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4- cam! Hold onto your hats, boys.
Amelia Island and Hilton Head concours award winner. Only 40 miles of driving on and off the trailer, and across the fairway. This will be wallet racing at it's finest. All the wheels with matching date codes is worth at least 50 large in that crowd.
@JMM (Michael) posted:Amelia Island and Hilton Head concours award winner. Only 40 miles of driving on and off the trailer, and across the fairway. This will be wallet racing at it's finest. All the wheels with matching date codes is worth at least 50 large in that crowd.
Looks like the 19 yr old who bought it and owned it for 45 yrs had all the fun driving it etc 👍
Beautiful shame! Lovely car that was no doubt a joy to drive - which won't be.
I just can't get excited about auctions such as these. What the helk good is an old car that you are afraid to drive?
It will end up in the hands of some rich old bugger, who will stand around with other old rich buggers, and brag about it as if he actually did any work on it.
Spare me, please. It's a nice car, but it's useless.
I'm dumb, I'd drive the heck out of it.
But that's easy to say when I know I'll never own it.
@Panhandle Bob posted:I'm dumb, I'd drive the heck out of it.
But that's easy to say when I know I'll never own it.
I’d do what everyone did in the 70’s: pull the finicky 547 out and replace it with a 2.0L Type I motor and drive the piss out of it.
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Are you warm? Are you real, Mona Lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?
Well, they did at least start it for the video.
And it looks like they hired Steven Spielberg to make that video.
I still don't know what to think about cars like this. I'm not so sure that any of us would 'drive the piss out of it' if we managed to accumulate the resources to own it. Why would we? When we could roll out one of the more athletic mounts in our stable any time we wanted to.
It's art. It's history. It's great engineering. It should be preserved, but maybe in a way that is accessible to the public.
Should we ridicule the folks who collect these things just because they can and do?
Wouldn't we if we had the chance?
Their financial advisors tell them this is not a bad thing to do with money. And why not have some fun with it while we're still young? Even if 'having fun' just means sticking it to the Van Wyckoff's in a sporting kind of way?
This is a very nice car that I am secretly glad is not being driven too hard at this point in its life.
I will probably think of it for a moment or two the next time I'm pushing my little plastic re-creation briskly through the wine country.
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I agree 100% with that, Rich.
I've been thinking for the last couple of days about what makes a car "important". The Fuhrmann four cam was an "important" automotive milestone. It was a technological tour de force in its day. Every last stop that could be pulled was pulled to take it to the absolute limit of what was possible.
Objectively, though, in 2024 -- my wife's minivan makes more power than the Fuhrmann mill. Scratch that -- a Nissan Versa makes more power. Regardless, I've already GOT a car I "drive the piss out of" (ask anybody who drives with me), and it would run circles around this one.
I have some original artwork hanging in my bathroom. I'm not sure hanging the Mona Lisa in my bathroom would be the best use of the Mona Lisa OR make my bathroom a better place to do bathroom things. I'm conservative -- I think rare and irreplaceable stuff ought to be saved so that the world can understand where we were at a given point in time.
This one is the Mona Lisa.
I would take the house before the car, but that is the best sounding Volkswagen engine I’ve ever heard😎
I guess if I had the discretionary bucks to buy it, I'd drive it about the same amount as I would a replica. I'd park it at my local Carcadia. C & C and let people look at it and talk to my friends that I always see there with their with MG/TC's and TD's etc. Most wouldn't know what they were looking at and the ones that do wouldn't believe it was real/original. After the thrill of floor boarding it getting on the freeway a few times, I would settle down and drive it more sanely. After a few years I would sell it and put my discretionary money down on something else and go out and play some more. That's just me. The only difference is the money which I don't have anyway. Beautiful car though !!..............Bruce
That car so reminds me of my original 1959 356A coupe … what is not to like about it …I tried to get IM to build me a coupe but they never wanted to tool up for them.