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

[rollie 55]

browns lane still looks the same to day but most of the car plant is gone its is now houses and a amazon where house how the times have changed. will take some pics at the weekend so you can see how it looks to day

 

[ritz]

Fitch Phoenix

 

[ritz]

 

[Richland123]

Bricklin

 

[rollie 55]

Bricklin

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colonel straker's car from ufo a program on tv in the uk back in the 1970's i loved it

 

[fretter]

Vector W8

 

[Mark Desmo]

Fitch Phoenix

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I'm guessing those two humps - one each side, just in front of the windscreen, are the top housing for spare wheels. or maybe wheel, and the other one is simply matching. Possibly even with tools or similar in there.

If so, doubtless an idea copied from The Bristol Car Company

 

[Richland123]

Bradley GT kit car built on a VW chassis.

 

[MonetBass]

Panoz Esperante, powered by a Ford 4.6L V8

 

[Richland123]

Sterling kit car built on a VW chassis.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Vector W8

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I've seen those a couple times. The first was at the L.A. Auto Show when it was introduced; the second time was one parked on Broxton in Westwood one evening. It was a toss up as to which I wanted to look at, the Vector, or Susan Anton as she was walking down the sidewalk past the car.

 

[ArtGuy9516]

Posted before elsewhere but...

 

[Mike N]

Thanks it was a fun way to hide from my career for a couple years with minimal stresses after my kid was born.


They started out just C1, C2, and C3 Corvettes, NCRS show prep, body off restoration to tube frame restromods. The shop will pretty much work on anything that goes fast. Even some 60-70s European stuff comes through.

a Jamison Tube frame for a 67 being fitted prior to powder coating. It got a lot of cool stuff in it... C5 suspension, original low power 427 and automatic fitted with a modern EFI unit, modern AC, etc. It was built for a retired Doc that owns a dozen killer original cars... he is thinning the herd and wanted a nice relaxing toy.
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and finished... I did a majority of parts finding and ordering.
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Also legit show circuit restorations... here is a 61 & 67 being assembled in the clean room

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body dropped on the 67
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the 61 stripped with the glass work just being started... DO NOT walk past the exhaust fans when they guys are working glass... I'm itchy thinking about it again!
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I was like a kid in a candy store! Pay sucked, but it was cool times with cool people, I watched, asked questions and listened... I learned a LOT even though I never put hands on them myself

That looks like a fun gig...... better than the monotony of working on the same 4 cylinder wrong wheel drive ****boxes day after day......

I did the rod shop thing for a bit.... up until hookers and cocaine consumed the owner and shut the place down. While we didn't do concourse resto jobs, we did build some cool stuff........ pretty much anything from a 12 second Mustang GT to a low 6 second twin turbo 68 Camaro Pro-Mod. Quite a few of our builds landed in Hot Rod and similar magazines and we also won a "best engineered" award at the 2002 IHRA Empire Nationals.

Good times to say the least. While I didn't really earn much money from that gig, it's an experience that I wouldn't trade for anything.

 

[Diesel Kilgore]

I'd take a '86 or '87 Buick Grand National. Strap a glossy black Jackson bass in the passenger seat and crank up the metal.

 

[fretter]

some concepts I found looking for something else...

 

[Kukulkan61]

Here's my 66 Chevelle SS, it's the first car I owned back in 1977 when I started driving, this replaced it because my dumb a** sold it a couple years later, but it was just like this one!!

 

[kesslari]

Bradley GT kit car built on a VW chassis.

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Man I remember those! They looked so cool, and then you realized... it's V-Dub in disguise. Pah!

 

[Richland123]

Alfa Romeo Spider

 

[Richland123]

 

[Mike N]

View attachment 3330463 Here's my 66 Chevelle SS, it's the first car I owned back in 1977 when I started driving, this replaced it because my dumb a** sold it a couple years later, but it was just like this one!!

I really dig the SS Chevelles of that era and that is one sweet looking car.

Now, the Tacoma sitting next to it looks to have a pretty beefy set of tires on it..... care to share a pic or two of that?