A thing of beauty...

[jsbowden]

Is in my garage.

It's um...wow. When it idles, it sounds like a purring kitten. Give the accelerator a little push, and it roars. I haven't quite got the seat exactly where I want it yet, but it's still like sitting a leather body glove. A heated leather body glove. That roars.

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[silmaril.livejournal.com]

While not normally a car person, I do admit that I have a bit of a soft spot for BMWs. And Corvettes. And the engine smell. And the new car smell. And the sound of a good engine, and the feel of power, and...

...OK, maybe I am a car person, I just choose not to follow that potential hobby beyond helping around the Datsun.

At any rate, nice toy. Enjoy it.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Interesting. For me, Beemers are too German (well built, expensive, and also around here they're driven by pimps -- drug dealers drive Porsche), Ferrari's too Italian (One word: electrical system. *shudder*), and 'vettes are too American (cheap -- over there --, plastic, big engine with an even bigger number in the weight column and relatively little power-to-weight both for the engine separately as well as the whole car). Almost all really good/pretty sports/luxurycars are made in Britain. But not in the seventies, cause at that point the electrical system sucked worse than a contemporary Fiat's.

[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

My undergraduate Science and Engineering House Master was a professor of Electrical Engineering who had a habit of purchasing beat-up classic sports cars and then rebuilding/restoring them to collector quality, including machining his own parts in his garage. All self taught over the years.

Yay cars. Or, as Jesse "Corvette addict" M.B would say, Vroom! :-)