Mar 25, 2005 5:34:52 PM
- Futch
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Re: You've talked me out of it
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69bossnine said:Quote:
69bossnine, you have over 140 cars!!! Care to describe?
My father and I collect american cars, with a focus on low-mileage unrestored examples. 75% of our collection is unrestored. A car with 30,000 original miles would be high-mile in our collection. Many are "in the wrapper", like a '64 Galaxie 500XL 390-4V 4-speed with only 14 miles on it, or a 1968 Torino GT with 8 miles, or a 1963 Chevy Impala SS 409 with 102 miles. And a large number of them are just really low-mile such as a 4,900 mile 1970 Mustang Mach 1, or a 11,000 mile 1967 Buick Riviera, or a 3,800 mile 1968 Lincoln Continental Mark III, or a 14,000 mile 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Pretty much all wonderful, good old American iron!! A 1911 White Touring is the oldest, and we've got alot of speculative newer cars hanging out, like my 506 h.p. '97 Saleen S351 Speedster, and 1995 and 1993 Cobra R models, 1996 Impala SS, etc...
I've got THREE, count 'em, THREE "imports" LOL!!! (not counting my 997 ) a fully optioned-out 17,000 mile 1993 Dodge Stealth Twin Turbo (really a Mitsubishi), a 1990 Chrysler/Maserati TC (A lousy car, but it's only got 6,000 miles, one of 500 Maser-powered built, #498 to be exact. The last three built were the only triple black cars built, our car #498 was built for Henry Carlini, who was the head of Chrysler's Performance group at the time, #499 still belongs to Lee Iacocca, and #500 resides in the Chrysler museum), and a 1979 Porsche 928 5-speed with 6,600 miles.
My favorite is the basis for my username, my 28,000 original mile Raven Black 1969 Mustang Boss 429. Thank God I bought it back in 1997 when the prices were relatively low, as they've gone through the roof lately, with another black '69 like mine selling at auction for $256K three months ago!! American muscle car values are absolutely silly right now.
You're the man, respect!!!