Yes, I believe we have all had cars in our past that we surly wish...... we owned now......... so we could sell them!
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Mine where
A 1949 Buick Roadmaster Convertible Straight 8 with Power Top and Driver seat, but .... Hydraulic...
Even at 16 YOA I never saw Top End !
America didn't have a road anywhere....... that was long enough and straight enough for that freight train to get to the top..... and I surely wouldn't have found one, with room enough at the end to stop it, even if I had found one...hummmmmmm 2 speed
On Edit: Dynoflow ( slip a-matic )
2nd .. I too, had a T Bird. It was the 1965 427 Electronic Ignition Landau...Lost my licence to drive with that one for 6 months
Go Figure, even back then Drag Racing was AGAINST the Law!
As for British Frustration .....I had owned a Triumph Bonneville, who's parts are more readily available NOW ......than then... Even my 1959 Harley Pan Head was more reliable ....... easier to maintain and the parts more readily available...
but then I found and bought this instead (after a year of searching) 
and still wound up with this 
I know it's not British and all that rot 
but at least I won't have to work on it constantly 
and the guy wanted $2400 for it but since it belonged to a friend of his who had left title and disappeared 3 years prior and it was taking up room in his garage where he was body off restoring a 57 'vette' ,I got it for $950 and it only has 74,000 miles and no rust 
for a steal also. I love this crappy economy, 
I had mint 57chevy 30,000 mi, clear plastic on seats, doors, mint 56 chevy sedan delivery, 2- 66 SS and 72 SS chevies, 65 T-Bird convertible and I cry every time I watch Barrett/Jackson Auto Auctions on TV, you can't see but I'm kicking my rear 
]. They also had an under-body electric fuel pump mounted behind the passenger seat - with a handy access panel to facilitate striking it with a spanner when the points would get stuck [not funny the third time it happens while driving to Florida on your honeymoon, and you have to toss all the stuff from behind the seat onto your bride's lap in order to get to the access panel before drifting to a stop]. When we did sell the second Tiger, it was to a Californian who flew to Delaware to pick it up, and drove it home. If only our first house had had a garage...... The Sunbeams were victims of the arrival of our kids, and we moved [I won't say "up" - although 4-wheel discs and dual overhead cams were definitely higher on the sophistication scale] to a series of FIAT 124s, which had their own electrical peculiarities. Ah, great memories! 
