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  • pete240z

    Nov. 26, 2010 2:44 p.m. pete240z SuperDork

    This is what they're asking over at Classic Motorsports?

    "Let’s say you were accidentally transported back in time to 1970. You wake up with a headache and $3700 in your pocket. What would you buy?"

    Fiat 124 Spider

    MGB / MGB GT

    Triumph TR-6

    Porsche 914

    Opel GT

    Datsun 240 Z

    I have this thought when I lay down to go to sleep every night. You really have to ask?

  • Streetwiseguy

    Nov. 26, 2010 2:46 p.m. Streetwiseguy HalfDork

    Convertible Hemi Cuda, placed in a hermetically sealed container, to be opened by me in 2007 just before Barrett Jackson. Use proceeds to buy all the above listed cars over and over again.

  • oldtin

    Nov. 26, 2010 2:55 p.m. oldtin HalfDork

    How about picking up a tired old, no-longer competitive italian race car?

  • Grtechguy

    Nov. 26, 2010 3:06 p.m. Grtechguy SuperDork

    Streetwiseguy wrote:

    Convertible Hemi Cuda, placed in a hermetically sealed container, to be opened by me in 2007 just before Barrett Jackson. Use proceeds to buy all the above listed cars over and over again.

    This +11tybazillion + Ordered in a factory 1 off color package

  • Pumpkin Escobar

    Nov. 26, 2010 3:30 p.m. Pumpkin Escobar SuperDork

    pete240z wrote:

    Porsche 914

    Datsun 240 Z

    yes please!

  • JFX001

    Nov. 26, 2010 3:38 p.m. JFX001 SuperDork

    '65 or '66 Shelby, 25 shares of Berkshire Hathaway, lunch, and directions to the Playboy Mansion.

  • patgizz

    Nov. 26, 2010 3:48 p.m. patgizz SuperDork

    none of the above.

    LS6 chevelle

  • ReverendDexter

    Nov. 26, 2010 3:55 p.m. ReverendDexter SuperDork

    Someone's used 289 Cobra.

    Only issue is, without the internet, how do I find it?

  • Nov. 26, 2010 4:13 p.m. Mikey52_1 HalfDork

    ReverendDexter wrote:

    Someone's used 289 Cobra.

    Only issue is, without the internet, how do I find it?

    Yeah, there is that...

  • Pumpkin Escobar

    Nov. 26, 2010 5:02 p.m. Pumpkin Escobar SuperDork

    Were Bill Gates or Steve Jobs even old enough to be invested in yet in 1970? if so, that!

  • Giant Purple Snorklewacker

    Nov. 26, 2010 5:16 p.m. Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork

    I'd pick up a used Fiat Abarth 850 in race trim and blow the rest on shrooms and hookers.

  • Rob_Mopar

    Nov. 26, 2010 5:17 p.m. Rob_Mopar HalfDork

    Streetwiseguy wrote:

    Convertible Hemi Cuda, placed in a hermetically sealed container, to be opened by me in 2007 just before Barrett Jackson. Use proceeds to buy all the above listed cars over and over again.

    You would be about $1900 short, but I guess a few payments wouldn't hurt.

  • Rob_Mopar

    Nov. 26, 2010 5:18 p.m. Rob_Mopar HalfDork

    ReverendDexter wrote:

    Someone's used 289 Cobra.

    Only issue is, without the internet, how do I find it?

    Look in the classifieds in the back of Hot Rod.

  • Rob_Mopar

    Nov. 26, 2010 5:23 p.m. Rob_Mopar HalfDork

    I'd go get a 340 4-speed Duster. A '70 340 or 383 4-speed Challenger probably would be a few bucks more than the budget.

    If it was late in '70 I'd probably get a '71 340 4-speed Demon.

  • Appleseed

    Nov. 26, 2010 6:05 p.m. Appleseed SuperDork

    One of the 69 Daytonas left languishing on the Dodge dealer's lot.

  • Appleseed

    Nov. 26, 2010 6:11 p.m. Appleseed SuperDork

    Or every 32 deuce I could lay my hands on. Or as many Ardun heads as I could find.

    Or a P-51. Yeah, that's what I'd do.

  • Toyman01

    Nov. 26, 2010 7:28 p.m. Toyman01 SuperDork

    patgizz wrote:

    none of the above.

    LS6 chevelle

    This.

  • Zomby woof

    Nov. 26, 2010 8:31 p.m. Zomby woof Dork

    patgizz wrote:

    none of the above.

    LS6 chevelle

    Or possibly a 70 1/2 Z28.

    I really need to get one.

  • SillyImportRacer

    Nov. 26, 2010 11:36 p.m. SillyImportRacer Reader

    I'd hang out for a year and buy my dad's 69 Corvette, black on black, 427, 6-pack, side pipes...

  • gamby

    Nov. 26, 2010 11:52 p.m. gamby SuperDork

    pete240z wrote:

    Datsun 240 Z

  • Keith

    Nov. 27, 2010 12:00 a.m. Keith SuperDork

    Well, there's a 1966 Cadillac, a 1967 Land Rover and a 1969 MGB GT parked in the driveway right now. So I guess I'd have just as much of a hard time then as I seem to now.

    Although a used Ferrari race car wouldn't be a terrible thing.

  • Big ego

    Nov. 27, 2010 6:58 a.m. Big ego SuperDork

    Chevron stock until may 1986 when I'd dump it and sell it for the Msft which lost tons of value after the IPO from $28 per share to $0.12 (according to yahoo finanace).

    That should take your $3700 and turn it into $199-200M..

    (Microsoft had 9 2-1 splits over the years).

  • Nov. 27, 2010 12:36 p.m. conesare2seconds New Reader

    Olds Cutlass 442 W-30, Pontiac GTO Judge or Buick Skylark GSX. Everyone had Chevelles.

  • JtspellS

    Nov. 27, 2010 12:41 p.m. JtspellS Reader

    Rx-3 would be nice, but probably 240z or just get a 510 wagon and clambake the hell out of that motherberkeleyer.

  • Jay

    Nov. 29, 2010 5:48 a.m. Jay Dork

    Weren't GT40s just a few bucks more than box-mobile price back then? Or were they always expensive?

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