[jcp123]

I wouldn't mind that. My ideal car is pretty much what the OP listed, if you think of the special-order drag cars from the 60s then you'll get some sense of what I'd like - not even carpet or radio, I'd have to be convinced to even have a heater in it. An even better example are the period hot rods, stripped of anything which didn't make the car move forward faster. I really just don't care for all the fluff and crap in cars these days - granted it is not adding much unit cost at the volume in which touchscreens and power window motors and such are ordered at the OEM level, but down the road it adds maintenance costs. I'm just not interested in the "goodies".

Much of this philosophy will spill over into the Chevy wagon I'd like to build, though for the sake of using it as a family vehicle I'd likely retain the heater and add ac as well.

This is a subject I could go on an on about - when words like "old" "low-tech" are considered pejorative, it just makes me roll my eyes.