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Pick your favorite iconic car from any decade....
- Thread starter Iridescentone
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Jim Henson had a 1978 Lotus Eclat that was not only Kermit the Frog green but also had Kermit pupils on the headlights
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These are getting rarer but I still seem some around:
A couple more photos of the above 1957 250 Testa Rossa. 
I almost bought one recently with an aftermarket turbo. Had some surface rust and a mangled tailgate. Would've been sight unseen though and taken up way too much space in manicured suburbia.
What engine did they hang a hairdryer on?? Hopefully if they wanted to go fast it was a GM LS engine.
The mangled tailgate and surface rust only add to the sleeper effect..... remember, going fast looks good.
What engine did they hang a hairdryer on?? Hopefully if they wanted to go fast it was a GM LS engine.
The mangled tailgate and surface rust only add to the sleeper effect..... remember, going fast looks good.
The 6.9 Diesel.
Reminds me of a 1964 Ferrari 250 GT Lusso Berlinetta that I had as Matchbox,A couple more photos of the above 1957 250 Testa Rossa.
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given to me by my granddad. I've seen one in real live pass by, decades ago.
I have seen one or two a long time ago.Reminds me of a 1964 Ferrari 250 GT Lusso Berlinetta that I had as Matchbox,
given to me by my granddad. I've seen one in real live pass by, decades ago.
IIRC, they were inspired from this model, a 250 SWB, from a few years earlier.
I worked at a Ford dealership in '96 when they were just introducing the wholly new redesigned F-150. That was the last year they made the boxy style body and the pushrod 4.9L engine that was so popular for two decades.
The new F-150 had a rounded body style, the new 4.6L modular V8 and completely different structure and suspension.
We had an enormous number of orders for new F-150s, but the majority were for the last year of the outgoing model, because people realized that was their last chance to buy a new truck from that era.
Ford didn't anticipate that and we ended up with a huge surplus of brand new round body F-150s on the lot and we had to heavily discount them to get rid of them.
