A great friend of mine offered to sell me his Ferrari 308 GTB for $16,000 in 1984. It needed a clutch. I needed a car. Passed on it. Oh, well.
In 1966 Daddy agreed to buy me a used car to go to college in.
We drove down to Ft. Walton Bch. and began looking. Ft. Walton Motors had a Jaguar XK-150 for $300. It needed an engine rebuild and they would do it for another $300. That was more than my Father would pay.
I ended up with a 55 Ford which ran like a bat out of hell.
Of course even if I had gotten the Jag. it would have been traded off years ago. Still I like to imagine myself driving it.
This is a MUST WATCH for car nuts. A documentary on Ralph Lauren’s car collection:
pt 1 of 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78wyRMf6o1I&list=PL24FA0027ECD422DA
See also:
http://www.ralphlaurencarcollection.com/