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2004-07-04 21:52:35

CharlieH. Posts: 0	Your Favorite Car So, is there a car model that strikes your fancy more than any other? In my case it's the 1939 Ford Convertible: Seriously, I wouldn't like to leave this world without driving (or owning) one!

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2004-07-05 09:22:49

TMBC Posts: 1	Re: Your Favorite Car Good year! My grandmother had a '39 Mercury convertible, like this:

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2004-07-05 09:30:09

retrokitten Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car I must admit to a fondness for tiny cars! This is my favourite: This picture gives an idea of the size:

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2004-07-05 10:01:50

The Wingnut Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car I forgot all about the Bantam. Great little cars, the next step up from a pedal car. I fell in love with the second generation Barracuda 6 years ago and I'll probably always want one. I spotted one in Santa Rosa yesterday and spent 5 minutes walking around it, gawking at it. I'm sure I'd have fun with a prewar Plymouth or Chrysler of some sort, but this is what I really want:

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2004-07-05 11:21:39

The Bubbler Posts: 17	Re: Your Favorite Car Easy! This... Andy

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2004-07-05 15:34:43

fairyprintsets Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car the 36 Coupe this man down the road has

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2004-07-06 13:19:52

strangekat Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car 1957 Chevy Bel Aire, all the way: Mmm...come to mama!!

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2004-07-06 13:32:04

zootsuitcoot Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car It woud take no cajolery whatsoever to get me behind the wheel of America's foremost pre-war hotrod, the 1938 Buick Century.

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2004-09-24 07:31:34

Marlowe Posts: 1	Re: Your Favorite Car I've always loved the 1949 Hudson.

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2004-09-24 08:39:43

TheItGirl Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car My favorite cars have no basis in reality. If I had my way, I'd be driving Grandpa Munster's car Dragula, Black Beauty from the Green Hornet tv show, or The Homer. [/img]

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2004-10-04 20:14:28

CosmicMan Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car My favorite car was one I owned for 14 years: a 1971 'Cuda. I drove that baby back and forth across the USA several times, all alone, no air conditioning, cruise control or tape player of any kind, just me and my Cuda and whatever AM stations I could pick up as I drove. Oh yes, it was light metallic green. :mrgreen: My dad was almost as cool. He had a 1969 yellow RoadRunner. 8) Whenever people saw the two of us a-coming, they ran for cover!

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2004-10-05 00:39:13

Lindy Laura Swingin' Kitten Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car now this is a great thread! humuna humuna humuna.... oh me oh my i want one of those cars! (scratch that) i want ALL O' DEM CARS! :wink:

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2004-10-06 12:03:26

Lost Soul Red Under the Bed Posts: 34	Re: Your Favorite Car I'm with TheItGirl on this one. Ridiculous cars!

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2004-10-11 20:44:48

msbettyfinn Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car I want one of these...

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2004-10-11 22:14:13

TMBC Posts: 1	Re: Your Favorite Car The Nash Metropolitan! I was just checking them out on E-Bay...you can get one for as little as $600! I just hope you're handy, or know someone who is....

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2004-10-12 07:35:13

zootsuitcoot Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car Nash Metropolitans have a very strong club following and are still widely available--to say nothing of inexpensive. (They're also notoriously underpowered, which is part of the explanation.) Considering that BMW updated the Mini, I wonder if they'd do the Metropolitan next.

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2004-10-12 16:12:25

Miss Brown 2u Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car I've said it before and I'll say it again...Metropolitans are wonderfully quirky little cars, and if you don't mind tinkering a bit, they'll get you around town as good as anything. If you don't mind tinkering a lot, I'm selling my 1957 and 1960 parts cars to make room for a daily driver 8)

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2004-10-12 16:29:55

msbettyfinn Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car I think they're quite adorable...I simply must have one!!! There are always one or two for sale in my area, usually by a member of the local club...my goal is to own one by the end of next summer.

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2004-10-13 12:05:32

The Bubbler Posts: 17	Re: Your Favorite Car Nash Metropolitans have a very strong club following and are still widely available--to say nothing of inexpensive. (They're also notoriously underpowered, which is part of the explanation.) Considering that BMW updated the Mini, I wonder if they'd do the Metropolitan next. Underpowered? Certainly no racer, the chassis wouldn't handle it anyway, however the little barge featured an Austin OHV engine which was quite spirited. Early models had a 1200cc engine, later on this was increased to 1500cc, which would seem to be the one to go for. Good luck with your purchase, they look like a lot of fun to own. Look out for rust! Andy

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2004-10-22 13:34:50

Buddy-Rey Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car After doing some checking on the Nash Metropolitan, I've decided that it's in my top three list of cars I'd like to own, as I still don't have one, but when I told my mom about it, she said, "Oh, you don't want an old car like that. You want something safe and reliable! And besides, if it breaks down, how will you ever get parts for it?!" Are there ANY valid arguments that I could use to convince her of the safety and dependability of an older car??? I don't want to be stuck driving a Toyota Corolla. Somebody help me!!!

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2005-01-22 13:42:55

retroruby66 Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car I think anything really from the late 50's and has those wonderful lines, but then I also seem drawn to the cars of the early 60's that are now either considered ugly or muscle cars LOL , never very good with the names, but I drool over then at the car shows and my hubby and i have small collection of the mini versions of a few of them.

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2005-01-22 13:44:29

retroruby66 Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car ohhhh yes and would not mind driving this red caddy!

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2005-01-23 07:53:08

zootsuitcoot Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car Are there ANY valid arguments that I could use to convince her of the safety and dependability of an older car???  I don't want to be stuck driving a Toyota Corolla.  Somebody help me!!! 1. Classic car drivers not only file far fewer accident claims than regular drivers, but have a lower claim rate per miles driven than all other drivers, including professionals like cab drivers and truckers. Guys who drive antique/classic cars are the safest drivers on the road. (Put it this way--I'd rather be at an intersection with Buttercup revving her rod on the other side than a distracted minivan mom with two screaming kids and a cell phone up to her ear.) 2. Modern safety engineering focuses on two things--making the car easy to drive and responsive, and making the passenger compartment survivable in an accident. A downside of the former is that cars have become so easy to drive and control that they make drivers careless and overconfident. Antique/classic cars aren't loaded with a lot of distracting do-funnies like talking navigation systems, computer displays, and sound systems with more knobs than a dairy farm has udders. You have to drive them intelligently, and they'll let you know if you're pushing them too hard. 3. Antique/classic cars are solidly built and fairly easy to improve. You can beef up the brakes and lighting system of almost anything, as well as get correct-size radial tires if you're so incllined. (Bias ply tires are perfectly safe, they just feel different.) 4. If there's a car, there's a club. You can find no end of guys who share your peculiar fascination with anything, whether it's a Studebaker, a Borgward, a Nash, an Edsel or whatever. And these guys can help you find even the most obscure widgets. For that matter, a few guys make reproduction parts by the boatload. 5. If you love your car, you'll drive it responsibly. And if you drive it responsibly, you'll be safe. This is unlikely to sway any mother who is not herself a carhead, but it's a starting point. Te rest is up to you!

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2005-01-23 09:54:44

mimi Posts: 14	Re: Your Favorite Car Here's mine:
	8 I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time 8
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2005-01-23 09:59:20

CosmicMan Posts: 0	Re: Your Favorite Car Easy! This... Andy Those Isettas are very cool. When I was a kid a neighbor of ours had one, and I used to beg to ride in it all the time. He never did let me, though. So I had to settle for a Corgi miniature toy of one.

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