scottyrocks
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I got my eye on the Pontiac Solstice roadster. It would be a toy, mostly, and I've yet to see one at a price low enough to justify the expenditure. Give it a couple more years, maybe.
I went through a '60s-vintage British sports car phase, lasting from the early 1980s until just recently. Had a couple Triumphs and my fave, a '64 MGB, which was a blast to drive. Just about any low-end four-door built in the last 20 years outperforms it by most any measure. But for just tooling around on a sunny day, it had few rivals. You always knew where it was and what it would do under most any circumstance. No blind spots with the top down. Parking a snap. Hell, when I spotted an open parking space on the opposite side of the street, I just looked to make certain there were no cops and did a mid-block U-turn.
BMW Z3 roadsters can be had at prices I might consider, and to my eye they're considerably more attractive than their successor, the Z4. But I hear that repairs can be frightfully expensive. I'm hoping that's among those bits of conventional wisdom that just ain't so.
Argh! This post made my heart race. I've wanted an MGB or Midget my entire life and never got one.
Last year I was reading up on the 1st gen Frogeye/Bugeye Austin Healey Sprites, another favorite of mine. There's a guy not too far from me who restores and sells them - a real pro. I still may do it.