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

Me | 9/24/09 | GeorgiaDawg32

[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.