# What's your dream car?

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**Created:** [May 2, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-dream-car/64018 "2001-05-02T01:39:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chas.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Chas.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chas.E)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-dream-car/64018/61 "2001-05-05T07:16:25Z")

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I just want the car I had when I was in high school, my wonderful old '65 Mustang GT Convertible. I once drove it across Kansas at 135mph for a sustained period of 2 hours, it was awesome. Alas, the engine exploded when I put gasohol in it. I guess there’s no substitute for 112 octane, as the owners manual said it requires.

I do have a candidate for a new ultimate car:

[http://soli.inav.net/~ceicher/pages/weird.html](http://soli.inav.net/~ceicher/pages/weird.html)

Either that, or a Lamborghini armored car. Tina Turner owns one. With its solid rubber wheels, I bet you could just drive over other cars to get out of traffic jams.

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**Author:** ![Chas.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Chas.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chas.E)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2001, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-dream-car/64018/62 "2001-05-05T07:44:22Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by LindyHopper \*  
> \*\*And the winner is…
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> 1972 Hemi 'Cuda. Metallic dark purple. Convertible. Dual four-barrel carbs. \*\*

Nah, the '68 Hemi Cuda is way cooler than the '72, and way rarer. Someone recently discovered a '68 Hemi Cuda that had been bricked up in a secret room, when the building was torn down by the owner’s kids, they discovered it, it only had 50 miles on the odometer. It sold for a record price for any US production car from the '60s on forward, $950,000.

Check it out:

[http://www.heminet.com/mycar.asp?HeminetID=2046](http://www.heminet.com/mycar.asp?HeminetID=2046)

Yep, that’s WAY cooler than the '70 version.

BTW, a friend of mine in high school had the fastest car in town a '69 Dodge Coronet 426H. It was absolutely 100% original parts, in absolutely new condition. He let me drive it once, and it drove like a tank. He challenged me to stop on the accellerator as hard as I could, and see if I could get all 8 barrels of the carburetor to kick in. I couldn’t do it. He showed me how to do it (took him 4 attempts at it!) and I still couldn’t do it. Anyway, he couldn’t afford the gas, so he sold the thing in about '76 for $3500. The next week, the new owner came back to him, and asked him if he had a record of the engine and body VIN numbers. Someone stole the car right from his garage, the second day he had it. The car was eventually found in a junkyard, minus the engine. Apparently at that time, hemi engines were worth more than hemi cars.

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