No teslas need apply, though

Why not? Don't you care about the environment?

Musk is too close to stinky Donny

Edit to add - plenty of ways to help the environment without right wing assholes in the mix

Most of the other manufacturers have caught up and surpassed them in build quality and reliability.

They also haven't refreshed their body styles at all when most other companies do so every 3 or 4 years.

Many better alternatives on the market that don't benefit that goddamned nazi, either.

So clever.

That's the new cool

My wife and I just purchased the 2024 Chevy Blazer EV and are really impressed with it so far. It has a range of about 280 miles and its performance and handling are outstanding. At one time I was interested in the Tesla but after Musk went off the rails, no thanks.

I'm going to need to borrow a few nickels...

you'll make it!

buy a sofa?

In 2016, someone in Amsterdam found an old thin silver coin in an old wooden cabinet. It turned out to be the second known New England Threepence, minted in Boston around 1652. The colonists were making their own coins without permission from the British crown, and were ordered to stop when the King found out. There are dozens of New England shillings known, and several sixpences, but this is only the second threepence ever discovered. It just sold for over $2 million a few days ago. One more lucky old cabinet, and you can buy your car!

The cheapest McLaren is only $330,000. Can't most of us just write a check out of petty cash?
Now, if we're talking about the 765, we might have to look for an extra $300k of loose change.

What is this?

Sells for about $3.5 million, so it's a little out of my league.

But in that particular copper color, it would be a good fit for "fall vibes," don't you think?

More pics here:

https://www.automotiverhythms.com/2024-mclaren-solus-gt-racecar-illuminates-at-the-quail-a-motorsports-gathering/

One of the cars in my class was the McLaren GT. It won several awards. Nice car.

With 4spd.
In perfect shape, he traded a pound of pot for it in the '80s. Has owned it ever since.

It was the most beautiful car on the road. Under the right light, it had the appearance of a new copper penny! And it had MUSCLE! Not these sewing-machine motors in today's cars! A 350 V-8 with some real git-up-and-GO!



Tell me that ain't beauty inCARnate!

I had a 82 Cutlass Calais. It had 350 Rocket dropped into it. It looked like this. I once believed my tranny was slipping and it ended up being a $2 transmission seal replacement. I miss these cars!

For my wife, the car her parents got her in high school

A friend had one like that in college and it was the perfect combo of light body and motor muscle. A beauty with the ability to haul ass! Preferably the same ice blue color my friend had ... ❤️

Jaguar e type … any color

Built up a 69 mustang when I had time and no commitments in my 20's but a CarrolL Shelby Cobra was my holy grail.

Although a Dusenberg would nice.

The '67 427 cobra was certainly the bomb, but one could make the argument the 289 would run circles around the 427 on a mountain course.

Then there's the curious case of Herbie Hancock's uber rare 1963 260 Cobra AC. Hernie "Watermelon Man" Hancock is the longest original owner of a Cobra AC, bar none.

I bought the car in 83 while in the Army. On base they had a do it yourself shop you could work on cars, tools and lifts even a paint booth.

I tore down the engine bored it 30 over, high performance cam forged pistons and got 351 heads at a junkyard ported them to match intake and headers, got rid of the c4 auto replaced it with a 4 speed manual from the junkyard. That car kept me out of trouble with the amount of time I spent on it.

Man it was fun to drive nothing like a long duration cam in a v8 with a stick.
The new hotrods handle better and are faster, but there was just something raw and powerful in the feel of those old engines.

No, really. Bright red convertible, bought in Long Beach CA in '67. Loved driving it up and down the coast, then it came with me to Colorado in the early 1970s. That little thing drove like crazy in the snow, never did put snow tires on it. Traded it away because I couldn't afford to have the seal around the convertible top replaced, and winters were intense back then. Now and then I'll see one on craigslist, same color and all, amazed at what they sell for. Screw Nader.


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Baby blue of course.

... I could rule the world!

1956 Mercedes



1964 Jaguar.

Instead, I bought an Alfa Romeo Alfetta Sedan. Hot shit 4 door, actually. Aluminum block, 6 speed, 50/50 weight distribution, Dedion suspension system. Even had a suicide throttle for cruise control.

… and safe roads to ride it on.

Such as this:


Pedal power!

Most fun car I ever drove. It was old and kinda used up when I got it. It made a hell of a lot of transmission noise but I loved it.

Best car I ever had and I got it for $300 smackaroos. It was not in mint condition and it had over 100k miles on it but man that car was a godsend when I moved to L.A. It was fast and could take a lot of cars smacking into me with no real damage.

classic car because the designs were so beautiful. I like nearly all of them!

Still don't know how to embed images.

Damn I miss that thing.

A Subaru Forester and a Nissan Frontier, both are easier to get in and out of.🤩

Dems would be clamoring to get in it!

The car George Jetson would drive to work

My ex used to restore them. The star of the TV show "The Saint" drove the p1800.

I loved that car, and I'm a dork. So I'd like that one please. A Hennessy Venom would be cool too though https://www.venomgt.com/

….the shop.

And a friend of my dad's left his 58 100-6 there while he shipped out as merchant Marine.
He asked me to start it once a week to keep the battery up and and drive it up and down the road. (We had a quarter mile driveway). I spent every spare moment sitting in that car listening to the radio and pretending It was mine. On my last day of 8th grade , my mom rode with me and I drove it to school.

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started with in '54. I actually had a '63 Mark ll 3000 but the final year, and thus most desirable now is the '67.

All great and fun to drive cars though. Very pricey now in the collector's market. The highest price for a '67 Mark lll 3000 was $200,000 a few years ago.

It was only $5,000, but it had quite a bit of rot in the trunk and the bottoms of the doors, and wasn't running at the time. I bought a running MGA 1960 instead for $4, 000. My son has that car today.

Good thing you kept it in the family.

Would settle for a 912 in the same color(s).

but I'd take a V-12 Lincoln Zephyr

Truly a work of art. As soon as I have a spare 2 mil I’ll look into getting one.😂😂😂

museum. It's the best automobile museum that I ever seen.

https://automobilemuseum.org/

Probably one of the rarest automobiles on earth. It was worth the admission just to see one.

https://www.kpcnews.com/thestar/article_a67c1b8c-7fd6-57cb-bdb0-0ae69f460709.html

Not a car but I still want one. Fiji Blue Metallic body with a black seat back and handlebars.

With dark matter boost.

Used to know a guy who raced one in the SCCA A sedan class back in those long ago days when I was a corner worker.

It's gotta be a 1974. That's the year VW went to Independent Rear Suspension rather than swingarm suspension (meaning it handles better) and it was the last year VW sold them in the US.

Black on black, drive anywhere I want to go and tow anything I want to tow.