As a former owner of a 1974 Mercedes 220D I vote for the Merc.

Corvette is a religion in those parts. I've made the pilgrimage to the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green.

Oh dear God.

This would be fantastic in some kind of experimental aircraft, too. Mmmmmm.

@thnkwhatyouthnk: I can't tell if there is a backseat or not. I don't think there is; I think it's just a "hump" for a drivetrain underneath.

Given all the recent talk about RWD vs. other powertrain arrangements I bet the underpinnings are MR2 (since the last gen MR2 was not pretty, IMHO.) ... the Celica's latest styling isn't so bad, so someone made lemons from lemonade?

@badco:

Why am I thinking of shoehorning this into an Opel GT or TR4 or similar.

850 = nickasil block, right? Heh. Then again, if it still running now, it's not going to die.

It's a friggin' e-type! Do you have to ask?

tracks!

That is fairly badass.

I honestly thought Murilee batted for team XX until I saw this definitive post.

Yeah, I'm trying to digest it. WTF? I'm thinking that the driver wasn't the owner...

My corvettes (when I had them) never not got me laid. I'm sure that I wound up dating/bagging women solely because of my four-wheeled automatic leg-spreaders.

Get the EFI setup off an '80s Ford pickup at chez-junkyard and graft it onto the existing 460. It should work. That will get you 1-2MPG better! THEN supercharge it and plumb it how you would a dry nitrous system (the forced induction BEFORE the MAF.) You're restricted to slightly less boost but less plumbing headache.

@noremac: Ronin was an S8? Or am I confused?

You can't compare the styling of a '57 to a '65. The '57 wins hands-down.

The UAW has in-part priced US labor costs too high to be competitive. The specter of inexpensive (cheap) cars from China augmenting the US auto market is scary to the big three. They were emasculated by Japan in the 80s, the Koreans in the 90s and now the Chinese. The ability for the big-3 to compete on cost is a…

I brought the Jensen back to within 1 vote of the NSU! The Jensen has the whole shooting-brake thing going for it as well as a fugly yellow.