Butt-Ugliest Cars Ever Made

Netscape.com ^ | 8-16-04

[sully777]

Take A Peak At Ugliest Cars Ever Made (PHOTO GALLERY)

[Included in the list are the Edsel Citation and AMC Gremlin]

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/autos/gallery.jsp?floc=g-uglycar1&gname=uglycar&gproj=u&grurl=http%3A%2F%2Fapple.netscape.com%2Fapple.adp&photo=1

[RightWingNut]

Don't laugh but I read an article recently that said cars like the Pacer were "collectors items" and were being restored.

A friend of mine had one. He bought it new. I'v never sat my butt in an uglier car in my life, but it did have great visibility !! You could see people laughing at us for miles !! LOL

[VOA]

The most beautiful car???

Given my internal conflict, I'll take the easy way out:
I'll take one 1963 Corvette and one of the great Jag convertibles.

And for times when I just want my neighbors think I'm probably dangerous:
an all-black Dodge Charger like Frank Booth's (Dennis Hopper) in "Blue Velvet".

[RightWingNut]

Live and Let Die

(with Sherriff Pepper)

[GeronL]

el Camino?

[GeronL]

The 1963 Corvette just looks cool. I know very little about it. They weren't plastic back then were they?

[VOA]

I like those embedded nacelles for the warp-drive on that Chrysler!

[RIGHT IN LAS VEGAS]

stick to cross-cutting lawn

[XBob]

525 - "They weren't plastic back then were they?"

Corvettes have always been fiberglass, since their inception in 1953, unless they have changed recently.

[VOA]

The 1963 Corvette just looks cool. I know very little about it.
They weren't plastic back then were they?

I'm fairly sure that except for upholstery, it was a beautiful exercise in
metallic artistry.

I'm not expert, but I think the really coveted Corvette of that era is the "Stingray" version.
I'm not sure if that model is the one, but one configuration had fuel injection and
enough insane dedication to the engine that I think the thing didn't even have a
a heater built into it.
I've presumed that one was for the California, Florida and other southern markets!
Or the engine generated enough heat alone!

[VOA]

Corvettes have always been fiberglass, since their inception in 1953,
unless they have changed recently.

Whoa...guess I'll have to eat crow!!

[RIGHT IN LAS VEGAS]

I saw this car in the Soprano's before Adrianna was let out to roam.

[VOA]

http://motortrend.com/roadtests/classic/112_0304_test/

"The fiberglass body creaked and groaned"...1957 Corvette roadtest...
(man, am I embarassed...I thought the fiberglass didn't come along until the late 1960s)

[birbear]

The Aztek may be "ugly" (I actually kind of like the styling of it) but it is one comfortable car to ride it. I just had to ride from Sacramento, CA to Seattle, WA in one, and it's spacious for my xx-large 6'3 frame.

[My2Cents]

Looks like a product of Soviet central planning.

Seriously, I don't know what it is. Found it here: http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=33&article_id=2437

[XBob]

532 - LOL - Not to worry - now you can be one of us old timer 'everybody' 's . To quote from your link:

"Everyone knows the first Vette was a fiberglass-bodied, open two-seater powered--somewhat of an overstatement--by the short-lived Blue Flame inline-six. "

though you may not remember, like I do, going out into the road after an accident and literally, 'picking up the pieces'.

[Wampus SC]

"I think that silver thang... whatever it was Se-Ro wins... maybe we need categories for age or whatever."

The Se-Ro would win them all. Its ugliness is timeless.

[Wampus SC]

"I liked the 1959 Buick: 1959 Buick:"

I liked it too. It's still ugly....

[drtom]

Yes, that's the Trabbi alright (as East Germans fondly called their 2-stroke plastic projectile Trabant).

Hard to believe that you had to go on a ten-year waitlist if you actually wanted to get one. Shortly after the reunification they posed a major disposal problem as the plastic body couldn't be recycled.

Thanks, Sockdologer, appreciate the picture.

[Wampus SC]

"I am seriously doubting that this was ever produced by Hudson or any other manufacturer for that matter."

It's a Hudson Italia. Limited production in '54 and '55.

[sully777]

Honda has you pegged. The Element is advertised as a youth-oriented transport to haul surf boards, etc.. The ads and commercials have twenty-somethings partying with The Element.

The reality is that forty-something engineer types buy the vehicle en masse. It is very popular with people that see themselves in the ads, but never do anything crazy like have a kegger on the beach with half-naked co-eds. It's a marketing coup d'etat.

There's something new in the racer magazines, a tricked out Element. Seems if you lower the Element and play with the suspension and tweak that awesome 2.4 liter V VTec engine, you get a screamer of a racer with the added bonus of having a retro 70's customized van "to party in." So far, the tricked out Element is a small, fringe minority in the racer world.

Don't be surprised to hear a family member in their teens ask you to save your Element, if you don't know what to do with the thing.