The year is 1962. What does /o/ cruise the strip in?
Either/or
>>15030481
>1962
My 62 caddy of course
'57 Chevrolet Nomad
In 1962 with all else being the same, I would probably be rolling around in an late 50s MGA coupe.
Probably an EK holden.
>>15030447
Some pre-war car that i could've gotten super cheap because it'd be 20-30 years old and priceless now.
>>15030493
Jap crap. Toyota will never be a successful car company in the US. Them gooks will never figure out how to build a car with the same quality as a Ford, Chevy or even Studebaker.
Toyota is just a fad, they'll go away.
cruising in absolute comfort, blasting Elvis Presley from my Becker cassette.
At what point in 1962? If its late enough in the year I'll get a brand spanking new 1963 split window.
>>15030557
Was there such a thing as cassettes in 1962?
>>15030554
pre war cars were still really expensive in 1960's money.
You realise just how many of them were melted down for tanks/ships/planes etc right?
Probably could have bought 5 brand new top of the line cars in the 60's for the price of an abused pre war car.
>>15030592
Yes but they were brand new.
>>15030592
cassettes were invented in like 1935
no other option
>>15030605
Are you fucking high? Do you know nothing about American car culture in the 50s and 60s?
283 powered hot rod
>>15030605
you do realize that just about every hotrod built postwar in the big boom was an old dirt cheap prewar car that somebody dumped a shitload of new parts in, right?
summer's started, gentlemen.
>>15030613
You had enough time to find a pic but not enough to google the date?
>>15030644
>choosing a SBC when there are literally dozens of better motors for the same price
>>15030665
name one better
>you cant
>>15030678
you could go with the 350 or the 454
>>15030683
neither of those existed in 1962
might be able to get a 327 if you were real lucky
>>15030678
Oldsmobile 394
Oldsmobile 371
Oldsmobile 371 J-2
Buick 364
Buick 322
Buick 401
Pontiac 371
Pontiac 347
Pontiac 389
Pontiac 316
I literally only named GM motors didn't even include cadillac
>>15030699
the Olds engines are huge and heavy
the Buick engines have small valves, they make torque but cant breathe, also heavy
the 389 is the only one Id consider and even then a Chevy is the more common engine
theres a reason the SBC has remained so popular for so long
>>15030721
The SBC was an afterthought in hot rodding until the 70s
>>15030721
The Buick valves also open further and longer
>>15030741
not really
the SBC market was strong by the 60s, replacing the HEMI as the engine of choice
by time the 350 came out it was almost ubiquitous as the hot rod engine, and we all know how things went after that
Jaguar E-type
>>15030678
Flathead with a supercharger
>>15030447
This was filmed in my home town of Petaluma. Every year they do an American Graffiti themed car show that you fags would really love.
Honda T360
AC Cobra
>>15030827
>dick status: muh
E-type, without a doubt.
same car my grandpa drove in the races
This right here. Cheapest they ever were was when they were new.
>>15030884
They had a depreciation curve like any other Ferrari. My dad almost bought a 59 250GT in the 80s for 15,000 USD
>>15030884
late 50s and 60s desing makes my dick so hard
>>15030900
damn, he shoulda pulled the trigger. 80s supras were going for 18k
>>15030447
seriously tho
>>15030912
Hindsight is 20/20. It was a pinifarina coupe by the way
>>15030662
Yep, pretty impressive how lazy some people can be no?
Just look at how long it took me to reply to you.
>>15030928
didn't some of those old fuckers have detroit 2 stroke V8s in them?
or was that the next gen or two?
Moto Guzzi Cafè Racer
>>15030555
Everyone in the 70s had a Toyota because muh oil crisis
>>15030978
>cafe racer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbu6nXV3xZ4
>>15030934
Talking about my dad almost buying a Ferrari in the 80s reminds me that my Grandad priced a bunch of used Ferraris and Jaguars in the late 60s. I can post the prices he wrote down in his notebook. If anyone is interested I'll post them in the morning
>>15030447
Jaguar E type. I can't pick my miata, a datsun, it'll be the jaguar.
>>15030994
sure, that sounds interesting
>>15030994
Don't bother. People here are too autistic to understand how expensive they were in the 60s in relation to COLA and inflation.
>>15030986
>being mad about changing bars and seat
The autism is strong in this one.
I'm sure you've never changed a factory part on anything you've owned. (You probably don't own a bike or car)
>>15031010
He priced other cars as well. Datsuns, Volvos, Peugeot, Triumphs, Fiats and MGs I can post the whole list. That way the autists here can have a better frame of reference
>>15030518
*muffled 12 bar blues in the distance*
'61 Galaxie Starliner 427
A Triumph TR-4.
>>15031043
>1961
>427
Educate yourself. The 406 wasn't even available in 61
>>15030827
>62
>cobra
You Carroll Shelby nigga?
as a time traveler from the far off future of 1975, im here to warn you about gas rationing and Vietnam in my Lancia Stratos.
>>15031063
Fe 390 it is then. Never known much about the 427
>>15031115
End yourself
My '60 desoto adventurer with the 383 hemi. Oh baby there's just something about the design of the adventurer that speaks to me.
It's kinda similar to other chrysler cars in the later iterations, but I don't give a fuck. It's still stylish. I'd swap in a 4-speed manual instead of that god-awful 3 speed auto though.
>>15030447
Chevy Nomad or a Bel-Air
>>15030447
63 eldorado
>>15030447
Avanti.
>>15031166
>63 eldorado
Baller-Status: Achieved
Now, if I had to pick an American-made rod (as opposed to my previous pick: TR-4), then I'd get a '59 DeVille coupe.
>>15030613
try 1965 ya dip
>>15031219
This in retrospect is the only possible answer, but in 1962 you'd look fucking goofy with those tail fins. They crashed out of style hard.
>>15031219
goddamn those are sexy.
those and '55 bel airs are my favorite cars of that era.
A Studebaker Wagon.
With R2 packaged 289ci V8, 4spd and limited slip diff.
>no one will know bout my sleeper wagon
>>15031225
8 track cartridge ?
a DMC-12
>>15030979
Yeah buts its 62 fgt
>>15032309
70s includes 62, therefor I rekt you real hard.
>>15030447
My Corvair
>>15030447
>Production: 1962-1967
God bless model years.
Lotus 7
>>15030447
If I had money
And it's 1962
I'd go downtown
and buy a mercury or 2
Hot rodded prewar sedan thats been chopped and channeled. Running a supercharged flathead with zoomies.
>>15032671
>supercharged flathead
>in 1962
Why? Nostalgia? When the more modern V8 came out in the 50s people dropped the flatties like a bad habit.
>>15032913
Flathead was still very popular keep in mind that a lot of hot rodders were kids in high school or fresh out. The parts and engines would have been able to acquired for cheap
My brand new Pontiac Tempest. Full aluminum engine, transaxle for 50:50 weight distribution, full independent suspension. Not even the Corvette features the things you find in this car yet.
Give me a little more time to save up and roam places and eventually I'll put a Buick Skylark front end on it as they're both based on the same body.
62 corvette
Well, I would be driving the equivalent of my $2200 shitbox Miata.
>>15031043
Starliners are beautiful cars, such perfect lines for a big body
>>15033458
Oh, but yeah... minus the V8... and supercharger... ;-;7
>>15030592
Yes, but they were vastly inferior to the 8-track tape until the mid-late 70s. This is why most cars from the late 60s all the way up to the early 80s came equipped with 8-track radios from the factory.
>>15033420
>1st gen corvette
'32 model a Tudor fender less rod
>>15031149
>Torqueflite
>God awful
Pick one
>>15033504
Or a '57 bel air convert with the feul injected 283
>>15031149
Whenever I see a DeSoto with that fish-mouth grill and those massive fins, all I can think of is Sam & Max.
And that isn't a bad thing at all.
1955 F100
>>15033521
Or the 'vette equivalent
56 150 with a high comp 327 and 4 spd.
>Go 88 mph. Arrive in 1962. Slow, low, bangin.... dubstep slamming out the stereo, sparks flying.
Hippie bitches would be moist to swang on muh dick. Feel me?
>>15033546
Hippies weren't a thing yet
>>15033546
>1962
>hippies
>>15031149
>desoto
>383
>hemi
Are you stupid.
>>15033546
>stanced
>going 88mph
but seriously, now im curious what car /o/ would take back in time to blow the minds of Greasers and Teenybobbers.
>>15033575
Something from the smog-era 80's. Maybe a C4 Corvette with the 140hp V8.
I need to give them a warning of the future before it all goes wrong.
>>15033575
They'd all be none the wiser. >:^)
Considering I drive a miata, probably something like this. But modified
>>15033588
>not a prowler for maximum incognito status
Oh you ignorant slut.
49 or 50 merc lead sled, chopped and decked, maybe some flames; either lake pipes or some flame throwers run out the rear, ass end lower than the front for that tugboat stance
>>15033586
im sure they'd be more fascinated by the TVs in your car than the rest of that niggerific automotive abortion.
This
>>15033612
Toby?
Some British motorcycle most likely. Norton 650 or something.
>>15030447
>1962
I skip forward five years and drive the ultimate weeb mobile
>>15033623
>r32
>1962
GTR fanboy detected
>>15033623
even people in the 60s would think the R32 is a boring looking car.
>>15032671
Cost and sound. Flatheads have a distinct sound that makes me go huugggnnn.
>>15032913
Cost and sound. I love the sound flatheads make.
>>15033692
Yeah, it's looks like any sedan just with two doors instead, that's the charm
>>15033575
Definitely a Tesla. Even though everyone here loves to hate it there's nothing that would be better to blow a 60's mind.
For that European flair
Or maybe align with zee Germans
>>15030978
>Moto Guzzi Cafè Racer
>1962
Do you even know what a '62 guzzi looks like you dumb hipster?
>>15030900
>Tfw uncle almost bought a Superbird in the 80's for like 10K but his (now ex) wife went and spent it all on shitty furniture instead
>>15034005
>tfw my grandpa bought a 300SL in the 70's but had to sell it because my grandma was bitching about not being able to enter or exit the car in a "ladylike" move.
I loved my grandmother but when I learned about it I was salty.
>>15033831
that's called a coupe
surplus willys jeep
>>15030447
1930 model a pickup with the newly released 427 Ford engine
>>15033529
I'd cruise all day and night in that truck!
i dont mind not going sanic
i dont even mind going pretty slowly
i dont mind the faster cars whizzing around me
i just want to have a big, comfy landbarge, but a pretty one with silly suspension and a super soft floor
Pre war Indian.
Just to be difficult, a 57 Lincoln
>>15033599
ultimate stealth mode incoming. but hell, the oil crisis is a decade away, may as well go with the 4.9
>>15030447
Mercedes Mechanic here, I'd have to say this.
>>15030994
As promised I have the prices of 3 cars my grandad priced on 12-30-1969 in Atlanta, Georgia
>1962 Ferrari 250GT: 3895 USD
>1967 Jaguar E-type: Roadster: 3195 USD
>1965 330GT 2+2: 5895 USD
Just for reference a 1969 Ferrari Dino 246GT would've cost 14,500 USD in 1969 and a Datsun 240Z was 3500 USD
>>15036977
Damn inflation
I'll be the first eurofag in America runing 11 seconds down the strip