Ok you have my first choice (the '71 Chevelle)
So here are the next 3:
- a '63 'Vette- coupe or roadster I don’t care
- a 2000 Camero- convertable with a 5.2L
- a '55 Chevy- baby blue with a white hard top
Who’s buying?
I will, but you have to give me a ride.
My “driving around cool” car is a late-60’s Mustang, but that’s not what the OP asks.
My everyday dream car is a Volvo C70 convertible. All the fun of a top-down coupe, plus all the reliability and safety of a Volvo. If I were unconstrained by finance, this is what I would drive.
How’s that for mundane?
Three for me:
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Dodge Viper. Of course, I’d have to learn how to drive stick shift first. But DAMN, it’s a nice looking sports car.
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Lexus RX300. My parents own one, and it is a baeutiful car. Nice and roomy, and SO damn luxurious.
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Lexus LS400. If I felt like getting a Lexus sedan rather than an SUV.
A new Audi A6 Quatro 4.2 would meet my needs just fine.
With all the options, of course.
There was another thread on this same subject a while back, only you had to pay for the car. Can’t find thr thread, tho.
Peace,
mangeorge
I’m kinda like dhansen, I want some of my old ones back.
'67 Camaro, 327 - 1st ex got that in the divorce and she couldn’t even drive. 1st car I owned that I got up in the morning thinking of reasons to go somewhere just to drive it.
'85 Camaro, Z28 - loved that car. 3rd ex talked me into trading for a van since there were so many kids. Damn, I’ll never figure out what power that woman had over me.
Always wanted an early model 'vette, say, late 60’s.
But my dream car was always, like Easy Tokyo, a XKE convertable, about a mid to late 60’s. I always thought you could drive one of those down the street and women would just jump into it.
Jim
The budget version: A VW Variant…it’s basically the same as a squareback or fastback, but with a sedan body. Easy to work on, easy to modify, and unique, since VW of America didn’t import 'em to the States.
The slightly-less-budget version: Mitsubishi Galant VR4. 4-wheel drive, 4-wheel steering, 4-wheel ABS, twin turbo, all in a package that looks like Mom’s family sedan.
Throwing the conditions of the OP out the window, I’ll take a street-legal Porsche 917. About as impractical as a car gets, and damn fast getting there, too. (I only know of one that’s been modified for street use.)
I’ll take the red '65 Mustang convertible they were holding a drawing for at the NY PC Expo this week…
…then again, I guess I don’t get to take it…
The new Chrysler GT Cruiser and there is an excellent chance my wife will buy one. Don’t know if I will get to drive it, though.
Well, we have one, and let me warn you that “reliable as a Volvo” is no longer an accurate phrase… Volvo was bought by Ford a few years ago, you see, and will actually replace the Mercury line around 2002. Our C70 has been back to the dealer at least 3 times since we bought it in December; the radio’s left channel wouldn’t always work, the top stuck on occasion, the car was making loud creaky noises (this turned out to be the fault of shipping spacers that the crappy dealership left in the suspension and steering). My brother, who works for Ford in Detroit, says that a lot of the executives drive them and have problems with the front tires after 5000 miles or so. We just passed the 5000 mile point, though, and no problems yet… the thing also positively eats gas. I can watch the fuel meter drop a gallon and a half (it has an 18 gallon tank) in an hour’s worth of driving around town, and since you have to fill it with premium gas, it’s been expensive. My parents bought it as a retirement car and want to keep it around for at least 15 years - I’m just hoping it lasts that long. Here’s a picture of it: http://members.macconnect.com/~jonkleinow/medadcar.html
[sidenote: I originally had that linked, but when I previewed it didn’t work, so I’m leaving it as is.]
Oh, yeah, and as for my dream car…
It should be able to go from 0-60 in 5 seconds, but still get 70 miles to the gallon. It should be sporty and small, but be able to carry large sheets of plywood in the backseat. And it should be available for under $20,000.
Let me know if you find it.
Bummer, bummer, bummer. But thanks for the heads-up.
Is it too late to change my dream car to a Humvee Limo? 
1991 Saturn SC2-
Safest car in it’s class the year I bought it. And it is pretty snazzy looking, too, but I mainly bought it for the safety factor.
Scotti
OOPS-I meant 1996
In no specific order:
- Ford 350 diesel crew cab pick up truck, fully loaded. Rust and tool box are fine by me. A land yacht with ramming power.
2)Ford Echo. I only saw one once on the road so far, and when I heard it was an electric/gas car, I wanted one.
3)British Mini. I would die quickly in the potholes of Michigan, but damn, I just love those little cars. [girlish voice] They’re sooooo cuteeeeee. [/girlish voice]
But I already drive my mundane dream car. A Ford 250 Econoline. It’s so big …{voice in back}HOW BIG IS IT?
That when I cut some schulb off in traffic, because he’s so far away, it sounds like, " Duck Shoe." My kids, closer to the situation than me, I’m sure, are getting quite a lesson in vehicular insults. I should teach them the proper hand gestures to give in proxy of Momma. Heh.
I can’t help myself, I just love cars. This car is SO cool. You immediately get mental sounds off a 70’s porn movie soundtrack when you see it. This one is just about the right colour, too. Ladies and Gentlemen, the hopelessly unreliable but ever so cool Jensen Interceptor!
Mundane dream cars / trucks…
GMC Diesel Suburban with four wheel drive…
Another Toyota 2 dr Land Cruiser… the old one was bulletproof
Volvo-240 wagon
Citroen - too cool a car
Peugot 504 diesel- my friends has 2,000,000 km on it and is like new still
1965 Mercury pickup, 4 speed, inline 300ci six
And on the less mundane side…
Porsche 911 turbo or even better… 1959 Porshe speedster… but where would the kids sit?
Funky non-obvious cars I like…
I agree on the Citroen Deesse.
I also want a Toyota Prius (coming out soon in Canada–I want to rent one and see what this gas-electric hybrid thing is like).
A car that was out in the sixties… made by Studebaker(?) and called something like the Avanti. Like the DS, way ahead of its time in design. I think they’re still being made by another company.
Volkswagen minibus, retrofitted with fuel-cell-electric drive. (Is this even possible with less than a million dollars for a custom development program?)
I like cars, but dislike internal-combustion engines…
Gasp! A Peugeot 504 in the USA? And 2 million km’s? O wait, probably not the US then. Where is it? Canada?
Anyway, the 504 is one of my favourite Peugeots (as can be seen, I’m a Peugeot driver and fan). It is also one of the great cars that helped Africa develop, along with (and second to, of course) the Land Rover. These things just will not die, especially these mean, slow, but unstoppable diesels.
But the best Peugeot 504 is the stunning Cabriolet.
Also, my father used to own a light blue sedan 504 in the late 70’s. Prettiest car he ever drove.
I always liked those. We had some military friends who owned one. From a distance, you couln’t tell which end was the front. Since the engine was below the floor (in back), there were all sorts of opportunities to joke around with the ignorant masses when you opened the front, remarked that, of course, the engine was in the back, then opened the back – no visible engine!
“Hey! Where’d it go?”
~~Baloo