Thread: "Top Ten" lists

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For your viewing pleasure,

List your top ten cars (trucks, trains, boats, moose...whatever) if you had unlimited resources and time.

Or list one with its list of modifications.

Originally posted by madgrinder
For your viewing pleasure,

List your top ten cars (trucks, trains, boats, moose...whatever) if you had unlimited resources and time.

Or list one with its list of modifications.

1) 1939 Nash Ambassador 8 cabrolet bone stock perfect restoration
2) 1939 Nash 3928 Ambassador 6 W/ blown 350 roller and 6 speed manual
3) 1960 Chevrolet Apache 10. Have a ram air motor stuffed in, and ram air hooked up to oval hood pods.
4) 1960 Chevrolet Spartan 90. Detroit Diesel road tractor with a sleeper cab, 5 speed manual OD, 5 speed aux OD, 2 speed rear.
5) 1965 AMC Marlin. You all talked me out of the blown 454 roller, so it would be a BIG AMC motor of some sort.
6) Tucker Torpedo. Bone stock perfect restoration.
7) A teak wood boat of some sort, only made to be FAST.
8) Not sure of the original manufacturer, but the model is EMD F9. A great looking streamlined diesel locomotive.
9) 1974 Porsche 914/6. Not a retrofit conversion, but a real, stock from the factory original. Or better yet, a 916.
10) A Catepillar D6 dozer, along with a Heiliner, Unit crane, Adams road grader, Wooldredge hauler, and a Euclid. Just like the Doepke models.

Neat article. My dad bought a coulple of Bachman Highballer N gauge train sets quite a while back. Must have been when they were first introduced, because they are out of production now, and seem to have been for a while. The locomotives in the sets were EMD F9s. Anyway, they inspired me to build a full N layout. I got the box done and part of the track before it got to be too much of a chore to set it up and work on it. When the garage gets finished the layout will have a special place in it, so I will be able to finish it. Trains have always interested me, but the streamlined ones just hold a special place.

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Originally posted by madgrinder
For your viewing pleasure,

List your top ten cars (trucks, trains, boats, moose...whatever) if you had unlimited resources and time.

Or list one with its list of modifications.
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1) Model A roadster on Duece rails with a hot flattie and lincoln gears.

2) 39 Ford/Zephyr 5-window phantom, EFI and overdrive for long journeys.

3) '67 Jaguar E-type roadster, BRG with saddle top and interior.

4) '55 f100 with the "Kustom" list.

5) '56 Dodge Royal Lancer, Red Ram, torqueflite, tri-tone Salmon/ Black/ Silver with red interior.

6) '67 Dart GT, street hemi with huge EFI, four speed, original faded green nasty paint (to sneak up on ricers).

7) '59 Impala, 348, 4 speed, red-on-red-on-red with slant-back antennas.

8) Sunbeam Tiger "clone", but with a nasty 351 instead of the 260.

9) Airstream 26' MOTOR HOME, polished aluminum with airbags for the right "cruising" stance.

10) Beck's Porsche 356 spyder replica. I know, I know...I don't like "fake" cars, but this one is hammered aluminum over a tube frame just like the original.

Mad, your #10 confuses me. I built a Beck Spyder, S/N 006, the second car he sold to a real customer. If you mean the car pictured below, their model number is actually 550, not 356. The 356 was available in a model called the Speedster. Very different body styles, other than both are roadsters.

All of Beck's cars were glass, to my knowledge he never did an aluminum one. Yes, the originals were aluminum. Chuck sold his tooling and the rights to the Beck Spyder name a couple years ago to come fellas in Texas. Are you saying they are doing an aluminum body now?

The one I got to ride in was aluminum-over-tube with a 2.0 litre engine and Weber IDA's.

Mebbe it was a one-off or a trial run for aluminum bodies???

It was bright silver (like your pic) with a black interior.

a list of my top 10, this may get strange:
1970 GTO judge
Caddilac sixteen (1000HP on pump gas! drool)
Caddilac hurse with a 502
1980s buick wildcat concept
1964 mustang Convertable
1980-something AMC Eagle sundancer(Cool!)
1970 AMX
1930s Chevrolet pickup
F-16/Tomcat (but where to park it?)
AMC Rebel machine. Anyone who has seen one of these knows why!