Ooh Yah, the interceptor had the 440c.i. engine. I knew a woman that had the convertible version. What a ride!
One of my uncles, a car collector, had a Jensen Interceptor.
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Pick your favorite iconic car from any decade....
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Hard to choose a favorite. I'll go with this...........1955 Chevy.
I was at the NYWF in 1965 when it was introduced to the public. I even won a 1/8th scale model of it there. Over the years one would sometimes be on display at the Crawford Auto-Aviation museum, so it must be in their collection.
No it wasn't. It was a gas turbine that drove the rear wheels. A very different thing.
It looks like Cadillac's answer to the Pontiac Trans-Am.
I always make fun of the Cordoba, but they are obvious nods to the classic Chevy.It looks like Cadillac's answer to the Pontiac Trans-Am.
In those shots, for sure I can see it. But, in that first shot you posted, the one with the gull wing windows, I still cannot help but think "gas-guzzling wannabe Trans-Am…and the guy who can afford it (…at least, until the 1987 Black Monday crash!)".I always make fun of the Cordoba, but they are obvious nods to the classic Chevy.
That's why I left it ambiguous. But both!Okay, I'll ask the obvious question…
"What, the car or the woman?"
RICH and/or FINE and/or SOFT Corinthian leather, no less!
I've always wondered how many Corinthians you had to skin for that bench seat.
The rectangular headlights killed it for me. I'd much rather have the round headlight version.... same with the trucks of that era.I always make fun of the Cordoba, but they are obvious nods to the classic Chevy.
I like the swivel bucket seats.
It's like having a gaming-style computer chair in a car!
P.S.: Come to think of it, it is kind of appropriate, since such gaming chairs are fashioned after car's bucket seats, so…
P.P.S.: Take one of these chairs (fairly inexpensive), add a bottom and lumbar cushion (not terribly expensive), then hold it all together with a cheap car-seat cover (very inexpensive!) and you've got a computer chair comfy enough to fall asleep in. (…which I really gotta stop doing!
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Several of my High School friends had that generation Malibu or Monte Carlo with the swivel buckets.
Is it just me or does that engine looks like a design inspired by H.R. Giger's "Biomechanics" and "Jodorowsky's 'Dune'" works?
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