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Link Posted: 4/27/2020 8:36:33 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/27/2020 8:36:34 PM EDT
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I had a '70 GTO w/a 400.

The 455 in the T/A is much stronger in a lighter car.

I replaced the cam and installed headers on the GTO. Vehicles of that vintage were so easy to work on. I could change out the sparks plug in about an hour. (50/50 reg leaded /1OO LL aviation fuel mix ate the plugs up in no time)

Need thicker rear tires than what's on the photo.







Link Posted: 4/27/2020 8:40:37 PM EDT
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I think a lot of guys are missing this.

I wonder what the maintenance and repair costs are for something like a first gen NSX.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/AcuraNSX-05-cropped.jpg/1200px-AcuraNSX-05-cropped.jpg

Failing that, if I was looking for some kind of sports car, I think I'd be looking at a LHD converted R34 Skyline or a C8 Corvette.

Also with these considerations, I think the guys talking about Power Wagons and other truck type things might be on to something.

Any old truck with a Cummins swap or maybe a big body Bronco resto-modded with a new Ford 7.3L Godzilla would also be cool.
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@Bassgasm I own an NSX.  Maintenance costs are extremely cheap especially if you can take care of the basic stuff.  This year I need to get a bunch of work done that will likely be over $3k (timing belt, valve adjustment, etc.), but that is only once every seven years.  Basically you have a 90's supercar that is far cheaper to own and more reliable than an out of warranty BMW 3 series.  The fact that the car appreciates is icing on the cake.  

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So, you’re saying I should pass on that ‘83 911SC for $20k?

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Where you see a SC for $20k?
Link Posted: 4/27/2020 8:43:53 PM EDT
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In the spirit of following the rules I have to throw out most of the cars that immediately come to mind.  I am unwilling to spend a fortune in outsourcing the maintenance and if the car was too expensive I would be afraid to drive and enjoy it.  

Given those criteria I think I will have to stick with my 1977 911s.  The cost of upkeep is within my comfort level (most days) and the repairs my skill level (so far).  It certainly isn't fast by todays standards but that flat six still sounds sweet.

I have owned it for 36 years already so it is a good bet it isn't going anywhere.

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Very nice!
Link Posted: 4/27/2020 8:43:59 PM EDT
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No rules and the McLaren F1 would be it, period.
Link Posted: 4/27/2020 8:52:22 PM EDT
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68 hemi barracuda set up for drag racing ss/aa . Most badass car on the strip . Can’t post pics but check it out . Yes I am an old fuck!
Link Posted: 4/27/2020 8:53:57 PM EDT
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I could have fun for a long time with something like this:

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you, sir, are a man of inestimable taste. have owned a couple of similar models. my favorite car.
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BMW E30 M3
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68 Mustang GT



Or a late 60s bronco

Link Posted: 4/27/2020 9:10:09 PM EDT
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I think a white C8 would do the trick.
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2020 GT500 CFTP Kona Blue with white stripes

Link Posted: 4/27/2020 9:20:28 PM EDT
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I've had several cool cars. Most times they never quite live up to my expectations once I own them. A few came closer. 77 Grand Prix SJ. 76 240Z. 79 Mercedes 560SEL. 06 750Li. 10 Challenger SRT.

I never got bit by the exotic sports car bug. Closest I ever came was a grey market 79 928 back when it was just a few years old. Probably a good thing that I came up a few dollars short and let it go.

For this challenge I'd go with low & slow. All the cost of the build is free, keeping it running every day would be dirt cheap. Hell yeah I'd drive the wheels off it.

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Been reading this thread off-and-on for a good part of the day. Final answer, I think I just bought it.

My Z3 3.0 led me through a slew of other BMWs, but it was always the first and most fun (335i was damn close )

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Hated the Bangle butt Z's, with the exception of the Z4M, but still wanted a mid-life crisis convertible. BMW never made an "M" version of my favorite bodystyle, couldn't compete with the Boxster, but they did build a 335 hp GT-ish version 35is. When one popped up on the coast my wife said, "Why don't you buy it?" I think I married her in anticipation of that moment.

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Link Posted: 4/27/2020 9:27:07 PM EDT
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No car for me.

1977 Kawasaki KZ1000 “Kwaka”

"Nothing a year in the tropics can't fix." - Jim Goose

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Link Posted: 4/27/2020 9:28:36 PM EDT
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As someone who has spent many years maintaining those...

You can't afford it

Link Posted: 4/27/2020 9:28:39 PM EDT
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Been reading this thread off-and-on for a good part of the day. Final answer, I think I just bought it.

My Z3 3.0 led me through a slew of other BMWs, but it was always the first and most fun (335i was damn close )

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/457055/Trial1_jpg-1389822.JPG

Hated the Bangle butt Z's, with the exception of the Z4M, but still wanted a mid-life crisis convertible. BMW never made an "M" version of my favorite bodystyle, couldn't compete with the Boxster, but they did build a 335 hp GT-ish version 35is. When one popped up on the coast my wife said, "Why don't you buy it?" I think I married her in anticipation of that moment.

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The Z3 3.0 was a ton of fun and a pretty good car too!
Link Posted: 4/27/2020 9:29:42 PM EDT
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A properly done pro touring 71 Camaro would be great.  There would be very little on it that I could not keep running myself.  I have kept some really rough muscle cars running as daily drivers in the past, so a pro tour would be easier.
Link Posted: 4/27/2020 9:30:51 PM EDT
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Same one I post up every time this subject gets asked about.
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A properly done pro touring 71 Camaro would be great.  There would be very little on it that I could not keep running myself.  I have kept some really rough muscle cars running as daily drivers in the past, so a pro tour would be easier.
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Bad Penny would make my top 5 for sure.
Link Posted: 4/27/2020 9:35:37 PM EDT
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I'll take one of these, thank you.  Ripsaw EV3-F4 Four Seater


Link Posted: 4/27/2020 9:40:20 PM EDT
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I almost got it in metallic purple, but was unwilling to pay the $12k paint-to-sample fee.  
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Would've been worth it bro
Link Posted: 4/27/2020 9:42:32 PM EDT
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2011-12 Ferrari 599 GTO
2020 Lamborghini Huracan 2020

One I’ve driver extensively but sadly don’t own

I’d deliver pizza to pay for maintenance if I had to.
Link Posted: 4/27/2020 9:42:58 PM EDT
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With the parameters set in the OP, probably a 1970 Chevelle with everything modernized.

If it has to be a factory car, probably a new Mustang GT500.



Link Posted: 4/27/2020 9:45:23 PM EDT
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I don't get excited about cars but I do need something to haul the motorcycles and work around the MX track so I would pick a 2020 Ford F450 Limited:

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And if I don't win this contest I'll probably end up buying myself a new one in a few years anyways.
Link Posted: 4/27/2020 9:52:04 PM EDT
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If you could be given any car, what would it be?

Here are the rules (cause everyone likes rules, right?),

1. You are financially responsible for maintaining the car, gas, insurance, repairs etc. The car was free but nothing else.
2. You cannot sell the car to buy a cheaper car and have money left over.
3. This is a car that you would drive to enjoy and not just look at the damn thing.
4. A car that you would have in your possession for the rest of your life.

My wife and I make a good living but if someone gave me a Porsche 918, I'd have to sell it, could never afford to keep it.

My pick, Porsche 997.2 GT3 RS. The last of the Mezger built engine 911s and before they went to electric steering. I've not driven one of these but they look and sound amazing.
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that is my Dream Car

but PTS in Mexico Blue



Link Posted: 4/27/2020 9:59:14 PM EDT
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Rule breaker cars: Ferrari F355 F1, and 458 Spyder.  Could never afford maintence sched.

Rule follower:  68/69 Charger resto mod, late 80s blazer/ jimmy.
Link Posted: 4/27/2020 10:06:55 PM EDT
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The Z3 3.0 was a ton of fun and a pretty good car too!
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Space grey metallic, burl interior, black leather, five speed manual and 225 horse. Soft top, but a glass rear window. BMW was still using brake discs specially chosen for the amount of dust they generated, I spent many happy hours trying to keep those wheels clean. Still, for a Florida Gulf Coast car it was incredibly fun...kinda what led me back.

Gave my family-guy sq commander a ride home to Niceville one day when his car was in the shop. Got to his house, he turned to me and said, "Why am I driving a Camry?"
Link Posted: 4/27/2020 10:09:18 PM EDT
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A yellow 720s
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Nah.  I love the yellow.  
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I almost got it in metallic purple, but was unwilling to pay the $12k paint-to-sample fee.  

Would've been worth it bro


Nah.  I love the yellow.  



Driving your 911 much?

Link Posted: 4/27/2020 10:19:15 PM EDT
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1970 Plymouth Superbird.
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Every time I am out of beer, or need to go to my physical therapist, or to the post office, or the grocery store ... or whatever excuse I come up with.  
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I almost got it in metallic purple, but was unwilling to pay the $12k paint-to-sample fee.  

Would've been worth it bro


Nah.  I love the yellow.  



Driving your 911 much?



Every time I am out of beer, or need to go to my physical therapist, or to the post office, or the grocery store ... or whatever excuse I come up with.  



good - glad to you drive it often

Link Posted: 4/27/2020 10:25:38 PM EDT
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Nissan Y61 Patrol Legend Edition
Link Posted: 4/27/2020 10:27:55 PM EDT
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I have my dream car...

E46 m3 supercharged and the motor is at the machine shop now for a motor build. After the build I should be putting down around 550 hp to the wheels.

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2016 Porsche 911r or 2006 Ford GT
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I'd like to say a Ford GT 40 or 05-06 GT but I'm not sure I could take care of or insure either. Maybe a new GT350.

Second would be a 93 Mustang Cobra. I just love the Ford 5.0.
Link Posted: 4/27/2020 10:49:00 PM EDT
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If you could be given any car, what would it be?

Here are the rules (cause everyone likes rules, right?),

1. You are financially responsible for maintaining the car, gas, insurance, repairs etc. The car was free but nothing else.
2. You cannot sell the car to buy a cheaper car and have money left over.
3. This is a car that you would drive to enjoy and not just look at the damn thing.
4. A car that you would have in your possession for the rest of your life.

My wife and I make a good living but if someone gave me a Porsche 918, I'd have to sell it, could never afford to keep it.

My pick, Porsche 997.2 GT3 RS. The last of the Mezger built engine 911s and before they went to electric steering. I've not driven one of these but they look and sound amazing.
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You screw up all my dream cars w/ your rules.  I have to be able to afford it.   I guess w/ those rules I'd take something like a Tesla Model X Performance with all the bells and whistles.

Link Posted: 4/27/2020 10:51:07 PM EDT
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Don't know if it could be done but the c7 zo6 rolling chassis on the bottom

with the 1967 corvette  body and interior on top


Would be a sweet driver with classic looks

man those 427's in the c7 z06's rip and are more fun to me than the supercharged ones ….


and they don't handle half bad either even with their goofy transverse leaf spring suspension setup lol I guess you can make up for a lot with a low center of gravity and huge sticky tires'



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Link Posted: 4/27/2020 10:52:25 PM EDT
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It's something that I'd have to be able to afford to keep up with in my current state of affairs? That didn't really fit the whole "fantasy" concept. That's like asking who your dream woman is, but you have to buy her feminine products every month until she hits menopause.

That said, 1979 Porsche 930.
Link Posted: 4/27/2020 10:54:09 PM EDT
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Nice things scare me so...Civic Type R. It’s a Honda, but probably fun to drive.
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There's a lot of truth to this.

My daughter's first car was (and is) a 2004 Toyota Camry SE. She gave all of like $2k for it with ~200k on the clock. I was a nice Dad and dropped another $1,200 into it, to bring it up to "Dad spec" (not a damn thing left wrong, no more deferred maintenance, etc). Total rental-spec, beige box appliance. But...the A/C and heat works, the cruise works, the radio is fine, the brakes are fine, there are no wind leaks or squeaks, etc, etc, etc. It's a great car to depreciate the fuck out of, while racking up the miles on a commute. It's so cheap that you don't even worry about the value of the vehicle in relation to repairs, as much as you distill it down to cents per mile to own, operate, maintain, license and insure a personal conveyance. Shit, the 4 Michelin tires I put on it were probably half what the thing was worth. But...so what?

I'm left wondering why I drove my own car that I loved for 80 miles a day for damn near 2 years while commuting, when I could have just done it in something like her car - saving the fun car for the weekends and nice days. Or as a spare, if the commuter-mobile was down for some reason.
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He didn't say daily driver. That would really change the math.


What is the point in owning a car if you don't drive it


There's a difference between something you drive on weekends and maybe use for commutes when the weather is nice vs something that's going to see a gazillion miles, heavy traffic, severe weather, and road salt.

I dream about cars that would be good for the former. The latter is more dictated by practical requirements.

If I had to daily drive one vehicle for the rest of my life, and it actually had to survive in this area, I'd probably be looking at a Ford Super Duty with the aluminum body and a gas engine.
There's a lot of truth to this.

My daughter's first car was (and is) a 2004 Toyota Camry SE. She gave all of like $2k for it with ~200k on the clock. I was a nice Dad and dropped another $1,200 into it, to bring it up to "Dad spec" (not a damn thing left wrong, no more deferred maintenance, etc). Total rental-spec, beige box appliance. But...the A/C and heat works, the cruise works, the radio is fine, the brakes are fine, there are no wind leaks or squeaks, etc, etc, etc. It's a great car to depreciate the fuck out of, while racking up the miles on a commute. It's so cheap that you don't even worry about the value of the vehicle in relation to repairs, as much as you distill it down to cents per mile to own, operate, maintain, license and insure a personal conveyance. Shit, the 4 Michelin tires I put on it were probably half what the thing was worth. But...so what?

I'm left wondering why I drove my own car that I loved for 80 miles a day for damn near 2 years while commuting, when I could have just done it in something like her car - saving the fun car for the weekends and nice days. Or as a spare, if the commuter-mobile was down for some reason.


That's somewhat of a different discussion.

The points I would make, in short, are...

1) If you have the money, and if you spend a lot of time in/with your car, there is value in spending the money on a vehicle to make the quality of life better during that time.

2) If you already own the depreciating asset, parking it to "keep miles off it" is the most wasteful thing you can do. If you play around with the KBB/NADA type value calculators, the age of a vehicle makes a huge difference while the mileage mostly doesn't.

#2 doesn't apply if the vehicle has already reached an age that it's no longer depreciating, and it also doesn't apply as much to certain use cases where the operating costs of the vehicle outweigh other variables, but the point applies to most privately owned vehicles.
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