Rare Bugatti race cars, vintage Ferrari machines and best-of-show collectors’ cars are great for auto shows. And then there are sentimental favorites, the 1951 Buick your family owned when you were a youngster or the 1951 Chrysler K310 in the neighbors’ driveway?
Or how about a head-turning 1955 Nash Rambler cross country wagon or a 1958 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser?
Owning a Duesenberg you don’t drive is fine. But how about taking a Sunday afternoon cruise in 1951 Chrysler Thunderbolt?
Here are 10 vehicles The Weekly Driver would like to own and drive:
1938 Buick
1941 Chrysler Thunderbolt
1951 Buick LeSabre
1951 Chrysler K310
1953 Buick Wildcat
1954 Dodge Fire Arrow
1955 Nash Rambler
1956 Ford Sunliner
1958 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser
1971 Buick Riviera Boattail
Article Last Updated: November 21, 2010.
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A sports, travel and business journalist for more than 45 years, James has written the new car review column The Weekly Driver since 2004.
In addition to founding this site in 2004, James writes a Sunday automotive column for The San Jose Mercury and East Bay Times in Walnut Creek, Calif., and monthly auto review and wellness columns for Gulfshore Business, a magazine in Southwest Florida.
An author and contributor to many newspapers, magazines and online publications, co-hosted The Weekly Driver Podcast from 2017 to 2024.
Great selection. Not a "common" design in the bunch. Perhaps Detroit–and the rest of the world–might step at least a small distance away from their homogeneous designs. You can't be better–if you're really just the same.
James —
I was right with you the entire way — until you cited the Riviera boattail. What? You've been working too hard, son.
An insightful and inspiring list.