Your Personal Timemachine

[LocktownDog]

What's your dream vintage transportation? Considering that it is indeed just a dream ... money is no object!

Mine:

Built in 1929 Norris Longdecker Launch is 29ft long with a 6ft beam with a 327 cc Chris Craft 210hp motor. Extra compartments for running the booze to and fro. Built low and fast. Unfortunately selling for $60,000 or more.

Richard

 

[Dominic]

Well, nothing fancy for me. No Rolls Royce Phantom, Bugatti Royalle and the like. Nope. Here's my ride; just plain ol' reliable 1929 Chevrolet.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

The Sikorsky S-38 "Flying Yacht" aeroplane. (That's the little beauty seen in 'Aviator' with Howard and Kate flying together!). There's only two flying today - I'll take one please!

-Dixon Cannon

 

[John in Covina]

For autos i'd like a businessman coupe from about 1936 to 1940. And a convertible from the 1949-50 time maybe.

 

[CharlieH.]

Where to begin....

On the ground:

1941 Ford Deluxe

On the rails-

New York Central 4-6-4 Hudson, and the rest of the Empire State Express

On the sea-

Le Normandie

On the air:

a Sopwith Camel (or any other biplane...)

 

[Ecuador Jim]

My choices...

I always envisioned myself bouncing around the Pacific in a PBY Catalina.
For ground transportation, a late 40's to early 50's Oldsmobile convertible Coupe with a canvas top. Now, where's that Lotto ticket?

 

[carter]

1941 Ford Deluxe. I'll take two. Do they come in colors?

 

[LizzieMaine]

A green 1939 Plymouth coupe. Someone in the town where I grew up had one, and for some reason I was convinced that one day I would own one myself. Hasn't happened yet, but someday...

 

[scotrace]

This is probably the most beautiful car I've ever seen. It failed to meet reserve on eBay last week.
1941 Cadillac coupe.

 

[The Wolf]

An autogiro.
Maybe a 1938 Bugatti, black.

Sincerely,
the Wolf

 

[pigeon toe]

Probably a 1956 Dodge La Femme:

That was the first car I thought of. I don't want to think much harder because I could honestly go on forever.

 

[dostacos]

daily driver and something for the weekends

 

[Diamondback]

On the rails-

New York Central 4-6-4 Hudson, and the rest of the Empire State Express

I'll see your comparatively plebeian coach/parlor streamliner, and raise you (from the same RR) "the most famous train in the world except only the Orient Express", the incomparable Twentieth Century Limited...
from locomotive

to observation, 12 cars and over 1000' later

For aircraft, a custom-built, up-engined and amphibious version of the Martin P6M Seamaster jet seaplane:

or maybe an "Old Dog" (hotrodded, stealthed B-52):

On the road:

Along with a suitable supply of plutonium, of course...

 

[John in Covina]

1.21 gigawatts!

 

[LocktownDog]

Well heck, Lizzie. That driver could be you. Or at least your twin.

Richard

 

[Twitch]

Locktown- THOSE are what I consider boats, not the cheezy fiberglass crap thereafter.

 

[goldwyn girl]

You can never have to many fins !!!

 

[Fletch]

My pipedreams of a round-the-world air voyage usually find me lounging in the spacious Passagierräume aboard the Dornier Do X, rubbing elbows with moneyed eccentrics, members of the press, aviators and adventurers of various nations.

At the captain's table you listen to Herr Christiansen's yarns of the great war and the Hamburg-American Line, while Mueller the steward silently glides back and forth over the carpeted deck, replenishing vessels of good Pilsner and apéritifs.


Edit: You borrowed bandwidth, and your images were replaced with something unpleasant - so I edited - scotrace

 

[dhermann1]

My mother took the Rex to Europe in 1937 when she was 17. Much to my surprise and delight there was a scene in the 1936 film "Dodsworth" on TCM the other night which showed the Rex pulling out of Naples harbor. About 50,000 tons, she held the Blue Riband for speed when the war broke out in 1939. Sadly she was bombed in harbor during the war, so her career, and that of her sister the Conte di Savoia, was cut short.

I'd of course drive to the ship in my 1941 Buick, which would exist in 1937 because we're talking time machine here, right?
.

The 41 Buick was VERY similar to the 41 Caddy. Different grill, 41 was the first year for the Caddy "egg crate", 42 was the first year for the Buick "teeth", but the Buick had the 165hp straight 8, compared with Cadillac's V-8 that produced only 150 horses, much to the annoyance of the senior division at GM. Caddy and Buick were gorgeous cars that year.
Anyhow, I'm sure the flux capacitor would fit in the trunk of either, and a BIG one would fit in the hold of the Rex.

 

[dhermann1]

I'll see your comparatively plebeian coach/parlor streamliner, and raise you (from the same RR) "the most famous train in the world except only the Orient Express", the incomparable Twentieth Century Limited...
from locomotive to observation, 12 cars and over 1000' later

I rode the 20th Century overnight from Grand Central to Westfield NY in June 1953. It was pulled by a pretty classy looking EMD E-7, not as cool as the steam, but pretty swanky. I still remember to this day the white linen table cloths and the soft thick pink blankets in the roomette.