which car is sitting in your listening room?

@rodman99999d>
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Never was much for Ford, but- ALWAYS drooled over Caroll’s Cobras(ACs, that is)! He had his fingers in the Ford GT/GT40 leg-wetters too. AHHHH, the Sixties(high octane/compression, no cats/emission controls and lead rocked)!


I can dig it! and did. albeit mostly on two wheels.

loved both the small block ver and the big block which ran zero to 100mph annd back to zero in less than 12 ticks. whoa.

two seater and no roof! how do ya beat that?

living for a while in Californialand, I bought a honda 750 new. rode it back to Fla. and had a Yoshimura racing kit installed. nice but should have gone with either a Turbo or SC.

the true humbler was a KZ 900 with a RC Engineering 1130cc all race kit. that one gort the works so it would be streetable... somewhat. tons of cosmetics as well. blew the head off racing. sold it broken for half what I had in it.
never rode again. wel, once I rode a friends new 80cid Harley across town during a 'repo' for a personal debt another fella owed him.

I could never see me owning Milwaukee's finest. Ducati, BMW, and assorted Rice burners? yep. all show and no go? nope.


@motown>
a 2009 Ford Focus with about 125k miles. The A/C still works!

congrats! Good call. keeping it real.


@wspohn
Whenever I see threads like "What turntable should I buy for $2000?" my response is always 'What someone else paid $4000 for not long ago.

ditto! or better!

though time does add into the equation.

growing up in the middle of last century I became enamored with Detroit steel. the Plymouth Hemi Cuda 1971 was and has ben my all time fav. under $5300 then, it ran an 11 second Quarter mile at 120mph, boxz stock off the show room floor.

Mopar big blocks then were the real deal!


@clearthink
Audio has nothing to do with cars


correct.

it does however have to do with money. and people who buy audio gear also buy cars. Well, mostly.

so you've never given any thought to what sort of automobile you could have for the price of your stereo rig?

often a past time surpasses financial prudence and folks wind up with a lot more invested into their past time than makes for good sense. though most audio nuts keep their systems evolving so the sticker shock is easier to swallow, until you are well into the deep end of the pond, as it were.

this is a simple thread. aimed at realizing some things about the hobby. such as how important the quality of the sound is to someone. perhaps too how deep some pockets are, but mostly towards opening eyes as to where the passion of devotion in audio ends up in a popular and more relatable vein, e.g. Cars.

and yes it is a bit silly but applicable and on a lighter side, appropriate.

" which car is sitting in your listening room?"

It is not exactly "sitting" in my listening room but it is hanging on the wall... A large picture of a Ferrari Prototipa. Kind of cool, an orange silkscreen on white paper with acoustic dots on the glass covering it. 

uberwaltz,

"Thankfully Google told me it was the fantastic Yugo ( that was the name in England)."

Yugo was made by the same company as rodman99999's Zastava 750s choice, but it was not the same car.

Yugo, in comparison, was roomy, comfortable, and relatively modern.

Either way, looking back from 2019, you have not missed much. However, it did have certain charm.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1983-zastava-750/

@blindjim - Those GTs were small-blocks too AND; some are still out there kicking butt(ie: even in the Quarter): https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=ItLJoKTfWPw What a gorgeous piece of automotive sculpting! "all show and no go? nope. / ....blew the head off racing. sold it broken for half what I had in it."     Ever ridden a bored and stroked Shovelhead? A buddy of mine owned a big-bore kit KZ and a majorly customed Sporty. He let me take the KZ through the park. It was fun, but- zip and splats always put me in mind of BIC lighters(compared to Zippo)! Then there’s the comfort on a cross-country thing(even chopped). Different strokes for different folks(so many applications, for that cliche’).

@glupson - "Yugo, in comparison, was roomy, comfortable, and relatively modern."    There’s wasn't much else, that a Yugo was a step up FROM(to end a sentence with a proposition).