There are actually plenty of cars more rare than the CCX in this thread. I think there are a couple hundred of those.
Fun times though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYbffS9CQGs
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There are actually plenty of cars more rare than the CCX in this thread. I think there are a couple hundred of those.
Fun times though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYbffS9CQGs
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1960 Daimler SP250
It was my dad's car and has been sitting in my garage in pieces for many years now... :-(
It was my dad's car and has been sitting in my garage in pieces for many years now... :-(
that CCX pic is sweet
I drove my neighbors Ruff 996 turbo yellowbird.
they are very rare, and cost about 150K back in the day
I drove my neighbors Ruff 996 turbo yellowbird.
they are very rare, and cost about 150K back in the day
My father has an original 69 Boss 429 and a 1967 427 Tri-Power Corvette. Do not know which one is more rare, I guess the Boss?
My car is rare, but not "rare" as it were. Sprint Blue V10 Audi S6 2008, only 500 a year have come to USA since 2007 and of those only 50 or so have been sprint blue.
My car is rare, but not "rare" as it were. Sprint Blue V10 Audi S6 2008, only 500 a year have come to USA since 2007 and of those only 50 or so have been sprint blue.
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1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk
Absolutely no idea how many were made, but ive never seen more than 1 (my grandpa's). That was a fun car with the 4.7L Supercharged V8
Win.
For me, probably the Rolls Royce Phantom. Then I drove a Dodge Viper, but I haven't driven any really exclusive cars.
FYI, that is rarer than the CCX, and probably more fun when it comes to making noise.
no offense, but I hate how color is used to further rarify a car.
who cares!
its the other stuff that matters.
who cares!
its the other stuff that matters.
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1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk
Absolutely no idea how many were made, but ive never seen more than 1 (my grandpa's). That was a fun car with the 4.7L Supercharged V8
I seem to recall about 4,000 were sold (too lazy to search), but that may have been all Hawks and not just the Goldens with that supercharged engine.
And, while I think about the same number were produced in 1956, iirc, those models, with the actual non-supercharged Packard V-8 instead of this Stude mill, at least seem rarer as photos/stories of surviving examples seem fewer and farther between.
I love all the progeny of these "Lowey" coupes, up to and including the 62-64 Hawk GT's, but my fav are the original 1953 Starlight coupes -- low and clean and so stylistically advanced for their times that the sixties GT re-do still seemed contemporary even though automotive design had progressed mightily in the intervening decade.
For comparison, put a '53 Bel Air next to a '63 Impala.
See?
Still only 1400-1600 in USA!
I also said rare but not rare!
My dad had an L-88 and sold it in the early 90's! Thought they were overpriced at that time...
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Ok, this thread is co0l, and while I bring little to the table, I do want to play along.
Most all of the cars I've driven that would even begin to be considered rare are so because they are foreign to the US.
The original Volvo station wagon: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ManUrDzGk...No/CS9s-H2RSNI/s1600-h/Blog+210+brochure2.jpg
Btw, I drove several of the next, and far more numerous in the US iterations, based on the 122. They were hella' popular amongst Volvo 'nistas, and were, imho, really shcweet. The 122 debuted around 1956, right alongside that older, 1948 Ford looking model, and continued all the way to 1967, by which time you could get them with those GREAT Volvo seats!
http://www.affordableclassicsinc.com/ClassicsPgs/168-6808_IMG.JPG
These were great looking, fun driving, extremely tasty cars (I have always had a chubby for small wagons.)
NSU Prinz. http://www.nsuprinz.com/Models/NSU_Prinz_4.asp My German GF in Munich had one. I think hers had around an 800cc engine. Like all small cars (think original Mini), it was fun and PLANTED on the road, with quick but manageable oversteer (rear-engined). And like such cars, it always seemed like you were going faster than you were.
Now, while these are probably almost non-existent in the US (I have seen ONE!), they are also probably nearly non-existent in Europe now due to the orphan brand and throw-away nature of the originals.
Pre-Mini Morris Minor wagons! http://www.motorbase.com/profiles/vehicle/picture.ehtml?i=1075;p=337663350 Actually, while living in England and Wales in the '70's, these were the shiznit of the impoverished! I got to drive sedans, the Travellers, and more than one metal van delivery variant, which the Royal Post had ordered and used in the many thousands, and which were regularly available for 50 pounds in decent, running condition.
"Van" model: http://www.motorbase.com/profiles/vehicle/picture.ehtml?i=1075;p=1115540962 I'll bet there are still a ton of these in GB, and you will find them not un-plentiful in the States, though I've never seen a van model here.
These were basic machines. Very, very basic. BUT, there is an inherent honesty and pleasure in driving such a mechanically DIRECT vehicle, and I loved these puppies.
Lol, I test drove a 1956 VW Van, which I could have bought for $150 at the time. The slightest incline was a challenge for it, and what I remember most was that the seating/steering wheel position was quite different from later models, pretty much like driving a Mass Transit Bus, with the driver dealing with a steering wheel that was more below him than in front of him, if you can picture that.
Also, while living in LA, I could have bought a gorgeous three-toned, dark blue, sky blue and white DeSoto station wagon, running and inspected, for $500! This was the early '70's. Anyone who knows KNOWS that DeSoto station wagons of any year are rare.
http://dougsvintagetrailers.com/1956_desoto_station_wagon
Finally, while hitch-hiking down to Saint Marie de la Mer for the annual gypsy festival, I got picked up by a Dutch guy who had an Opel station wagon (mid-size, bigger than the Kadett, with circa late '60's Pontiac "coke-bottle side styling) with a huge natural gas cylinder taking up most of the back.
I really got to flog that puppy after the fest on the Italian autostrada (no speed limit.) Pedal pegged to the damn metal for a long as my white-faced passengers could stand the shivering frame and transient thoughts about the integrity of the pedestrian (no pun intended) tires, passing exotics and laughing my effing ass off!
Found it! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Opel_rekord_c_caravan_v_sst.jpg We did differential crunching donuts on the beach with it, while the German girls we were with looked on in horror! :biggrin:
BTW, Holland has a ton of natural gas, which enabled them to stand up to OPEC, alone amongst European nations, during Opec's anti-Israeli boycott following the 1967 war. Ha ha!
I've gotten to ride in some semi-rare stuff, an all white classic Rolls driven by a guy dressed completely in a white suit who picked me up hitch-hiking, an early '50's Rover sedan (before the gorgeous, imho, 1956 model), and a friend's father's 1960 Valiant with the factory all-aluminum slant-six engine, very soon replaced by a cast iron model.
Marginal stuff here, I know . . .
Most all of the cars I've driven that would even begin to be considered rare are so because they are foreign to the US.
The original Volvo station wagon: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ManUrDzGk...No/CS9s-H2RSNI/s1600-h/Blog+210+brochure2.jpg
Btw, I drove several of the next, and far more numerous in the US iterations, based on the 122. They were hella' popular amongst Volvo 'nistas, and were, imho, really shcweet. The 122 debuted around 1956, right alongside that older, 1948 Ford looking model, and continued all the way to 1967, by which time you could get them with those GREAT Volvo seats!
http://www.affordableclassicsinc.com/ClassicsPgs/168-6808_IMG.JPG
These were great looking, fun driving, extremely tasty cars (I have always had a chubby for small wagons.)
NSU Prinz. http://www.nsuprinz.com/Models/NSU_Prinz_4.asp My German GF in Munich had one. I think hers had around an 800cc engine. Like all small cars (think original Mini), it was fun and PLANTED on the road, with quick but manageable oversteer (rear-engined). And like such cars, it always seemed like you were going faster than you were.
Now, while these are probably almost non-existent in the US (I have seen ONE!), they are also probably nearly non-existent in Europe now due to the orphan brand and throw-away nature of the originals.
Pre-Mini Morris Minor wagons! http://www.motorbase.com/profiles/vehicle/picture.ehtml?i=1075;p=337663350 Actually, while living in England and Wales in the '70's, these were the shiznit of the impoverished! I got to drive sedans, the Travellers, and more than one metal van delivery variant, which the Royal Post had ordered and used in the many thousands, and which were regularly available for 50 pounds in decent, running condition.
"Van" model: http://www.motorbase.com/profiles/vehicle/picture.ehtml?i=1075;p=1115540962 I'll bet there are still a ton of these in GB, and you will find them not un-plentiful in the States, though I've never seen a van model here.
These were basic machines. Very, very basic. BUT, there is an inherent honesty and pleasure in driving such a mechanically DIRECT vehicle, and I loved these puppies.
Lol, I test drove a 1956 VW Van, which I could have bought for $150 at the time. The slightest incline was a challenge for it, and what I remember most was that the seating/steering wheel position was quite different from later models, pretty much like driving a Mass Transit Bus, with the driver dealing with a steering wheel that was more below him than in front of him, if you can picture that.
Also, while living in LA, I could have bought a gorgeous three-toned, dark blue, sky blue and white DeSoto station wagon, running and inspected, for $500! This was the early '70's. Anyone who knows KNOWS that DeSoto station wagons of any year are rare.
http://dougsvintagetrailers.com/1956_desoto_station_wagon
Finally, while hitch-hiking down to Saint Marie de la Mer for the annual gypsy festival, I got picked up by a Dutch guy who had an Opel station wagon (mid-size, bigger than the Kadett, with circa late '60's Pontiac "coke-bottle side styling) with a huge natural gas cylinder taking up most of the back.
I really got to flog that puppy after the fest on the Italian autostrada (no speed limit.) Pedal pegged to the damn metal for a long as my white-faced passengers could stand the shivering frame and transient thoughts about the integrity of the pedestrian (no pun intended) tires, passing exotics and laughing my effing ass off!
Found it! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Opel_rekord_c_caravan_v_sst.jpg We did differential crunching donuts on the beach with it, while the German girls we were with looked on in horror! :biggrin:
BTW, Holland has a ton of natural gas, which enabled them to stand up to OPEC, alone amongst European nations, during Opec's anti-Israeli boycott following the 1967 war. Ha ha!
I've gotten to ride in some semi-rare stuff, an all white classic Rolls driven by a guy dressed completely in a white suit who picked me up hitch-hiking, an early '50's Rover sedan (before the gorgeous, imho, 1956 model), and a friend's father's 1960 Valiant with the factory all-aluminum slant-six engine, very soon replaced by a cast iron model.
Marginal stuff here, I know . . .
Yeah I know, and I those are nice, I just hate when they auction stuff and are like, ONLY 3 MADE IN THIS COLOR ITS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE.usually because the color sucks.
there are about 20 0r s0 of the Ruff porsches in existance that my neighbor has, it was used in a motor trend showdown. he was an engineer for them and has 3-4 other porsches still.
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http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z2321/Porsche-911-CTR-Yellowbird.aspx
28 of them. worldwide
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usually because the color sucks.
there are about 20 0r s0 of the Ruff porsches in existance that my neighbor has, it was used in a motor trend showdown. he was an engineer for them and has 3-4 other porsches still.
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http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z2321/Porsche-911-CTR-Yellowbird.aspx
28 of them. worldwide
I would sell almost everything I own if it meant I could have one of those cars. The Yellow Bird will always be the car. It is the Yellow Bird alone which was responsible for warping my (at the time) first grade mind and transforming a mere interest in cars into a full-on obsession. I guess we never truly forget our first lust.
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yeah its rough living so close to one and never getting to really drive it/see it. He DD's a Lincoln LS V8 most of the time
he has taken it to road america a few times and raced it. he doesnt baby it
he has taken it to road america a few times and raced it. he doesnt baby it
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Holy novel Perk, how about some cliffs?
Saw Apex replied in here, hell his noble is a 1of1 IMHO.
My list:
Drove an NSX in Florida as a rental.
'70 LS6 Chevelle was fun, pretty rare all original 1 owner numbers matching car too!
Viper ACR was a fun one, old boss' car.
Alpine White Superbird was my personal fav.
Saw Apex replied in here, hell his noble is a 1of1 IMHO.
My list:
Drove an NSX in Florida as a rental.
'70 LS6 Chevelle was fun, pretty rare all original 1 owner numbers matching car too!
Viper ACR was a fun one, old boss' car.
Alpine White Superbird was my personal fav.
I used to own one of the 4000 or so 1995 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Convertibles that were made. That's about as rare as I've had
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It's the original RUF CTR model. It was introduced in 1987 and held the title of the fastest production vehicle in the world (211 mph) into the early 1990s when the Bugatti EB110 de-throned it. It was also the car that made RUF famous; in a way it can be thought of as the debut for one of the world's premier automotive performance companies.
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