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Oh my!! ! Tell us about these two...please. Tried to look them up and guess...what type of Bentley is that first one? Was trying to go by context clues...haha, was leaning toward maybe an Arnage. Fun to guess, even though I'm probably wrong.

Just think...could rename it Driving AuntBlabby.
Or better yet...AuntBlabby Driving, b/c it would be more fun and style to be in driver's seat!! !

I would LOVE to drive one of these babies!

A specific 1969 Baldwin Motion Phase III GT Corvette is on my shopping list. There were only 13 B/M Phase III Corvettes made from 1967 to 1974 and then they were stopped by the US government due to violations of the Clean Air Act. The 1967 version that exists will likely never be for sale. These cars were built to run at least a 12.5 second quarter mile as delivered back then, but could do much, much better with a few more adjustments. Since I cannot afford a real one right now, I have been very slowly working on building one out of a junked Stingray coupe that I traded for years ago.

Here is a link to more details about the Baldwin Motion cars: http://www.supercars.net/cars/3101.html

I wanna car that floats over the worst bumpy roads like this:
the Mercedes 560SEL [citroen hydraulic suspension] or the citroen DS would fill the bill, but so also did the early 90s ford windstars and chevy luminas before they stiffened-up the suspensions on those two.

Ford V8 Interceptor (1973 Ford Falcon)

If I could drive, it's what I'd roll in.

I gotta dumb question , but is that the north American model or the down under model?

Yeah, it's the Oz model. "The great Australian road car" or whatever the slogan was.

Falcon XB is its official name.

I'd get a stock XB V8 sedan if I drove.

yeh, far cry from the American version, though it looks a bit like an American ford torino.

I used to know the location of a black 1970 GTO Judge convertible. It is long gone now along with the owner. Bad wreck took both.

Plymouth Superbirds were a 1970 model only, made to get Richard Petty back to racing Plymouths instead of Fords. They were a follow up to the 1969 Dodge Daytonas (and the Charger 500s before them). They were designed for NASCAR tracks, but a certain amount of them had to be built for the public to be allowed in as production models. I know the locations of a few factory ones, but they are pricey to buy. The nose cones and wings alone can set you back $25,000 for real ones, although you can have them fabricated for much less. Most of the Superbirds you see out an about on roads here are clones built from either Roadrunners or Satellites.

Which of the 1968 Shelby Mustangs are you specifically after? Small block GT350s are easier (and cheaper) to find than the big block GT500s or the GT500KRs. One of my car friends had a 1967 GT500 (sold it in the early 90s, before they got too expensive) and it could really run with the 427, 4-speed combo. I missed out on buying a real 1965 GT350 body that was damaged by a garage falling on it. (Someone beat me to the owner with the cash in hand, so I settled with a rough Boss 351 as a replacement project car.) Since Shelby died, the prices have been going up rather fast on anything with his name on it.

There is a website for you to look at, but I must warn you it may leave a tear or two to your eyes:

www.carsinbarns.com

Thanks, to everyone who commented on "my" Chevelle----that will FOREVER be, my all-time favorite car!!

To the person who got to drive a virtual one, I'm sorry I couldn't watch the video you posted (I still have Dial-up Internet); but, I'm really happy you got to drive it!!

@AuntBlabby: I TOTALLY agree about the "Driving Miss Daisy" car----that car was SUH-WEET!! !! !! !!

Also, that green bus-type thing you posted looks like a "friendly" bug----see, at the rear-end, it has an eye, an ear, and "feelers"? I thought it was really interesting----very unusual, and I like that!!

To the person who posted the other yellow car: I LOVE it!! (Yellow's my 3rd favorite color, so I have a bit of a weakness, for it.)

Also, to the person who posted the Shelby----God that car was cool!! Obviously, I'm a HUGE GM fan----but, I've always said that the Mustang was the best car, Ford ever made (plus, the Ford truck, with the International Diesel engine, IMO)! ! I'd have to have a small-block one, though, cuz I have a tendency to have a lead foot!! LOL

Oh, and I can't forget that GTO----SWEET!!

I so LOVED the chitty bang mobile when I was a kid, I drew pictures of it all over the place

First-of-all, I apologize for not using people's names----it's just that I am so excited to be talking about cars, that I can't think / remember anything else!!

Aunty: I THOUGHT you might be a fan, of CCBB!!

Also, I forgot to mention the person who posted that scene, from "Grease"----that was one of my most favorite scenes, in the movie----I LOVVVVVVVE car racing (I used to race "Street Legal", on a quarter-mile strip)! !

Now, to QuantumChemist: I quickly checked-out "Cars In Barns" (I don't have time, right now, to really look----but, I bookmarked it); and, you ain't kiddin', they'll make a grown person cry!! I caught a glimpse of either a Chevelle SS, or a Nova SS (another favorite, of mine), and also a '57 Chevy, and I wanted to cry----that '57 is another of my all-time favorites, and I'd like to own one of THOSE, as well!! There were alot of Mustangs, on there. I also saw some Corvettes, but not "the good kind"----I can't remember, right now, which was my favorite year.....

I'm DEFINITELY going-back, to that site----I can't get ENOUGH of looking at cars!!

what is "CCBB"?

Wow, what a "moving" thread, literally. I went off to work this PM and came back to two full pages of hot pics!

Thanks to all who complemented my "muscle cars", especially Quantum who answered my curiousity about '71 Superbirds really being hyped-over Roadrunners, which if done right I might settle for. As for the Shelbys, I'd be happy to take whichever I could get with an automatic tranny. (I heard Carrol did build a few by special order for those with piles of $$$$$). With my SPD, clutch cars will always be out of the question. In addition I know of someone locally who modified a bright red Dodge Viper to automatic for a stroke victim who had limited use of his left foot. So if "money were no object" as in the premise of the OP of this thread, anything might be possible If I had the bucks to get hold of one of these cars.

FWIW, that purple Lo-Rider that Moonshine posted and Lostiehere asked about appeares to be a Mercury, but I'm not the "chopped top" or "handleless" electric door type.

I also believe the pink and white "tailfinned" car is supposed to be a replica of the one Eddie Cochrane died in.

Finally, getting to dance in a "Greased Lightning" scene on stage was always a dream of mine during my theatre and dance days from my college years after the time when I was about 16 my all-boys ballet class did perform it to a record in front of the studio mirror as an "end of the month modern number".

(TV version)


(Movie version)

Movie abbreviation, I assume? Oddly enough one of my early girlfriends in grade school named Theresa looked just like Jeremy Potts in the face.
http://www.boyactors.org.uk/actors/876.jpg