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I think all three of my picks will be worth more then than now...
Yeah, my bad, I didn't remember all the various posts with older classic cars rather than late models. PDD has good picks as well.
But the guys who are picking all 2011 models would be crying in their beer 10 years down the road, while those who are picking stuff from the 80's and earlier would at worst have suffered only minor losses in value.
Anything after 1971 both suffered performance-wise as well as styling. Muscle cars just started looking...uglier. Anyone have a reason for this phenomenon?
The breakpoint is, IMHO, not 1972 but 1973. In 73 the 5-mph bumpers were mandated, thus, ugly cars. Take the 72 and 73 MG-B for example, most would agree the 72 with it's chrome bumpers is the better looking car. So many 73 models were not much changed from 72 except for the big, ugly, and heavy impact bumpers. So that's where the ugly came from, congress, pushed by insurance companies, mandated those big ugly bumpers. Which made the cars ugly.
The Mark I Scirocco was one example of a car built in the 70's that managed to look OK despite the big bumpers.
Performance wise, not only no high compression options, but other early crude smog controls, really strangled the 73 and 74 cars, the only decent ones built those years had fuel injection, remarkably just by going to fuel injection (with relatively low compression though) many, mostly German cars offered *decent* performance. Not really fast, but not aggravatingly slow either. And in stock trim most 73-74 Detroit cars were not only slow, they were thirsty - the engines were just not very efficient.
My 82 'roc is a survivor from the early German FI car era, giving *decent* performance (although there is "no replacement for displacement" and at 1715cc, Big Block it ain't) with excellent economy, very tolerant of low octane gas, starts right up in weather cold enough to freeze 'em off a brass monkey.
Nothing too exotic for me. I'm not a supercar kind of guy.
Mk1, or mk 11 Ford Escort. In full rally spec.
Probably the greatest rally car ever built. Still competitive even after 40 years. A well driven Escort will still regularly humiliate 4WD cars.
Short sport Audi Quattro.
These are built by a company called "Dialynx" in the UK. While not the prettiest car, the 0-60 time of 2.7 seconds speaks for itself.
A supercar in all but name.
Been lucky enough to sit in one, and it was blistering !
Made my old quattro turbo look pedestrian.
No 3, this position could vary. There are a few possibilities. Really like American cars from the 40's, 50's and 60's, and there are another few cars I could drop in there. Impreza turbo, Skyline, Rat rod etc.
But, I think I'll plump for a Trans Am.
Grew up in the UK watching US tv, so we had the Dukes and the Bandit. You either liked Chargers or TransAm.
I used to think the Charger was cooler, but now I've had American cars, and been around them for years, I've gone off them a bit.
as far as i have been able to determine, from 1963 to 1965, if you had a falcon futura, you had the six, and if you had the falcon sprint you had the V8.
Nothing too exotic for me. I'm not a supercar kind of guy.
Mk1, or mk 11 Ford Escort. In full rally spec.
Probably the greatest rally car ever built. Still competitive even after 40 years. A well driven Escort will still regularly humiliate 4WD cars.
Short sport Audi Quattro.
These are built by a company called "Dialynx" in the UK. While not the prettiest car, the 0-60 time of 2.7 seconds speaks for itself.
A supercar in all but name.
Been lucky enough to sit in one, and it was blistering !
Made my old quattro turbo look pedestrian.
No 3, this position could vary. There are a few possibilities. Really like American cars from the 40's, 50's and 60's, and there are another few cars I could drop in there. Impreza turbo, Skyline, Rat rod etc.
But, I think I'll plump for a Trans Am.
Grew up in the UK watching US tv, so we had the Dukes and the Bandit. You either liked Chargers or TransAm.
I used to think the Charger was cooler, but now I've had American cars, and been around them for years, I've gone off them a bit.
If I was going to have an older rally car, make mine a Lancia Delta.
I'm pretty much gonna be all about the dough.
1. Ferrari 250 GTO
2. Bugatti Type 41
3. Ferrari 246 Dino, ok not about the dough. I just love the Pininfarina styling.... beautiful!
Ooh yeah, I hear you ! The Integrale was a sexy beast. So was the Lancia Stratos
I'd also love a 6R4 Metro, but I think the Escort just shades them for smiles per mile !
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If I was going to have an older rally car, make mine a Lancia Delta.
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