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Re: So what are your other bucket-list cars?
« Reply #25 on: November 21, 2017, 14:03:32 »
Of all of the cars at the last ACD homecoming, this was the most notable. The Mormon Meteor, a ~1936 Duesenberg world land speed record holder. They literally left it in a open parking lot area in the middle of the city for anyone to walk up to with nobody keeping an eye on it. My understanding is the value is well over $10mm. Got to watch the owner drive it two years earlier and then talk to him personally.
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Re: So what are your other bucket-list cars?
« Reply #26 on: August 09, 2018, 12:19:26 »
Sorry for reviving an old thread. Just found this as I am catching up with all the interesting posts as a newbie.
I am sort of torn between two cars. Born in the fifties and being German, I should say the 300SL, but my heart also has a large spot reserved for the last of the grant front engine 12-cyl Ferraris.


There is another interesting question: The car that you wish you had never let go. Should we start another thread?
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Re: So what are your other bucket-list cars?
« Reply #27 on: August 09, 2018, 12:55:35 »
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There is another interesting question: The car that you wish you had never let go. Should we start another thread?

What a painful question. I'm still kicking myself for having sold my beloved BMW 2002 inka orange whith Cromodora alloy wheels. That car took me everywhere when I was a student in France and worked and looked wonderful. It looked just like the one that was built a few years ago with all original new parts by the factory.

I sold it at a time when I thought I should not get attached to material things. How foolish!!!!!!




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Re: So what are your other bucket-list cars
« Reply #28 on: August 09, 2018, 15:13:37 »
I started my Bucket List in my early 40s items on this list were both stuff I like to do and some cars I like to drive and perhaps own. Over the years 3 cars ended up on the list. The first one was a Pagoda. I drove a new one in the early 60s in Montreal, it must have been a 230SL I cannot remember. I was finally fortunate enough to find one in 2013. The second one I added to the list was a BMW, i purchased a slightly used one in 1987 it was the 535is I drove this car till 1996 when I gave the car to my daughter and she sold the car in 2016 to a young BMW Mechanic.

In 2012 I was in Berlin and am Kurfürsten Damm near the Brandenburg Gate there is a Mercedes Store it only had room for one car and that car was a 2011 SL 63 AMG in this store full of Mercedes souvenirs such as all Kinds of model cars, baseball caps, t-shirts etc. Needless to say I purchased a model of the SL added it to my Bucket List as an item sometime in the future. On return to Canada I left the model car on the desk of my favorite Mercedes Salesman and told him “if you ever get a low mileage one in as a trade, call me” well in the early part of last May he called and said “Dieter come in as soon as you can, i like you to see something”

I did go in and low and behold there was the car on my Bucket List, one owner, lady driver, 34,000 km on the odometer. Needless to say I traded my daily driver for this car. I know this car is a bit thirsty, however, at my age I don’t worry about this anymore :)

My Pagoda now has a Big Brother and yes I love to drive both, I consider myself very fortunate to own two fine engineered cars.

There are other items on the list and slowly they are being crossed off :)

PS. One drawback there is not much room for the wife’s wheelchair, then the Pagoda is ready to step in, i only remove the spare wheel temporally and there is ample room for My wife’s wheelchair when I need to take her some place.
DD 2011 SL 63 AMG and my 69 Pagoda 280 SL

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Re: So what are your other bucket-list cars?
« Reply #29 on: August 09, 2018, 15:14:49 »
Hi all,
This one is not realistic for me, so I will say that on my bucket list is a car that makes me feel like this one, a Lamborghini Islero. '
Mark
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Re: So what are your other bucket-list cars?
« Reply #30 on: August 09, 2018, 21:21:24 »
BMW 3.0 CSL

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Re: So what are your other bucket-list cars?
« Reply #31 on: August 09, 2018, 21:44:37 »
So To pay for our wedding we restored and sold this.  It was not a real Ferrari but one of the approx 75 made by McBurnie (who made the 2 used on TV show Miami Vice) before he lost in court to Ferrari.  The car was made for a, never to be, McBurnie dealer in Minnesota so had all the bells and whistles but also had a 1985 or 86 corvette engine (1979 chassis) and was WAY TOO MUCH TORQUE/HP for that light of a car made it almost unstreetable had to feather the gas or would just smoke the tires and slide sideways.  At the time seemed like the thing to do but it was just so showstopping and always gathered a crowd everywhere we went. By the way this car was also the reason we will never have wire wheels again. We spend 4 hours and 2 boxes of Q-tips to clean those up one Saturday, and never again.
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Re: So what are your other bucket-list cars?
« Reply #32 on: August 10, 2018, 14:10:57 »
Volvo 1800 ES

This might also fall under the heading "The car you wish you had never let go" for the simple reason that an ES just like the one pictured was my first new car,  the 10th from the last one produced, in which I proposed to Lucy.  We called her the "Yellow Submarine."  Every once in a while I wake up from a dream that I'm going into the garage and find it parked next to the Pagoda...
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Re: So what are your other bucket-list cars?
« Reply #33 on: August 10, 2018, 15:31:43 »
I think we all have fond memories of our first ever car and wish we would have never let it go. Here is mine. DOHC motor, 4 disc brakes and that in 1961..
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Re: So what are your other bucket-list cars?
« Reply #34 on: August 10, 2018, 16:34:03 »
I think we all have fond memories of our first ever car and wish we would have never let it go.
I'll disagree with you on that one because some of us didn't let them go.
I've had this 50 year old Camaro for 41 years. It is my first car (as many of you know already and wish I would stop talking about it).  ;D
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Re: So what are your other bucket-list cars?
« Reply #35 on: August 10, 2018, 18:41:46 »
My parents had a Fiat like that, when they first moved together here to Virginia.
Theirs was white with black interior.
Sold it quickly(mom made new soft tops with her sewing machine twice) and got a new Buick Skylark convertible(sky blue with white interior) as they needed a hauler to bring building supplies from the store to build their new house.
Ahh the memories of beautiful cars.  Those days, you took one look and could know who made it, what model it was, nowadays.....Er, Umm, I dont know, they all look the same....

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Re: So what are your other bucket-list cars?
« Reply #36 on: August 10, 2018, 19:39:15 »
My first new car was a Volvo also. A 122s (Amazon), I bought it while in the Navy in Rhode Island in 1965.  My girl friend at the time named it “New Blue” as it replaced a blue 1954 Ford. The picture below was taken before the temporary license plates were removed. 

When I first went to Italy for work in 1967 I took “New Blue” with me. Two years later I drove her to Sindelfingen where I picked up my present 280 SL.  I drove her across the street from the Mercedes factory and shipped her back to Alabama. Third crossing!

My brother took her over for a few years before she escaped the family.  I spend a lot of effort trying to buy her back with no success. ☹️


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Re: So what are your other bucket-list cars?
« Reply #37 on: December 02, 2018, 16:32:37 »
Quote from: neelyrc
.../... a Volvo also. A 122s (Amazon).../...I spend a lot of effort trying to buy her back.../...
Well Ralph, I guess you want just that particular car.
Otherwise we do have some 122 Amazons over here that you may choose from  ;)  Just come and visit
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Re: So what are your other bucket-list cars?
« Reply #38 on: December 02, 2018, 22:24:16 »
Toyota 2000GT, Red preferred but any colour will do.

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Re: So what are your other bucket-list cars?
« Reply #39 on: December 03, 2018, 00:06:14 »
1958 Chrysler Imperial with 392 Hemi.  22 ft of fins and fun
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Re: So what are your other bucket-list cars?
« Reply #40 on: December 03, 2018, 07:43:58 »
Volvo 1800 ES

Mike,

there's two of those for sale in Netherlands for €24000... not the right colour though...


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