every man should own a great car

It's a maxim to live by.

Every man should own a great car.

What about good cars? You probably have one of those already. A good car does many things well. It is comfortable, efficient and useful. Anywhere, any weather, the good car will see you through. You don’t mind putting stuff in it and you don’t mind leaving stuff in it. It is a comfortable fit.

A great car may not be a good car.

A great car will go while a good car will merely go along.

You will feel different in a great car while you might not feel anything at all in a good car.

The low production exotic car makers produce great cars. Well, I’ll qualify that by saying that they do it more often than not. They have produced some duds along the way.

On the other end of the spectrum are guys working out of their own garages. There are tens of thousands of hot rods and street machines and a few of them are great cars.

The most likely place to find a great car is to look for a Corvette or a Porsche 911. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that all of them are great, it depends on what options were picked when the car was ordered. A few of them are great and the rest are near greats basking in the light of this greatness.

Since a car is not judged great by the standards of our times, but by the standards of the times in which it was built you can look at a Jaguar XK 120 for greatness. They are all over 50 years old now and many new cars will show them their heels but I want one even now.

Stop fooling around and set a goal for yourself to own a great car in your lifetime.

(Just don’t sell the good car, you’ll probably need it.)