Pick your favorite iconic car from any decade....

[Derp]

I never cared for the Foose touch.... big wheels, shaved door handles, sidemarkers etc.... no thanks.

I prefer the Mike N touch.... stock body, faded and/or chipped paint and a mountain motor under the hood.

Yeah, I think whatever you build it's gotta be relatively period correct. Otherwise it just doesn't flow most of the time. Though there are exceptions.

While it's nice to have some modern touches like EFI and high performance disc brakes on a classic car, taking a classic and turning it into a completely modern car is a bit too much for my taste.
To me, the appeal of older cars is their relative simplicity. Back then you could get a decent V8 RWD car without having to pay for the myriad obligatory luxury options not necessarily useful. I don't need me lane keeping assistants and automatic parking. Just give me a decent car with a decent powerplant and drivetrain, Spacious, nicely appointed yet simple interior devoid of too many screens and sensors.
Just recently I saw a review of the new aston martin and that car has a MOTORIZED GLOVEBOX! It actually takes 5X more time to wait for the motor to slide it open than it would take to open it yourself. Why did they even bother? Tech is great, but tech for it's own sake is just dumb.

 

[Iridescentone]

Yes. I don't know why that pic says 406.( I was in a bit of a hurry this morning and wasn't paying attention).

Maybe I should have used a different pic.

Cool car. I dunno what's supposed to be in that car, but Ford definitely made a performance 406 engine during that time frame. Occam's Razor?

 

[Mike N]

I guess my "Iconic" ride with 4 wheels would be the first gen Jimmy (69-72)

or a slant nose Suburban (67-68)

I briefly had a 69 Blazer with 35's.... much like the Jimmy you posted a pic of. Paint that one orange with a white top and that was it.

Love the 'Burb, too.

 

[Mike N]

For me, "iconic car" will always be the American cars that my friends and I were interested in after we got our driver's licenses in the mid-80's. Of course, we lusted after the Corvettes, Porsches, Lamborghinis and Ferraris and such, but there were others that were more attainable.

This is what I remember as "iconic" from 1985:

Camaro Iroc Z

Mustang GT

Buick Grand National

Pontiac Fiero GT

Dodge Daytona

Ford Escort GT

Dodge Omni Shelby GLHS

I can dig the IROC and GN, ok on the 'Stang, even though I'm not a F**d guy. Fiero?? My kid has had four of them and still has an 88 GT. Pretty neat car for what it is.

But.... you lost me with the last three. Even as quick as the GLHS was, they're still wrong wheel drive econoboxes.

 

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[D M C]

 

[James Hart]

I briefly had a 69 Blazer with 35's.... much like the Jimmy you posted a pic of. Paint that one orange with a white top and that was it.

Love the 'Burb, too.

69-72 I prefer the GMC nose, but I do like the 67-68 Chevy nose more... I wouldn't mind a 67-68 front clip on a 2 door My wife wants her Suburban painted orange, I'm trying to talk her into Prowler Orange... we are shooting a 72 C10 short bed in it for a customer and it is looking pretty sharp

 

[hbarcat]

I can dig the IROC and GN, ok on the 'Stang, even though I'm not a F**d guy. Fiero?? My kid has had four of them and still has an 88 GT. Pretty neat car for what it is.

I've owned an IROC Z and really liked it. Also owned a 70's Camaro with the 305 and it was a rustbucket but fun to drive. Also owned a couple of 70's Novas - One with the 305 and the other with a transplanted 350 with some go-fast goodies.

Still, I am a Ford guy, not because I think they're better than others but because I happen to be comfortable with them. I've owned 4 'Stangs from the 80's and modified all of them for mild street performance, including one with the 351W.

The Fieros were cool as they were but, as you know, they were often modified by swapping in the 350 and they even have affordable swap kits made just for this purpose. And then there's the kit cars that use the Fiero as a donor car, like the baby Ferarris.

But.... you lost me with the last three. Even as quick as the GLHS was, they're still wrong wheel drive econoboxes.

I agree that those last three aren't in the same category. I don't consider any front wheel drive vehicle to be a real performance car but I can appreciate a compact commuter car that has some more zip and can handle better than other econoboxes and still get great MPG.

I owned 2 Escort GT's and they were both great daily drivers. Fun to flog on the daily commute and still get 35+ MPG. I sold my '88 Escort GT when it had 330,000 miles on it and still ran strong.

 

[Tom Bomb]

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[GIBrat51]

Iconic car from the '60s? For me, gotta be this one. My Mother's 1961 Austin Healey "Bugeye" Sprite. Got my English driver's permit in this car. That's me behind the wheel - in 1967 - beside our '64 Chevy Biscayne, at RAF Feltwell. It was a fun car, but... shortly after this picture, I got my first motorcycle ('57 AJS 250), and, that was pretty much the end of my love affair with cars...

 

[Mike N]

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6.5:1 compression ratio?? It's a wonder any of those engines even ran. Even during the smog era of the 70's, the anemic V8's were at 8:1 compression ratios.

 

[Tom Bomb]

6.5:1 compression ratio?? It's a wonder any of those engines even ran. Even during the smog era of the 70's, the anemic V8's were at 8:1 compression ratios.

I jus look at the pretty pictures

 

[FilterFunk]

I jus look at the pretty pictures

^What he said!

 

[BawanaRik]

I was a big fan of UHF growing up.

A Nash.

 

[BawanaRik]

Maybe stereotypical, but if I had the cash to buy any old car it'd probably be a 63 vette

The split window.

 

[Richland123]

 

[Iridescentone]

Any Triumph lovers around? The 60's was a great decade for Triumph. Got a favorite model?
I'd go with the '63 TR3B (last production year) which featured the soon-to-be TR4 drivetrain, including a full syncromesh trans and the new, stronger TR4 engine.

TR4

TR 250 (1968 only) which featured the soon-to-be TR6 drivetrain and interior on the TR4 platform.

TR6

 

[James Hart]

Any Triumph lovers around? The 60's was a great decade for Triumph. Got a favorite model?

My mother's first car was a TR2 and my father owned an 81 TR8 for a few years somewhat recently as a 'for fun' car. One of my best friend's in high school drove a chocolate brown TR6 back in the day.

My shop just finished painting a TR7 for a customer

 

[Atshen]

Not sure if it qualifies as "iconic", but that Dodge looks pretty bada$$!

 

[Atshen]

That Chevy's not too bad either...