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

[Stinsok]

The name made me think of the Chevy Monza:

My brother had a bright red Monza like this. It looked awesome but underneath it was a slow economy car.

 

[kesslari]

My brother had a bright red Monza like this. It looked awesome but underneath it was a slow economy car.

Yep. That series (all of the GM variants) were true POS. And I don't mean that they had positrac...

 

[fretter]

Aerovette

 

[Stempelloos]

Bitter SC

Bitter CD

Opel/GM based German sports cars. I Might have taken those for a seventies Ferrari, Lamborghini or Maserati when seeing it pass.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Bitter SC

Interesting how similar the basic body shapes are on these two cars.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Bitter CD

And, with these two.

 

[Eli_Kyiv]

Bitter SC

Bitter CD

Opel/GM based German sports cars. I Might have taken those for a seventies Ferrari, Lamborghini or Maserati when seeing it pass.

If these were British cars (e.g. made in Vauxhall factory) they would be called "Best Bitter".

 

[Stempelloos]

Interesting how similar the basic body shapes are on these two cars.

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The Bitter SC front also reminds me a bit of the Matra Simca Bagheera.
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Which was not as fast as it appeared.

 

[ritz]

Porsche type 64

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

Here what Dad brought home one day.

 

[turf3]

Same platform as Opel Monza I think.

Nope.

The Chevy Monza was the Vega with an iron block engine and somewhat better rustproofing.

 

[Eli_Kyiv]

Nope.

The Chevy Monza was the Vega with an iron block engine and somewhat better rustproofing.

Opel Monza was basically a coupe (or rather 3-door hatchback) version of Opel Senator, which in turn was a luxury version of Opel Rekord.

 

[turf3]

Opel Monza was basically a coupe (or rather 3-door hatchback) version of Opel Senator, which in turn was a luxury version of Opel Rekord.

In the darkest days of the Vega Monza and Starfire, we often wondered why GM wouldn't just import the Opel compact cars.

 

[FilterFunk]

Aerovette

That looks like a cross between a Corvette and Speed Racer's Mach V.

 

[BadSanta1281]

The Chevy Monza was the Vega with an iron block engine and somewhat better rustproofing.

And an optional 305 cid V8 engine... in 1975 California cars got a 350 with all of 125 hp.

 

[ryco]

'72 Lotus Europa

'56 Chev Bel-Air 4 door wagon

 

[fretter]

Bitter SC

Bitter CD

Opel/GM based German sports cars. I Might have taken those for a seventies Ferrari, Lamborghini or Maserati when seeing it pass.

When I worked as a deliver driver in Cali, I saw an SC parked in a condo complex. This is going back a quarter century.

 

[marchone]

1967 Ferrari 330 P4
1:18 scale Amalgam model just shipped.

1932 Alfa Romeo Tipo B P3 Tazio Nuvolari GP Winner
1:18 scale CMC model future build ordered.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Here are my Ferraris.

 

[Eli_Kyiv]

1970 Volkswagen Porsche Tapiro concept car
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