Car Restoration - what will you rebuild "some day"?

[-pjk--]

Some day i will restore my Volvo P1800 S 1965.
I have had it since 1984, used it as everyday car 1984-1988. It has been in my carage since 1993... Before that i used it as summer car.
Body is very good condition(restored 1986), but interior needs all replace. Mechanically it is  "easy" to restore..
So far no time... or serious interest to make it run again.. Maybe next year

[eagl]

I'd love to restore a 1991-ish fox platform 5.0LX mustang.  It wouldn't be anywhere near factory under the skin though...  Too many weaknesses in that platform.  But a complete re-do of the suspension/brakes and a modern V8 in there plus some tasteful paint and it would be good clean fun.

Alternately, one of the first or second model miatas (for their lower weight) but outfitted with an additional 200hp and an RX-7 rear end, or whatever equivalent I can get to bolt on.

Or an early model vette convertible.

[eagl]

Im with Skuzz on the '62 vette. Best body style of vette in my opinion.

It has to be a convertible as well. 

Me 3.

[caldera]

Love this guy's Rambler:




Wicked Maverick:




Mean Torino:




IMO, the last vintage of Corvettes that looked cool:




Baby Corvette - Opel GT:





So many cars to choose from.  I still want to build an LS6 Miata.  Anybody wanna float me a loan? 

[Motherland]

My E30 looks almost exactly like this. Except the paint is beat to hell. "some day"

[uptown]

1936 Plymouth

http://youtu.be/A37vqsCpCkE

[Tank-Ace]

IMO, the last vintage of Corvettes that looked cool:

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Don't you mean the first vintage?

Only one I'm kind of meh about is the C4, but thats just because it looks too much like a 4th gen Firebird.

[ROC]

Another one of these, I've had 2



But still holding out for

[NaTorino]

I had the pleasure of restoring my Torino with my father(1st time i ever had a 3/4 inch wrench thrown at my head) it took 4 years but it was worth it!


My two favorite cars that i got to work on 33 Chevy and 52 Hudson (the chevy was my 1st chop )




CobraJet

[eddiek]

A 1966 Chevy El Camino.......I bought this car/heap back in 1983 during my senior year of high school, and lost interest, or more correctly, lost the time needed to work on it as I got older.  It still sits behind my dad's shop out at the farm.  Every time I get a chance to drive out there, I walk back there and see it.  I keep telling myself I need to load it on a trailer and haul it to the Panhandle and get started on it, but, again............no time.  I am out on job locations 21-30 days a month so I'd have to just see it sit there again, or pay to have it restored. 

[mechanic]

I've got one of these that I picked up for £250. All it needs is a bit of love and a complete respray. I could get her back into mint condition for about £2000, one day I will. Not exactly my first choice of sports car but once I had driven her some I was in love. The rear wheel drive powered by a 2L italian engine is undeniably the most fun I have had in a car with my clothes on.

[Grayeagle]

I can't imagine how much fun a resto-mod fox body Mustang would be..
..stuffed with the new Boss 302 motor or some such and made to handle like a go-cart.

It would *so* be worth makin it quiet just to spank the new Mustang guys hard an make em cry

(imagines a beige stock-lookin fox body with a 'baby on board' sticker, car seat .. mebbe a few bags o' fake groceries in the back seat)

-Frank

[Skuzzy]

I do not have any knowledge of what cars outside the U.S. would be easy to restore, but in the U.S., the 1970, and earlier model Mustangs are the easiest to do.

You can build a brand new 64 1/2 Mustang, if you want, and get a vehicle identification number plate from Ford.

[RTHolmes]

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I've got one of these that I picked up for £250 ...

now that is a bargain!

[Blackwulf]

1930 Ford AA truck.  I'd like to put a (relatively) modern drive train in it, say from the 60's so I can still do all my own maintenance, and have it as my daily driver.  If they hadn't changed the regs to force me to get a commercial DOT number to do it, I'd but the signage on the sides for my blacksmith shop.