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

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Several that crackled across the grey matter:

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Late 60's/early 70's BMW 3.0 CS Coupe: Extraordinarily graceful, the tall greenhouse with the impossibly slim A and C pillars, the body with the cut line circling the entire upper surface. A ballerina.
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Grandson. 1989 BMW 635CSi. Still a real looker, a gentleman's transport, potent in its M version.
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To me, the greatest coupe M-B ever made, the 80's S-class based 560SEC, here in AMG wide body livery. Go to South Florida in those days, there were so many of these you could walk on them.
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1971 DeTomaso Mangusta, penned by a young Giorgetto Guigaro. This was a hybrid: European/Italian body/design and running gear, and a Ford 351 Cleveland to apply forward motion !
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Alfa Romeo/Touring Disco Volante Spyder. A re-imagined Alfa 8C built in small numbers by Touring. 'Disco Volante' translates from the Italian as 'flying saucer'.
 
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When I was a kid growing up in oilfield, redneck Texas in the 60's, I saw two cars on the way to school every day in front of some big houses as my Dad drove us by. THIS was one of them:

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Lincoln Continental Mk II. The idea was a spare, elegant American approximation of European luxury, so modest fins, light on the chrome, and very elegantly styled, inside and out:
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Full instruments, and the BIG steering wheels cars had in those days (check out the horn ring) when power steering wasn't all that. Lots of leather, not a lot of chrome.
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And an uber-rare (1 o 2 made) convertible. Notice how even the spare tire bump is modestly rendered.

These were mid 50's, and in their day sold for an average of $115,000.00 in today's money, for a total of around 3000 total built. Rare and exceptional, and a departure from the far more garish cars that were the bread and butter of Detroit in those days. Nonetheless, ultimately too expensive to find a sustainable market. Here's a terrific history of them from Hemmings:

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And what was the other car?

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Jaguar Series One XKE coupe. I'd see this, this silver aircraft-like streamliner, hunched down on those Dunlop blackwalls (in a world of white walls only) and those wire wheels and the exhausts, it may have well have been a space ship in a sea of Oldsmobiles, Fords, and GMC's. I marvel at the memory of this, but amazingly, a similar epiphany as a youngster occurred to the great designer Frank Stephenson (the Ford Sierras, the Fiat 500, the X5 BMW, the first McLaren 650) who also has that burned in his memory as well.
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A Series One interior, the tell being the aluminum 'forearm board' between the seats and around the shifter. These always smelled like leather when you entered.

These two always told me that there was another, bigger world out there with style and class, that everything WASN'T alike.
 
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BadJazz said:
Still my favorite 911:

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After all these years I still have my 88 non turbo but fuel injected 911. In the winter time I now store it in an airplane hangar but break it out for those summer warm sunny days here in SoCal. Going keep this car for the rest of my life.
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