Dream(y) Garage - off topic

[JamesL]

A wealthy recluse has spotted your interest in old cars and on her death leaves you $1m (US) on four conditions:
1) that you buy more cars
2) that you buy ONE top condition car from each of the decades up to 2000 (50s - 90s)
3) that you spend none of it restoration
4) you keep you Pagoda

So, you have to buy 5 cars but there's a limit on funds. Do you blow it all on a Gullwing and an F40 and put up with a VW Golf...? Do you choose collectability? investment value? fun to drive? race history? rarity? Any cash left over goes to charity....

Over to you. I am going to think some more....

[rob walker]

50's has to be a Mercedes Gullwing $450K (optimistic?)
60's Aston Martin DB5 vantage $180K (in silver birch)
70's AC Cobra $100K
80's Lancia Stratos $100K
90's Porsche 993 TT $60K
2008 BMW 355i touring $40K 

$70K left over for group insurance??

[Andres G]

I guess we all have this same type of dreams, only last time we ran this scenario with my friends we used a 500K budget instead. I've added nice pictures of each just to give the post some more texture. Here's my list:

50's - Citroen DS


60's - Jaguar E-Type


70's - Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTV


80's - E28 BMW M5


90's - Honda NSX


00's - Aston Martin DB9

Do you blow it all on a Gullwing and an F40 and put up with a VW Golf...? Do you choose collectability? investment value? fun to drive? race history? rarity? Any cash left over goes to charity....

My selection criteria will probably differ from most here. I normally tend to fantasize about cars that I "could have bought" with my current level of income if I'd been my age and had my current job back in the day (except for the E-Type I must admit)... still very cool cars in my opinion. As for the more modern cars, I guess it really doesn't hurt to dream a bit, especially today when the difference between a really nice car and a DB9 is so big! Still, I'd probaly be giving a lot of that money away to charity as my selection is pretty modest.

I always go for cars that are fun to drive and that make people wonder what was going on in the mind of the designer when working on the car. Love cars that stand out for being ahead of their time, innovative or just insanely beautiful.

Andres G

[MichaelB.]

50's Porsche 550 Spyder $500K
60's My 230SL (already own)
70's Plymouth Superbird Hemi $175K
80's RUF Yellow Bird 911 $100K
90's Ferrari F355 Berlinetta $70K
2004 Porsche GT3 $80K (already own)

Five cars bought - $75K to St Jude children's hospital.

[rob walker]

James, so where is yours?

[JamesL]

Still thinking

I have typed a list about 5 times and each time give up as it's too difficult.

However....

50s - 300SL Roadster
60s - 911S (swb)
70s - Citroen SM
80s - Audi Quattro (again, swb)
90s - Bentley Arnage

ask me again tomorrow and I'll have a different list

edit....
50s - Citroen DS
60s - Mini Cooper
70s - Merc 280SE Convertible 3.5
80s - 911 (964)
90s - Lotus Elise
 

[dseretakis]

50's-gullwing
60's-pagoda
70's-300SEL 6.3
80's-G-wagen
90's-BMW M3
Way under Budget.

[franjo_66]

50's - 300SL
60's - 1969 Chevelle SS
70's - 450SEL 6.9
80's - M5
90's - 911 Turbo