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They hit the bottom of their depreciation curve a couple years ago and I was in a position to pay cash for one, but didn't. Prices have gone up ~50% and I doubt I'll ever see a clean one South of six figures.

1970 Toyota FJ40

1958 Corvette w/louvered hood. powdr

I always wanted one of these too, but they rattle and are not as dependable as you would like, so I got the later version and it is an extremely nice car...

My uncle has a 1953 TD with special SU carbs that was raced at Watkins Glen. For a time in the sixties it had leopard skin upholstery.

Saw one of those in the flesh once, and stopped walking and just stared at it...transfixed as he drove by

Anywhere from 380 to 440 hp, big lungs on that redhead

I sort of gravitated to trucks, though...



A Willys 4x4 pickup is pretty cool. Lot of work in one of them, but oozes cool...

There's many, but I always wanted one of these since I was a kid...

I'm fortunate to have a gig driving the auction cars at Barrett Jackson each year. One of my favorites this last winter was a Shelby GT350 Anniversary Edition

Ughhhh!

I now have this mental image of Ingwe wearing nothing but his usual leopard skin thong sitting on that leopard skin upholstery...

He is smiling too...

Make it stop!



John

Gotta love the 427's



Not as much as the guy that paid $1.45M for this one though...

In the Walmart lot this PM. A 95 Chevy truck and trailer with a red Mustang fastback.

I had to drive over, take a look, and chat with the guy driving the truck. It was a 71 Mach 1 with (of course) 351 Cleveland.

He told me it was all factory original, out of Burns Or, with about 30 K on the odometer.

From a distance it looked pristine, from ten feet there were a few signs of honest wear, a few small rock chips on the lower quarter panels.

She was a beatiful 45 year old lady. Wish I could have gotten a pic.

Yup.

Should us car folks want to wonder where the evening went.

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So many cars so little time or space. I enjoyed my 76 Alfa but there are a few others when I have that time and space thing in a few more years.

One of the projects will be talking my uncle out of his 51 Ford pickup that has been in the garage at the farm in KY since 71 with 19,000 miles on the clock. I've been wearing him down for about 20 years. I can tell he's getting weak.

I just want to be there to see her step up into the driver's seat wearing those cut off jeans.

WOW!

Found one! Gotta start saving my pocket change

This was a dream realized. I already had the 944 when I bought this. It turned out to not be such a dream... The repair bills were high, the heater and air conditioning didn't work well, there was no room for shooting equipment, it wasn't remotely as comfortable as the 944... It was quick, a lot quicker than I cared about... I sold it and kept the 944.

In retrospect, I wish I had kept it... it's now worth three times what I paid for it, per Hagerty's. It was lovely to look at, no oil leaks but I just didn't love it enough.

The picture was taken in early fall in front of the small lake we have on our property.

One of these in Carrera format. Got to toodle around town in one of the same color scheme back in the '70s. Roller crank, 4 cylinders, dry sump oil and motorcross gears. 0-60 so fast it made your eyes water. Top end was about 90. It raced Le Mans in a different configuration before it went to Yurp street racing. Zoom-zoom...

of all the cars ever made, I want this one. Had one nearly like it back in the day.

Like Battue:




but a 67, 427 Tri Power

in either the Blue or Green that was available in that year...

on another note, that Willy's J Model in the back ground...

My granddad had one, and it was his favorite car....

all I remember him having when I was growing up, was that Willys and a 49 or 50 Chevy pickup... which he still was driving when he passed back in 68.