In article <1153434529.059094.44170.DeleteThis@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
midlant.DeleteThis@earthlink.net wrote:
> If you were starting a general car museum and had room to nicely
> display 15 cars, which would you pick? Don't get too esoteric - nothing
> rarer than a Cord or Auburn.
>
> Midlant
Early Benz (they started it all)
Model T Ford (for mass production)
Self starter Cad
1935 Mercedes 500 (symbolizing the 1930s)
1937 Packard (for luxury)
Early VW Bug
1947 Studebaker (advanced styling)
1953 Studebaker (ditto)
1953 Porsche 356
1963 Morris Minor (a monument to stupid design)
1962 Jaguar XK-E (one of the most beautiful cars ever)
1966 Porsche 911 (as the ultimate air-cooled engine car)
1972 Datsun 240Z (when the Japanese got their sports car thing together)
1975 Trabant (for how NOT to build a car)
1991 Saturn SL-2 (when the US got back in the game)
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