Dreamtime Cars.

[Bigbjorn]

Have a look at cars (http://www.billsretroworld.com/cars.htm)

I want all of them. Well, almost all.

Dream on. I did not win the $106 million lotto last night.

[Sprint]

you want an EDSEL?????? theres a guy up here with a '58 edsel, and while its goot cool factor by the truckload, man, it's UGLY!!!!!

me? i'd take the:
1966 Ford Galaxie Hardtop
1956 Chevrolet 210
1955 Chevrolet 150
1963 Ford Galaxie 500-XL Fastback
1969 Mercury Marauder X-100

the rest of them dont really do much for me.......

[crash]

The 50's and early 60's car had a certain amount of class to them, that is rarely seen today.
Good family friends have a 58 Bel Air convertible which has been restored. One of the most beautiful cars I have ever ridden in- also the best chick magnet I have ever been in also.
Out on dads farm we have a 55 chevy - base model and a 59 impala which is just a shell.
Got to love the wings on some of those cars. You can tell the year of most of the mid 50's to early 60's buy looking at the wing design.
I could easily spend last nights jackpot on old cars.

[Shonky]

It demonstrates a sad reality of how many of those companies are no longer with us... :(

Plymouth,
Edsel,
De Soto,
Studebaker,
Oldsmobile,
Kaiser, (well sortof...)
Pontiac,
Hudson,
Imperial,
Nash-Healey...

I too would happily blow 100 million on old classics! :D

I saw a great, original XL Falcon Deluxe today. Love... :angel:

[Outlaw]

Oooooh loving 99%.... just not too sure on the caddy sedanet or stude starlight :angel:

[d@rk51d3]

I actually like the "horse collar" on the Ford Edsel.:)

I think poor old Edsel Ford probably lost his job (maybe his inheritance too :D) after the epic failure of his car.


Reminds me of that episode of the Simpsons, where Homer gets a job with his long lost bro in Detroit. And sends the company under with his car design.:D

[Bigbjorn]

you want an EDSEL?????? theres a guy up here with a '58 edsel, and while its goot cool factor by the truckload, man, it's UGLY!!!!!

me? i'd take the:
1966 Ford Galaxie Hardtop
1956 Chevrolet 210
1955 Chevrolet 150
1963 Ford Galaxie 500-XL Fastback
1969 Mercury Marauder X-100

the rest of them dont really do much for me.......

All the ones I don't like are Ford products, plus a couple of others.

[p38arover]

Not a single good looking car amongst that lot. I certainly wouldn't be buying any of them!

The Americans sure knew how to design ugly cars! :eek:

[d@rk51d3]

All the ones I don't like are Ford products, plus a couple of others.

:D

I'm the opposite. I HATE the bubble top look of the Chevs, and the early Holdens.

[Bigbjorn]

Not a single good looking car amongst that lot. I certainly wouldn't be buying any of them!

The Americans sure knew how to design ugly cars! :eek:

Ron, you need taste lessons. Concentrating on spelling and grammar has warped your perception. All the Cadillacs are magnificent as are the large sedanet bodies used by Cadillac and Buick. Comfortable long legged touring cars that fit normal sized adult males easily, simple to maintain, and reliable. Better than practically all of the so-called "luxury" rubbish dished up today that are sized for Mediterranean and Asian dwarfs and require an avionics shop to diagnose and repair..

[p38arover]

All the Cadillacs are magnificent as are the large sedanet bodies used by Cadillac and Buick.

:Rolling::Rolling::Rolling::Rolling:

Post-WW2 Caddies would have to be amongst the ugliest cars to ever come out of the USA.

The Buicks and Caddies I saw on my recent trip to the USA haven't improved.

[JDNSW]

I am afraid that I largely agree with Ron - most of them are just plain ugly, and with few exceptions have little else to recommend them.

I suppose if you are American they are a significant part of your history, but this is not America, and most of them were never seen here except for rare one-off imports - the rather insular US industry of that period did not make RHD versions of most of their cars. For that matter they don't today!

John

[rovercare]

Americans?Normal sized?;)


Yep...........if you're an American:D


Oversize maybe:angel:

[Rangier Rover]

This is one time I get caught between a rock and a hard place...... I cant help but like the look and huge space with some of the older yank tanks but they would be bloody impractical in a lot of other ways... I have just knocked back two 59 Chev Bel Airs due to having to many projects already:( Land Rovers in particular followed by 40 series cruisers:D Then vintage tractors.

I will just have to admire the other well restored examples:)

[D3Jon]

Not a single good looking car amongst that lot. I certainly wouldn't be buying any of them!

The Americans sure knew how to design ugly cars! :eek:


I am afraid that I largely agree with Ron - most of them are just plain ugly, and with few exceptions have little else to recommend them.

John

I'm with Ron & John on this one.

I find those 50's and 60's American cars really ugly. The space race / Sputnik era of the 1950's and manned flights of the 60's certainly seemed to influence car design with the designers going overboard with fins and rear tail lights that look like fake rocket motors!

A piece of motoring history, yes... but ugly, ugly, ugly in my eyes. :o

In terms of American cars, I much prefer the 'squarer' designs of the early 70's - maybe that's because I grew up watching such cars on Ironside / Canon / Man from Uncle / Starsky & Hutch / Kojak / Streets of San-Fransisco / Haiwai 5-0, etc. etc. :D:D

Jon

[hoadie72]

Ron, you need taste lessons. Concentrating on spelling and grammar has warped your perception. All the Cadillacs are magnificent as are the large sedanet bodies used by Cadillac and Buick. Comfortable long legged touring cars that fit normal sized adult males easily, simple to maintain, and reliable. Better than practically all of the so-called "luxury" rubbish dished up today that are sized for Mediterranean and Asian dwarfs and require an avionics shop to diagnose and repair..

Cars of that era were all about bling and weird proportions! I appreciate old cars but be objective here - most of them really are ugly!

[V8Ian]

I worked with an American last year and he could not believe the prices that people paid here for cars that you cannot sell in the US.That is why so many companies import them to here.They are so cheap to buy over there.:)So he said:angel:
I heard that the Yanks have woken up to the fact the were giving their history away, and have started buying cars here and are exporting them back to The States.

[Sprint]

then accuse them of the same thing by buying up the XA-XB GT hardtops to mangle into "mad max interceptor" replicas, and they think you're an idiot......

[billiardbrett1]

C'mon fellas, you got to admit that the 300c Chrysler of then is much better looking than the new ones

[p38arover]

C'mon fellas, you got to admit that the 300c Chrysler of then is much better looking than the new ones

This is a joke, right?