At the age of 37, I still don't drive. Nonetheless I think I can start the thread with a car my parents once owned (before I was born): the VW Karmann-Ghia, which was apparently designed by illustrious Italian designers Ghia, built by illustrious German builders Karmann, and then plonked on top of a VW Beetle chassis. More car pr0n and I'll be eternally obliged!
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.classiccars.de/Oldyrent/plz7/images/71665.jpg
one day. one day.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)
― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)
― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)
What's the actual name of this beast btw?
This is multi-xpost plz give me NAMES for future research peoples! And thanks!
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)
'79 Toyota Celica -- they're so awesome, I call it the wolverine. It's like a smushed up muscle car
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)
This is doubly awesome with commentary.
What is that parallellogram, luna? Show AND TELL! :D
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)
― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)
― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)
― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)
― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)
― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)
Love me some rallycars, obv.
― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)
xpost this comment also goes for me old china m white
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)
Studebaker was thinking big in 1931. On the field outside the auto company's Indiana proving ground, this wooden model of the President Four Season Roadster served as both advertisement and tourist attraction. More than twice the length of a normal Studebaker, the 11,000-pound (5,000-kilogram) giant could fit 50 people on its running boards and occasionally hosted an orchestra—the 25-piece Studebaker Champions—in its cockpit. But by September 1936, when this photo was published in the Geographic, the oversize roadster was no more. "Studebaker styling had progressed to a point where it no longer bore even a passing resemblance to the big car," says Andrew Beckman, archivist at South Bend's Studebaker National Museum. "In the spring of 1936, the fender was ignited, and in less than half an hour the President was reduced to ashes."
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3996/transammy9jr.jpg
― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.calcruisingauctions.com/images1/71cut-1.jpg
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)
you'd be castigated for using certain sequences of words elsewhere, but I BET SHE DOES fnarr!
sunny successor while dreamy that car is also srsly SCARY! It's somewhat like the Mona Lisa, scowling threateningly at you (ie me) whatever angle!
xpost jed_ that's a cutie, what is it?
Erm I think I go sleep now.
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)
Don't let Ralph Nader talk you out of this one. Some of Chevy's best lines ever.
― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)
1929 Dusenberg Phaeton
― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)
― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)
― Super Cub (Debito), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)
― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)
And lest we forget the Americans...
ihttp://www.autodirectmarketing.com/10_10/57chevy/1957%20chevy%20mullen%20011.jpg
― Super Cub (Debito), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)
― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)
― Super Cub (Debito), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)
Also nice: The Bugatti Type 57SC (I think Mr Burns owns one)http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/1937_Bugatti_Type_57SC_Gangloff_Drop_Head_Coupe_profile.jpg/800px-1937_Bugatti_Type_57SC_Gangloff_Drop_Head_Coupe_profile.jpg
Ford GT40http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Ford_GT40.jpg
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)
Chrysler Valiant Charger - quintessential Australian muscle car
http://www.valiant.org/charger.html
― S- (sgh), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)
http://oldcarandtruckpictures.com/AmericanMotors/1984AMCEagle4WDSedan.jpg
― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)
― stet (stet), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)
― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)
― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)
I cosign Rock Hardy
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 15 June 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)
― guns to deal with vodka (haitch), Thursday, 15 June 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.carphotos.org/data/500/1972_AMC_Javelin_Cardin.jpg
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Thursday, 15 June 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)
http://classicads.greatoldcars.com/images/1572944.jpg
― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 15 June 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)
― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 15 June 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)
― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Thursday, 15 June 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.cs-zone.com/images/plaatje30cs_mike_kotanian.gif
http://www.bmw2002.co.uk/KB%202002%20Tii%204%20sale.jpg
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 15 June 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.loti.com/60s_muscle_cars/Buick-Muscle/1965_BUICK_RIVIERA.JPG
and the nutty 1971-1972 boattails (I used to own a 1972 one!)
http://classiccarfair.com/1972buickriviera_lr34_556x325.jpg
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 15 June 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.lotusclubholland.nl/afb/elan6.jpg
(Lotus Elan, mid 60s)
― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 15 June 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)
― Bucky Fullminster (vincent spano), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)
i can't wait until there are electric-solar-wind-foot-powered versions of all these cars so my love of this thread feels less shameful. (okay, i don't really feel all that much shame. but still.)
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)
1959 Beetle
― pj (Henry), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)
where is "here", koogs? i've not seen one in the flesh and i'd love to.
when i was a small and car-obsessed lad, the lotus elan was my favourite thing EVER.
chris B: those BMWs are exquisite; the CS particularly. someone on my street has a 1980 3-series - black - and it's just an immaculate wee thing. i can't help feeling BMW lost it somewhere in the last few years - although not before they made that weird semi-estate thing the name of which escapes me. gaah. 1990s; mid to late, i think. three doors, VAST hood, looked utterly bizarre, went like a bomb.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)
That would be the Z3 M Coupe. I remember one of the early reviews of it (I forget which mag) started off with the line "In the history of this magazine, this is the first car that made the reviewer throw up twice."
http://www.cdi-tuning.de/bilder/bmw-z3-m-coupe-1.jpg
ACHTUNG! GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY!
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.autoweek.nl/images/480/9822422.jpg
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.ecojob.jp/2005_060600371.jpg
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)
http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B8809.jpg
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)
ihttp://www.classiccarsmagazine.co.uk/pictures/contributions/000121b/std_1973_lotus_europa_special_twin_cam.jpg
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)
http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B13963.jpg
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)
http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B8803.jpg
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)
ihttp://images.forbes.com/images/2002/05/27/feat_sunbeam_340x176.jpg
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.1motormart.com/gallery/65sun01.jpg
god, the europa! i remember - again, as a car-obsessed kid - being fascinated by it; it was so WEIRD-looking.
from the back:
http://www.pistonheads.com/lotus/europa/2.jpg
wow. i'd forgotten all about it. must go on a wikipedia spree.
yes, the MGB/GT was a classic - i much prefer it to the midget (that was the name of the soft-top, wasn't it?) actually, it's not dissimilar to my beloved brera!
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)
"In 2006 Lotus plans to start production of a totally new design mid-engined GT coupe called Europa S."
coo!
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Lotus_europa_2006.jpg
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)
― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)
The Z4 coupe is wearing the future, btw: Metallic matt paint.
― stet (stet), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)
http://washington.uwc.edu/depts/compsci/cps139DEf05/kuhnb1299/images/pa6/niceeagle.jpg
I have no idea if these are actually good cars, in fact I suspect they're not, but they look great.
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 16 June 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)
And fuck the Z4 Coupe. There are enough throbbing phalli on the road already.
― S- (sgh), Friday, 16 June 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)
Not (quite) a rally car, the Saab 99:http://www.saabklubben.com/arkiv/99/9909.jpg
― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 16 June 2006 02:30 (nineteen years ago)
Ghia used to be a styling and design house like Pininfarina or Bertone. They got bought by ford and all Ghia is now is a trim level on Mondeos and Focuses.
― Ed (dali), Friday, 16 June 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 16 June 2006 06:12 (nineteen years ago)
― nickn (nickn), Friday, 16 June 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.velocetoday.com/images/May%2004/v18.jpg
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)
http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B23549.jpg
My grandfather had one when we were small, and I've always loved them.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 16 June 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.autoweb-france.com/img/va/1978.jpghttp://vikingautobrokers.com/photos/inventory/1984_porsche_928_s/DSCN3970.JPG
some dude even converted one to electric!http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/img/455/455b.jpg
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)
BMW 3.0 CS - looking good 35 years later
― dan (dan), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)
― dan (dan), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)
future classic
― dan (dan), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)
Prior to the Delorean we had the Canadian made (Saint John, NB) Bricklin.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/Bricklin_SV-1.jpg/658px-Bricklin_SV-1.jpg
― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 16 June 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 16 June 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)
Anyway, I'm horrified that no one's mentioned the Citroen (Maserati) SM yet. Let me rectify that.
http://1motormart.com/gallery/73citr01.jpg
Also, we've had the Sunbeam Tiger (twice even!) but not the Daimler SP250, another British roadster with a big ol' V8:
http://vianney.dewit.free.fr/sp250.JPG
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)
― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)
Plus I remember the TV show "Bearcats" being pretty cool.
― Offisa Pump (Rock Hardy), Friday, 16 June 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)
― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)
http://cpaa.no.sapo.pt/cpaa_a-bd_8-panhard.jpg
(24 CT Coach, 1964, if I've correctly interpreted the description at http://cpaa.no.sapo.pt/cpaa_temasbd3.html .)
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 17 June 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7299/hyundai2vg.jpg
oh baby. it's a hyundai accent.
― ath (ath), Saturday, 17 June 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)
― ath (ath), Saturday, 17 June 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)