Irrational want?

EvanB wrote: I still wish I bought that 46 Cadillac I had a chance at. I had the cash but it was too long to fit in my garage

I wish I bought the '38 LaSalle six wheel Hearse.......

My Dad put a stop to my quest to buy one of these as my first car in 1989:

It was brown over orange and in dry but ruff shape and I wanted it in the worst way.

Wouldn't have anything to do with"Back to the Future" would it?

^ I don't follow?

Nitroracer wrote: My irrational want is to drive something with a column shift, manual transmission. I've driven a regular floor shifted manual, I like older cars, and a three-on-the-tree seems like a good match. I know the linkages suck and they don't shift fast. I just want to try it.

I am constantly on the lookout for a dart/duster with a leaning tower of power coupled to a column shifted 3 speed. Color isn't important, heck it doesn't even have to be pretty, I just want one I can slowly rebuild while using it for commuter duty.

Nitroracer wrote: My irrational want is to drive something with a column shift, manual transmission. I've driven a regular floor shifted manual, I like older cars, and a three-on-the-tree seems like a good match. I know the linkages suck and they don't shift fast. I just want to try it.

Here you go. Not mine yadda yadda

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/1773050560.html

81gtv6 said: ^ I don't follow?

Doc Brown's Packard in Back to the Future:

See also: Jay has a Delorean.

I need to watch that movie again, its been a LONGGGGG time.

They make full gnar gassers, too! Witness the Flintstone Flyer.

Tommy Suddard wrote: I've driven the Model A a few times, including at night. It's not what it's cracked up to be.

I've driven Model A's on a couple different occasions, and I gotta agree.

That being said, a guy across the street from where I grew up still has an all-original, running '31 sitting in primer in his garage. It's his "retirement project".

I started trying to buy this car when I was ten... Thirty-four years later, it's still stuffed in a corner, behind his once-beautiful Jeepster.

Back on topic, last summer I was out at my buddy's shop working on one of the Miatas. I needed to make a parts-run, so he tosses me the keys to his '63 Cadillac. Beautiful car that he got at an estate sale with 17K original miles.

I head out, and come to the intersection where I need to make a left turn. I turn the wheel, turn it a little more... Then turn it alot more.

After repeating this process about three more times, I finally make my 90-degree turn and head into town.

While it's not the car I would choose to drive on a daily basis, NO Miata I ever own will have the sheer "Cool-Factor" of that Caddy.

Nitroracer wrote: My irrational want is to drive something with a column shift, manual transmission. I've driven a regular floor shifted manual, I like older cars, and a three-on-the-tree seems like a good match. I know the linkages suck and they don't shift fast. I just want to try it.

Agreed. I knew someone with a column-shift Saab 96, but he wouldn't let me drive it

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/cto/1774394704.htmlAs seen on BAT. Not mine, ect, ect.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/cto/1774394704.html As seen on BAT. Not mine, ect, ect.

81gtv6 wrote: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/cto/1774394704.html As seen on BAT. Not mine, ect, ect.

I'm liking that.

Reminds me a lot of my first car, a '59 Rambler.

The whole "bathtub turned upside down" styling concept stayed with them until the early 60s.

C'mon, all the cool kids are doing it.