Here's a true icon: a Periscopo Countach
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Pick your favorite iconic car from any decade....
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All show and no go. A wheezing 305 cubic inch V8 smothered with every emission control device you could imagine that put a mind boggling and pavement shredding 105 horsepower to the ground thru a 2.41 geared peg leg one wheel peel rear end.
Very few people realize that during the first import boom of the late-1950s, the Renault Dauphine was the third best selling import after VW and English Ford (Though Ford had a more diverse product line) - they were built between 1956 and 1968. The Dauphine was essentially an updated 4CV with a larger body and more power. It was also the first Renault to be imported to the United States in large numbers with over 200,000 coming in between 1957 and 1960. Internationally, the Dauphine was a very successful mid-range car with over two million being produced during that time period. This photo was taken when the millionth left the factory.
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Here is Prussian Baroness, Gisela Josephine von Krieger with her 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Roadster and the Hindenburg, the famous Zeppelin, above.
The Baroness lived in the United States, but died in Europe in 1989.
However, the car remained in the United States, stored in a garage in Greenwich, Connecticut, forgotten for 40 years.
One of the 25 built in 1936 and 1937, the 540 K was purchased for 28,000 Reichmarks in 1936 (app. 115,000 Euros today).
It sold for $11,700,000.00 in 2012, making it the most expensive pre-war vehicle ever sold at an auction at the time.
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The Baroness lived in the United States, but died in Europe in 1989.
However, the car remained in the United States, stored in a garage in Greenwich, Connecticut, forgotten for 40 years.
One of the 25 built in 1936 and 1937, the 540 K was purchased for 28,000 Reichmarks in 1936 (app. 115,000 Euros today).
It sold for $11,700,000.00 in 2012, making it the most expensive pre-war vehicle ever sold at an auction at the time.
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I did the math wrong...my CR-V is a 2005, so next March will be its 20th birthday.My CR-V turns 20 next month!
1959 Chevrolet Impala
First year of the ElCamino and the only year the ElCamino was built on the Impala platform.
Yep...I've never used it, though. I use the space under it as a pseudo-trunk.
I really miss my 03. I bought it for $300, put $300 in parts and 8 hours labor into it, drove it for 2 years and sold it for $3500.
In other words, a perfect representative of the 1979 American automobile.
I was there. Cars really sucked back then.
I was there, too
Weird thing is 1979 seemed to be the high water mark for GM production of certain models.... for the second generation Camaro, I still see more 79 Z/28's than any other year, same with the 79 Blazer.
Funny enough, I own one of both.
Peugeot 505 isn't an iconic car by any stretch of imagination, but this particular one had been used as a patrol car by Illinois police department.
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Akiko Wakabayashi at the wheel of Toyota's 2000GT in You Only Live Twice:
Now that's what I call "iconic."
Now that's what I call "iconic."
