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If you could own just one special vehicle what would it look like?

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Elektrishun

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I was out this morning and spotted "the one". I asked if I could take a photo and got the thumb's up (pretty sure it was a thumb). I'm not a serious car guy but I can appreciate a sweet ride when I see it. Generally, I am more concerned about utility over style and performance. But even my wife and kids know that if I were to buy a Sunday driving vehicle it would look like this '51 Ford.

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I'd like to build something along these lines, not as extreme with the chop or lowering, with a turbo something, like 235 I6 to be different

I was about half way through building a 27 t 12/15 years ago, but lost motivation, and even then I wanted a model A, ended up selling it, with some regrets

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I've always like the sleeper sedan sort of style.
As a kid I wanted a Datsun 510 BRE racing car like I had in my AFX slot car setup.
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Then I had an aircooled VW phase and owned a few Dubs. '65 Ghia, 72 Super Beetle, 72 Type 2.
Always wanted something like this. Fellow down the street from me has a really nice 60's Beetle with a built 2007cc engine. I stop and look every time he drives by. Sounds amazing.
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Love to have one but the prices are just insane.
 
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David said:
Then I had an aircooled VW phase and owned a few Dubs. '65 Ghia, 72 Super Beetle, 72 Type 2.
Always wanted something like this. Fellow down the street from me has a really nice 60's Beetle with a built 2007cc engine. I stop and look every time he drives by. Sounds amazing.
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I had a '69 Ghia when I was in college. I worked part time at a repair shop where one of the mechanics was a VW specialist. Somehow on a shoestring budget I managed to buy the parts for 2000cc rebuild & wangled some kind of carpentry labor exchange. Then I met a guy at school who was autobody painter. I did the prep & he did the maroon metallic (from stock VW orange). Looked a lot like this. It was fun & unique but not recommended for a starving student or Calgary winters. I was the weird dude scraping ice off the INSIDE of his windshield LOL. It had a gas(oline) heater but the locomotive huff & puff flames made me nervous. I really wanted a Datsun 510 for some strange reason too, but working on cars was just not in the cards. My home garage is fully occupied, so I guess I need to find a second one..

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Mine would be a copy of the 1970 Boss Mustang in bright Orange and Black that I used to own till my brother rolled it.

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My other choice would be the Benz - the first Petrol motorized vehicle in the world. Invented by Karl Benz in 1886 in Mannheim - the town where my family came from. If I could afford it, I might even put a big white rope around it with a squawk box.... LOL! There is actually one a few km away, but I'd have to sell my wife and kids to afford it.

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Dan Dubeau said:
Reflecting on this since posting earlier, one of my "dream" cars as a teen was a Subaru 2.5rs coupe. I was always a big WRC fan back then, and a big Colin McRea fan too. Probably not too many good specimens left, but when they came out with that car in '98, I've kind of always wanted one since.

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Oh yes, I still want a WRX. I had a Legacy that was both a good and awful car. Good because it was a blast to drive especially in the snow but bad because it seemed like a bit of a lemon. The two front seats had different upholstery from the dealer and it had a habit of warping the right side exhaust manifold. Turned out that one of the cylinders was running lean because of an intermittent wiring fault.
 
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