My Xb is perfect for all the many little errands I run around town, and is fun on two-lane back-roads, but it’s a miserable freeway car for longer trips. It’s harsh-riding, and the noise really gets to me, especially on rough older pavement. Driving back from the Portland airport the other night after returning from Mexico, I put in the earplugs I used on the airplane, and had a very powerful desire to be behind the soothing wheel of my former W124 300E mistress, whose story I will tell soon. So what would you like to find in the driveway, adorned with a red ribbon?
I came across this mint-condition 1995 Acura Legend on ebay. Perfect color combination and the last model year for the Legend. It would look great next to my 2010 TSX. Merry Christmas!
I’m currently prepping a pair of replacement doors for a 1966 Chrysler I am restoring. Santa can bring me the replacement weatherstripping, window slides, gaskets, etc. that I’ll need to put them back together. 🙂
OTOH, if a Christmas present is supposed to be something you wouldn’t normally buy for yourself, I would take this ’62 Imperial convertible.
http://www.legendaryfind.com/cars/pin/32552/
A Duesenburg
Go big or go home!
Nothing says perfection like a Duesenberg. How can anyone even dream about such elegance, dignity, grace, and style and imagine it being real? There is no equal.
Early 1930s Duesenberg Model J sedan:
If there really IS a Santa out there, I have two wishes:
CTS-V Sport Wagon and Camaro ZL1.
Either one will do just fine.
I’ll have one of these, please. The color on this one is quite nice too.
My automotive wish is that every cell phone would fall out of the hands of people who are driving and that those dweebs would start paying attention to what is going on around them.
Santa, make mine a Citroen SM in royal blue, a Merc 450 SEL 6.9 in maroon and a nicely tuned-up Mini Clubman Estate in black.
Do I sound greedy?
oh, wait, I must admit I’m currently very much intrigued by this chap:
http://www.ruylclassics.nl/alfa13_eng.htm
so, please, Santa, will ya?!
I’m late to this party , but my wish is quite simple.
Send me back to December 1973 , when i spotted the 61 Imperial Lebaron sitting on the used car lot of the local Ford dealership..
Kind of a greenisn color, loaded with options, including stainless steel roof inserts, rust free exterior, with a beautiful original interior
Being 17 years old at the time ,and needing my Dads signature to buy , suffice it to say it didn’t happen, even though the asking price of $400 or so I’m sure could have been negotiated .
Oh by the way, did I happen to mention this Lebaron was was 1 of a 1026 made in 61?
I may have surprised some other readers by tossing off my choice of a 2005-2009 Mustang. I’ll have to explain, I think, why my choice wasn’t some fin car. You may remember that I owned that red ’58 Belvedere convertible with the red and black interior for 32 years. I also owned at various times (in no particular order, just as I remember them):
– 1957 Belvedere 4-door sedan, black and white. 56 Plymouth 277 engine that I installed in the maintenance shop at work. Sold after a few months.
– 1957 Belvedere 2-door ht, 318 TF, ps, gold and white. Short-term.
– 1958 Belvedere 2-door ht, 318 TF, ps, black fake vinyl top, turquoise paneled paint. I had this about a year.
– 1958 Belvedere 2-door ht, 318 PF, ps, coral pink on brown/tan. Parts car. Power steering setup went into my convertible. After I sold it, it ended up being restored into a Christine, a successful show car.
– 1957 Savoy 4-door ht, very rare body style, TF, ps, pb. Parts car. Weird engine, may have been a Dodge 315. Wingtip bumpers, which I sold a couple of years ago for $1000.
– 1958 Belvedere 4-door sedan, 318 TF, given to me. Bled the brakes, replaced a freeze plug, sold in about a month.
– 1958 Belvedere 4-door sedan, 318 TF, painted to look like a Christine, blue interior. Short-term.
– 1957 New Yorker 4-door ht, turquoise and white in/out. Bought 1968 or so, owned for 7 or 8 years. It had lots of miles on it but was a great car for me.
– 1958 Imperial Southampton 4-door ht, white on tan. Owned for a couple of years, another good car.
– 1957 DeSoto wagon, pale moss green. Bought really cheap, cleaned a wheelbarrow load of detritus out of it, washed and detailed it, resold for a small profit.
– 1957 DeSoto Firedome 4-door sedan, coral and gray. Bought with engine apart in trunk/backseat, stored for a few months, sold, broke even.
– 1961 Belvedere convertible, 318, tf, ps. White on blue. Nice driver, had to clean lots of tobacco gunk out of the interior. Sold after a couple of months, small profit. Never had the top down.
– 1960 New Yorker 2-door ht, reddish “Toreador Red” on silver/black. The guy I bought it from had rescued it from outside storage with standing water in the interior and trunk, but no rustout, just ruined carpets. This was another car that I got quite a bit of use out of and thoroughly enjoyed. Sold to LeRoi Tex Smith.
So you can see why I don’t think I want another fin car. If I was to be gifted with an old Chrysler product, another 300L would do quite nicely.
Hm, I’m a family man, so it has to be a family car, right? So, we’ll go with a 1967 Mustang GT with the high output 289 and custom high-flow exhaust and custom high performance four-wheel disc brakes (Japan has too many hills and terrible summers to mess around with downhill brake fade), perhaps in a nice Acapulco Blue. Four seats, it has four seats, and is thus a perfect means of conveyance for my family. Oh, and it would be nice for it to be invisible to speed cameras and the fuzz’s radar/laser thingies. I could do without the $1000 in fines and drivers’ safety classes that are included in speeding tickets.
If I am forced to be more practical, a second generation Mazda 5 would be absolute perfection for us, with the power sliding doors and the 2.3L engine (or the 2L diesel, I’m not picky) in any color besides silver or white. The Mustang could be our backup vehicle.
If Santa was really handing out cars this Christmas (I’ve been good, I promise!) I’d like one of these, please. With a pretty bow on it too. Now this is a family car!