New cars are getting so much more powerfull and fun to drive it is hard to think of something older that would still be interesting.
I do not want a tin can british car or Mazda Miata. I had a Spitfire and a Sprite and a Fiat X19 when I was in High School. They are fun but do not work well on the Freeway.
I thought maybe an older Mercedes Benz SL, but they seem a bit clunky.
An old muscle car convertible would also be nice, but it is nearly impossible to make those cars handle, and the mpg would be too much to bear.
I also considered a Porche 928, but the older ones are a bit underpowered and the engine parts are a fortune. I read that just to replace the intake gasket it would cost about $1100 in the various rubber parts and gaskets that go along with that job. Considered maybe putting a nice GM Crate engine in the 928 would be an interesting project. Read on another site that someone actually did it, well, paid fortune for a shop to do it. I know Porche purists would hunt me down, but so what.
What type of project cars do you guys think about? Budget around $10-15k. Don't want a ricer. I don't want to pick something that everyone else has. I don't want a 911. I like the 928 because it is kind-of the black sheep of the Porche family, but it is a great driving car.
I do not want a tin can british car or Mazda Miata. I had a Spitfire and a Sprite and a Fiat X19 when I was in High School. They are fun but do not work well on the Freeway.
I thought maybe an older Mercedes Benz SL, but they seem a bit clunky.
An old muscle car convertible would also be nice, but it is nearly impossible to make those cars handle, and the mpg would be too much to bear.
I also considered a Porche 928, but the older ones are a bit underpowered and the engine parts are a fortune. I read that just to replace the intake gasket it would cost about $1100 in the various rubber parts and gaskets that go along with that job. Considered maybe putting a nice GM Crate engine in the 928 would be an interesting project. Read on another site that someone actually did it, well, paid fortune for a shop to do it. I know Porche purists would hunt me down, but so what.
What type of project cars do you guys think about? Budget around $10-15k. Don't want a ricer. I don't want to pick something that everyone else has. I don't want a 911. I like the 928 because it is kind-of the black sheep of the Porche family, but it is a great driving car.
