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???????????

[DirtyHarryY2K]

1970 Cheverolet Chevelle SS (454)

[Vaquero]

lots of fiberglass snake clones out there....but that is what they are....clones.

I love the cobra though.

[Pharmboy]

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

Not at all...back then, you would have had a big club, or maybe you would have been the one who figured out how to fasten a stone to the end of the club to increase its "muscle."

As far as the quote goes, I cannot find the source, but I think I grabbed it from another freeper a few years ago.

[Bikkuri]

If I remember correctly, that car beat the Caldwell Corvette in a 1/4 mile (both factory/vanilla)...

[roamer_1]

FINALLY! 200+ Pages to hit a Chevelle! Represent!

69 Chevelle SS

[mcswan]

You’re right, it breaks my heart.

Sigh

[Peter W. Kessler]

This is the best non-political thread ever.

Thanks!

[mcswan]

Yes.

For a few years our troopers here in Connecticut had these for pursuit cars. Don’t think they lost many races.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

You’re quite welcome..every once in a while we have to take a break, however short, from that train wreck in Washington..

[Sparko]

Thanks for that Chevelle~

67 Chevelle 396

[Sparko]

GMTA

Exactly what I was thinking when I wrote
“Thanks for that Chevelle~ “

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2347601/posts?page=210#210

[DirtyHarryY2K]

This one has the 396 BB

Awesome

http://www.fquick.com/videos/70_Chevelle_SS_396/3269

[Sparko]

Thanks! That is a nicely done video. The sound is great as well as the shots of the car.

[Bikkuri]

sweet... never imagined one for a trooper car ;)

[Clinging Bitterly]

Dad always seemed to have a good bud at the local easy credit used car lot. In the '60s that was 500 Motors in Eugene. Sometimes he'd come home with something nice, sometimes a dog. Here are the extremes, in my view:

I don't know if I'd call it the best looking (that one is real hard to decide), but there was a '56 Coupe DeVille. And yes, it was pink. Probably the nicest car we ever had.

Then there was the Turnpike Cruiser. Ours was a wagon, I don't think there were a lot of them around. Loaded up real good on a family move around 1965, it dropped a valve. Coughing and sputtering, making an occasional very loud bang, it made the final 30 miles of the trip, never to run again.

[Dr. Thorne]

You’ve got my vote. The Cobra is still my dream car.

[JohnLongIsland]

The Clampett Family Sedan

[smokingfrog]

Ford GT

[rhema]

The car over which Nicholas Cage rhapsodized in Gone in 60 Seconds: the bewitching Eleanor.

[Southbound]

Interestingly enough, I have seen pictures of three different clones with the 427SOHC engine. Had a bigger hood scoop, and I know one at least, was a trailer queen, had only been started once, never run. My high point driving was in one of the originals (Street model 427) in 1968. At the time, I had a ‘67 GTO convertible, and thought I was used to a hot car, but the Cobra SCARED me. I still want one.