Posted on 08/16/2004 10:51:49 PM PDT by 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
(Excerpt) Read more at channels.netscape.com ...
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
Live and Let Die
(with Sherriff Pepper)
el Camino?
The 1963 Corvette just looks cool. I know very little about it. They weren't plastic back then were they?
I like those embedded nacelles for the warp-drive on that Chrysler!
stick to cross-cutting lawn
525 - "They weren't plastic back then were they?"
Corvettes have always been fiberglass, since their inception in 1953, unless they have changed recently.
I saw this car in the Soprano's before Adrianna was let out to roam.
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)
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.
Seriously, I don't know what it is. Found it here: http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=33&article_id=2437
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'.
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.
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