What would you buy tomorrow if you found one?

1. The Little Red Wagon or the Hemi Under Glass
2. Hilborn injected Hemi in a front engine digger (or just the digger, I'll put my Hemi in it)
3. Chopped Model A coupe

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A reasonably-priced Y-block Hilborn ...

 

these would be at the top of my list:
- a nice Inch/Metric Monarch 10 EE
- a later 40 taper Deckel FP1
- a Yoder K-90-M or LK-90-M
or a little less realistic and far less practical:
- a Vincent Series B Shadow

 

When I was a kid there was a C Jag body complete at Onsted's wrecking in Gardena....... Boy I wanted that!!!!!!

 

I would love to drop my 55 Pontiac like a hot potato for my old 54 Buick. Best car I ever owned.

 

I have only seen one in person, it was perfect and real, I fell in love with that car, to me it is the perfect sportscar, except for maybe the prototype hand beaten aluminum body Jag i saw at the historic races at Lime Rock a few years ago, I understand it was built just after the C type but before the D jags were racing.

 

My Mercer was the only 1914 35-O it was a sleeper cause unlike the Raceabout it just looked like a comffie street roadster.... The thing would do 75-80 all day long and the gearbox was like a hot knife thru butter!

I'd like an L-Head They are,honestly, a better driver And I think I'd like a touring body this time to include more people in the fun.Touring Europe in an L-Head............

For you guys that have never driven an teens Hot Rod it's hard to explain just how it feels to go very fast in something so very old. If anything breaks your chances of dead and pretty good.But the smile on your face is so wide it makes your ears hurt!!!

When all this sell'n crap is over I am going to start looking.........

 

A solid Tail Dragger. Maybe a 39 ford. gotta be a done car. I just want to cruise.

 

A Kurtis or Edmunds midget, then maybe a Watson Indy roadster.

 

an aluminum 3x2 intake for a 348 chevy.

 

"Barn Fresh" '32/'33 P/U Cab - with original paint still stuck to it - No pitting or Rot (yeh right i don't even think this is a possible request)


Not cool or unique but it's what i want to build for my "keeper"

 

A '71-'72 Super Beetle parts car that has a non-rusty frame head and good seats.

Some Run DMC on vinyl.

Some kind of welder.

A heater for my garage.

A beater pickup.

Some 1-Shot.

And a partridge in a pear tree.

 

I'll go for the Vincent Series B Shadow, w/spares for the engine.

- '40 or '41 Ford pickup
- Mitchell "Man-O-War" 427 small-block Ford to put in it.
- Tremec TKO 5-speed to go with it

 

10,000 square foot shop where no one would complain about noise, paint fumes, old cars,

 

Top of my all time want list:

63' Belvedere
70' Challanger
59' El Camino
59' Dodge D500
60-65 Ranchero with a V8 and a 4 speed
55' Chev to build into a 2 lane Blacktop clone
66' Shelby Cobra S/C
66' Pontiac Parisienne Custom Sport Convertable like the one I had in triple black, but with a factory 427/4 Spd combo. Rare Canada only car, and mine was only a 327/PG car.

426 Hemi for my 69' Dart
Liberty Prep'd 833 4 speed for the hemi
Dana 60 with a 4.10 gear for the 4 speed

List of wants that I have a much better chance of getting:

49-54 Chevy Fleetline
Set of vintage rims for the above chevy
low milage L69 305HO
Mildly built TH200-4R

Oh ,wait. I already have all that waiting to be picked up. I am hoping to have about $2500 total into the running, driving car. So far my total cash outlay has been about $300

 

1. 1935 auburn 851 boattail speedster
2. 1940 ford coupe (to do my way)
3. 1968 ford mustang gt fastback
4. clean, dependable, mild custom 55 chev two door hardtop for a driver
5. douche sedan - brown primer, whitewalls, split bones, mild 283 or 327, big shiftah...

and a gang of other crap, like veedubs and what not.

 

If I hit the lottery:
57 Chrysler 300C ragtop
34-40 Packard V12 convertible sedan
34-40 Cad V16 convertible sedan

If I was just lucky:
57 Buick Century convertible
39 Ford convertible sedan
57 Merc Turnpike Cruiser convertible

Closer to reason:
57 Buick Cabelerro wagon
37-8 Buick convertible
67-8 Chevy Biscayne factory 427/4spd

Realistic:
46-7 Hudson pickup
42-8 Buick 2dr fastback
40-1 Ford 1/2 ton

 

A Stanley-Steamer supercharged!!

 

One day, I'd like to buy an old car that I could start driving the day I bought it, instead of having to go through some mega-rebuild process first. I'd also like

A Frontenac head for my wood wheeled T roadster

A beat up, stock, but driveable Model A pickup

A lot less of the crap I have now

 

Westergard '36.

 

a ever lasting gob stopper

 

My grandfathers 46 Merc club coupe (hell even to find it).
Me too on the Vincent, went to school with 3 sisters who's dad had 2.
a nice late a coupe, with 56 Olds tripower and manual (one day, some of its sitting in the shed in lots of bits)
partial to a 36 3 window too.
oh and the 57 Olds 98 mild kustom I saw at Vallejo about 10 years ago.

 

a huge log house with massive stone fireplaces on each end on 20 acres with a creek running thru it and a huge heated shop behind the house!

or I'd settle for a nice 32 5 window that I could molest

 

Oh shit I remember selling one 20 years ago that came on my 29 a sedan with the blower and 2 carter 600's for like 150.00 Man if I knew then ! I also sold a pair of gennie 12 spokes I think they were halibrand or some shit for about 65.00 and the guy i sold em to sold em for 85.00
Dammit dammit dammit..
Dave
ps; I want a 32 moredoor seeeeeeeeeeeeeedan. Got a grand daughter now and the wife would let build a 32 4 dr.
Dave

 

My dream ride would still be Jennifer Anniston....naked on a washing machine(spin cycle) at the local laundramat.

 

48-50 Fleetline. Just a no frills ass draggin cruizer.

 

Always wanted a sideoiler, maybe in a 67 Mustang fastback
Ultimat, no holds barred? The only coupe Bugatti type 41 and then rat rod that badboy with a full tilt Merlin.

 

I knew where there was a Bugatti Coupe(I THINK) with a Ford truck 6 in it

Honest it sound like with time and savin' every cent you could get you dream........

Vincents are easy ..... The owners keep dyin' of ADS

 

Absolutly Disgusting Spannerrash???

 

I'd kill for a bone stock:

'36 Ford Phaeton,
'35 or '36 Slantback Tudor,
'38 Deluxe Coupe or Sedan,

and to be honest... a ground scraping, split window, crotch-cooled, sliding ragtop VW Bug.

JH