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I, on the hand, decided $17,000 out the door for this Toyota.
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as you can see - it is a Tacoma
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Yea, and the speed limit is 65 to 70 most places. Of course out here on Pacific Coast Highway, they try to get things like this up to speed. I usually doesn't end well.gak wrote:In my dreamsAnyone got a spare $750k or so?
Actually got to drive one of these once. Forty-eight valves doing their thing and that scream at 6-7000 or so a sound to behold!
Kinda hard to fit 31" AT's under those fenderwells though
ME TOO!tman wrote:I'd go $20K for a decent 1968 GTO with a his/hers hurst shifter.
That would cost way more. Even a Poor condition muscle car is gonna cost you $12k. Throw in another $40k, unless you do the majority of the OEM rebuilt yourself. Modify the braking system to actually stop a 60's musclecar, another $2k. have fun finding 116 octane leaded gas. Trust me , been thru itOld Ironsights wrote:I won't buy a "new" car or truck.
If I had the money to buy a "new" car or truck, I would spend it having a OLD car or truck rebuilt to better than OEM...
I've had this "fantasy" as well and have dabbled but never went/completed whole hog. But if you're rebuilding to "better than OEM" I sure as heck would keep the compression down enough for regular gas! My dream's a "mid-year" (63-67) Vette partly retro-rod'd/modernized. (Stock in appearance and underneath--except aforementioned braking, wheels/tires, crate motor with modern carburetion if not EFI, heads on up buit for lower octane unleaded, etc, but with stock (except rotary comp fand new freon) rare(ish) factory a/c, topped off seats upgraded (Recaros).tman wrote:That would cost way more. Even a Poor condition muscle car is gonna cost you $12k. Throw in another $40k, unless you do the majority of the OEM rebuilt yourself. Modify the braking system to actually stop a 60's musclecar, another $2k. have fun finding 116 octane leaded gas. Trust me , been thru itOld Ironsights wrote:I won't buy a "new" car or truck.
If I had the money to buy a "new" car or truck, I would spend it having a OLD car or truck rebuilt to better than OEM...
Of that body style, in addition to our 62, in 1968 my brother and I (I = maintainedOld Savage wrote:Took my driving test in a Corvair - the older bathtub looking style.
They're absolutely a labor of love! I gotta get pics scanned of mine!Shasta wrote:The first new car I ever bought was a 1975 Ford Pinto wagon for $4,000. My trade-in was a 1969 Chevy Camaro.![]()
The only other new vehicle I have ever bought was a 2002 Ford F250 Super Duty diesel that cost me around $32,000.
The best price I ever paid for a car was $0. It was my first car, a stripped body shell of a 1955 Chevrolet Nomad given to me in 1969 by one of my older brothers. Junkyard parts, elbow grease, a paint job and some upholstery (total cost of well under $1,000) got it looking like this:
After I got married, the Nomad sat about ten years before I decided to fix it up a little. The "little fixing" turned into a full body off concours quality restoration back to factory original, taking me nine years and finished in 1994. I did as much of my own work as possible and still spent $23,000. It has a 265 c.i. four barrel V-8, power steering and power brakes. The bright side is it is now worth about three times that much, and has won first in class at many collector car shows. Yes, I still have it after 43 years.![]()
SHASTA
I liked our early "1st Gen" (60-64) and "2nd Gen" (65-69) cars equally but in some ways for entirely different reasons. Characterized by many as "cute" versus the later's "handsome" or "pretty," The first was perfect as a round town or quick road trip fun runabout I'd change very little on in a "complete" restore--essentially keep stock except essential improvements like an alternator (vs generator) and of course modern tires. I'd even keep the wheels and stock interior. "Personality" wise, they just seem to want to be kept pretty stock, though some have had fun hopping them up. While on vacation several years ago driving the Pacific Coast Highway--in my Corvair of course!--I stopped at a Safeway in Malibu. In the parking lot was an attractive blonde, visored in her tennis outfit, etc "the Malibu set look" -- a real head turner -- whirring by in a 64 Monza Convertible that looked box stock and brand new..and everybody looked ooh'ing and aw'ing, and not just at her! She and the Vair fit right in in that "jet set" Mercedes/BMW environment. Oner person even said, where can I getone of those? I thought "Imagine that, a lowly Corvair getting the same looks as a Ferrari roadster." That's what that early (esp convert) could be.Old Savage wrote:Oly - that is my wife's favorite car - she likes the orange.
gak - I think that Corvair, the older one is the smoothest handling car I have ever driven. I don't ever see them and So Cal is a haven for old cars. Have to look at the next big car show.