Well I bet I'll shock a bunch of guys here but I have three cars, that no one would imagine me ever owning since I race a fwd Cavalier:
1. '66 Chevy II, with a 283 and a powerglide. I found a Rochester 4GC carb, and would've made it into an eventual K-M/SA if I'd have kept it. But I didn't have the heart to have to use it as a daily driver, and didn't have the bucks to buy something else for a street vehicle.
2. '67 Chevelle, also with a 283 and 'glide, with a 2bbl carb on it. I bought a 327, and some pieces that should've hopped it up, but instead of having someone like "Verle Stevens" build it, I ended up going to a shade tree mechanic that worked on my '73 Div. 5 Street ET winning Pontiac Ventura (back in '81)...that was a mistake!
3. '66 Impala 396/325 2dr coupe, with (egads) a 3spd tranny!!! I should've let the shop I bought the car from repair the carb, but I thought I'd support my local service shop, and the jerk obviously dropped either a nut or bolt into my intake manifold, and couldn't reach it, so he built the carb, slapped it on the car, pushed it out of the shop, and within just two blocks of driving it away from the shop, I hear this "BLAMM" sound, and that was the bolt or nut going through my block cracking it, and ruining my efforts to race at Bandimere with a mid-to fast side of Street ET race car. I wish I'd have known some of my racing buds up there better then, I could have sued the shop for ruining my engine, but I was a 21yr old that didn't know any better, and a first gen racer, so I had no backup...
4. Now the easiest car (to work on), that also was my most successful raced vehicle was my '76 Chevy Vega...I bought that car new, and definitely wish I could have it back (since I won 7 bracket races in 8 final rounds, including Denver South High Schools last known equivalent of a state championship by winning the "King of The Hill" title at Bandimere Speedways Memorial Day Dragfest)! I also made the semi's at the first Div. 5 ET finals in Marion Sd. with the car, after filling in for other racers who couldn't go to the race (I was the fourth alternate, since I finished 14th in their points standings that year)! So if anyone out there in Co. comes across a Cream colored hatchback with the vin "IV77B6U220942", let me know...I'd love to have it back, as that was my winningest race car ever...it may have been the slowest of my raced cars, but I was inspired by George Williams' Vega, and wanted to do what he did. The last time I saw that car, it had a pontiac 151 and a 4spd in it. When I bought it, it had an original 140 4cyl, 2bbl carb, and a Turbo 250 automatic in it. That car would've been much easier to hop up than my Z24 (no computer)!!!
Great thread idea!!!