Car lust (Page 1 of 2)

This one.  For my daily driver.

Iso Griffo.

But, the wife prefers this:

or this:

We're weird.

Was drooling for the entire Goodwood historic race program.

From austins to ferarri GTOs.

Guy stuffed a maserati into a wall.  Ouch.

In one race, they said there was over 600,000,000 british pounds worth of Ferarris on track!

This isn't the actual Sunbeam I'm trying to purchase, but it's the same series. The one I'm buying is in slightly worse condition.

Alas, not yet available:

But this is available, so maybe this instead:

After reading about it last night on TTAC, this morning I raced across town to take the Petersen Automotive Museum Vault Tour.   It had never been offered before and may never be offered again.  I got there half an hour before the museum opened and bought my ticket.   Ten minutes later, the first tour was sold out!

It is difficult to describe this collection.   There are at least 150 cars of every description in this underground warehouse.   They range from relatively ordinary cars once owned by famous people (e.g. Steve McQueen), to rare one-of-a-kind models (e.g. President Roosevelt's limo), to movie cars and custom hot rods (remember, Petersen got rich from Hot Rod Magazine).

The guide was not some ordinary docent.   He was one of the curators, a 100% gearhead, and he could rattle off the history and details of every car in the place.   And that was exactly what he did.   For over an hour, we walked down each row of cars, while he spent 15 or 20 seconds describing each car.   There was simply not enough time for anything else.    Our group was almost all old car nuts, and we were all agog.

If you are in Los Angeles and are a car nut, this is a must-see.   It will run through Sunday, January 6.   Photography is prohibited, but the TTAC article has some which just begin to show the flavor.

of all the cars in all the world, i would settle for just one:

of course...the hard decision would be to keep it dangerously stock, or do to it what the g-machine guys are doing to 69 camaros (updating all the running gear, not the cramming-a-C6-under-it part.)

i guess it would depend on how dangerously stock i found one to be.

Adam Carolla has two of those^^^^.  He says that he has never had something that he both loved and hated so much.

Speaking of car lust.  I met the head mechanic for Tom Price, he has a shop at Sonoma Raceway, and got a tour of his facility in Larkspur.  I can only say that it is the definition of automotive porn.  He has so much stuff, it is over whelming.  He has DB-3, DB-5 Astons, a Mclaren F1 (he is the S.F. Mclaren dealer) and a bunch of other european stuff that I just do not know much about.  He also has a Ferrari 250 GTO that I was debating putting a Lemons sticker on to get the get out of free card, but thought better of it.  I would have set it on and not actually applied it, of course.

Buddy is building this exact same GTM second generation car.  His donor is scrapped and he's in the assembly process now.  The Porsche gearbox is his nightmare too but cheaper than the aftermarket alternative box.

Had one, nearly killed myself in it multiple times...   Sold it for a profit, dream of it often.... loved it.    Mine was only a stage II with about 180ish hp... but still scary fast.

-John