Cars you always wanted, but never admitted to...

I'll piss a few people off with this one.

I'd like to have another Fiat 124 Spyder. Had one. Loved it. Damned thing handled like it was on rails. Four wheel disk brakes never faded when I rode 'em hard, gear box that made canyon carving easy. A top I could just reach over my shoulder and pull up in the blink of an eye.

Got a lot of eyeballing from the Porsche and BWM guys who came to town. No one knew what it was, only that it was European.

Hell, I have another car, now, sitting in the driveway that gets some odd looks from when talk about it. The '02 Hyundai XG350. DOHC 3.5L, with a five speed auto sport stick. The governor is supposed to 125. I've yet to meet the governor, but I can say it's beyond 130. Speedo goes to 150 but I haven't found enough road to get it there. Car gets lower at triple digits, doesn't float, awesome road feel and the gearing in the trans is close enough to make the sport stick feel like a real stick car.

For those of you who have been to Watkins Glen and have driven the old track, when it was still a road course on the road, I dipped down the hill going to the stone bridge doing 100, hard braking and downshifting, came off the stone bridge doing 70, hard right to go up the esses and hit 105 at the top before more hard braking and an abrupt left with a straight away before the stop sign. I never did look to see what the speed was before I had to brake for the sign.