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Today I saw a very nice looking MG-CGT coupe in a metallic biege paint on Route l106 in Loudon NH which leads to the NH Motor Speedway. When you see the "C" from head-on, there's no mistaking it as there is a prominent bulge in the hood to clear the long 3-liter six (borrowed from the Healey 3000 IIRC)>
The car I saw sported an oversized chrome roof rack.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Just out of curiosity, did Benz ever offer a W126 in a color that would be considered garish by today's standards? Every one I see always seems tasteful.
Some of the early Euro cars could be in questionable taste - the car debuted in 1979 there, and not much else needs to be said about that decade :shades:
Here's a W126 color chart
A friend who has an MGA and a Magnette bought an MGC a few years ago to restore. He could never get motivated to do it, though... Ended up selling it, the same way he bought it.. and for about the same amount..
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right now it'll pull more money than an MGB, so it has its revenge at last. :P
So you're saying that substituting a looong 3-liter hunk of heavy cast iron for a little four didn't screw up the whole balance of what was supposed to be a superb little sports car? :confuse:
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I mean, the Sunbeam Alpine and AC Ace didn't seem to mind having large hunks of V-8 metal inserted in them. True, you steering with the gas pedal mostly, but that's part of the appeal.
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Have you heard of a TR5?
Around 150hp in stock form IIRC, Plenty of grunt for a sub-2000lb car, quite a bit more than the carbeurated US version (TR-250=111 hp).
I'd rather have one than an MGC.
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Now THAT's a car!
What? No headlights almost touching the corners of the windshield? LOL
Well if you put $1.2 mil and $35-plus mil cars in the same price range maybe. :confuse:
Does that have an Olds 307 under the hood?
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I second that emotion. Cadillac used that body style for something like 15 years (1977-1992(?)) and I liked it as much at the end of its run as I did at the beginning.
2009 BMW 335i, 2003 Corvette cnv. (RIP 2001 Jaguar XK8 cnv and 1985 MB 380SE [the best of the lot])
I wonder, are you the longest term owner on this forum? I was 12 in 1989!
I like the older front ends better like Lemko's. In 90 it got the composite headlights and wrap around bumpers, that take away from the classic look IMO. Of course, you could get the Chevy 350 which makes up for it a little.
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I always liked on Caddys, starting in '84 I think, when the side molding was entirely the same color as the car, no chrome beading, which gave you the nick protection but gave the clean look of no side molding.
That one is a most....er...unpleasant....color, but the price is...well...negotiable.
I wouldn't care if the car got 4 mpg. This is the car that god would drive.
Recent oddballls - Amazon again, another 60s Land Rover, nice W126 380SE in light grey with 1986+ wheels.
You might be thinking of me. Particularly in silver, I think they look like they came right off the 'Buck Rogers' TV show! Too many fake scoops IMHO and I think the split window is dumb. But what do I know.
RE: 63 Lincoln---that's a car worth saving if it's a convertible. They were troublesome cars, and the restoration wouldn't be easy, but the value of that model is only going to go up and up. It's one of those "iconic" cars you see on t-shirts and in bad automotive art shows.
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I've always thought that there's nothing worse than an old, beat-up luxury car. 'How far they fall', it seems. Much worse than an old, beat-up econobox.
Added to that, today's luxury cars, being mass-produced, robot-built, and grotesquely complex, don't stand a chance of survival IMO, except for the ones that are never allowed to deteriorate----the low mileage "survivors" kept in meticulous storage and used infrequently.
Somewhere around $80K--$100K market value seems to be the cut-off point for dragging old cars in horrible condition out of the weeds. I still see horrendously deteriorated "woodies" being restored, and of course, limited production foreign exotics, but for most old cars, they have to be pretty solid before anyone will take them on anymore.
I remember back in the early 1990's, there was a '68 Sedan DeVille sitting, for sale outside of a local bar/pool hall. I went in to inquire about it. It belonged to a guy who worked there, and he only wanted $500 for it. He let me drive it around the parking lot, but I couldn't take it on the road because it had no tags on it.
Gotta confess, I was oddly drawn to it. It sounded nice, and seemed to run well, and from what little you could tell from parking lot speeds, seemed to drive nice. But, it was a dark primer gray, had some dents here and there, and a pretty trashy interior. I guess to me it was cool in sort of a "reverse chic" sort of way, although it also looked like something a serial killer might drive in a Lifetime Original Movie! :surprise:
It only stalled out twice on the way home, but on the plus side, it started right back up! Drove it to work today, and it stalled once, but again, started right up. Guess the real test will be when I walk out the door this evening!
Of course the most of the bad guys drove black Mercs including a fintail that was blown up, although a couple of them drove a VW 411. The 'good guy', Barry Newman, a kind of anti James Bond, rented an orange 2002 and ended up driving a 911 Targa by the end of the movie.
Oh, and here's a pic I took of it at work, just for the heck of it. Uplanderguy will appreciate what's parked next to it!
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