Dream Cars?

[comphernation]

I have fairly simple tastes. This would make my day:

[Racer X]

R. Lee Ermey sold separately.

[Mini 9]

I would love to own any of these, that I drove one day this year
Viper
F-Type
Aventador

All gave me smiles. Big, wide, smiles; and made young children soil themselves.

[blooz]

Great to see all your dream cars!

[eustacetilley]

Here is about half of the cars that I have owned, in roughly chronological order, as gleaned from Wikipedia and Google; I left out the boring ones. In the list are a few "Dream Cars", as seems to have been interpreted here, and only just one that may actually be... let's just say, in dollar value today alone, it's worth much more than all the others put together.








I still have numbers 6, 12, 13, 14 and 16.

Eustace

[comphernation]

Racer X wrote:
R. Lee Ermey sold separately.

He'd probably yell at me for something. But maybe it'd be worth it. :-)

[DeusxMac]

eustacetilley wrote:
Here is about half of the cars that I have owned...In the list are a few "Dream Cars"...I still have numbers 6, 12, 13, 14 and 16.

Eustace

FOUL! Improper use of the term "dream." 15 yard penalty. Still first down.

Dream:
- an idea or vision that is created in your imagination and that is not real
- something that you have wanted very much to do, be, or have for a long time

[RAMd®d]

That Wombat should be the basis of the next Batmobile.

[mrlynn]

eustacetilley wrote:
Here is about half of the cars that I have owned, in roughly chronological order, as gleaned from Wikipedia and Google; I left out the boring ones. In the list are a few "Dream Cars", as seems to have been interpreted here, and only just one that may actually be... let's just say, in dollar value today alone, it's worth much more than all the others put together.

I still have numbers 6, 12, 13, 14 and 16.

Five cars? Are you a dealer?

Is that Mercedes pickup a custom job? I've never seen one.

I see you still have the Jaguar XJS convertible. That's my 'dream car', but I live in New England, and have no room for a 'garage queen'. Nor, sad to say, am I the sort who takes the kind of care that a classic car should have. As a result, all of my cars have been nice boring ones, that don't need polishing—or even cleaning.

/Mr Lynn

PS In your post,, the sentence,

. . . In the list are a few "Dream Cars", as seems to have been interpreted here, and only just one that may actually be... let's just say, in dollar value today alone, it's worth much more than all the others put together.

is not visible. You specified "#FFFFFF" as the color. What's that, white?

[eustacetilley]

mrlynn wrote:
[quote=eustacetilley]
Here is about half of the cars that I have owned, in roughly chronological order, as gleaned from Wikipedia and Google; I left out the boring ones. In the list are a few "Dream Cars", as seems to have been interpreted here, and only just one that may actually be... let's just say, in dollar value today alone, it's worth much more than all the others put together.

I still have numbers 6, 12, 13, 14 and 16.

Five cars? Are you a dealer?

Is that Mercedes pickup a custom job? I've never seen one.

I see you still have the Jaguar XJS convertible. That's my 'dream car', but I live in New England, and have no room for a 'garage queen'. Nor, sad to say, am I the sort who takes the kind of care that a classic car should have. As a result, all of my cars have been nice boring ones, that don't need polishing—or even cleaning.

/Mr Lynn

PS In your post,, the sentence,

. . . In the list are a few "Dream Cars", as seems to have been interpreted here, and only just one that may actually be... let's just say, in dollar value today alone, it's worth much more than all the others put together.

is not visible. You specified "#FFFFFF" as the color. What's that, white?
In descending order:
I'm not a dealer, I just have a large back yard.

There are a couple of coachbuilders in Belgium who turn Mercs into ambulances, hearses, pickups, or whatever. But mine is a custom job.
It was originally owned by a greengrocer; it was a wagon then, and he used it to haul the freshest of vegetables to some of the tonier restaurants in the area. Then he got rear-ended, and the insurance company paid out. He bought it back, and used the money to turn it into a pickup.
A first class job, no Bondo whatsoever. But it wasn't so good anymore for hauling vegetables, so he sold it to a mortician, who painted it black, and used it as a Flower Car.
Dying not being the business that it once was, he then traded it in on some kind of Cadillac. I passed by the dealer one day; it was parked out front with "Make Offer". I made an offer. The dealer hadn't a clue, so I got it in 1992 for Low Low Blue Book on a 1980 MB wagon. ($3500)
I drove it for a couple of years, and then a tree fell on it. There was very little body damage, but the very custom rear suspension was toast. So it sits; I've been gathering parts: I have a complete rebuilt turbo engine, a rare 4 spd. manual transmission, and a complete stock rear suspension which, with a bit of welding, just might fit again.

The '95 Jag is boring in a way- it's been horribly reliable. In 30 months, I've had to replace a headlamp bulb, top off the power steering and hydraulic top reservoirs, change the oil, and that's it.

Now about that #FFFFFF thing...

I do this sometimes to see who's paying attention, which you obviously did. I also use #000000 to get around the ridiculous Forum Filter. In this case, car #6 is a ringer; it was the 17th car sold in that model run, and has a few curious, completely stock, details. I guess that Pinin Farina and Scaglietti had a few leftover bits from previous models, and as this car may still have been in the prototype phase, they stuck them on. BTW, all numbers match for a 1960 car, even though it was sold as a 1961; for some reason the Factory hung on to it for a few months. The provenance is impeccable; I'm the second owner.
The appraiser couldn't make heads or tails of the car; he had, in many years of specialization, never seen another quite like it. I paid a year's salary for it in 1979; it's now worth about 25x that amount, as a 1961 car. Technically, this car doesn't even exist, in a 1960 sort of way, so I could be considerably underestimating the current value. A true Dream Car.

Eustace