Money no object car collection

[Ziggins]

The world will run out of carbohydrates and yeast? Vegetable oil? When?

Mechanized farming runs on fossil fuel and mined chemical fertilizer. While those run out, we also have aquifer depletion, soil erosion, climate change, fracking water pollution, and some areas may be uninhabitable for millennia due to nuclear accidents. There's no safe way to store nuclear waste for 250,000 years. Militaries and other high power organizations may keep some trucks, planes, and boats running on biodiesel or alcohol for centuries, but with some of their power spent on getting and guarding their fuel. The EROEI of oil is becoming marginal, and nothing else comes close.

 

[loveupskirt]

1963 AC Cobra, 427 ci.

1966 Pontiac GTO convertible Tri Power

1993 Jaguar XJ220

1992 Lamborghini LM002 with the 7.2L marine V-12

1935 Auburn 851 Speedster

I'm not an expert, but I don't think the 427 came in a 63' I think it was 65-67 only. And I agree. I wanted to build a kit cobra when I was younger, but there are simply too many of them out there now. But an original 427 cobra would be awesome. I don't have an extra $500,000-$1,000,000 laying around though......

 

[BrokenBarbie]

I'm not an expert, but I don't think the 427 came in a 63' I think it was 65-67 only. And I agree. I wanted to build a kit cobra when I was younger, but there are simply too many of them out there now. But an original 427 cobra would be awesome. I don't have an extra $500,000-$1,000,000 laying around though......

I’m no expert either, but I believe it came with the side oiler 427 in 63.

I’ve been wrong before, though!

Either way I want one!

Edited to add: I looked it up, I’ll take a 65, no 427 in 63. LOL

 

[Adre]

I neglected to Include on my list the 1957 Jaguar XK-140 Drophead Coupe.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Allard-J2X-MkIII.jpg

 

[spacekowboy]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/43/86/17/43861731d7a5c537637e4aa686d85ae7.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/6xMdmCRPGNBN1qSmzSAFUZ9tv3SEwwCL7S0mlZDlk07y50RrOddW_lcXoU1PX2ENSaseaQICCGJLb1dvUQKQBxGb5aVo7wc7JASjX2L6TLqi9Yb_Uvj8S0Ol3vTMm39Fr94f_6o8gf7QLjcesSxH4ABF15u4S3Wrxocp9Q1g7KJDhFCaYogfJg

https://hot-cars.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/restored_dodge_charger.jpg

https://www.beverlyhillscarclub.com/galleria_images/56/56_main_l.jpg

https://www.motorcarclassics.com/galleria_images/431/431_main_l.jpg

A real one though, not one of those kits that have flooded the market.

 

[islandman]

SNIP

Kit?

Looks embellished compared to the original J2.

 

[HisArpy]

Nice, but for that look, gotta have the suicide doors of the '64 Lincoln:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dLCrjwwo62U/hqdefault.jpg

The Marauder is a lot more rare.

390 V8 unless you got the Super Marauder which came with (originally) a 406 later replaced with the 427.

They only made something like 9000 of them in series 1 (1963-65).

They're also bigger than the Lincoln.

 

[Conager]

My Mercury Colony Park wagon had the 390. I used to drive it out onto the tarmac at Falcon field and fuel up with 105 octane low-speed.

 

[Conager]

Mechanized farming runs on fossil fuel and mined chemical fertilizer. While those run out, we also have aquifer depletion, soil erosion, climate change, fracking water pollution, and some areas may be uninhabitable for millennia due to nuclear accidents. There's no safe way to store nuclear waste for 250,000 years. Militaries and other high power organizations may keep some trucks, planes, and boats running on biodiesel or alcohol for centuries, but with some of their power spent on getting and guarding their fuel. The EROEI of oil is becoming marginal, and nothing else comes close.

Aren't you the environmental wacko killjoy?

All of the nuclear waste ever generated so far would fit on a football field.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Aren't you the environmental wacko killjoy?

All of the nuclear waste ever generated so far would fit on a football field.

Conager, now nuclear physicist, what does he not know, and isn't an expert on...right his "superiority complex", he hasn't figured that out yet.

Canada's nuclear waste alone would cover a football field 3' high. Canada has nowhere near the number of plants as the US.

We have 22 plants, the US has 98...

 

[Conager]

The most radioactive has the shortist half-life, because physics.

The stuff with the longest half-life would fit in the endzone potential reprocessing could lower the tally further in the future. You should quit getting your education from The Simpsons.

 

[CarlyAnn]

My Grandfather refurbishes old cars and trucks on his property up in Maine.

I have a 1960 MK IX Jaguar up there. It's in rough condition but we plan on working on it together someday.

Also a 1970 Mustang that isn't in bad shape but definitely needs work on the trunk that is rusted out.

 

[SpeareChucker]

*chuckle*

I dream big, really big...

I'd like a new aluminum F150.

 

[Conager]

*chuckle*

I dream big, really big...

I'd like a new aluminum F150.

How many soda cans do you have to turn in to get one?

 

[SpeareChucker]

None.




You save them up for future body work...

 

[Celand]

Nice, but for that look, gotta have the suicide doors of the '64 Lincoln:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dLCrjwwo62U/hqdefault.jpg

My very first car except white bought used in 1969

 

[Mr Noone]

Lotus Cortina Mark I

 

[ryan8558]

Lotus Cortina Mark I

one of these?

https://www.classicandsportscar.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_inline_single/public/2019-08/classic_and_sports_car_buyers_guide_lotus_cortina_WW_on_the_road.png?itok=mXbOLjj2

I had the great pleasure of seeing Jim Clark drive one of these at one of our SCCA regional races. He was untouchable.

in a later race he drove the Lotus 30. That car was a pig. Colin Chapman should have been ashamed.

 

[oggbashan]

Lotus Cortina Mark I

They were OK except in a strong cross wind - then they were too light to stay on line,

 

[Mr Noone]

one of these?

https://www.classicandsportscar.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_inline_single/public/2019-08/classic_and_sports_car_buyers_guide_lotus_cortina_WW_on_the_road.png?itok=mXbOLjj2.

Just so.

They were OK except in a strong cross wind - then they were too light to stay on line,

Nothing's perfect.

 

[Aglaopheme]

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSLLnjBMLHGGydmtyD598Dj26gnKb6COqSy6g&usqp=CAU

Isdera Commendatore 112i

https://www.conceptcarz.com/images/Talbot-Lago/39-Talbot-T-150-C-SS-DV-11-PAM_01-800.jpg

The 1938 Talbot Lago Teardrop


I would just plant myself online and go crazy later this month.




https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/...MItYrw7-q27AIVCNbACh2FPgojEAAYASAAEgKrV_D_BwE

 

[Aglaopheme]

I would definitely have an Amphicar

https://img.hmn.com/fit-in/450x253/filters:upscale()/stories/2014/06/6313245918_0a38c6d36e_o.jpg

 

[ryan8558]

I would definitely have an Amphicar

https://img.hmn.com/fit-in/450x253/filters:upscale()/stories/2014/06/6313245918_0a38c6d36e_o.jpg

I don't advise it. They get swamped real easy.

 

[oggbashan]

I would definitely have an Amphicar

https://img.hmn.com/fit-in/450x253/filters:upscale()/stories/2014/06/6313245918_0a38c6d36e_o.jpg

I don't advise it. They get swamped real easy.

They are slow on land, slow in the water and very difficult to keep watertight. A DUKW would be a better bet.