Hello, Kansas City, and welcome back to the Bespoke Automotive Refinement Podcast. We are so glad that you’ve joined us on this amazing summer day. Thomas is working out near the plaza in an amazing garage.
Thomas, can you tell them a little bit about this really cool garage that you’ve been working in? Yeah, so I’ve been working in a garage collection owned by an elderly gentleman who’s got old Corvettes. He’s got a Ferrari Barchetta. He’s got a Ferrari 275 GTB 4 cam, but the one that’s really cool is the Mercedes SL 300 Gullwing from the 1950s.
So it’s a very, very unique car and it’s really cool to be able to work on it. So right now I’m working on a 1977 Mercedes SL 450 SL. So I’m still learning my Mercedes stuff, but this one’s coming along quite well.
Now today we’re going to be talking about some vintage cars, comparing them to the kind of their pair for nowadays, like a vintage classic versus their modern equivalent. Now Thomas, can you start off by telling us maybe a favorite car of yours? Like if you were to list off your top favorite cars from let’s say like more old style vintage. Like you and I are going through a book the other day of some old Mustangs.
You’re like, oh I’d love to own this. I’d love to own that versus some cars today that you really like. Yeah, so as far as old vintage cars go that I like, I really like the 1967 Shelby GT 500.
I think that is one of my favorite classic cars. Specifically, you know, if you do it up and make it look like Eleanor from Gone in 60 Seconds, that’s like the ultimate dream car of mine. It’s a classic because they take a classic car and they modernize it.
They swap out the carburetor for electronic fuel injection and a lot of big horsepower. So I’m big into what are called Resto Mods, where they take an old car, they put a modern engine in it, they put a modern computer system in it, and modern suspension. So it rides like a modern car but it, you know, still has the body in the shape of an old muscle car.
That’s cool. Yeah, another one of my favorites would be a mid-60s, so a C1 or excuse me C2 Corvette 427 split window. That’s a big money car.
You know, very, very, very rare to find a split window C2 but I think that’s one of the best looking American sports cars ever. And then, as I’m sitting here thinking of what else, hmm, oh I think one of the one of my favorite cars that I’ve only seen a couple of them in my life would be the 1972 Plymouth Superbird. Car that Plymouth used in NASCAR and, you know, they made this car like a literal NASCAR that you could drive on the road.
So it has a huge wing on the back, it’s got a triangular shaped front nose cone for aerodynamics and it was a car in the 1970s that could go 200 miles an hour, which is it’s not uncommon for a car production car to do 200 miles an hour now, but you know in the 1970s that was insane. It’s pretty fast. America created a car that could do that.
Oh yeah, so definitely those three are big ones for me as far as the vintage stuff goes. So number one on this list for vintage classics, they have a 1963 Corvette Stingray split window, but then number two is with its modern equivalent is a 2024 Corvette Z06. Now they have a C8 just because it’s more modern, but you could definitely put a C6 Z06 on that.
Hey, that’s my girl. Yeah, you’re right. I mean I do appreciate the fact that one of the cars I picked was literally the first one on the list.
Literally the first one on the list. I think it knows what’s good and you always have your thumb on what’s actually cool nowadays. I like to think I do.
I mean there’s so many cool classic cars out there that I’m still learning about that I know nothing about, but you know a 63 split window 427 is awesome and you know I definitely think the modern equivalent would be the C6 Z06 because the C6 Z06 has a 427 in it. Its front engine versus the C8 Z06 is mid-engine, not a 427, flat plane crank V8, so I don’t think they’re really comparable personally. I think that the C6 Z06 is a better modern comparison to the C2 427 split window.
Number two on the list they have a 1965 Shelby Cobra 427 and its modern equivalent is a 2023 Shelby DT500 Mustang. Okay, now I disagree here. So it was a 60 what Cobra? 65 Cobra? 65 Cobra 427 with today’s Shelby DT500.
You know, I think a better comparison would be like what I said about a 1967 Shelby DT500 comparing it to a modern Shelby DT500 because the Cobra it’s definitely a Shelby but it’s not . It’s a totally different type of classic car. You know the Cobra is more like a Corvette. It’s a sports car.
The Shelby DT500 is a muscle car. So comparing a you know saying that a modern muscle car as the modern equivalent to a 60s sports car, I don’t agree with that comparison. I think that that’s a great car.
My brother-in-law has a 65 Cobra 427. You’ve worked on a bunch. It’s a yeah I’ve done a bunch of Cobras.
They are incredible cars. I think it’s definitely something that belongs on the list but I don’t agree with the comparison. Makes sense.
All right, next up on the list. Let’s see if you agree. It is a 1969 Dodge Charger RT versus a 2023 Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye.
Okay, I agree with that. I definitely agree with that comparison. You can’t compare the 69 70s Dodge Charger to the modern day Charger because the modern Chargers have four doors.
They’re really long. It’s more of a sedan versus the Challenger is a long body two-door coupe muscle car. I think that’s a great great great great comparison and I mean I think that I think that the the group of the demographic of people that Dodge marketed the new Hellcats to SRT Hellcats, Scatpacks, Redeyes, all that kind of killed Mopar’s name but I think representation-wise in comparison of classic to modern I think that’s a perfect comparison.
Next up on the list we have a 1961 Jaguar E-Type versus a 2024 Jaguar F-Type R AWD. Yeah you know that’s actually the car that my mom tried to get. Oh really? It was an F-Type R. You actually did perform a Kansas City Car Detailing Service on her, the one she ended up getting.
Yep so she ended up getting an F-Pace Type R which is basically the crossover version. It’s like a supercar crossover. It’s the best way I can describe it.
It’s kind of on par with the Lamborghini Urus and SUV. It’s kind of in that same category but I mean I think that the old Jaguar E-Types are iconic. You never see them.
They’re worth a lot of money. I had a neighbor growing up that had an E-Type and it was beautiful. I don’t know if it’s showing you a picture of what they look like but they are gorgeous and I think that that comparison is pretty pretty accurate to the modern car because the classic one was a two-door front engine coupe and the modern F-Type is a two-door front engine coupe.
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