Daily Turismos come in two very distinctly different flavors for me. The first is a car like a 1972 Mercedes W108 that transforms motoring monotony into a joyful symphony of great mechanical noises, while anticipating the admiring stares of the cars that will be getting passed at 80 mph on our wonderfully, dry, flat California highways. The other, which is a very distant but necessary second choice for most of us, is the more pedestrian Daily Turismo
such as this 35,000 mile, one owner
2003 Mercury Sable LS Premium Wagon, listed on Autotrader.com at a Jaguar dealership in Houston, Texas for $5,981. A car like this is so cheap and puts such a small dent one's pocket that it affords the opportunity to acquire a Weekend Turismo like this well kept
1974 Triumph TR6
currently on ebay. Two very different Turismos, providing something to get to work in during weekdays and something fun to tinker with and enjoy on the weekends.
Read on to see the real merits of today's plebeian cruiser (a/k/a schlepmobile) blatantly dumped into your favorite auto enthusiast's blog without apology.
