in a fire at Ford, so numbers are just rumours.

Anyway, it was sitting behind a barn, no running gear, 180 bullet holes, with a 36 Coupe roof bolted on with HUGE coachbolts.

I asked "How much"

He said "Just take it"

I said "OK"

There are a couple of others already done as Rods (one a DeLuxe), and I know of the location of at least four more.

A collegue has a 38 Roadster ute ................one of six made.

When I feel like wandering down to the shed I'll grab a photo .........

 

the last shop I was at has body no 1 for 1946 lincoln continental 2 door. this was the first postwar lincoln to roll of the assembly line. kinda he had pics fromthe line in 46 and everything. kinda cool, but I missed out on trading my poncho for a 1937 REO 2 door sedan. I never saw one till then. kinda rare I guess.

 

When I lived in Detroit I had an aquaintence who had a Shark-Nosed Graham. I think it was a 38.
That thing had the coolest front end.

 

the patents hanging on the wall of my grandfathers office for an late 1890's "Ogden" are pretty darn rare.

 

I was in the Technical Museum in Munich in the 80's and in addition to all the other beautiful cars there was a one only Porsch 911 that was stamped out of stainless steel. The plan was to see if it was economical to put it into production, but the extra costs of stamping stainless made the idea prohibitively expensive. They couldn't even find a satisfactory method of painting the car. Without paint, and the fact that it had not been polished, made it just looked like a car in a body shop waiting for paint. They only made one, and I'd take it.
Bob

 

I'm at a family get-together at my ex's hillbilly in-laws when one of them mentions that there's a TUCKER in a barn up the street! Naturally, I tell them they are full of shit. Later that day, we drive up to this tired old barn next to a run down farm house. The character that lives there comes out and says hi. He gives us the tour of his worn out, neglected old barn. When we walk inside, there are a few old cars in a row. One that he's especially proud of is an old BMW that he wedged a Ford small block into. I'm laughing at the thought of anything of value belonging to the guy. Then he turns our attention to a room inside the barn. We walk through the door into this clean, drywalled, well-lit room with a real Tucker in it. He was finishing its restoration, and the car was stunning. It absolutely blew my mind.

 

a nearby neighbour is restoring a 1929 1930 buick boattail speedster .is there such a beast and how many were produced .he has little or no info

 

I still remember being a kid and seeing a 69 Firebird Trans Am Convert. One of eight. After talking to the guy he actually had another one. He owned 25% of all Trans Am verts made!!!!

 

My Uncle's car is for sale at Hersey next week. 1 of 6 surviving Seldon's. That's pretty rare. Interestingly, they were built in Rochester NY. It's impossible to tell in the picture, but the car is about 9.5 feet tall. To put it in the garage or car trailer it has to have the top put down.

http://www.prewarcar.com/show_prewar_car.asp?car_id=47667

 

My 1922 Marmon. There are about half a dozen 1922 Marmons known left and mine is the only 4 passenger touring car of that half dozen. My 1927 Marmon 5 passenger sedan is one of two remaining of that body style. The other was owned by Bill Harrah, but currently lost?

I've been fortunate enough over the years to visit with alot of different guys with cars ranging from brass era to muscle cars. There's alot more of the oddball/rare stuff out there than everyone realizes.

 

I didnt go... but someone went to a storage area filled with old cool stuff. I remember there being tons of rare cars and antiques. Here are the only two pics I saved. I have no idea what they are but what I can see they look wild