For me, I'd love to pick up a splittie. Even an early bay.

But jeeps are my second love.

On Friday, August 28, 2015, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com> wrote:

> You can't ask a car nut that kind of question. Too many options.  I do
> like the circa '88 Accord hatchback (with flip-up headlights).  Very nice
> looking little car and probably much like our current '05 Civic with some
> added coolth. Probably the sanest choice from a list which includes the
> following:
> Merkur Skorpio or XR4Ti,Mazda 323 GTX (turbo AWD),Nissan Sentra SE-R from
> the early '90s,VW Quantum Syncro Wagon,continues for quite some time...
> Stephen
>
>
>      On Friday, August 28, 2015 10:31 AM, T Collins <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
>
>
>  Hi Jim,
>
> I already do this. My answer: vw scirocco (mine is an 82). Not sure I call
> the scirocco a second choice. For me, these two vehicles are loved for
> their differences and what one can do that the other can't sort of thing.
>
> Dick.... back me up?
>
> Thanks,
> T.
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > By now, many or most of us on this list have spent some serious time and
> > money making our Vanagons back into the capable, fun vehicles they were
> > when they first rolled off the dealer's lot.
> >
> > They are well designed and well manufactured with good materials. They
> > serve the needs of their owners so well that many would agree that there
> > has been no replacement for them made earlier or later, and most of us
> > would agree that is the reason they get the attention lavished on them
> that
> > they do.
> >
> > So, given that some cars have "that certain something" and they warrant
> > being kept and restored, what would be your second choice to give the
> same
> > money and attention toward (as if that were possible for most people)?
> >
> > I am not looking for dream cars or exotics, but ordinary production cars
> > that were well made and a joy to drive that should be resurrected from
> the
> > scrapyards of history.
> >
> > I started thinking about this the other day when I was driving behind a
> > 1983 Honda Accord hatchback, another car that probably has never quite
> been
> > equalled in its utility and fun-to-drive-ness.
> >
> > If you could keep and drive a car as a compliment to your Vanagon, what
> > would it be?
> >
> > Jim
> >
>