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Pick your favorite iconic car from any decade....
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I had a 79 Celica GT. Really fun car with the 5 speed and rear wheel drive.
I sold it to the drummer in my band. He totaled it in less than a week when he drove home drunk from a party and missed his driveway, hitting the tree in his front yard.
Yup.
I had a 79 Celica GT. Really fun car with the 5 speed and rear wheel drive.
I sold it to the drummer in my band. He totaled it in less than a week when he drove home drunk from a party and missed his driveway, hitting the tree in his front yard.
Yup.
I don't know about the crash rating but those seemed really solid.
It was ultra reliable for the 2 years I had it. I once hit a deer when I was doing about 40 mph. The only damage to the car was a broken headlight. The deer was totalled.
Speaking of solid (and iconic) cars, I briefly had a 68 Mustang fastback with a 390 and 4 speed. This was in 1985, before the price of 60s muscle cars shot up.
I went to visit a friend at his house. While there, his brother came by and he accidentally hit my car in the driveway with his brand new Toyota pickup truck. I went outside to take a look and immediately saw the front of his truck was all mangled. Bits and pieces were all over the ground.
My car didn't have any damage at all Literally none. I could just tell where he hit me because there was a scuff on the surface along with some of his paint.
I saw one today although the paint was completely faded.
Truly iconic.
I worked at a Ford dealership in the spring of '96 when Ford introduced the 10th generation F-150 ('97 model year), which was completely redesigned from previous generations. The body shape became round, the pushrod V8s like the 5.0 and 5.7 were gone and replaced with modular OHC engines (a V-6 was the base engine), the suspension was a completely different design, the interior was all new and even the frame was totally different.
Ford flooded our lot with them, expecting to sell all of them, but even though some were sold, a large number loyal Ford F-150 owners took their last ever opportunity to buy a brand new 9th generation ('96 model year), which was still being sold alongside the new model.
By the end of summer, we had dozens of the new trucks sitting on the lot at discounted prices while we were getting orders for the older model even though we were getting close to retail price for them and the waiting time was several months.
That's not to say that the newer models weren't good trucks, it's just that Ford neglected to consider the psychology of the situation. By making such an abrupt, radical design change to a tried and true product with a very large and loyal fan base, they created a huge demand for the outgoing product - at the expense of the new product.
All this talk of Celicas makes me miss my '92 with the sunroof and 5 speed, much like this one. Drove it for 15 or so years.
Renault 8 Gordini. The fastest version had a 105HP engine, about 12s 0-60mph and well above 100mph top speed which was not bad at all for a 60's small car.
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1939 Duesenburg. Looks more like art.
Yeah, it is digital art. It was never built (except maybe a die-cast scale model) so this is just another fake.
