If I had an extra 48 million dollars; Ferrari 250 GTO # 3413 at auction

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With global capitalism and economic systems designed to keep the 1% in their drivers seat.

Here's what you can drive:








A beautiful car, with an amazing history. The car that beat Shelby. I believe it is the most expensive car ever sold.



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Nice car..

But I would have the biggest Mopar collection in the world with that money.
 
I don't like compact cars.

Just told a friend yesterday on the phone that I would rather drive a 4door Fury than any Ferrari or Porsche

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I remember a 64 Car and Driver article where they concluded the Pontiac to be the better buy at 3400 Dollars compared to the 20 k Ferrari or any Ferrari in many fields. This was the article where they came to an unbelievably low 0-60 acceleration time of 4.6 seconds for the GTO that additionally fueled the author's favorable test results. IIRC Jim Wangers later wrote in his memoirs this car was "by accident" built with a 421 Pontiac engine and the markings for some Speed Trials were off as well.
 
That Talbot will be only slightly more than a Tribute car when it is ever finished. I'll give any unrestored low mileage Ford Pinto more historical relevance than such a recreation. :p
 
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I remember a 64 Car and Driver article where they concluded the Pontiac to be the better buy at 3400 Dollars compared to the 20 k Ferrari or any Ferrari in many fields. This was the article where they came to an unbelievably low 0-60 acceleration time of 4.6 seconds for the GTO that additionally fueled the author's favorable test results. IIRC Jim Wangers later wrote in his memoirs this car was "by accident" built with a 421 Pontiac engine and the markings for some Speed Trials were off as well.

There were two test cars; a blue one and a red one. Both had ringer 421 Tri-Powers. That's the beauty of Pontiac: all their V8 blocks look the same externally and have the same external dimensions. The blue car spun a bearing and was towed back to Michigan, rumored to have been crushed (not 100% verified) but the red car lives on having undergone an extensive restoration by noted Pontiac restorer Scott Tieman. It still boasts it's "original" 421 motor.

Here's Jim giving the lowdown with the car.
 
I've never liked Ferraris, or sports cars for that matter, an R/T Hemi Charger, that's something else and at a fraction of the price.
 
There were two test cars; a blue one and a red one. Both had ringer 421 Tri-Powers. That's the beauty of Pontiac: all their V8 blocks look the same externally and have the same external dimensions. The blue car spun a bearing and was towed back to Michigan, rumored to have been crushed (not 100% verified) but the red car lives on having undergone an extensive restoration by noted Pontiac restorer Scott Tieman. It still boasts it's "original" 421 motor.

Here's Jim giving the lowdown with the car.


that is Pontiac.
Their cars were so slow they had to cheat all the time.
Giving out test cars with a 421 (which no one could order because they just came with the 389 engines).

In the 69 model year Car&driver made a big supercar shootout, ordered the cars and checked them for originality. Again Pontiac sent a car which was far off from a street car. Result: C&D took it off the test because it wasn't a street car someone could have bought.

Pontiac test cars for magazines were as genuine as Jim Wangers hair in the video
 
Hemi, Schmemi. :D Despite that fact they were still the ones to beat for two of the most exciting decades of car manufacturing if you measure them by production numbers within their market range.
 
Priced per pound C bodies are the best deal going.
 
that is Pontiac.
Their cars were so slow they had to cheat all the time.
Giving out test cars with a 421 (which no one could order because they just came with the 389 engines).

In the 69 model year Car&driver made a big supercar shootout, ordered the cars and checked them for originality. Again Pontiac sent a car which was far off from a street car. Result: C&D took it off the test because it wasn't a street car someone could have bought.

Pontiac test cars for magazines were as genuine as Jim Wangers hair in the video

I don't know about slow. Wangers won the 1961 NHRA Superstock National Championship in a '60 Ventura.

I think transplanting the 421's was genius. How do you think the 389 would have fared against the Ferrari GTO? The ringer catapulted the popularity of the GTO and the Muscle Car was born; not necessarily a bad thing.

Bad toupee and nipple waisted pants aside, Wangers was a marketing genius in his day and played a very important role in the launch of factory performance cars a.k.a. Muscle Cars.
 
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