What was your (reasonable) dream car as a teen?

1968 GTO -

I finally did get my 1968 GTO though about 25 years later, although it was not Verdoro Green
My first car was a 1969 Lemans convertible with the 350 HO motor in green. Loved that car!
Got stolen, stripped, and set on fire. I've never loved another.
 
Dakar yellow E36 M3 convertible. Had a poster on a wall. Now it sits in my garage.
Second was a 959 that I still can't afford.
 

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Anything with 4 tires.
Not sure what $500 car is now but in high school 1986 that was the norm for first car or compact truck. What a blast driving was. First day of license meant you piled all your friends that would fit in and go for ride age 16. Some kids managed license earlier with reason (farm, parents DUI).

Now it’s lot of rules , no friends for 6 months…..
 
Mine was a corvette.
I ended up buying myself a used one on my early 40,s.
Then I ended up selling it a few years later to buy my daughter a car and pay her insurance.
 
Everyone probably already knows mine. Classic VW Beetle any year as long as it was a classic. I’m technically still a teen for another 8 months exactly but I did get my dream car two years ago in October of 2019. Belonged to my automotive teacher prior to me owning it. Wish it wasn’t yellow but it’s a classic so I’m happy. This is the day it came home. View attachment 68153View attachment 68155
Had a blue (cooked engine) and yellow VW going to HS/year of college …
one of the few things cheap on gas back then …
 
My dream “car” was a Dodge PowerWagon so I bought one … did some mods to it as well …
Found this one that looks 90% like it. Blacked it out and HD bumpers/winch/brush guard etc

This W150 is missing the logo - only chrome I left on it

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My dream car as a teenager (in the 70s) was a Triump TR6. Later on I wanted a Miata (which was a more reliable TR6, IMO) but as I got older I realized access/egress is difficult for my old body....
 
Anything less than a $100 could buy. I didn’t care what it was. The dream was having a car. My dad had this ability to find cars in that price range. He just said this was $65, for a 56 Nash, then we went and got it. I used to detail that thing like new it had such good paint and chrome on it. So much energy to do things.
 
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Definitely not my dream car, or one that I ever shed tears over, but this is one I SHOULD have purchased:
This would have been around ‘83 or ‘84 and I was scrounging around the local salvage yard. There was a new yard acquisition and it was a ‘69 Superbee. (Not a Mopar man, so I THINK that was the year) It was complete except for a front fender and the air cleaner. The paint was even great on the rest of the body, including the bee decals on the rear. 440 w/automatic, lemon yellow with a black top. The complete price for it was $200. Why didn’t I buy it? Because Mopar was not my brand. Still kicking myself on that one. Now remember this was before the big classic car craze. As comparison, I bought both a Ford toploader and a Borg Warner T10 for $55 and $50 respectively from this same yard, so all things were cheaper back then. Anyway, the Superbee had a tired engine, but I was recently out of tech school and it would have been a simple rebuild. Coulda, shoulda, I guess.
 
^^^^ yeah, there’s the one that got away…. Good point. I was salvaging a VW motor out of a bug for a hovercraft project (which probably fortunately never got built). in the yard was a gas powered merc… old thing with bullet shaped turn signal lenses and a speedo that was a vertical window with a fixed pointer and scrolling dial. I had a good battery with me and as best I could tell, it was in immaculate shape, except for the manual transmission. The shifter mechanism was spilled out all over the floor and I had no idea what that meant, but did know that Benz parts were hard to source, and probably an issue on a lawn mowing budget. I always wished I’d ditched the VW motor and went for the Benz.
 
95' Honda Prelude SI. Not sure if the American market offered 4w steering. I remember being in 5th grade, and begging my parents to get it. We ended up with a 95 Ford Escort wagon. I still wish they wouldn't have junked it. It wanted to swap a Ford Focus RS motor into it.
 
Camaro SS
Subaru WRX STI

back when these cars were $30-35k. I can afford them now but I’ve lost interest in them. I rather get a $70k duramax now.
 
95' Honda Prelude SI. Not sure if the American market offered 4w steering. I remember being in 5th grade, and begging my parents to get it. We ended up with a 95 Ford Escort wagon. I still wish they wouldn't have junked it. It wanted to swap a Ford Focus RS motor into it.

The only 4WS Prelude I remember in the US was the 1988 model. I recall it was completely mechanical.

I thought of maybe getting a '95 Prelude Si. It was kind of expensive compared to the Integra GS-R that I did get.
 
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