History If you could have any car......

it would seem a few of you missed this part.

"""So the question is, if you had a cool million to spend and it had to be spent on a car or cars, what would they be. No fair, can't build one, gotta be already built. """

 

Munster Koach
Dragula
anything Roth

 

Any car? I don't think I could pick one but I know a Million wouldn't come close...

I'll pick 2...

Fangio's Mercedes W196



Just the one in front....

Or a 1937 Delage DB8S

 

I'd buy Bob K's car (Chevy convertible) but he told me at Louisville that he wouldn't take 1,000,000 for it.
Sorry Bob.....(lol)

 

I tried to but it for years,but the owner wouldn't sell it!!! BEFORE it was restored. Way out of reach now.

 

i agree....i agree!!!!!!

 

I'll humbly accept the Hirohata Merc, and maybe Frank Rodger's '32 roadster (Tardell)

Thirdly, would be Dick Landy's 330 Dodge..... Keystones and all, lol.

 

I'm happy with the ones I have but a 32 5 window would be nice also.

 

A nice custom '36 Ford Roadster would do me fine for the meantime.
It'll be summer here in 3 or 4 months...

 

Can't build one??? In that case as many old cars as possible so I can build one

But if a had to pick one then a 1914 Peugeot GP car would probably be it, DOHC, 4 valves per cylinder and desmo valves in 1914. Fred Offenhauser worked on this car in the early part of his life. One million might cover it.

For more realistic daily transport it'd be the Peugeot 403 built by Jim Hawker that had two Peugeot 203 engines spliced together to make a V8.

Of course I'd settle a Bugatti, Delage or Delahaye, an old Alfa 8C would be nice too.

Thanks

Hayden

 

would keep the ones I have and use the mil to live on and keep em running

 

I kinda like that Model A Elvis drove in Loving You.

Aloha

 

Mine....finished

 

this car.

 

I've never drove a Lotus 23B; saw one in a mag (R&T?) years ago and fell in love...

Would like to try out a Lotus 7, too.

And, if I'm too big (6'-2"/250) for those, I'll take a big block '70 Runner. Rootbeer brown with white bench interior preferred. But 1M will leave enough to go to the shop and have that changed. And a very, very strong running engine and manual trans would be installed. Yeah, it'd be replacing an earlier car. Otherwise, I'd pass on that combination.

Failing all that, I'd take a Max Wedge car, swiss cheese Catalina, 409 stick S/S car, or interesting FE (tunnel port, SOHC, etc) early sixties Ford.

But, don't worry, I'm sure I could find a way to find something for $1M; I'm modest.



-Bill

 

A '55 Chevy 150 model.

 

Hummm, easy..... a 1967 Impala hardtop with a 327, 4spd . Perhaps a 56 Cadillac Eldorado convertable and a fully restored 1953 Ford Panel Delivery . scrubba

 

I'd like another Chassis Research Te-440 dragster...then my dad and I can race them side by side!

 

There is only one car that I would like to have. I know where it is but I can't buy it because the owner won't sell it....... yet.

That car is my '40 Ford Opera Coupe that I had in high School in 1969. It had a '53 merc flathead with three holley 94's, 39 trannny, straight through exhaust, mohair interior and tons of memories. The car has not been changed in the past 40 years, it is as I sold it back then to buy a 65 442. If I did get it back I would get it running and leave it alone as is....

 

Not sure when my million would run dry, but heres what I would start with:

Winged Express
Ohio Georges 33 Willys
Herman Munsters coach
Any 60s style FED with the engine sloped forwards, around 200 inches wheelbase and a nitro eating '92 in it. None of those modern FEDs, they too ugly

Hermans Coach would need a towbar to get the Wing to the track.

And if theres anything left over, a 57 Caddy Coupe De Ville, with a 500 cube caddy engine.

 

I cant pick just one.....

 

1941 willys coupe.

 

Our '34 olds with950k left under the seat!

 

The chopped and channeled olds rocket powered 31 model a coupe that my dad built when I was a little kid. I will never forget crying my eyes out when he sold it , some time around 1968.

 

A Gremlin with a Hemi

 

One of these would be fun

 

The Holden Efijy



And Bob Ida's 48 Tucker



But I'd change the rims, maybe something more like these.

 

A Tucker would be cool! I'd start with a 55 56 & 57 nomad. No wait, probably a Cameo or Apache, or both. Or a 56 F-100. Maybe a ..... shit my nights shot!

 

How many did they build before they were shut down?? 56 of them???

 

tom branchs roadster, i didnt even read the thread but yeah thats my pick.

wait no, donnie barids olds... yeah thats what id want. yeah.

shit... maybe john kennedys 62 impala ragtop? yeah i cant make up my mind and damn you for starting this thread making me think of the COOLEST shit ill NEVER have.

fuck. back to work.