Favorite Classic Cars if You Wanted to Restore One

JustDave

JustDave

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The Favorite Color Car thread got me thinking about this, but I wonder if many people even think about their favorite cars of the past.

Mine is the 55 Chevy. The 56 was almost the same, but the 55 was a radical new design for Chevrolet, and it was simpler than the 56, which just tried to embellish the 55 with some added foo fah. The 57 lost that feel for me, but yee gods, the 57 Chevy was a popular car. I never owned a 55 Chevy, nor did my family, and I was too young to drive back then.

Of the lest traditional sport cars. I think the MG Classic Roadster is most special to me. That body type is still mimicked in some expensive specialty cars of modern times. The Excalibur comes to mind.
 

We've had many threads on this subject here on the forums... most of us have had a long list of makes and models of cars..

My estranged O/H has a Vintage VW camper..over 50 years old which my husband renovated from top to bottom inside out...

My first car was an 850 mini... my current car is a Ford Fusion... he has a Maserati... we've had lots of cars in between...

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My fav classic is the Jaguar XKE coupe. It was the first car I ever fell in love with. Mind you, I looked into it once, and learned a lot of owners yank out the engine and put in Ford V-8s, and then have the whole car rewired because the British electrical system was also crap. LOL!

I decided if I couldn't afford to have a mechanic on retainer, it wasn't practical to own one :LOL:
 
In 1971, my boyfriend had one of these. A 1966 Chevy Malibu that was powder blue with white sidewalls and mag wheels, and like the one below, it had a white interior. It was a beauty!

1966 Chevrolet Malibu Convertible | F27 | Indy 2015

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Had a few 'old' classics (before they were old classics)

Last crate I fell in love with was the '49 Willys pickup

Bought one to restore
Thought it'd make a good rat rod

It sat up at the cabin, mocking me, for two years

Restoring is expensive

I turned it into yard art

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Then sold it to a guy that wanted a project for him and his kid

I should call him, see how that's going....
 
After the Volkswagen Beetle went out of production, it went from seeing them everywhere to hardly anywhere. Back in the 80s there was a business in Spokane Washington that some guy started up called "Born Again Beetles". He had a parking full of perfectly restored Beetles that I always seemed to drive by it when I went to Spokane. I had owned three beetles and was sorry to see them go out of production. I used to lust after those Bugs in that parking lot. But by then, the newer cars just made more practical sense than the old Beetle, even one restored to "new."

Incidentally, I burned out the engine on my first Beetle, which was not an uncommon experience due to the air cooled engines, but I had a new engine put in that car. If I recall correctly, the job cost me $225, which was a lot more then, but still almost absurdly cheap, I thought.
 
My wife bought a 57 Chevy brand new for $1900. I wonder what it would bring now.

I had a British Riley 2.5 roadster that was a lot of fun. It was right hand drive which was not a problem. I sold it when it became apparent that I would be going on active duty in the Navy and posted to who knows where.

Years later there was a Triumph TR7 convertible which was comfortable and had an AC that could freeze you out.

The TR8 looked like a TR7, but with the V8 engine it was much quicker.
 
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