Car Buffs - What is your nominee for best looking car (made in USA) ever produced?

Me | 9/24/09 | GeorgiaDawg32

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I was thinking about this today. With the large number of cars produced in the USA, what is the best looking (Not necessarily best performing) car ever produced in the USA by Make, Model and Year..

Your nomination is???????????

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Gosh, looking at all these cars makes me wish I could go to the past, buy several of them, then stick them away until today..

Man, the memories these things bring back..

[Jude in WV]

Thanks for the help with the posting. This is like visiting the car shows. My Dad had a 57 Chevrolet when I was a teenager, but I learned to drive in a 60's Volkswagon. This is my new ride. I just bought it a few weeks ago.

[Pharmboy]

I’m with you, bud...first dates, driving around with the guys, hitting those big plastic buttons on the car radio, movies (including drive-ins), bowling, burgers, fries and REAL Coca-Cola, getting home to do high school homework, Saturday football games, and on and on...

[Pharmboy]

You are a quick study....nice job, Jude the Mountaineer.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

that car, exact body style etc..made today, with modern technology, would be smokin hot..

[Errant]

No

[Jude in WV]

I like your tagline. I study the ancient people for a hobby. Kinda strange for someone who buys a muscle car isn’t it?

[Chickensoup]

There is something just so classy about the Hudson. I can still smell the upolhostery

[6323cd]

1977 Excalibur Phaeton.

I grew up just around the corner from where these artworks were handmade. People would come from all over the world to pick up their new Excaliburs, then drive up and down our street, showing them off. It was a beautiful thing.

[Josh Painter]

http://www.streetrodderweb.com/features/0903sr_1961_ford_starliner/photo_01.html

[09Patriot]

here ya go

They built this from scratch.It has a Cadillac Northstar engine. I read they found some molds for some of the grillwork and bumpers they actually casts those parts off the orginal molds. the bumper is on piece plastic if you can believe that.

more picky goodness

[Charles Henrickson]

When the 1965 Mustang came out, I was 12 years old and thought it was the coolest thing on wheels:

The "Fastback" version:

[Charles Henrickson]

I've always thought the Corvette Stingray was a sweet car. The mid-'60s model was great, but so were these from the late '60s-early '70s:

[justlurking]

AMC Pacer!

[Charles Henrickson]

The 1959 Impala had quite a look:

[Charles Henrickson]

After talking about all these cool cars, I must admit that my first car was a dorky 1972 AMC Hornet Sportabout:

[Erasmus]

Second your vote.

Bill Mitchell seems to have had a special relationship with Buick stretching back to the “Skylark” show car of the early 50’s (51 or 53—don’t recall exactly).

The Riviera of 1963 was Bill’s first shot at the new styling that was to be introduced across the GM product line by, say, 1966, which was also IMHO the peak of the Riviera’s stylistic development (as your photo illustrates).

That was the era in which he established himself once and for all as the heir and successor to Harley Earl.

Of course, my Dad was a Buick man from ‘51 to the end, and the family carried on this tradition for years after his passing.

[Responsibility2nd]

Seeing that car reminded me that Dodge even once made a pickup truck.

 

With fins.

 

Very rare.

 

[Erasmus]

Looks almost like WWII camo paint.

≤}B^)

[Responsibility2nd]

Back in the 70's my dad bought my older brother his first car.

 

A '59 Bel Air

 

 

4 door. Similar to this color. Except it was two-tone. Green and white. Inline 6. Three on the tree. My brother Ben sold it to my brother Don. We had that car in the family for 4-5 years.

 

Wonderful car!