Your Chimera?

"glemon" (glemon) 12/01/2018 at 02:39 • Filed to: None

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That dream that won’t go away, but will probably never be achieved. For me it is an e type. Had a few very close calls where I probably could have made a purchase happen, but for various reasons didn’t pull the trigger.

I am in a perpetual state of lust for one of these, but with projects going for $40k these days.... Passed on a 10k project about 5 years ago. Unless they get considerably cheaper or I get richer it just doesn’t look like it will happen, my disposable income has been losing a race with prices for the last 40 years.

I am a tail end Boomer, these are Boomer lust cars mostly. Maybe the older guys will start aging out and a small glut of these cars on the market will drive prices down, likely wishful thinking.

Do younger guys look at early nineties RX7s and Supras or ??? In  the same way?

Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!! > glemon 12/01/2018 at 03:17

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I’m 42, and for me it’s the 964 series 911s as the ultimate lust  object. They were out from my middle school to high school years and what I drooled on in the dealer in town. I’d also love an older or newer one and I own a 996, but nothing makes my head turn like a 964. 

promoted by the color red > glemon 12/01/2018 at 03:30

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993 turbo in Arena Red. I still remember flipping through Car and Driver as a child in the ‘90s and being spellbound by the Porsche ads.

Still is and forever will be the ultimate Porsche in my eyes. I t’s less-and-less likely with each passing day , though it will be a day-one purchase if I win the lottery.

pip bip - choose Corrour > glemon 12/01/2018 at 05:34

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McLaren F1

for Michigan > glemon 12/01/2018 at 06:38

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I’m a 90s Millennial, but I didn’t watch Fast and Furious growing up and was never into Imports as a kid, so no Supras , Skylines, or RX-7's here. Rather my unobtainable childhood dream car is the MkI Ford GT. It was never attainable in the first place and it just keeps getting further out of reach.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > glemon 12/01/2018 at 07:14

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First off, I’m 32 and I’m weird.

Mine was originally a classic FIAT 500, but prices on them in good shape are getting quite high (not E-type high, but I am not a man of huge means...). The FIAT 126 has since taken it’s place as it’s almost exactly a FIAT 500 underneath with new bodywork, so same quirks and driving experience. The plus is that the 126p was built in Poland until the year 2000(!) so there are a lot still out there and parts are plentiful and cheap. I can import a MINT one all the way to Canada for probably $8k CAD including shipping, etc, etc. I already have the money saved up and put aside, but my life situation (storage space for the car, still living at home without my own place [sad, I know] , and no permanent full-time job yet) conspire together to mean I have nowhere to put it right now...

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > glemon 12/01/2018 at 08:22

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Always liked these when I was a kid in the 80s and there was a post on here daring someone to buy one which got the idea rolling. I’m guessing it’s right at the end of the time you can find a reasonably nice one for cheap, Just like e-types were cheap at one time. So we looked at a couple and this one adopted us.

Wife likes it too - VW was dead yesterday so she took the JAAAAG

WilliamsSW > glemon 12/01/2018 at 09:15

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I’m closer to your age, so it’s the 64- 67 GTO. Friend had a 65 in HS, and my first rise in that car was like an epiphany. Spent those years owning base model GM A bodies because $$, and now GTOS from that era are just stupid money. Maybe they’ll drop in 10 years or so, who knows?

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > glemon 12/01/2018 at 09:42

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At 24 I don’t know how my career path will go and what would be considered unobtainable ever for me, but I have a feeling a bone stock  1980-1982 FJ40 or FJ45 with factory A/C will allude me forever. 

itschrome > glemon 12/01/2018 at 09:52

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Black on black 2003 CAdillac STS.

glemon > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 12/01/2018 at 10:42

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Yeah, I always wanted a late 60s/early 70s Alfa GTV too in addition to the Jag,  they used to be reasonably affordable (compared to the jags anyway) but now are not, so have re evaluated and set my sights on a GTV6, but they are going up now too. Have never owned an Italian car. Need to fix that.

Stopcallingmesir > glemon 12/01/2018 at 23:12

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Ha! Came to say GTV, except I did have a 72 from 1995 till around 2001. Totally rusted out, rough inside and out. Never let me down ( shredded flywheel teeth and starter? Push start..) Daily driver np. Bought for 1200, sold it on hemmings 450. Sad. The spica was flawless. Had an 81 GTV6 from around 89 to 91. Great car buy if you can find. Also never let me down, but college me could not be a proper caretaker so I sold and bought a CRXsi. Also had a Milano which was brilliant ( its a GTV6 sedan) and if you can find one they are fun as hell and dirt cheap! Highly recommend and more reliable than the haters say. 

glemon > Stopcallingmesir 12/02/2018 at 00:25

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I daily drove Triumphs and MGs for years when I was young, am familiar with the reputation vs. reality, best to just drive until things break and keep fixing things until things stop breaking, but good to know about the reliability-there is a decent GTV6 that sits in the same spot in an apartment complex parking lot near me.  Have left a note and a number about "hey if you ever want to sell" but no response.