What kind of vintage car do you wish you had?

[sd455dan]

Tha

Would love to have an old school Dodge Power Wagon from the 60’s and drop a 5.9L/allison/7 speed spicer EZ shift in it.
They had an optional PTO winch and rear PTO shaft from the factory!
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that is almost exactly the plan my nephew wants to execute, except he wanted to use a well warmed over 4BT instead of the six. There is a guy in town with that same model Dodge that has the original wrecker setup in the bed and he still uses it.

Don't have a pic but my dad owned a 58? power Wagon short bus and also a Dodge 1/2 ton pick up of the same vintage with a hopped up 392 Hemi he built for it.

My good friend has a 1948 Short bed Ford F1 PU equipped with the Flathead V8 and the ultra rare Marmon Herington 4X4 set up. One of these years he plans to get it painted.

Yes!

Mid 70's, I found a 'short bus' 1940's Power Wagon with minimal owner-built conversion for camping. The price was reasonable, just an old guy who wanted to pass it along to someone who would enjoy it. I was VERY tempted.

After agonizing over it for days, I passed. We lived within two hours of the high Serras with endless back country primitive camping opportunities. But driving the Power Wagon up there would have added too many hours on the road, to the weekend adventures we started nearly every Friday evening. I eventually sold my Ford pickup and got a Wagoneer instead. That was a more realistic match to what we actually needed, highway competence in addition to offroad.

Couple of pictures: Power Wagon Short Bus, found online. And our typical use. I wish I still had the 4-speed Wagoneer. It got severely T-boned by a drunk while parked. I was heartbroken.

Wow those last pics look familiar- have had a few 1970s Wagoneers
sold my 1977 Honcho after over 100000 miles of use. lot of rust, just inherited another Honcho from BIL- has been in the same spot for about 25 years maybe restore it, but repo parts are thin for most AMC products

 

[PILOON]

In my teens I owned, swapped, traded some 6-7 MG TD's.
LOL, got to the point that I could swap engines in about 2 hours.
I remember using a kid's swing set narrowed to the car's width as my lifting gantry.
I had discovered that the Morris engines were same as the TD's.
One problem wrenching those vintage cars was the British hardware, no American spanners or sockets matched.
Fun days!
Then on Sunday's a gang of us would tour the countryside roads in convoy fashion.
MG's, Sprites, Jag's and a Morgan, I can still hear those snappy shifts and the popping from downshifting.

The last TD I owned had a cracked block from no antifreeze. Plates showed 2 years of road use but stored for some 15 years or so. I recall finding it way in back of a GM dealership with the oil pan sitting on the seat.
Got it for $500. but knew where an engine could be found.
That one I drove for a number of years and it became my wife's car for a while until children arrived. It was black and shone like new.

 

[California]

on Sunday's a gang of us would tour the countryside roads in convoy fashion.
MG's, Sprites, Jag's and a Morgan, I can still hear those snappy shifts and the popping from downshifting.

I encountered my new neighbor on our shared country lane last week going out for a drive in a spectacular immaculate Morgan! Shinier than new. Flawless, car-show ready. It seems he's wealthier than I realized.

 

[mikester]

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[Jstpssng]

In my teens I owned, swapped, traded some 6-7 MG TD's.
LOL, got to the point that I could swap engines in about 2 hours.
I remember using a kid's swing set narrowed to the car's width as my lifting gantry.
I had discovered that the Morris engines were same as the TD's.
One problem wrenching those vintage cars was the British hardware, no American spanners or sockets matched.
Fun days!
Then on Sunday's a gang of us would tour the countryside roads in convoy fashion.
MG's, Sprites, Jag's and a Morgan, I can still hear those snappy shifts and the popping from downshifting.

The last TD I owned had a cracked block from no antifreeze. Plates showed 2 years of road use but stored for some 15 years or so. I recall finding it way in back of a GM dealership with the oil pan sitting on the seat.
Got it for $500. but knew where an engine could be found.
That one I drove for a number of years and it became my wife's car for a while until children arrived. It was black and shone like new.

Years ago I was traveling down a backroad in Western Maine when I encountered a long line of Model A's. They have a gathering every fall and pick a place to go. For some it was probably a PITA because it slowed them down; for me it was fun to watch.

 

[Frankenkubota]

I think my neighbor's was a mid-late 60's E-Type like this, only light green.

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Had one, rag top, series 1, 66, no rust, numbers car. Sold it to my brother so I could start a business. It's in baskets now but his son will do right by it. I tell him every time, best investment he ever made.

Enzo said it was the most beautiful car ever designed....maybe. They used to have a silowet of it in the meuseum of modern art....or some such place.

pretty funny that neither me nor spell check can spell silowet.

 

[Hay Dude]

Had one, rag top, series 1, 66, no rust, numbers car. Sold it to my brother so I could start a business. It's in baskets now but his son will do right by it. I tell him every time, best investment he ever made.

Enzo said it was the most beautiful car ever designed....maybe. They used to have a silowet of it in the meuseum of modern art....or some such place.

pretty funny that neither me nor spell check can spell silowet.

my neighbor has a dark green one. Its not restored perfectly, but it runs and he drives it in nice weather. Not my thing, but a very cool car

 

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Used 1967 Ford Mustang Bullitt Stock # 1252 in Farmingdale, NY at Motorcar Classics, NY's premier pre-owned luxury car dealership. Come test drive a Ford today!

www.motorcarclassics.com

Pretty sure the original Bullitt was a GT 390 with an FE 390 in it. Going from memory.

 

[Frankenkubota]

Bullitt........one of the greatest chase scenes Ever! The sounds were amazing, that's how i learned to double clutch!

My favorite chase scene ever was in the blues brothers but the original italian job was pretty cool also!

 

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Bullitt........one of the greatest chase scenes Ever! The sounds were amazing, that's how i learned to double clutch!

My favorite chase scene ever was in the blues brothers but the original italian job was pretty cool also!

Agree. The Bad Boys II chase scene certainly was violent but I'm not sure we can compare the amount of destruction to the quality of the chase.

Double-clutching on that Mustang was for theatrical effect only. Unnecessary

I recall a lot of old trucks required double-clutching because the transmissions didn't have synchros. So did a lot of the British Leyland cars. No synchros. Well into -- When they stopped making them. Triumphs, I think. What was the 'wedge' thing? A TR7, I think. Only about 30 years behind the times. Not bad for them. Almost bought a TR5. Then I drove it. Ran, didn't walk, away.

Ford bought some of the brands and brought them back from the dead. For a little while. Ford didn't understand what British cars popular. Neither did anybody else.

I used to try double-clutching my old Farmall when I was a kid. It didn't work. No way. But.... I was a kid, dumb as a box of rocks.