Car bucket list

I would like the replica Ferrari in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Maybe a 67 Vette, a 69 Z28. I would settle for just borrowing someone else's for a short, untethered drive.

This is now mine.

I think there is like only one jaguar x12 in existence-but they do sell a replica!

My next would be Muscle - rag Z28 '69 or thereabouts.

I too like the Ferris Bueller Ferrari.

 

Maybe a DeLorean, or step into a little 007 Aston....:-O

A Cord


> On Jul 22, 2015, at 1:29 PM, SpeedsterOwners.com <alerts@hoop.la> wrote:
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GT40!  I think I'll have to sell off a few more cars

Which XJ-13 is that?

https://www.speedsterowners.com...2#450115248753482992

How about the other Speedster

Morgan 3 Wheeler

I've driven, but will never own, a Maserati Ghibli, so there's one off the list.  To that I'd add a Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso and a 365 GTB Daytona.  Possibly a Citroen SM, a Duesenberg SJ, a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, a...  Ok, I could go on for a while.

Ok let's get back to a realistic bucket list.  I'm talkin speedster money plus or minus. I didn't get Ferrari money for the sixer 

Cayman GTS

My vote is for the GT4.

Stan,

 

You are right, but it's $10K more???  However already sold out in Europe!!!

 

Art...   

Jag XK120 c-type

I actually wouldn't mind owning a nice dune buggy.

An original Meyers Manx would be nice.

I'd still like an E type Jag. The Canuck dollar sucks right now but if it continues to suck appropriately, I'll make it work for me. Did it before, buying airplane engines in the US, importing and reselling to " anyone ".

 

Well off topic but if anyone on the list has an aviation background and can remember the comic strip ...Smilin" Jack... there was an airplane involved and it was a Fairchild 24. Last I heard the project restoration was stalled but if it gets finished, please remember that yours truly sold them the Warner 165 engine that went into it.  

I hear you, Art. It's all academic anyhow, because (for a variety of reasons) I'm not buying an $85k car, even if it is a good deal.

 

25 years from now a GT4 will be worth 2x as much as it is today.

Enjoy the car ****:

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos...Adj5LV?ocid=oie8dlpg

I only have two cars left on my bucket list..

 

A '32 Ford five window high boy ala Graffitti clone

 

And a replica Lambo Countach(for my wife, it is her favorite car of all)

 

I've had the Muscle cars, Novas, Camaros, Chevelles, Mustangs, tri-five Chevys, Jeeps and other 4x4s, Street rods like 'A' sedans and coupes, a '33 Vicky, a '48 Anglia pro-street, now I'm down to my favorites... 'my still unfinished '56 Ford F-100, the Cobra and Speedster and the '55 Chevy 2-dr post. I may in a year or two sell the '55 and the Speedster for some additional 'project' funding to build or re-build a Lambo.

In the movie Milner says , this thing runs like ****...and that wasnt in the script  !

One of the best movie clips of all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOgqUHk-zDY

Always loved the 34 Ford with the suicide doors like the California Kid. A Ducati would be nice too. I was at a bike race as a kid and still remember the sound. All the Japanese bikes would go by then the Ducati -sounded like a stock car. Just the nuts.

 

That's the way Aston Martins sound in the Rolex GT races - Porsches, BMW's, Mazdas all sound similar and are higher pitched, Vettes have a slightly throatier note and then.....Along come the growls of the Aston Martins.  Unmistakeable...... 

Love that film. I grew up in small town N. CA and we had all of the exact same characters and cars. Plus the only late night radio was XERB with Wolfman Jack. Blasting 150k watts from across the border in Mexico. 

 

There is just something about the 'Milner' coupe, the five window body,the subtle chopped top the bobbed frame moving the gas tank into the trunk area, the stance of the car, the chopped radiator and the motorcycle front fenders and bobbed rear fenders and the nerf bars that has always done something for me...it is all that I'd wish for in street rod...Someday, someday

A car that was done right and visually appealing...Lucas designed the car from his vision of the 'perfect duece coupe' for the film...it actually started life as a full fendered street rod that the production company bought then had rebuilt into the 'Milner coupe'.

 

Finding a steel body Henry '32 today is near impossible and super expensive so if I do build one it'll beout of fakey-do 'glas. There is a company in CT, New Age Motorsports, that builds 'Graffitti clones' and supplies all the parts and pieces, sans engine and trans, needed to build your own clone...if and when I do build one that is the company I'll use to source everything.

 

Probably won't paint it yellow though

 

I did a rough cost analysis on building one a few years ago...aprox. $20K for the complete kit including shipping, untold hours of work, and aprox another $15-20K to complete...this includes a mild 350 crate engine(would love a correct 327 but they are getting really scarce and hard to find in decent rebuildable condition) and auto trans(no more 4-speeds for me),and farming out the things I can't do myself like interior finish, paint and then there is the misc, like heat & a/c, power windows, stereo system, 4-wheel discs etc. So, for somewhere in the $40-45K range I could have one on the road...

 

Darn it now I'm getting 'clone fever' again

 

I used to want a GT-40 until I got the chance to drive both an original(the #6 Gulf car) and couple of replicas. IMO they are not very easy to get into and out of and visibility to the sides and rear leave a lot to be desired...wouldn't be a real fun street car.

 

One other car I've thought about adding to a bucket list is a Shelby Daytona coupe replica...really like them a lot.

G.R. We're afflicted with the same manias (dream fantasies?)

 

I bought my first car two weeks after I turned 15. I did a lot of quick-witted tap dancing to talk my parents into that scenario!...

 

Anyway, that first car was almost a '32 suicide doors three window coupe with a dropped front axle, twin Stromberg 97's on an Edlebrock intake manifold and barely legal glas-paks. Alas, the $150 purchase price was beyond my paper route savings!!

 

We have a local Saturday Cars&Coffee and now and then a guy shows up with his replica '32 chopped three window coupe...makes my heart beat faster.

I would like to own and drive a 1928 Chevrolet coupe.

Hoss, I'm torn between imagining myself cruising to a Cars&Coffee in the rumble seat Chevy... or the '56 Olds 88 parked next to it!

 

Are you sure it's a '28? Looks like a '30 to me.

The fenders and headlight housing doesn't look '28...although

the solid wheels do. If it is a '28 then the GM styling department was a couple of years ahead of Henry Ford's boys. 

Can't say for certain Carl since it is just an image of one that I pulled up by googling "1928 Chevrolet".  If we opened the hood and it still had the four (the six became standard in '29) then we would know.  I will verify the next time I see my club mate who owns and drives a '31 and is a walking encyclopedia.  

I always wanted to drive around in this:

First car was the '67 Nova SS--a 194 six cylinder and powerglide which before too long got a 350 and a Muncie. Before I got that Chevy I wanted a Roadrunner 383. I still sometimes do. 

 

Now though I'd rather have an MGA. Green, please. Just a nice, breathed-on 1.8 3-main B engine and a five speed conversion, plus a set of silver-gray powder-coated Nissan Altima wheels dressed to look like the four-cam knock-offs.

X2 for the Cayman GTS and this gonna sound crazy but a '67 Fairlane wagon R Code 427-425 hp with a 4 speed.  This one was a big check off the list. Always wanted a brand new Corvette.