what is your "actual" dream car?

[Firedome]

By this I mean not what car you dream about ie: wish you had, but what car, if any, do you have, or are you often driving,
in your actual night-time dreams?

It's very weird, but in dreams I'm always driving, or have in there somewhere, my dark green '71 Fury III 4 door sedan.
I've had many more desirable cars, but the F3 was no doubt one of the best (cheap in 1983 at $350 and re-sold 5 years/100k miles later for $300 with almost no repairs) cars we had. As drivers, bought-to-re-sell cars, or project cars, we've had somewhere in excess of 200 cars (lost count), being a "part-time" vintage car dealer-flipper. About 30-35 of those were family cars/frequent drivers. A few were bought for kids. Drove that old green tank for about 5 years to work 35 miles each way, never had a problem except a ballast resistor one time, but other cars were driven that much or more. Why always THAT car to commute to some fictional (never real) workplace or destination? Happened again last night. Fodder for a shrink? or a sign that that I should look for another one? lol

Does anyone else have one particular car that re-appears over and over in their dreams?

[electra225]

The vehicle I dream about most is a truck.

I miss driving my old black Mack Superliner V-8. I still have my dream car, a '63 Electra. I believe it's hard to beat one with almost anything ever made.

[Ken Doyle]

1966 Chrysler 300 2-door hardtop.

I know the '66 300 isn't part of the 300 "letter series", but the 383 2-barrel is plenty for me, and I love the styling of the '66..

[19&41]

The one I've had appear most in my dreams is my old '71 Jeepster Commando, an ex-forest service vehicle aith a silver body and black hardtop. It had 700X14 tires, a 3 speed transmission and never got stuck in the 6 years I owned it. I bought it from a PATCO air traffic controller that had fallen on hard times. He put the proceeds with that of three other guys and opened the biggest Gilley's-like honky tonk in Ogden Utah.

[TC Chris]

I agree that dreams often include driving, going somewhere, not getting there, whatever. Adventures. Sometimes it's a specific car but not consistently. Those are the good ones. My one recurrent dream is a common one in our culture--the final exam dream. For me, it's in grad school, and I need one class to get the degree, but I haven't attended class all semester. Now I'm trying to find the classroom (never succeeding). I've read similar reports many times; it's a common pattern of anxiety dream. I do prefer to have my anxiety when I'm sleeping....

Chris Campbell

[Firedome]

"71 Commando - no wonder, such a cool Jeep!
A friend had a '52 (?) Jeepster, sorta similar that was a blast.

Chris I have that exact dream except it's always a Calculus class. I didn't go to most of the classes 1st semester of Freshman year, and did almost none of the weekly problem sets but still squeaked by by some miracle. Sometimes I'm working on the exam in the dream and have zero idea what to do, which may have been close to the truth! Luckily I learned the lesson and rebounded for the follow-on courses. But that experience still haunts me 53 years later, evidently.

As to the Fury III. I am at a total loss to understand why it's always that one car, I did love it but also many others!

[electra225]

Rex, did your Jeep Commando have the Buick V-6 engine in it?

[19&41]

Yes, Greg it had the dauntless V6 and a borg warner transmission. My dreams with it are driving it into a new town that I'm moving into. I find a mobile home to rent and get the place set up for living. I then for some reason have to travel cross country by plane, and the stay takes a couple of months longer than expected. I have an incomplete or incorrect address for my home. I fly back to the large city and I only remember the mobile home by sight and there are hundreds of square miles of nothing but residences and i spend the rest of the dream vainly trying to find the home and just as importantly, the car. Real pleasant, huh?

[electra225]

The Buick odd-fire V-6 was a tad crude for automotive use, but it was unbreakable, period. It had a really rough idle. When GM bought the engine back from AMC, it evolved into the equally unbreakable, but more powerful and refined 3.8 Liter, 3800cc V-6 used in millions of GM vehicles, and, turbocharged in the Grand National series of Regal Buicks, made more power than a Corvette V-8 in 1987....

[TC Chris]

Yes, Greg it had the dauntless V6 and a borg warner transmission. My dreams with it are driving it into a new town that I'm moving into. I find a mobile home to rent and get the place set up for living. I then for some reason have to travel cross country by plane, and the stay takes a couple of months longer than expected. I have an incomplete or incorrect address for my home. I fly back to the large city and I only remember the mobile home by sight and there are hundreds of square miles of nothing but residences and i spend the rest of the dream vainly trying to find the home and just as importantly, the car. Real pleasant, huh?

I'm laughing... That "OMG, where am I?" dream is one I have from time to time. It' not quite a regular in plot as yours, but the idea of having forgotten the location is a common theme.

Chris Campbell

[TC Chris]

The Buick odd-fire V-6 was a tad crude for automotive use, but it was unbreakable, period. It had a really rough idle. When GM bought the engine back from AMC, it evolved into the equally unbreakable, but more powerful and refined 3.8 Liter, 3800cc V-6 used in millions of GM vehicles, and, turbocharged in the Grand National series of Regal Buicks, made more power than a Corvette V-8 in 1987....

My brother had a Jeep CJ5 with the Buick V-6. We could never get it to idle well and as the "Car guy" I always figured it was some personal deficiency, since I have lots of those. Of course, in those days we could blame it on "pollution controls."

Today the NYT had an obit for one of their photographers who died in his 90s. They showed one of his most famous photos, showing NYC on its smoggiest day in 1966, looking down from the Empire State Building. Then I looked out of my office window at the city street beyond, busy with cars, all very efficient and clean ones. No clouds of pollution. When we began implementing clean-air regulations, the American car companies all announced that it couldn't be done, and proceeded to prove it. The Japanese took it as a challenge and did it. The Americans had a lot of catch-up to do, but eventually they caught up. As a result, we have a fleet of clean, efficient, and powerful (all at once!!!!) vehicles. No smog out there beyond my office window. My little Ford 4-cyl. engine is way cleaner, way more efficient, and even more powerful than my Chevy V-8. That whole era taught me a valuable lesson about attitude. "We can't do it" is usually a self-fulfilling prophecy, but so is "Gee, how can we do that?" Guess which response is better....

Chris Campbell

[Firedome]

Since you brought that up Chris, that "can't be done" history is repeating itself with electric vehicles. I wonder if one will someday glide silently by in my dreams?

Just like before the big automakers first poo-pooed it, GM made a few half-hearted attempts, but for all it's faults Tesla has proved the concept as realistic, and now everyone else is stuck playing catch-up. NO ONE loves IC engines more than I do, but I can also see the handwriting on the wall, so I'll keep my vintage V8s and move on to the inevitable future. That much improved air quality you see now will become so much better when IC cars become rare, and even more so when the worst offenders, heavy diesel trucks, trains &c are phased out. I still see considerable smog in Denver when we visit there, and LA still has that problem. Metro areas near mountains and other micro-climates still suffer, so more work needs to be done. Everyone benefits from cleaner air, and electric cars will help. 80% of new cars sold in Norway now are electric. A friend recently visited Denmark and they are everywhere. We need to get there. Many trains in Europe are electric, and there's no reason we can't go back to those clean running Penn Central GG1s of yore, or a much improved version, and make high-speed electric passenger rail the prevailing mode for long distance travel. I realize electrification is controversial with some, but I for one can't wait for that dream future.

[hermitcrab]

I had a roadrunner back in the day... but what I really wanted was a Cuda , and still do, but they are hovering close to the 6 figure amounts now...

[TC Chris]

We Americans love our cars. Incidentally, Henry Ford died 75 years ago today. The culture he nurtured persists. I live in a vacation area, to which hordes of tourists from "downstate" flock in the summer (etc.). Lots of cars on weekends, all white-knuckling it up the 2-lanes, kids asking when we are going to get there or where they can pee. There is an active study under way about restoring passenger rail service. People could hop on the train, read, stare at their phones, eat, or even snooze for a couple hours and then arrive all fresh and happy. the principal impediment right now is speeds. Some areas are speed-limited because of the proximity of buildings to tracks. The studies have suggested a maximum time-in-travel that people will accept and the trains have to come in under that to be feasible. There was just a big grant to continue the project. I remember taking a"milk run" train to Florence in Italy and calculating the speed. We were over 60 mph between stops. It was fun and comfortable.

Chris Campbell

[William]

Back when I was a kid, and passenger trains were real trains I rode the Super Chief to California, and then on the return trip it was the California Zepher. As we traveled the train staff would keep us updated on what to look for, where we would be stopping, and what speeds we would be traveling at. When the train was out in the middle of no where, we were told we were hitting speeds between 90 and 100. If you looked out the window, you could tell it was not 55.

Bill

[Firedome]

We've (I've) diverted from cars in our dreams, and this train discussion deserves it's own post, so will do.

[chazglenn3]

I'm torn between a 1966 Toronando or a 1967 Eldorado.

[19&41]

For some reason, some threads fail to notify me of replies, as did this one. On the Commando's V6, it was the first car I did a tune up on. I bought a tach/dwell meter and timing light with which to do it. It took a few tries and a couple times of setting the timing with the vacuum advance connected and very nearly setting the breaker gap with the power connected. I got the procedure down and set it up running as smooth as a sewing machine.I drove it back and forth between Ogden and Salt Lake City to work each weekday