Jameson's Viggen
Seasoned Member
For those playing at home, I recently sold my Blackwing.
Why, why, why!
At the time, I said it was to buy land and build my dream property to house my car collection as a museum.
That was the truth at the time. I was wanting to save funds to buy land within 5yrs.
Problem is the land I want, he won't sell it unless I buy 35 acres next to it for $5m.
Whoops.
So Instead. After 16yrs, I sold my Roadster to a friend. I decided to put the funds from the BlackWing with the Roadster sale and buy a dream car of mine.
So I did.
It had to be a 2 seater, as small as possible, achingly beautiful, THREE pedals, special, rare. I also never had a V8, this would be my first. I had a budget of about $50k
It was a short list, but it was only one car for me . Sorry, the Corvette didn't cut it. It's too common, too big, it's not a dream car to me.
The Roadster became a lot for the street. I was always staring at the gauges and it was sitting too much. My wife began not loving that it was a convertible. So we wanted a 2 seater, a bit more GT, hop on and drive to Florida kind of car. I also don't really need to do much of anything in the way of mods aside from tint, Volk TE37s in Gunmetal and maybe exhaust, tune and intake
This car is not fast. I don't care. Now that I have an EV that acceleration is like an easy button. I really don't care about numbers. I care about theater, about experience. The noises this car makes as it revs to peak power at 7500rpms, worth it. A 997 911 GTS in many ways is a better car on paper but is $30k MORE used and far less special to me. This car depreciated $100k from its $165k sticker lol. Everyone assumes bad reliability and super high maintenance costs. But it's the secret that this Ford era car is an exception.
So yeah, I said I didn't sell the BlackWing for another car, there was no next car. It was true at the time. But I know I seem like a liar lol .
Why, why, why!
At the time, I said it was to buy land and build my dream property to house my car collection as a museum.
That was the truth at the time. I was wanting to save funds to buy land within 5yrs.
Problem is the land I want, he won't sell it unless I buy 35 acres next to it for $5m.
Whoops.
So Instead. After 16yrs, I sold my Roadster to a friend. I decided to put the funds from the BlackWing with the Roadster sale and buy a dream car of mine.
So I did.
It had to be a 2 seater, as small as possible, achingly beautiful, THREE pedals, special, rare. I also never had a V8, this would be my first. I had a budget of about $50k
It was a short list, but it was only one car for me . Sorry, the Corvette didn't cut it. It's too common, too big, it's not a dream car to me.
The Roadster became a lot for the street. I was always staring at the gauges and it was sitting too much. My wife began not loving that it was a convertible. So we wanted a 2 seater, a bit more GT, hop on and drive to Florida kind of car. I also don't really need to do much of anything in the way of mods aside from tint, Volk TE37s in Gunmetal and maybe exhaust, tune and intake
This car is not fast. I don't care. Now that I have an EV that acceleration is like an easy button. I really don't care about numbers. I care about theater, about experience. The noises this car makes as it revs to peak power at 7500rpms, worth it. A 997 911 GTS in many ways is a better car on paper but is $30k MORE used and far less special to me. This car depreciated $100k from its $165k sticker lol. Everyone assumes bad reliability and super high maintenance costs. But it's the secret that this Ford era car is an exception.
So yeah, I said I didn't sell the BlackWing for another car, there was no next car. It was true at the time. But I know I seem like a liar lol .
