I’ve owned Classic and Modern, Exotic and Regular Production. I’ve turned my own wrenches since I was 12.

If I want a daily driver sports car I’ll buy a Porsche. I have done just that several times... entry level with limited options, 2 door, hard top, as stripped as possible. That’s as reliable as you are going to get. Ferrari, Bentley, Aston, don’t make a comparable car. Porsche is alone in that. A Porsche specced that way is like a step up from the sportiest VW.

When you move up to Arf’s dream cars” you enter the rings of expense... maintenance... repair... restore... rebuild... replace.

There’s a reason why a good PPI on a used premium Porsche uncovers a lot of deferred maintenance. Most Porsches are ordered well specced with things like carbon fiber interior trimmings  or yellow paint with matching belts and stitching. Replacing tatty or worn trim is more expensive than you may realize.

Belt service cost on a 80s/90s Ferrari is offset by the cost of refreshing the interior leather with a $100 bottle of “dye.”

A Porsche from the same era has cheaper mechanical costs, but their leather has to be replaced, not re-dyed, and then there’s the disintegrating plastic stuffs.

Classic American cars are a different beast all together, and should never be owned by anyone who isn’t at least a shade tree mechanic. Wiring is cheap and easy, like most related things but time consuming. The real expense for American classics comes from “hot rodding” and customization. Kind of like ARs. It’s hard to leave one stock. Unless you are wanting a 60s Lincoln Continental convertible.

All part of the costs of ownership. That’s my experience anyway.

Nothing to be embarrassed about.

Porsche management realized that a 911 was a life goal for many of their buyers. It was going to be THIER Porsche so they offered personalizations for a price and made more profit from those than the cars. It’s an expensive option when the car is new and an especially expensive replacement part.

He-who-shall-not-be-named that took over Ferrari after Enzo saw the financial genius of it and pushed Ferrari in that direction.

1989 K5 Chevrolet Blazer.
Black exterior, charcoal gray interior
4x4, 3.73 gears
4" lift

Yep, I 'm lame

https://youtu.be/yQaas5NbIlw

I do that kind of thing myself; stuff I cant do I'm good for. I know peeps.

So fits in the rules, if it's paid for only have to have liability insurance I could afford that, I'm a master mechanic with body and paint experience so I can literally repair anything that goes wrong.

So I would own the most valuable car in the world.

But would you drive it?

I couldn’t.

That's the bottom line with half the cars posted here. The great god Clarkson said anything over 500 hp is almost unusable on the street. American chuckled.

Yeah I'd drive it, if it can win LeMans it should be able to handle tooling around in it, not like I'd drive it like a race car.

It's only got about 300hp too.

Double slide out diesel pusher motor home that can tow an 8 second door slammer from one event to another.

Is that weird ?

With that one, it isn’t the power. It’s the price and the history.

2018 Ford GT40  White with blue rally stripes

I think I need to change my answer

idk how I forgot about those

fucking badass machines that would have an extremely economical powertrain to maintain

but I don't want to even think about what a carbon fiber replacement body panels would cost lol but at least the subframes are aluminum

man the things I'd do to spend a day at the track with one of those hahaha


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@hulley my buddy had a GT3 RS of that series and HATED driving it. It wasn’t made for daily drive. He sold it for a 997 Carrera S. Much better for day to day apparently.

I love my 996 C4, but I’ll be switching to a 997 C4S at first opportunity.

800hp is VERY usable. Clarkson missed the mark on that one,

On the street? Legally?

LOL.

Yeah $100,000,000+ driving around normal everyday idiots would be the worry, and damaging a part that's not salvageable and loosing the history.... I'd still drive it though

Some flavor of a Porsche GT3 or Nissan GTR.

Although a C8 z06 might do it and be cheaper to maintain.

I'd have a hard time taking it out of the garage, of course, money is relative and I'm not loaded so...

@racincajun1919

That's what I've heard, the GT3 RS is even worse that the GT3. In all fairness, the "Dream Car" doesn't have to be a daily driver, just a car that you'd actually drive and care for.

I have a 911 in my sights for this year (after this corona BS) and there's a couple on my list, mainly 997.2 Carrera S or if I can find a deal, maybe a 991 Carrera T. I've been daily driving a 4Runner so any 911 is gonna be super fast.

I can't decide anymore.

You feel comfortable posting your build sheet here? That’d be interesting

Singer Porsche

http://singervehicledesign.com/

Nice El Camino

I want a Royal Knight package El Camino very badly. My dad bought one from a cousin. He bought it for the dealer trade in offer, when said cousin decided he wanted the new Monte Carlo SS in ‘83. Dad bought cars from friends and family members that way a lot. We kept some we sold some. It’s where I got the collectors bug.

I drove that El Camino around the farm and occasionally to the convenience store or gravel and mulch yard down the road. It had a small block V8. This was back before I had a license. One day the cruise control turned on by itself and pulled down to full throttle. I watched the thing catch fire and burn to the ground.

The other members of my household say I can’t have an El Camino, or a Grand National, or a Monte Carlo SS Aero Coupe, or a Thunder Chicken Trans Am... Do you see a theme?

What makes you say that? I have seen RS3s take out porsches on road tracks. It a 3500lb awd sedan. It is not meant for a road course, but it can hold its own.

1970 GTO restomod. Twin turbo 427 LS with t56 manual.

I have simple needs. (maintenance precludes a Ferrari at my pay grade, although this wouldn't be cheap either)

“Legal” wasn’t mentioned at all

I don't know you're experience around older Ferrari's, but even as a master mechanic it's not that they aren't easy to work on, its getting and paying for parts.  I mean a series II 250 GTO...you need to have deep pockets for repairs for that.  

I grew up around them, started when I was young since my dad had a Daytona and a BB512i.  I would love to choose a Lusso, SWB, or GTO but repair costs would be too high even doing most of the wrenching yourself.  

I would end up with a BB512i again.  I worked on it with a Ferrari mechanic when I was gaining interest in cars through middle school, and learned to drive a stick in it since it was the only manual transmission car we had.  Would love to have one to drive with my son when hes a bit older like dad did with me.  It didn't sound as good as the Daytona since it was fuel injected but I never drove the Daytona.  

You learned to drive a clutch in a Berlinetta Boxer!???

Trying...hard...to visualize your father's face. First time you frog-hopped 10 feet and stalled it out I'd of needed oxygen.

Even getting parts for an older Porsche are getting to be a challenge and the prices keeps increasing.  I can't imagine the difficulty of getting them for a Ferrari.  

Normal maintenance parts like brake disks and pads, etc. are no big deal but some parts that are necessary for a restoration or if you were to get in an accident are no longer available or only available sporadically in very limited in quantity.  

For instance, I needed a new fuel tank because the old one was too rusted to salvage so I camped the Pelican Parts site for a couple of months until they got in a shipment of a few of the correct Dansk fuel tanks.  I got one but when I checked back the following day they were all sold.  

I feel fairly certain that my old 911 is worth about 10x as much parted out as it is whole.

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Sure did.  I don't think anything like that happened, I will have to ask him when he comes back from cleaning out grandpa's basement.  The thing had such a small clutch and low torque down low it was a pain to drive for most.  My dad's best friend got out of it in the middle of an intersection and told him he was done screwing with it.  I dunno, it was all I knew for a long time so never seemed that bad to me.