mine would have to be a 57' Chevy Bel Air.....


I saw a beautiful cherry red one once in a car show....it was gorgeous....however, I think it looks great in that powder blue color as well.



Erin :)

A corvette-doesn't matter the year.





Cat

My favorite classic car is a 1966 Pontiac GTO.  They don't make em that cool anymore! 8)

A Nash Metropolitan -- any year.

http://www2.uol.com.br/bestcars/carros/classicos/nash-metropolitan-3.jpg

(I'd like to see 'em "pimp" that ride  ;D )

A Nash Metropolitan -- any year.

http://www2.uol.com.br/bestcars/carros/classicos/nash-metropolitan-3.jpg

(I'd like to see 'em "pimp" that ride  ;D )




There's quite a few guys in this region got big American vintage cars, ones even got an old Cop car, it looks so out of place on a UK roads, but I love it.  ;D

This is a hard one for me, I'll list a few
-68 or 69 GTO
-67 or 68 Firebird (I had a 67)
-66 or 67 Chevelle SS
-66 or 67 GT 350 fastback Mustangs
-Shelby Cobras
-all the 60s vettes, prefer the 63 to 67
-69 Z28 Camaro

I'll stop now ;) I didn't even get into European stuff

An old  vintage Mercedes Benz SL with Pagoda roof, loads chrome and white wall tyres. (I'll have one in my dreams maybe)

A 1966 Chevrolet Impala.

http://www.stillruns.com/impalabobs/1966impala.jpg

1970 - 72 corvette  ( 73' was'nt too bad either or that differant ....i just want my fender grills like 70 - 72 )  fussy bast*rd  ::)
68 Pontiac firebird
68 Chev camaro
72 - 74 rambler javelin
Rambler Gremlin ...just kidding ( what were they thinking ! )  ::)

those in the U.S are probably sick of seeing these cars everyday lol 

1955 Olds 98 Starfire Convertible.
1955-'56 Mercury
1965 Pontiac G.T.O. Convertible

mine would have to be a 57' Chevy Bel Air.....


I saw a beautiful cherry red one once in a car show....it was gorgeous....however, I think it looks great in that powder blue color as well.



Erin :)

The 57 Chevy Nomad was cool, and it's a station wagon
http://www.famousfoto.com/tin-signs/774.jpg

old hearses
http://www.streetclassics.com/photos/MapleFest2003/Photos2/images/hearse-1.jpg

The 57 Chevy Nomad was cool, and it's a station wagon
http://www.famousfoto.com/tin-signs/774.jpg



oh wow...that is really awesome...I have never seen one of those before


Erin :)

!958 Impala, the first car that I bought. Paid $75.00 ran it off& on for 10 yrs and sold it for $900.00. Still wish I had it! W.

!958 Impala, the first car that I bought. Paid $75.00 ran it off& on for 10 yrs and sold it for $900.00. Still wish I had it! W.
I LOVE old Impalas, please tell me you have a picture!

Not that you can really see it. It's in the background, behind some bushes. But lots of memorys. Prob. couldn't afford to run it today, it had a 348cu engine with a three duce intake. ( that's three, two barrel carbs,for you youngsters ) W.

it had a 348cu engine with a three duce intake.



the engine that later became the 'shes real fine my 409' :)

Not that you can really see it. It's in the background, behind some bushes. But lots of memorys. Prob. couldn't afford to run it today, it had a 348cu engine with a three duce intake. ( that's three, two barrel carbs,for you youngsters ) W.

I've heard that a restored '58 Impala with an original 348 Tri-Power is worth a mint these days.

You don't know how much I miss my 1960 Oldsmobile... a snow white convertible with red leather interior and a black rag top. This was, and still is, the love of my life, I miss her dearly, we had so many memories together that to this day after 36 years without her she is still in my dreams and always be in my heart...


P S... My cousin Junior let me drive his brand new 1960 Corvette, yes he trusted me with his brand new fully loaded $4.000 ( not $40,000) Corvette and all of his others after that. I always like Corvettes and when I first drove his Vette on Route 22 when I was 13 going from zero to 70 mph in 5 seconds that sealed the deal, the car of my wishes was to own a Vette but who could afford $4,500 for a new Corvette when I got my license in 64'? well, I still might get one before I die but now I'd have to mortgage my house to get a used one!

Hot Wax   

Yeah, Al-B one unrestored is a lucky find at any less then 10,000. When I was driving mine you could hardly give them away. Everyone wanted 55 56 or 57. 58 was considered an ugly duck. That's why I jumped at the chance to sell at $900. Guess I was ahead of most everyone else, in that I liked how they looked. W.

The 57 Chevy Nomad was cool, and it's a station wagon
http://www.famousfoto.com/tin-signs/774.jpg


Jiminy, our family car was the 1955 Chevy Nomad. I was a two tone turquoise and white beauty. It was a beautiful car and it had an interesting 16 years with our family. My father finally parted with it in 1966 to a guy who collected cars from out west cars, he found out my old man still owned one and for $2000.00 and a 1965 Valiant he parted with his all-time favorite car with a tear in his eye.

I like to post pictues of it...but don't know how to...duh!

Hot Wax   

Jiminy, our family car was the 1955 Chevy Nomad. I was a two tone turquoise and white beauty. It was a beautiful car and it had an interesting 16 years with our family. My father finally parted with it in 1966 to a guy who collected cars from out west cars, he found out my old man still owned one and for $2000.00 and a 1965 Valiant he parted with his all-time favorite car with a tear in his eye.

I like to post pictues of it...but don't know how to...duh!

Hot Wax     


Thanks for the picture, the 55 looked liked the the 57 but had more charm. There's a 55 Nomad on display at Epcot / DisneyWorld in their Future World Pavillion it's in a bronze color which I think wasn't a stock color for the 55's. maybe the 56 or 57's but it's still a good looking car way ahead of it's time in stying for the 1950'S, I think it was designed for the Urban dewellers who were all migrating to the Suburban developments in the 50's...a city styed station wagon not looking like an old Woody Wagon, a stylied car/truck for the country farmers during the war era years. Who knew then that a $3200.00 1955  Chevy station wagon would be worth 10 times that today...my old man should have bought 10 of them and put them in the bank!...Humm! I wonder if I buy 10...NAAA!

I WANT TO KNOW TO POST PICTURES ON THE SITE, CAN YOU HELP? THANKS, HOT WAX     

impala

19641/2 Pony car  - 1967 Ford Mustang Convertible.  :-*

trans am

Corvettes
Mustangs('65-'69)
Plymouth Dusters
VW Beetles AND vans

1965 Mustang Convertible.  Candy apple red with white interior.

James Bond's Aston-Martin was way cool..even though it was just a 'movie car'.

James Bond's Aston-Martin was way cool..even though it was just a 'movie car'.
same with the ORIGINAL Batmobile!

James Bond's Aston-Martin was way cool..even though it was just a 'movie car'.
The same for me.

http://sturtevant.com/reed/db5-007a.jpg

The same for me.

http://sturtevant.com/reed/db5-007a.jpg
Cool picture. Thanx for posting that.

I wouldn't mind owning the Squad 51 truck from Emergency..the truck that Johnny Gage and Roy DeSoto got to ride in...I heard it's in a museum in California somewhere...

Believe this or not, the best looking, the fastest, the baddest car on the road pre 1970 was the 1969 Grand Prix SJ. If you can ever find one, buy it.....you will see what I mean. 427, 4 Barrell would out run a GTO by 4 car lengths ;)

55 Tbird

or 69 Mustang Mach I

a 1968 Chevrolet Camero.

I had a good look at a 67 Pontiac Firebird today.. very similar car.. i am thinking of purchasing it. Needs some work doing to it, but my god what a car!

I had a good look at a 67 Pontiac Firebird today.. very similar car.. i am thinking of purchasing it. Needs some work doing to it, but my god what a car!



I had one of these, buy it :)

I've always admired Biff's car from Back to the Future.  It's a '46 Ford SuperDeluxe Convertable, or something like that.  Although, I think I read somewhere that the car wasn't originally a convertable, and that the top was removed for the movie.

http://www.javelinamx.com/CarStars/bttf24.jpg I'm not quite sure why Young Biff's floppin' over the side of the car like that... ???

I had one of these, buy it :)


Well i am seriously contemplating it.. the only thing is, like i say, work is requried. It needs some work doing to the brakes and the side panels on both sides are rust riddled, it could do with new tyres as well..

Probably close to 2K's work... still.. i think i am gonna offer about 70% of what he's asking and see if i can get it.

Believe this or not, the best looking, the fastest, the baddest car on the road pre 1970 was the 1969 Grand Prix SJ. If you can ever find one, buy it.....you will see what I mean. 427, 4 Barrell would out run a GTO by 4 car lengths ;)


That was the first new car I've purchased, well I should say me and my "new bride" of 5 months purchased, October 20, 1969. We put down $3000. and financed the the $1500. balance. All black, it was fast and it was beautiful...I have pictures, I'd love to post one and show you, but you owned one yourself so you know. I had to sell it after a few months because we had a baby shortly after and a super fast 2 door Grand Prix hauling around a baby with all his stuff wasn't cutting it...a Grand Prix to a station wagon...that's right! a 1972 Pontiac wagon, it served us well for 16 years and 3 kids. But I loved and miss my "Black Beauty" it was a perfectly styled car built for speed and looks, real classic.

Hot Wax

1957 THUNDERBIRD - WAY AHEAD OF THE PACK!

http://ultimategto.com/1965/65_00007_1.jpg

Pre-70s Classics that stand out -

1969 GTO with the Judge package

Boattail Corvettes (63-67)

1969 TR-6

Studebaker Avanti

Chrysler 300 letter series (1956-1962)

Pre-WWII or post 1970 both would have different entries.

I wonder which classic truck is used for the body of the Grave Digger monster truck..I think it's a Ford? Any answer would be appreciated.

I've always been a sucker for land yachts. Especially convertibles. The bigger, the better, I say. I mean really, almost any 1960's-early 1970's full-size American ragtop would do, but I think that one of the coolest manifestations of the land yacht would have to be the 1967 Pontiac Bonneville.

http://www.classiccarsforrent.com/cvbn.jpg

Imagine, if you will, just easing down some gently winding two-lane road in this bad boy on a nice autumn day, smoking a fine cigar and listening to something by Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66. Now that's living.  ;)

How about the gull-wing Mercedes Benz cars?

'57 Chevy! Aqua & white!  ::)

'57 Vette
'63-67 Jaguar XKE
'68 Dodge Coronet RT-my brother had one of these-black vinyl top and interior, originally candy apple red;he had it repainted metal flake blue.  She was a beauty!  That car and my brother are the reason that I was the only 9 year old girl I knew of that loved muscle cars.  Ahh, memories.

  a woody.

What's a 'woody'?
Mine is an old style Mercedes with lots of chrome and a Pagoda roof.

I know it's a cartoon vehicle....but I wouldn't mind a ride in Courageous Cat's car...it could change into an airplane..and the grille is a cat's face!

A 57 Chevy BelAir...  Favorite car I owned, that would be a toss up between my 75 Nova SS, or the 64 Olsmobile Cutlass.
Or, any H.O. scale slotcar ever made?

NozmoKing

No car can touch the mighty Duesenberg J.    8)  A more awesome car in every way never existed.

And besides, "classic" is defined by the AACA as 1927-1942, except for Lincoln Continental which goes thru 1948.    ;)

What's a 'woody'?
Mine is an old style Mercedes with lots of chrome and a Pagoda roof.




Most famously, the Chrysler Town & Countrys of the '40s.  They had sedan and station wagon versions.  The wood was very prominent on the main bodies.  They pretty much inspired the "station wagon" as we know it - which before the '90s (for sure, if not the '80s) meant you were always going to have "wood" (mostly fake) paneling on the doors, fenders, etc.

Classically, "station wagons" were exactly that, and were typically strictly wood exterior bodies, and were more for work than families.  But they were earlier, from the beginning, and comprised of many Model Ts, As, etc.

I've always admired Biff's car from Back to the Future.  It's a '46 Ford SuperDeluxe Convertable, or something like that.  Although, I think I read somewhere that the car wasn't originally a convertable, and that the top was removed for the movie.


Fords had convertibles of those types.  They're only talking about that particular car, not the whole species, which included convertibles for sure.

The classic California Woodie Wagon!!!
http://usera.imagecave.com/kgilmartin/sample-copy.jpg

my first car and my first love. 1955 Chevy Bel Air  after that I'd need a a 1971 Dodge Challenger

'57 Chevy Bel Air in powder blue.  It's my dream car and one day I will be able to afford one.  :)

Second runner-up is a 1968, red Volkswagen Beetle.

Oh man...a 1969 Chevy Camaro would be sooooo cool!

either that or a Corvette from the 70's!

One vehicle I'd never be caught driving...an ugly a$$ Hummer!!!

Oh man...a 1969 Chevy Camaro would be sooooo cool!

either that or a Corvette from the 70's!

One vehicle I'd never be caught driving...an ugly a$$ Hummer!!!
I'd love to own the Ferrari Sonny Crockett got to drive on Miami Vice..and just as a conversation piece, that Bug Buster surveilliance van from the first season..I have not found a pic of the van, and I did a Google search..nothing.

Sorry to get into this so late, don't flame me !

I've heard my dad say so many things about the cars he's had/could have had if he would have been able to see into the future/had the money. He still has his '70 Torino GT Fastback 351 Cleaveland, bench seats, unusual for a GT in those days I'm told, we're in the process of restoring it. Dad said it would fly like like nothing he had ever seen for it's size. He had a '70 Formula 1 Firebird he bought new. Awesome car. At other times, dad has owned a 65 Fastback.

This list breaks my heart :

My great uncle Lew had a Impala with a 409, I'll have to ask dad what model, but the 409 was in Lew's opinion, one of the worst engines produced. He had it for 6 months before he sold it, and for thee of those months, it was in the shop. Wound up buying a 64 Galaxie with a 427 (jeez, If I could only go back and get the engines out of these cars I'd be happy)

My uncle Jim ordered (this was before he left Vietnam, you could go into the PX and order a car, and they would deliver it when you got home) a '69 Boss 429 Mustang. Black, with black interior, and the 429, on which the valve covers alone looked bigger than the engine almost) He sold it in when the gas started going through the roof. Car would bring $ 50,000 plus today.

My uncle Roger bought a '66 Shelby GT 350 in 1972 (for 400 dollars off a USED CAR lot) that only had at the time 32,000 actual miles on it. He sold it in '81. A shame.

Before HE went to Vietnam, my uncle Tim on moms side bought a '57 Ford two door, into which he stuffed a 427 Side Oiler. His sistesr BF drove the hell out of it without Tin knowing it while Tim was in Vietnam, and drove it low on oil and burned the 427 up, but not before he ruined it getting it onto the tow truck. Theres other cars thats been in the family, too many to list.

I bought a '57 Ford (it's a four-door, though) Fairlane 500 three year ago. No PS, no PB, no AC, but I love it. Parts for Y-Blocks are expensive to come by.

Maybe a 1970 Dodge Charger, or a Plymouth Roadrunner.

I mentioned under my old account, AL-B, that my favorite car of all was the 1966 Impala, but really I love all the old Impalas. Recently, on a GM fansite, I discovered that the next-generation Impala, due out in '08 or '09, is going to be RWD and the styling will borrow heavily from the '63-'64 and '67 Impalas. According to one insider, this car will "blow people away." If this is indeed true, then this is the new car I've been waiting to buy since I was a kid.

Dodge is possibly bringing back the Challenger. If I can find it again, I saw a piece on the net about the concept, and it looks faithful to the '70 models. The GT-40 is my ultimate dream car though. I saw only one real GT-40 in my life and that was at a show three years ago. They brought it in an enclosed trailer, and had it roped off to the point where you could not get within 15 feet of the thing. Awesome stuff.

Dodge is possibly bringing back the Challenger. If I can find it again, I saw a piece on the net about the concept, and it looks faithful to the '70 models. The GT-40 is my ultimate dream car though. I saw only one real GT-40 in my life and that was at a show three years ago. They brought it in an enclosed trailer, and had it roped off to the point where you could not get within 15 feet of the thing. Awesome stuff.
From what I understand, the Challenger is a go, and should be in production within the next 2 years.

I went to the Kansas City Auto Show about 2 weeks ago, and they had a new Ford GT there. Here's a photo: