Topic: Your all time favourite cars

[Allemano]

As we suffer from many weird and obscure puzzle cars here's a place to sit back and relax..

Please feel free to post all of your favourite cars on that topic. (If possible only in high quality)

It's on me to start with this beautiful De Tomaso Musela I designed by Tom Tjaarda:

[Quiller]

I'm not sure why I like Michelotti's OSCA 1500 as much as I do but there it is....

[Allemano]

Great! First I was afraid I'm doing on my own! 

Coincidentally I found these pictures today:

The DODGE Deora and the Charger III (quite controversial, I know!).
My all time favourites from the USA:

[faksta]

Hmm... I'm afraid I want one of these too much.

[porridgehead]

Great! First I was afraid I'm doing on my own! 

Coincidentally I found these pictures today:

The DODGE Deora and the Charger III (quite controversial, I know!).
My all time favourites from the USA:

Perhaps too coincidentally, as it was up for auction today. It sold for a mere $295,000 USD

http://www.rmauctions.com/FeatureCars-RW.cfm?SaleCode=RW09&CarID=r184&fc=1

[pnegyesi]

My personal favorite of all time is the Talbot-Lago T150SS Teardrop by Figoni&Falaschi. I've seen one such car at Pebble Beach a couple years ago and I got down on my knees...

[Arthur Dent]

1925 Tatra T-12 Targa Florio Replica





Velorex Oskar

[Allemano]

something to add.

[TheItalianJunkyard]

I messed with my previous post, so we go again:

I don't tihnk it's possible to pick a relatively small number of "all time favorite cars". Cars themselves evolved way too much over the past and present centuries to be considered as a unique entity.
Just as an example, the whole Daimler Double SIx series could be somehow compared, from a market point of view, to the present Mercedes Benz S/SL/CL, or even to the Bentley Continentals (VW) if you prefer, but are they really comparable?
I don't think so.

Right for this reason, I wouldn't know from which car to start, but the 1932 Daimler Double Six itself should be a nice beginning

[neilshouse]

Like TheItalianJunkyard I cannot pick just one favourite car, the list would go on for pages, but these are just a few of the cars I wouldn't mind owning.

In my opinion the prettiest car ever made.


This is pure Colin Chapman genius. (If anyone knows where I can get some chassis drawings please email me)


The greatest pre war car ever.


A bit of an odd choice you may think, but it's the most fun car I've ever driven.


I think I watched The Italian Job too many times as a teenager.


See above!


Plus, a Bugatti T35, Frazer Nash Chain Gang, Jaguar C Type, Lancia Stratos, Lotus Elan, etc, etc, etc.....

[Ultra]

[Allemano]

Would be my favourite daily drivers: (to be continued)
















if ever built this would be on top of my list:

[Ultra]

You want a Gremlin?



 

[Allemano]

You want a Gremlin?

[Ultra]

You want a Gremlin?

What, don't you like V8's in your hatchbacks?

[ateball]

That would have to be my 1968 390 cid AMC AMX T-10 4speed, 2 seats, factory traction bars, AMC Go-Package.  I stupidly sold it in 1983 for $2,000.00.    Oh......How I miss that car!

That car ate a few Big 3 muscle cars for lunch.  Now I see AMX's like mine on Ebay, and their running $25-$35,000.00.

My more recent fun car was my 1993 Porsche 968, 3.0 liter 236 H.P. 4cylinder(Normal Aspiration) 6speed Torsen rear mounted Manual tranny.  Hated those 944-968 rear hatch windows.  The glass just kept separating from the window frame.  I've yet to see a 924, 244, 268 that hasn't had that darn rear hatch window separate from it's frame. 

[ateball]

You want a Gremlin?



 

Could get the Gremlin X with a 304 cid AMC V8.  Many Gremlins ended up with 401 Cid AMC V8's pulled out of Javelin/AMX's, Ambassadors and Matadors.

Can't stand it when folks replace AMC engines with Chevy mills.   AMC made great V8's in their latter years.  They pioneered thin wall casting of engine blocks that drastically reduced engine weight.

[Ultra]

Great! First I was afraid I'm doing on my own! 

Coincidentally I found these pictures today:

The DODGE Deora

A Ridler Award winner.

[Otto Puzzell]

Glad to see another AMC fan on board! Speaking of hot Gremlins, the AMX-GT was the impetus for the basic Gremlin shape. Given the time and resources, I'd love to make one by re-fitting a rusted out Javelin - preferably one of the less-attractive 71 or later models. The 68-70 models were too pretty to mess up.

[Otto Puzzell]

Minus that, an off-the-shelf AMX (again, 1968-70 model) would make me a happy camper. And on top-down days, a big Healey

[MG]

The Talbot Lago is luscious, the various AMX's delightful, the Alfa Romeo GTV a perennial favorite and I LOVE the Miura.

But when it comes to the car that I absolutely, positively LUST before before I die is the first sports car I ever had a ride in. This one is the same color, too!   



And if I could have two, my second choice would have to be this:

[ateball]

Glad to see another AMC fan on board! Speaking of hot Gremlins, the AMX-GT was the impetus for the basic Gremlin shape. Given the time and resources, I'd love to make one by re-fitting a rusted out Javelin - preferably one of the less-attractive 71 or later models. The 68-70 models were too pretty to mess up.

I remember that prototype years ago.  I followed AMC in any and every auto publication I could get my hands on. 


Do you remember the AMC I-6 powered Indy Car that came so close to qualifying for Indy?  Best AMC V8 was the dog legged port heads/manifolds too.   That Chrysler 4.0 H.O. I-6 is or was AMC's last little connection the automotive public. 

My father passed down to me a very rare 1964 Rambler Ambassador 990-H.  It had the earlier generation AMC 327 cid V8 that was rated at 270 h.p. 365 ft/lbs torque.  It had a 4150 Holley 4-barrel, borgwarner 3 speed automatic(Flash-o-matic Shift Command) on the console.  The car was gorgeous!  That 327 was also used by Gray Marine to power many yahts.  It's funny how GM'ers would claim that this engine was the chevy 327, when there were zero parts interchangeability.  Only similarity was both engines had rear Delco viewport distributors.  That V8 was spawned from both Hudson and Nash R&D.   Also that engine was the one used for the 57 Bendix fuel injected Rebel, that didn't quite make it to showrooms.  Only a handful were built, but the Bendix system was not very reliable at the time, so AMC stopped production before it's first public sale.  At the time the Bendix injected, 327 Rebel was the fastest sedan built by any U.S. domestic vehicle manufacturer.

Also when AMC came out with the advanced thin-wall cast 390 V8 for the AMX and then offered in the Javelin and larger car lines in 1968, Ford enthusiasts claimed that engine to be their 390 boat anchor.  Never the less, parts interchangeability and overall engine design negated that possibility.  The Big 3 fans just couldn't stomach the "little guy" AMC which once was famous for building little stodgy economy cars having anything to do with high performance. 

[Otto Puzzell]

I think that Indycar was a "name that car" post at AW or one the many flavors/iterations of Carnuts.

I had a cousin who was a Chevy guy, he gave me that 327 line of crap, too.

People I know who owned AMC's loved 'em. I hope to see more of them at the orphan car show in Yypsilanti later this year.

[ateball]

I think that Indycar was a "name that car" post at AW or one the many flavors/iterations of Carnuts.

I had a cousin who was a Chevy guy, he gave me that 327 line of crap, too.

People I know who owned AMC's loved 'em. I hope to see more of them at the orphan car show in Yypsilanti later this year.

What's frustrating, is when I tune in Mecum's or Barrett's auto auctions on my tv, AMC's are never featured.  It's always the big 3 cars or some foreign exotics.

I'd like to see some nice Mark Donahue Javelins, SC Hurst Ramblers, and even one of those special Pro Stock AMX's that AMC built in limited numbers.  Maybe even a Rebel Machine?

I really think there is negative bias still lingering when it comes to AMC cars.

Remember the simple genius behind AMC Weather-Eye heating system?  AMC cars on cold mornings would give you warm air nearly instantaneously right after initial engine start-up. They had a patented design that channeled coolant water directly from the water jackets on the engine heads instead of waiting for normal coolant water from the radiator to heat up.

In my avatar is a 1956 Nash Rambler Cross Country Wagon.  All of the seats folded down flat into one giant bed surface.  An entire family could roll out sleeping bags and overnight in that wagon. 

Get ready for this...........My dad bought and owned for years a 56 cross country wagon just like the one in the avatar, only it was grey, rose, and white three-tone.  Get ready for this:  That little simple wagon came with white elk-hide seats and on the doors, with get this........tooled cowhide inserts on the seats, and on the for doors of that wagon!!!!  Who of the Big 3 did that in a mid range middle class car?

[MG]

For some reason, my #2 selection did not load above.

Feast your eyes on this tasty little crumpet, boys!