The 911 is one of the most beautiful time-less vehicle designs ever created.
Looks like a volkswagon with fender flares.
[quote]Broncoandy wrote:
Looks like a volkswagon with fender flares.[/quote]
Considering Dr. Porsche designed the VW bug* also designed the 911, not surprising.
- Ironically, Josef Ganz, a Jewish guy, designed the initial rear engine VW Bug (even called VW Bug) about 10 years before. Hitler stole it, Dr. Porsche improved it, and Hitler’s peoples’ car was created.
[quote]Broncoandy wrote:
Looks like a volkswagon with fender flares.[/quote]
VW RSI Beetle, very cool, and probably a blast to drive.
Note: part of the enjoyment comes from the shocked faces of pony car drivers as they enjoy the rear end of the bug.
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
[quote]Broncoandy wrote:
Looks like a volkswagon with fender flares.[/quote]
Considering Dr. Porsche designed the VW bug* also designed the 911, not surprising.
- Ironically, Josef Ganz, a Jewish guy, designed the initial rear engine VW Bug (even called VW Bug) about 10 years before. Hitler stole it, Dr. Porsche improved it, and Hitler’s peoples’ car was created.
Sometimes I wonder about stories like that if they’re legit, or just revisionist (because nobody wants to drive hitler’s car). Never heard the Jewish angle before, but that makes perfect sense.
Don’t get me wrong about the 911 either, it’s not that I think it’s a bad design. It’s just not a rolling piece of art the way some of the other cars in it’s class are. But than that’s also what makes it better / sets it apart. It’s function over form. It’s very German.
I certainly wouldn’t kick her out of my garage.
[quote]Aggv wrote:
[quote]Broncoandy wrote:
Looks like a volkswagon with fender flares.[/quote]
VW RSI Beetle, very cool, and probably a blast to drive.
Note: part of the enjoyment comes from the shocked faces of pony car drivers as they enjoy the rear end of the bug. [/quote]
I’d ditch the spoiler, and paint it hot pink for extra lulz.
I really love this car!
Thank you Dr. Pangloss for creating this thread. I LOVE sports cars so I really enjoyed looking at all of these cool cars especially the sport cars. I bought a 2013 CA Special Mustang 2 years ago and I love driving it so much. I live in the mid west so every winter I have to put it away… I hate doing it each year!
[quote]Glittergirl69 wrote:
Thank you Dr. Pangloss for creating this thread. I LOVE sports cars so I really enjoyed looking at all of these cool cars especially the sport cars. I bought a 2013 CA Special Mustang 2 years ago and I love driving it so much. I live in the mid west so every winter I have to put it away… I hate doing it each year![/quote]
Cool Chick alert…
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
No, it’s a 1955 Porsche 550. It’s an all aluminium mid-engine car. There are only a handful left. I bought it when it wasn’t cool; now the prices are such that I am not comfortable driving it.
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That’s awesome. It’s sad when you feel like you cannot drive it because of the value. Cars are meant to be driven, but I get the trepidation. They are not easy to get fixed. Thought about maybe selling it and jumping in to a 991 911 GT3? That could be a good trade and you can get into an awesome car you can drive.
[quote]pat wrote:
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
No, it’s a 1955 Porsche 550. It’s an all aluminium mid-engine car. There are only a handful left. I bought it when it wasn’t cool; now the prices are such that I am not comfortable driving it.
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That’s awesome. It’s sad when you feel like you cannot drive it because of the value. Cars are meant to be driven, but I get the trepidation. They are not easy to get fixed. Thought about maybe selling it and jumping in to a 991 911 GT3? That could be a good trade and you can get into an awesome car you can drive.[/quote]
My goal is to get rich enough that I won’t care if I crash an $800,000 car and race the heck out of it on the Mille Miglia in Italy.
It’s the first really, really nice thing I ever bought myself (for a fraction of the present value). I just can’t sell it. Kids will have to.
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
[quote]pat wrote:
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
No, it’s a 1955 Porsche 550. It’s an all aluminium mid-engine car. There are only a handful left. I bought it when it wasn’t cool; now the prices are such that I am not comfortable driving it.
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That’s awesome. It’s sad when you feel like you cannot drive it because of the value. Cars are meant to be driven, but I get the trepidation. They are not easy to get fixed. Thought about maybe selling it and jumping in to a 991 911 GT3? That could be a good trade and you can get into an awesome car you can drive.[/quote]
My goal is to get rich enough that I won’t care if I crash an $800,000 car and race the heck out of it on the Mille Miglia in Italy.
It’s the first really, really nice thing I ever bought myself (for a fraction of the present value). I just can’t sell it. Kids will have to.
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I get it. I have a nice drumset that I bought, I am not great at the drums but I love to play, but I am not in a band and won’t be in the foreseeable future, but I cannot sell them. I love them I can probably get more for them than I paid since it was a limited, numbered set. Sound amazing when tuned well. So I get why you cannot sell your car even though you could get something pretty amazing in return.
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
[quote]pat wrote:
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
No, it’s a 1955 Porsche 550. It’s an all aluminium mid-engine car. There are only a handful left. I bought it when it wasn’t cool; now the prices are such that I am not comfortable driving it.
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That’s awesome. It’s sad when you feel like you cannot drive it because of the value. Cars are meant to be driven, but I get the trepidation. They are not easy to get fixed. Thought about maybe selling it and jumping in to a 991 911 GT3? That could be a good trade and you can get into an awesome car you can drive.[/quote]
My goal is to get rich enough that I won’t care if I crash an $800,000 car and race the heck out of it on the Mille Miglia in Italy.
It’s the first really, really nice thing I ever bought myself (for a fraction of the present value). I just can’t sell it. Kids will have to.
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You think about pulling the “numbers matching” drive train that gives it the antique / collector’s value? If there’s a company that makes them I would think the body can be repaired pretty easily so long as you don’t completely bitch the frame. For that matter what’s the kit car / replica worth, and how does it stack up to the real thing?
Audi Ur-Quattro. The US received 664 of these cars from 1981-1987. I remember them being expensive at the time. Power was from an inline 5, the US never got the 2.2L SOHC nor the 2.2L 20v that Europe did.
MB 300SEL 6.3.
Mercedes engineers decided they needed to take the 6.3L eight cylinder engine from the 600 class limo and drop it into the S class, which only had a 6 cylinder engine up until that point. What they created was a car that could do 0 - 100km in a tick over 6 seconds and became the worlds fastest 4 door sedan.
Die Rote Sau.
The Red Pig was a 300SEL that AMG massaged over. The 6.8L beast ran at the 1971 Spa 24 hours and rumbled to a second place finish against the lightweight Euro coupes of the time.
The Rambo Lambo.
Originally, built for the US military as a High Mobility Multipurpose Vehicle (aka the Humvee), the US gov’t never cared for the handling of the rear-engined V8 truck. Instead, they commissioned AM General to build the vehicle.
Lambo went ahead and built a civie version called the LM002 between 1986 and 1993. It had the V12 from a Countach and could reach a top speed of 125mph … on loose soil. According to wikipedia, a buyer could spec a 7.2L marine V12 that Lambo used in Class 1 offshore power boats. Only 328 models were made of this oil guzzling behemoth (6mpg) and many found their way to the Middle East. Owners included Mike Tyson, Hunter S. Thompson, Sylvester Stallone, Muammar Gaddafi, and Uday Hussein.
The carbon ceramic brakes on the new BMW M3s / M4s cost $15,000 extra more than the standard brakes. Does anyone know the difference? Fifteen K just for nifty brakes is insane. Are they really needed off the track?