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Congratulations, the members have voted you to become the new president of the prestigious National Society for the Preservation of Automotive Culture and History.
The last years have been uneventful and to increase publicity and credibility you've decided to rent space in your capital's downtown for the new offices. There's round about a million dollars of the budget left and it's your job to decorate the ground floor showroom with a representative handful of car models to reflect the interests of the organisation.
What do you pick?
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$1 million Panthers
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>>14028142
1000 Corollas
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>>14028156
I'm in that picture :')
OG STAP 4 lyfe
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100 Twingos.
100 Designers will try to make them look more unique.
WIll sell them like paintings after
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I buy two or three wrecked f1 cars and suspend bits of them from wires as if they were frozen mid crash.
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>>14028225
That's a rather fantastic idea in general, though in my mind the display of destruction stands in a bit of an opposition with the nameplate of preservation.
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Cultural Reflections of Postwar Cars
50's: Arthouse European
Gullwing 300SL
Jaguar E-Type Roadster
Porsche 356
60's: American Muscle
Split Window Corvette
Mustang Fastback
Hemi Cuda
70's :German Motorsport
Porsche 917
BMW 3.0 CSL
Porsche 911 Carrera 2.7 RS
80's: Euro Exotics
Ferrari Testarossa
Lamborghini Countach
DeLorean DMC-12
90's: Japanese Import
Toyota Supra
Mazda RX-7
Nissan 240SX
Nothing in particular comes to mind about the early 2000's, maybe the resurgence of Supercars or a nostalgia period with classical Musclecar styling returning. Seeing as a few of these go for a million alone, these would either have to be cheap replica shells or 1:12 model cars or something.
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>>14028279
eh, it would be cheap and spectacular. Besides, it's preserving the wrecks. You could stick a plaque next to them telling a little bit about the crash and the drivers etc. It fits into the "culture" aspect.
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>>14028142
I buy the old TVR factory with all the Tuscan and Sagaris shells lying around.
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OP here, the ones I'd definitely want based on their innovative value and partially their beauty are the Cord 812 Westchester, Citroen DS23 and Tesla Model S. Additionally a race car or two would definitely round off the selection, for example after a quick search in the ads I've found this Porsche 993 Cup race car which has been painted by French artist Patrick Moya and ran at Pikes Peak in the past.
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1972 C110 GT-R Skyline
1972 Mach 1 Mustang
1972 Holden Monaro GTS
1972 Jaguar E-Type
1972 Ferrari Dino 246
If I could squeeze that into a million dollars. I'd do it.
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>>14028345
Oh and throw in a Porsche 911
From 1972. Obviously, the best year for cars.
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>>14028339
Do
>>14028225
But not with a crashed car.
Pic related
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>>14028339
Or this pre-war Hupmobile racer. Obviously a Bentley race car or something would more prestigious, but this one catches the eye just as well and only costs 60k €.
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