what is the rarest car you have come across

the rarest car I have seen is the '41 Pontiac coupe still sitting in my garage, waiting for this six month from hell winter to finaly end!!!!!!!!!!

 

Here is the car on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AKcj2041io

 

Just call me a "DUMB ASS!" last feb I had the chance to buy a 1929 Hudson Super Six 3 Window coupe! BIG CAR!! EXPENSIVE CAR! Went and looked at it... It was out in the middle of no where Illinois in a little shed... the car was complete with a perfect body, suicide doors, buffalo wire wheels with dual side mounts and a rumble seat! everything was there for the car except one cowl light! The engine was stuck and the roof wood was bad but the car was a barn find but it was super super nice. I bought the car for $3,500 on a wed. and was going to pick the car up and pay for it on sat. Saturday came and it was really cold and I had a 1935 ford on my trailer... so I got lazy!!! I decided it was going to be too much trouble to take the ford off the trailer and it was cold.. and I was being a pussy... so I called the guy and backed out of the deal!!!! HERE'S WHERE THE DUMB ASS PART IS!!! the car showed up on e-bay about 2 weeks later and brought over $9000!!! SO I didn't only loose the rarest car I have ever had the chance to own... But I lost a bunch of cash!!!!!

 

1938 Buick coupe with a semi-automatic tranny.
GM's first automatic[ish] tranny. Quite a few were installed in Oldsmobiles, but the big torquey buick engine was too much for the first gen tranny, and tore them up pretty quickly. As a result, only 15 were ever produced. Only one still survives, and it's in a garage about 1/2 a mile from where I am now... Unrestored, and infact, untouched for the past 31 years. No, it's not for sale. The owner knows exactly what he's got, and he aint letting it go.

 

These might not be really rare but i have seen a really rough 1952 packard 250 sport cp. in the woods. also a rough corvair station wagon and good corvair van in a salvageyard. a good running 64 pontiac gto tri power convertable in a salvage yard, kids later bursted out all the windows. finally a 1957 Nash ambassidor station wagon in the same small yard.

 

Back in 1977or 78 my brother and I went to look at a 71 Hemi Cuda convertible 4- speed car in Milwaukee WI.. It was rusty and the top was shot, motor leaked oil but we did go for a ride in it, a fast ride. The guy was asking $5,000 firm. Way to much for that that car back then. Some years later I found out that there were only like 7 or 8 built!. Oh well!, got to ride in it anyway.

 

I currently own a 63 Studebaker Lark Standard 2 door said to be
1 of 1 built with bench seat, 4 speed, R1 289, factory tach, traction bars, heavy duty springs, heavy duty cooling and finned brakes, its all together, numbers matching but realllly rusty.

also owned:
1960 Ventura bubbletop 389 4 speed
1965 GTO factory ramair {delivered in trunk}
1966 Chevelle SS 396 360 HP
1969 HURST S/CRambler 1 of first 500 a scheme paint

buddys Dad had a 74 Monte Carlo with a 3 on the tree {factory new}

 

once while driving through the back woods of Alabama heading for a show in
Georgia i was yard shopping... the past time of all gear heads... and went
past this little farm hoping to spot a old T or and A or somthing like that
and as i went past i noticed somthing like a grey mettle fender.. mabey to
an old MG or somthing peaking out of a shed by the barn, so i slowed down and turned around and when past again... definitely not a MG , wrong shape... got the courage up and pulled into the drive way, got out of my 46 sedan and walked up to the house , and an old guy with a cane walked out the door befor i could get there , said "mornin' what ya need?" so i said
"im just passing tough , i noticed the car in the shed as i was passin and
got a bit curious is all", he laughed and "car guy right?" more of a statement then anything, so i nodded and said yeaa, i am...
he nodded and thought for a second.. or farted.. couldn't tell wasn't close enough. the the nodded again and said follow me, and we slowly walked to the shed (and it was a rotten as hell shed at that) , he swung the doors wide and sitting in that shed was a mangled twisted Porsche Spyder missing most of the running gear and the engien, it amazed the hell out of me to find a car like this in such a place even in this condition, so i asked the old guy where he got it.
he told me one day his son came up from Florida one day hauling it and just dropped it off and told him to never sell it, he said a weak after that his son got into a car wreck and died, so he kept it.
well, we talked for about a hour more about old cars and how kids where raised nowadays and i thanked him for showing me the car and i drove off.

the show in Georgia got rained out but i did see a bucket T with Lincoln V12, kinda nifty.

 

I found this old photo of one..

 

Lemme guess, it had number 130 painted on the side and "Lil' Bastard" lettered on the back.

Kurt O.

 

UUMMMM......did you just tell us a story about seeing the remains of James Deans Spyder? Followed up by the old guys son dying, which seemed to be part of the "curse" that haunted everyone that had dealings with the wreck....

 

I think there is a member here that has a hearse,Sled I think it is..It's in the Mexican Junk thread..It's a 1942 Cadillac Cathedral Carved Side Hearse..Super rare..Only 4 made,3 in existence still..2 restored,and his is the only 100% original unrestored running driveable one..Thing is worth at least $95,000

 

Lived in England in the early eighties and had a friend with a ZL1 Corvette which was supposed to be rare.Ran the engine in an old 57 210 gasser at Santa Pod. Used to run 10s if I can remember correctly.I always wonder if the engine made it back into the Vette.

 

A 1967 Impala 427ci 4- speed for $ 600.00 back in 1974.

 

The one I'm building, only one like it. Other than that the 49 Packard convertable we destroyed as kids and the 66 Hemi BelvedereII my buddy had. Both cars had 500 production run.

 

like to see the one youre building willowbilly.please share dave

 

Rarest car I came across? A week after buying my first "new" car, a '92 Dodge Dakota, after looking around for something old, reliable and fun, I come across a couple of guys in a black on black on black '64 corvair convertible. It appeared to be perfectly restored and sported an interesting looking duel exhaust system. Turned out to be a 1 off factory original. The guys said it was built by what was Chevy's racing divission at the time as an experimental project, said they could document it. It had a rare twin turbo engine and beefed up underpinnings.. I'm getting fuzzy on the details like horse power, tho I think it was well over two hundred,but this thing, they said, was fast and handled like a dream. Anyone know the car???
They offered it for sale at $12,000. 3k under what I paid for the truck.
Who wants a rare car for a daily driver in L.A. anyway...

 

nope, just bare metal , dust and chicken shit.


the old guy had a willis coe pick up to, whens the last time you seen one of those?! supposedly they where damn fine when off road .

 

I've owned several rusty but rare cars.

Things I've owned in the past:
1955 Studebaker Speedster (my profile picture)
1962 Studebaker Skytop (one of twelve known to exist-only to be torched by the buyer)
1963 Studebaker R1 custom 2dr, now owned by vernor -green-grage on this forum.
1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk 400

I still own one 'rare one' a 1963 Studebaker R1 GT Hawk. Oh yeah, I also forgot I'm co-owner of the 1955 prototype Studebaker truck as featured in "Vintage Truck" last month. Oh and it's not really rare but my current project I'm restoring to drive is a 1955 Studebaker champion, 25th car built.

 

Saw an old HENDERSON motor car last week at Horse Power Haven Farm in Salem, NY.
The only one left in the world.

 

Here's the HENDERSON motor car I saw last week in Salem, NY. Owner said it was the only one left in the world.

 

In the village of New Boston, Michigan a guy named Ray Whit used to have a garage there that he did restoration work in. I was there once I think in the early 70's and he was working on one of the 1936 stainless steel Fords. I think Ray worked for Greenfield Village at one time.

 

The Story and The Top on this one makes this car one of the rarest cars I have seen on the road.

 

I've had three fairly rare cars . A 1951 Cad-Allard , a Peerless GT Coupe , and my Ferret MK 2/3 which appears in my avatar . I'm including photos of an Allard and Peerless so you can see what they look like but not my cars . The Ferret is me at Goodguys Del Mar

 

1950 Olds Sedan Delivery. Only 6 or 8 built, for use a service vehicles at the Olds maufacturing plants. I have seen three. 1 at a swap meet in the 70's, a pic of a barn find in Hemmings and a one at the LA Roadsters this year.

 

I miss you Jim...

 

The rarest car I've ever seen is a Rolls-Royce that was custom-built in the early '30s. Back then, it was common for a Rolls-Royce customer to consult a coachbuilder, who would then have a chassis built to his specifications and then build a body for it. This particular car was built for Spencer Tracy, so it became known as the Spencer Tracy Rolls. I couldn't find any pictures of it, but visualize a cream '34 Ford roadster body with black '34 Ford fenders and cream 21-inch wires with an upright Rolls-Royce grille. The back of the body is a boat-tail, and the tops of the doors angle down like on an early MG.

The man who owns the car bought it off a used car lot back in 1954 for $300. He was a student at UCLA, and told me he left it unlocked in the dorm parking lot almost every night for four years and nobody ever messed with it.

For me, the neatest thing about this car is that it is closer to being a true sports car than any other early Rolls-Royce.

Dave
(602) 233-8400
http://www.roadsters.com/

 

For about ten years I owned the 26th Datsun pickup imported to the U.S. Interesting little truck. It had a four speed column shift and when they converted it to left hand drive they just flipped the column over and moved it to the other side,. Shift pattern was upside down and backwards.

 

I've got what's left of a 1925 Maxwell.

 

The 39 Zephyr convertible fordoor sedan my Dad towed his midget with. Ford records indicate less that 150 built.