Thread: Beautiful cars.

this is perhaps one of the most beautiful cars ever but it's not my favourite.

this car gets my vote as the most beautiful car ever built....
http://betterparts.org/ferrari/ferrari-dino.html

Originally Posted by Ancient Mariner

AC cobra 427 ohc

AM

With you there except I'd go the lighter more nimble Bristol six or 289 V8. Pat

Originally Posted by V8Ian

The V8 in the Mustang was an option, stock entry model Mustangs were originally 200 CID three speed.
I think Mustang and sports car is drawing a long bow. The Mustang was more of an image car.

Calling the Mustang a sports car is no different than calling a HSV whatever the same,they are just sedans with a bigger engine and some tupperware hanging off the body. Pat

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

I'm not biased or anything



Hows this compare to other mass produced cars of the mid 1950's

My uncle had a DS for years,he got drunk and missed the train bridge at Patterson and drove over the edge onto the line,he blocked the Maitland to Dungog line for a few days until they craned it out. Pat

There is only one beautiful vehicle in both function and design.

Originally Posted by digger

There is only one beautiful vehicle in both function and design.

Drool!!!

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I believe Nick Mason has refused offers of more than double that for his Ferrari 250 GTO.

Impossible to accurately value these classes of collector cars. Depends on which billionaires are bidding and want them badly enough. At Milwaukee in 2011 a superbly restored Miller front drive 91 had a suggested pre-auction value of $850,000. Two very rich collectors got into a bidding duel and it was sold for $3,250,000. A spare engine "as is" went for $250,000. Bugatti Royales have passed $8,000,000. Briggs Cunningham paid $10,000 for his in the late 1950's and everyone thought he had gone mad. Stuart Murdoch paid Henry Dale $3,000 for a Bugatti Type 57 about 1956 and one sold about 5 years ago for over $3,000,000.