If you had a time machine and money?

I'm not sure this is really an appropriate question for a hot rod site or not, so delete it if need be.

If you could go back in time and had a REASONABLE amount of money to spend at a dealership. What would you buy? Not for investment purpose, but just because you'd have loved to own that particular car. Examples: a dual quad 62 belair, or a max wedge dodge, or a Buick woody wagon or..... etc. When I say REASONABLE - I mean not a sky is the limit type deal to go back and buy a Duesenberg or Silver Ghost Rolls Royce.... those weren't for a typical person.

 

I would just make my grandpa order his Ford truck he bought new with 4x4 instead of 2x4. I know...real exciting.

 

1968 HEMI Roadrunner

 

I'd go back and buy Tommy Ivo's bucket when he put it up for sale and come back happy.

 

I would take a sports almanac and have everything I wanted.

 

If I had a time machine, I wouldn't need money

 

A dozen B400's. That way I could have 1 stocker and 11 hot rods of every color and style!

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all six of Shelby's Daytona coupes when he had them up for sale after they were no longer competitive.

 

There was an old "Twilight Zone" episode about this back in the 60s-70s. The guy went back in time and bought a new black or washington blue deuce roadster. Don't remember if he got it back to his time.

 

67 427 vette hardtop

 

A new 91 inch Miller front drive and a couple of spare engines.

Tool Roomer

 

I'd go back to 31 and pick up a brand new coupe.

 

i would go back in time and stay there , to me it was much better back then as it is now


Jen

 

a tri-5 NOMAD

 

Back then you had to actually had to make your own parts. No 1-800-sendparts. No HAMB to bitch about how you ordered parts at 5 p.m. Monday and they didn't arrive by 8 a.m. Tuesday morning. No Harbor Freight to buy Chinese crap. The one advantage I can see is that no matter what you did it would be "period correct".

 

Thunderbolt

 

duece coupe.. or maybe 49 cadillac sedanette!

 

That's the winning answer. I should have said that!

 

Back to 1974 and buy the 63 split window for 1200 bucks that no bank would lend me... "1200 hundred dollars for an eleven year old car is too much money and not a wise investment" said the wise old bank manager...

 

Or roads lmao

Good ol back to the future reference!!!

 

Mark II

As a matter of fact, this one will do:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Linc...5710111?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item5aef87c91f

 

In the forties and early fifties you could buy a Silver Ghost Rolls Royce or Duesenberg for a couple of hundred bucks. I heard of one guy who had a chance to buy a Silver Ghost touring in 1935 for $50 bucks. It needed a clutch job. He couldn't raise the 50 and it ended up scrapped.

I keep thinking of some of the used cars I turned down. 1949 Jaguar Mark V convertible for $250. Full fendered 32 Ford coupe with 283 and Corvair front suspension $600. Perfect original 1940 Willys coupe $500. 30s Rolls Royce 20/25 sedan, Model T touring, Model T center door sedan, package deal $3500. 28 Willys Knight sedan with moss green mohair interior, $350. These were all between 1968 and 1975.

 

Biff, is that you?

 

1963 z11 impala

 

I'd go shopping at Holman-Moody used car lot around 1966-67

 

I've has this Kirk F. White Newsletter since new, sure wish I'd called on that Testa Rosa, I had the $7,400 back in September 1971.

 

Or maybe just go parts shopping, like a box car loaded with equal parts, ardun heads, SOHC motors, and an assortment of 331 Caddy's, 324 Olds, 331-354 & 392 Hemi's, oh yeah, a nice collection of banger speed parts too !
yeah, not a bad idea !

 

my car brand new. or a 36 ford 5 window coupe

 

40-41 ford pickup for a shop truck and a34 ford coupe for my Saturday night car. Of course I would need a Sunday go to meeting car too, I'm thinking a 57 Blair would be good

 

Chevelle Z-16.

Bob