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What do you think is the rarest regular production car you've ever seen?


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1 hour ago, First Born said:

 

 

  An abomination ??

 

  Ben

 

The Dymaxion was kind of neat with some interesting engineering.  Many other cars I would consider actual abominations before that.  I know that list would be a fun topic here :)

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The rarest production car I ever saw was a pickup truck & it was just last month. The guy has a perfect original (looks like new) 1966 Chevy short bed pickup his father bought new because they needed a truck for the family farm. It was in PERFECT original condition with only 2973 miles.  They bought it and never used it. I have seen many cars and trucks, I have also owned a few low production cars including the 47 Lincoln cont conv, 57 Ford 2 dr wagon and my 67 Mercury parklane conv that I own now. In my opinion a perfect original show room condition farm truck, that has been on a farm in a one car garage full of heavy farm equipment and oil cans since 1966 is much rarer they any restored car or truck regardless of production numbers. He is thinking of selling it but does not know the value or best way to sell it, any suggestions. I will open a new topic on this question.

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1 hour ago, balonybob718 said:

... In my opinion a perfect original show room condition farm truck, that has been on a farm in a one car garage full of heavy farm equipment and oil cans since 1966 is much rarer they any restored car or truck regardless of production numbers...

I think that is just a completely different category.  You occasionally see things like the truck you describe, or grandpas Pinto with a few thousand miles on it, but it isn't the vehicle that is rare, it's the condition of the vehicle that is rare.  It would be hard for me to get my head around the premise that an original '66 Chevy truck is rarer than a restored '62 260 Cobra.  I've probably seen tens of thousands of '66 Chevy trucks in my life, but not one 260 Cobra.

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 1970 Dodge D-100 with the top-of-the-line Adventurer package. Exact color combination featured in the '70 Dodge truck brochure. 318/auto.12,423 original miles. Original paint. Original tires. Bed never used! Factory grease pencil marks still on the frame and rear-end.Runs and drives perfect. No rust. No leaks. No issues. Museum quality untouched original. Sold for 35.000?

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About 50 years ago I bought a 1916 Briscoe touring car from Tom Reese in Minnesota.  It had an OHV V-8 that was a factory option.  The base model came with a 4.  If you bought the 4 and later decided you wanted the 8, the factory would make the engine swap (4 bolts, I think) for 200 bucks.  That car could easily top 60, but was horribly underbuilt. It would snap axles like toothpicks. It burned a quart of oil in 25 miles, which did a real number on the local mosquito population.

 

Gil Fitzhugh the Elder, Morristown, NJ

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