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We’re sure you’ve played this game before, but it’s just too fun not to revisit once in a while—if you’re anything like us (and we suspect you are!), anyway, your answers will change day-to-day depending on your mood, the weather, or which side of bed you rose from that morning.
Here are the rules: you’ve recently inherited half a million dollars from your favorite great aunt, but she’s stipulated in her will you’re only allowed to spend the money on three classic cars. She further elaborates that one must be a daily driver, one a weekend toy, and the third a track machine, with any remaining moneys forfeited to the ASPCA.
Personally, I could go insane trying to find the perfect three cars that meet these requirements, but what I present to you here comes pretty darn close. The highly modified 1974 Alfa Romeo GTV makes a fantastic daily driver. On the weekends, so long as it’s not raining or too hot, the 1956 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider is perfect. Finally, for flogging around the track, you simply can’t go wrong with the high-revving twin-spark engine of the 1968 Alfa Romeo GTA Jr.
What’s in your fantasy three-car garage?
Photography by Sean Lorentzen
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Since this Petrolicious window will not allow me to drop or download images of my three cars I would use for my dream fleet I will list them!
1. 1988 Lamborghini Jalpa – Weekend Driver!
2. 1988 Ferrari 328 GTS QV – Everyday Driver!
3. 1988 Gemballa Porsche Avalanche – Track Machine!
(Gemballa made 3 models known as the Avalanche, Cyruss and Mirage models. Personally of the three I prefer the Avalanche Convertible model in white on white with its RUF tuned Porsche 930 turbo, fire breathing monster of an engine.) Oh what fun!!
[url=”http://www.automerkit.fi/uploads/pics/Saab_9-5_SportCombi_2011.jpg”]Saab NG9-5 SportCombi[/url], for those “family trips”..probly the best-looking wagon ever made.
[url=”http://www.auctionsamerica.com/images/lots/FL10/FL10_r068_01.jpg”]Old school Porsche 911[/url], cause, you know, ducktail, RR setup…
[url=”http://cdn.astonmartin.com/sitefinity/v12-roadster/exterior5.jpg?sfvrsn=0″]Aston Martin V12 Vantage[/url] Summer ride..
…Actually, looks like a genuine RSR 3.0 would eat the whole half million and probably a bit more so it would have to be a replica, but seeing as a driveable 250 GTE could be had for around $200,000 and a RS6 Plus for maybe $30,000 at most that would leave $270,000 to build a pretty awesome RSR replica. Sorry ASPCA, you wouldn’t be getting a dollar out of me 🙂
3 cars…that’s pretty tough. The track car’s gotta be Porsche 911 of some sort for me, and weekend ride just has to be Alfa Romeo Duetto Spider (what I consider to be the most romantic car ever made). It’s the daily driver that would kill me: either series II Land Rover or original Fiat 500…Why can’t I have both!
Daily Drive: 1974 BMW 3.0 CSL http://www.rmauctions.com/lots/lot.cfm?lot_id=1057833
Weekender: 1959 BMW 507 (has to be a restoration project to stay under 500,000)
Track Day: 1988 BMW E30 M3 Racecar http://bringatrailer.com/2012/12/20/dtm-time-machine-1988-bmw-m3-race-car/
They’ve got a hotted up racing version of the 3.8l XK engine. Gorgeous cars.
Also, it’s a Triumph V8 rather than a Rover one. They were essentially made from two Triumph Slant 4s mated to a common crank-case, which were also the basis of the 16v Dolomite engine.
It’s not simply plug and play with the heads, as one needs to be a mirror image and run in reverse, and I also think the oil and water pathways need to be altered, but it is most definitely possible.
1. Daily Driver 2014 Challenger. May as well be an SRT since I’ve got so much money to blow.
2. Toy – 1966 F-100 longbox, 352 automatic with power steering and A/C, slammed and on airbags set up to pull the…
3. Track Car – 2014 Neil and Parks front engine dragster with 426 Hemi power.
The critters should eat pretty well on my nickel!
Johnny, the furia its a Brazilian Race car from the early 70’s.
It was designed by toni bianco, who designed some brazilian race and sports cars when the automotive industry was getting born here. Its powered by a bmw 4 cil engine, I think its a 2002 unit.
But it was also powered by Alfa romeo, Chevrolet, Dodge, Ferrari and Lamborghini engines, in various configurations V8’s, V12’s, inline 4, inline 6, depending on the taste and the pocket of the consumer.
Here are some interesting links with some images and infos (portuguese)
Gallery of furia BMW
http://public.fotki.com/ibsenop/automveis/classicosdecompeticao/furia-bmw/friabmw001.html#media
Gallery of furia ALFA
http://www.arcmg.com.br/galeria/descobertas/Furia-no-SEMA-2011.htm
The bianco that had the design inspirated in the furia race car
http://bestcars.uol.com.br/classicos/bianco-1.htm
Toni bianco
http://www.bandeiraquadriculada.com.br/Toni\%20Bianco.htm
Daily driver : Ferrari 550 (red or black)
Weekend toy : Jaguar E- type convertible (british racing green)
Track car : Fúria BMW http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKPRrlJAWBw/S70SgwKvkGI/AAAAAAAANi4/YIEFy6-XAZ0/s1600/3.jpg
Hmmm, I think I’d be forefeiting a lot of money to the ASPCA with my choices. 😉 It’s clear I have very utilitarian tastes. 🙂
Daily: 1966 Chrysler Imperial (swap in a dual-quad 440 with A/C, and you’ve sold me)
Toy: 1973 Jeep CJ-5 (this with the 258 and a 3-speed and Saturn Overdrive, 4″ body lift on 33″ MTs, all suspended over 4.88 Dana 44s with front and rear air lockers)
Track Car: 1963 Studebaker Avanti (assuming the track is Bonneville and assuming that I can put a twin-turbo’ed International 345 to break any Binder speed record out there)
Wow, this caused me to do some hard thinking…….Since no V-12 Ferrari from the 50’s or 60’s would fit under the 500K, for today, I would go with.
Daily-Series I Jaguar E-type coupe-with A/C of course-One of the most beautiful cars ever designed!
Weekend toy-Porsche 356 Speedster in black-Look sinister just standing still.
Track car- Lancia Fulvia HF Coupe -They just look so good.
I already own two of the three: a 1971 Series Two Track Built Datsun 240Z, and a 1990 Nissan 300ZXTT Daily Driver, as for the Weekend Toy then it’s got to be a 1957 Cadillac Baritz drop-top…and I’ve already got the garage ready for them all so there’ll be a big rebate on that half-mill going back to Petrolicious 😮
I live on top of a mountain, so the daily driver is easy, a Ford SVT Raptor SuperCab (shorter wheelbase than the SuperCrew, so it is more tossable, less stable).
The weekend toy would be a Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona coupe. The sound of that motor is unbelievable. It was the last (mostly) steel Ferrari. It has a five-speed transaxle, so I get to row my own gears, and its design resonates with me. I’ll have to shop around to find one for $300-350K, but they’re out there.
The track car would be as much Caterham as I could afford after buying the first two. The Lotus Super Seven set a standard that Caterham has carried forward.
In real life;
Daily – Volvo Amazon (and public transport)
Weekend – Mercedes-Benz 280SE 3.5 Coupe
Track – Triumph TR4 (works rally spec)
In my fantasy life;
Daily – Mercedes-Benz 280SE 3.5 Coupe with tow hook.
Weekend (and rally) – Lancia Aurelia B20GT (with Mille Miglia entry obvs.)
Track – something really old maybe a pre-war Frazer Nash Special or Le Mans Replica
Love the game! For the moment to me it are:
Daily: 1982 Alpina B7 S Turbo Coupé
Weekend: a pre-’73 Porsche 911, with my own R-Gruppestyle modifications
Track: another pre-73 Porsche 911 but this time fully stripped, ofcourse a full racestetup and also some of my personal touches (and some of Magnus Walker’s)
This is so hard. (I wanted to put a Ferrari F355 Spider (in Yellow) as weekendcar too) But I think this is a very lovely list! I hope it is affordable with 500 grand.
Tomorrow my list will probably be totally different.