.....you had 60k to buy a cruisin car, has nothing to do with performance...what would you buy? I'd take a 67 volkswagen bus

not entirely sure how this really differs from almos every "what car would you buy" and not sure how the result of this would be different from them either.
what do you mean by "cruising car"?

$60k is about £35-40k and for that I can buy a lot of cars from top condition 993 turbo, practically new Cerbera, top condition S1 E-type, E39 M5 or even, if you're lucky a 456 GTM. The list just goes on and on.

The Lotus Lada from the 1st season of Top Gear, you absolutely know you want to go there :p