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Classic Car Porn ~ What I Would Like To Own

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  • 1to392831weretaken1to392831weretaken Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,691 Swaye's Wigwam

    I mean, come on ...


    My classic 911, if I had to, would be the ol' Hank Moody:



    Only not the Cabriolet, because those don't last long when you park them under a tree.
  • 1to392831weretaken1to392831weretaken Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,691 Swaye's Wigwam
    dflea said:

    Look, I get you. There's newer stuff. There's better stuff. But there's nothing like Dick Butkus or Jim Brown.

    And there's nothing like the DP935, either. Will your GT3RS go faster? Maybe. But that's not always the point. Just look at this fucking thing. Panties in the general vicinity just start falling. This is my classic dream car. It will always be fucking awesome because fucking awesome doesn't age.







    Sweet car, definitely more up my alley. Is 1983 "classic" now, though? That's coming dangerously close to making me a collectible...
  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 110,892 Founders Club
    Our high school parking lot was filled with today's classic American cars. If we had only known. The high school lot was filled because they were cheap and easy to work on

    And the bodies were heavenly

    I'd take a 67 GTO and makes the guts 2021 down to Bluetooth

    My first car was a 64 Nova

    Never had a better one
  • 1to392831weretaken1to392831weretaken Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,691 Swaye's Wigwam
    Also, looks like Porsche released a tribute car a few years ago:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BifWznDKnQ
  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 23,848

    I won't disagree that you'll never lack for potential friends if you have a classic show car: There are plenty of people who are into it, and those who are tend to be INTO it. Then again, a lot of people are also into country music, but that doesn't mean it makes sense...

    "Remember when everyone had cars but they all handled like boats, had shitty brakes, broke down constantly, were totally unsafe, uncomfortable, and most looked like vacuum cleaner nozzles with fins? Well I popped my cherry in the backseat of one with Suzie Rottencrotch back in '73, so I think I'll spend the cost of a new luxury sport sedan on restoring one (read: pay somebody to restore it) and we can all get together and compare our shrines to our lost youth."

    A quick Google search tells me the median sale price for a '63 Corvette is over $70K. People spend six-figures on those things. And the guy with his very own Ring Taxi is the one with more money than taste?

    I guess what I'm getting at is that I know that nostalgia is the reason for the classic car/bike/movie/music/etc. obsession, I just don't understand why. Just because I was chasing tail and partying down in college while drinking Keystone Premium and Coors light doesn't mean there's a fridge full of canned piss in the shop. There are simply better things now.
    Yeah, you're right.

    But still ....
  • haiehaie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,002 Swaye's Wigwam
    A brand new Suburu Impreza

    @BennyBeaver
  • BleachedAnusDawgBleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 12,657

    I won't disagree that you'll never lack for potential friends if you have a classic show car: There are plenty of people who are into it, and those who are tend to be INTO it. Then again, a lot of people are also into country music, but that doesn't mean it makes sense...

    "Remember when everyone had cars but they all handled like boats, had shitty brakes, broke down constantly, were totally unsafe, uncomfortable, and most looked like vacuum cleaner nozzles with fins? Well I popped my cherry in the backseat of one with Suzie Rottencrotch back in '73, so I think I'll spend the cost of a new luxury sport sedan on restoring one (read: pay somebody to restore it) and we can all get together and compare our shrines to our lost youth."

    A quick Google search tells me the median sale price for a '63 Corvette is over $70K. People spend six-figures on those things. And the guy with his very own Ring Taxi is the one with more money than taste?

    I guess what I'm getting at is that I know that nostalgia is the reason for the classic car/bike/movie/music/etc. obsession, I just don't understand why. Just because I was chasing tail and partying down in college while drinking Keystone Premium and Coors light doesn't mean there's a fridge full of canned piss in the shop. There are simply better things now.

    I won't disagree that you'll never lack for potential friends if you have a classic show car: There are plenty of people who are into it, and those who are tend to be INTO it. Then again, a lot of people are also into country music, but that doesn't mean it makes sense...

    "Remember when everyone had cars but they all handled like boats, had shitty brakes, broke down constantly, were totally unsafe, uncomfortable, and most looked like vacuum cleaner nozzles with fins? Well I popped my cherry in the backseat of one with Suzie Rottencrotch back in '73, so I think I'll spend the cost of a new luxury sport sedan on restoring one (read: pay somebody to restore it) and we can all get together and compare our shrines to our lost youth."

    A quick Google search tells me the median sale price for a '63 Corvette is over $70K. People spend six-figures on those things. And the guy with his very own Ring Taxi is the one with more money than taste?

    I guess what I'm getting at is that I know that nostalgia is the reason for the classic car/bike/movie/music/etc. obsession, I just don't understand why. Just because I was chasing tail and partying down in college while drinking Keystone Premium and Coors light doesn't mean there's a fridge full of canned piss in the shop. There are simply better things now.
    If that's your answer you don't understand car culture.
  • 1to392831weretaken1to392831weretaken Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,691 Swaye's Wigwam

    If that's your answer you don't understand car culture.
    It's almost as if I literally typed, "I just don't understand why."

    That being said, I'd rather understand cars than "car culture," and I'm pretty confident that I do.
  • BleachedAnusDawgBleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 12,657

    It's almost as if I literally typed, "I just don't understand why."

    That being said, I'd rather understand cars than "car culture," and I'm pretty confident that I do.
    If stats are how you judge cars and whether or not they're "good" you're probably not a car guy. Cars aren't TV's or appliances where you just look at the stat sheet and know which is best. Not everyone wants to own something based on how fast it laps a track, which is the most pointless talking point of all time since most modern performance cars aren't tracked at all and sit in traffic like the rest of society in their Camry's and SUV's.

    Buying a classic car is buying rolling art. It's about how it makes you feel when you're behind the wheel. They're an emotional purchase, not a rational one.
  • BearsWiinBearsWiin Member Posts: 5,043
    edited February 2021

    66-68 side pipe 'vette


    I like to call the Chevrolet Corvette the 'vette. I like to call it that. It's something I like to do.

    This is where BW tells the story of when his dad won the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild national award in 1960 and the GM guys took him into a room and said WHERE DID YOU GET THE IDEA FOR THIS CAR YOU DESIGNED and he said I just designed it myself and they said well it's pretty much the design for the 1964 Stingray so you better keep your mouth shut sign this NDA dammit


  • 1to392831weretaken1to392831weretaken Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,691 Swaye's Wigwam
    edited February 2021

    If stats are how you judge cars and whether or not they're "good" you're probably not a car guy. Cars aren't TV's or appliances where you just look at the stat sheet and know which is best. Not everyone wants to own something based on how fast it laps a track, which is the most pointless talking point of all time since most modern performance cars aren't tracked at all and sit in traffic like the rest of society in their Camry's and SUV's.

    Buying a classic car is buying rolling art. It's about how it makes you feel when you're behind the wheel. They're an emotional purchase, not a rational one.

    You ever hear of a No True Scotsman argument? Look it up. We've definitively concluded that I don't meet one man's definition of a "car guy," but I don't see why that's earth-shattering information. It would be like me saying that if you think a car is nothing but rolling art, you're probably more of a poseur than a car guy. By my definition. Which isn't worth shit.

    I could clamp the Mona Lisa to an original Radio Flyer and it would be rolling art, older than any car discussed in this thread, and magnitudes more rare and valuable. And I wouldn't want to own or drive it! Fuck rolling art. It's funny that you mention TVs and appliances. TVs now are flat, featureless sheets of glass. The screen is all that matters. Back in the day of these "amazing" classic cars, a television's design was important. The technology didn't exist to hide bezels and beam controls from a remote. A TV was a piece of furniture, and the high end ones had a lot of care in their design and aesthetic features and finishes. There was wood paneling and shiny knobs and chrome. Pieces or art some of those things were! That's why so many people painstakingly restore them and keep them in their living rooms and invite people over to show them off. Real attention-getters, those ornate television sets from the 60s.

    I mean, check this thing out:



    Look at all the details and the different materials and "classic" form. Definitely a design language from an era. A whole culture of watching TV started around sets like that, and they're not making any more like it. Kind of reminds me of something else...



    Only difference between those two things is a bunch of people's boomer dads felt up their first date inside of one of them and not the other. I probably would have marveled at the form and function of both if I were a kid looking at one back in their heyday, but now, with the benefit of knowing what's come since, they both look awfully silly to me. Like wearing powdered wigs or those giant dresses and decorative umbrellas and crazy hats.

    All I'm saying is gimme Blu82's C8 Corvette any day over any boomermobile. From a driving standpoint, engineering standpoint, comfort standpoint, build quality standpoint, and "rolling art" standpoint.
  • BleachedAnusDawgBleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 12,657
    edited February 2021

    You ever hear of a No True Scotsman argument? Look it up. We've definitively concluded that I don't meet one man's definition of a "car guy," but I don't see why that's earth-shattering information. It would be like me saying that if you think a car is nothing but rolling art, you're probably more of a poseur than a car guy. By my definition. Which isn't worth shit.

    I could clamp the Mona Lisa to an original Radio Flyer and it would be rolling art, older than any car discussed in this thread, and magnitudes more rare and valuable. And I wouldn't want to own or drive it! Fuck rolling art. It's funny that you mention TVs and appliances. TVs now are flat, featureless sheets of glass. The screen is all that matters. Back in the day of these "amazing" classic cars, a television's design was important. The technology didn't exist to hide bezels and beam controls from a remote. A TV was a piece of furniture, and the high end ones had a lot of care in their design and aesthetic features and finishes. There was wood paneling and shiny knobs and chrome. Pieces or art some of those things were! That's why so many people painstakingly restore them and keep them in their living rooms and invite people over to show them off. Real attention-getters, those ornate television sets from the 60s.

    I mean, check this thing out:



    Look at all the details and the different materials and "classic" form. Definitely a design language from an era. A whole culture of watching TV started around sets like that, and they're not making any more like it. Kind of reminds me of something else...



    Only difference between those two things is a bunch of people's boomer dads felt up their first date inside of one of them and not the other. I probably would have marveled at the form and function of both if I were a kid looking at one back in their heyday, but now, with the benefit of knowing what's come since, they both look awfully silly to me. Like wearing powdered wigs or those giant dresses and decorative umbrellas and crazy hats.

    All I'm saying is gimme Blu82's C8 Corvette any day over any boomermobile. From a driving standpoint, engineering standpoint, comfort standpoint, build quality standpoint, and "rolling art" standpoint.
    Compare that old Chevy to the modern family sedan. It's not a comparison of which has more style (old Chevy). I'm 39. Not an old fart. Modern cars, by and large, are less interesting. But they are clearly superior from a driving perspective. Some people just have to have the best, shiniest toy or the brand new iphone every 6 months.

    I'll be curious to hear your opinion of a 2021 Porsche GT3 in 20 years because by all measures at that point in the future it will be entirely inferior car. That doesn't mean it won't be a great car, though.
  • RoadTripRoadTrip Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,008 Founders Club
    Not sure why other than I've always liked the lines.

  • RoadTripRoadTrip Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,008 Founders Club
    By the way, anyone know much about late 70's Corvette Stingrays? My 14 year old wants one for high school. I was surprised to learn you can get one in decent shape for under $20k.

  • doogiedoogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Sounds like if he gets a good job now and you instilled a savers ethic in him, he just might get there by the time he’s 16!
  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 23,848
    RoadTrip said:

    Not sure why other than I've always liked the lines.

    Is that the 450 SL?
  • creepycougcreepycoug Member Posts: 23,848
    Swaye said:

    In addition to Jeeps, I am a Porsche nut, even though I've never owned one. Risky Business started a love affair with hookers and Porsche that exists to this day. It's funny, I was 911 all the time forever, but the Panamera has started to appeal to me. A grand tourer sounds fun. My neighbors Dad has a newer 911 and he let me drive it. It was cool, but tbh I think I'd get tired of shoehorning myself into it. If these fuckers at Orkin would ever give me a raise I might just buy a Panamera.


    My neighbor has one. I'd ask him what he thinks about it but we don't like each other. So it's like that.
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