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February 21, 2008
You have $175,000, Whatcha Gonna Buy?
By Dan
Hemmings Motor News
I recently saw two interesting, but wildly different, cars on the Hemmings online classifieds for the same price. The first, a 1957 Ford Thunderbird, proves that blackwall tires instantly testosterone-ify any vehicle from the 1950s. Normally, I’m not that much of a fan of first-gen T-birds; leave ‘em to the lost-in-the-‘50s, sock-hop-and-James-Dean types. But the blackwall tires, the body color wheels and the McCulloch blower underhood all have me reconsidering early Birds. The second, a chopped, slammed and apparently stretched 1955 Porsche 356A, proves that, well, it doesn’t really prove much. The ad doesn’t state whether it’s a repro body or not; either way, some Porsche purist will have a heart attack at the sight of it.
Comments
THE GTR
Feb 24, 2008 at 4:39 am
read my name.
Jim
Feb 23, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Gimme the T-Bird. Y’all don’t know what you are missing.
Ted
Feb 22, 2008 at 5:49 am
That’s a Porsche? I thought it was a modified Corvair. I got a couple shots of a T-bird of the same year in the auto show in Warminster I uploaded back in October. They were very nice cars, at least the one I shot had a LOT of nice stock features and eye candy… very sweet ride.
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Seeing this one in red with the blackwalls and plain jane rims? It’s kind of a turn-off compared to what I saw.
Kyle
Feb 22, 2008 at 4:52 am
Holy cow. I have NEVER seen a better looking Porsche in my LIFE. I would pay a millions for that baby.
kap0w
Feb 22, 2008 at 12:27 am
Oh man… I’m not usually a Porsche guy, but something about the crouching stance and solid wheels just does it for me.
Stewart
Feb 21, 2008 at 11:11 pm
For that money, I’d buy an entire stable of cars…
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And neither of those cars pictured.
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Maybe I’d get a new ZR1, and a few other toys
Travis
Feb 21, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Either a 64 stingray or a 71 challenger