I’m tired of paying $1000 every time my car needs a repair. Other than A/C (Florida), I don’t need anything complicated. Manual windows, seats and other controls would be fine. A 67 Dodge Dart with a slant six would be a good start. Upgrade to disk brakes and a fuel injection bar and throttle body plus a modern radio/music player and I’ll be happy. I’m pretty sure I can probably buy an old one and upgrade it for about a third the cost of a new car.
I watch the car auctions on TV and the price for a really nice classic car that isn’t one in great demand is under $20K, sometimes 10-12K. The next time my current car craps out, I’m going back to simplicity.
“A 67 Dodge Dart with a slant six would be a good start. Upgrade to disk brakes and a fuel injection bar and throttle body plus a modern radio/music player and I’ll be happy. I’m pretty sure I can probably buy an old one and upgrade it for about a third the cost of a new car.”
Absolutely. That is what I now do for extra money. I fix up old classics and flip them. But you are better off putting 20K into an old classic than buying a new piece of junk...
That Dodge is a great car. I have cherried out several. The coolest upgrade I did was an old Rambler with the earlier inline 6 cylinder, not the slant 6. The block and head castings are the same as the late 90s Jeep Cherokee 4.0. So the intake with fuel injection and electronic distributor fits right on it. Just swap out the engine wire loom and add the computer and you are good to go.