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

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Here are a few I love, mostly for their design style. All photographed by my friend and reason I'm a photographer today, Peter Harholdt.
1937 Delahaye
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1954 Alfa Romeo BAT7 by Bertone
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The aluminum-bodied 1947 Norman Timbs Special

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1934 Henderson KJ Streamline
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This is a pic I took of Peter many years ago when I was working with him. If you like beautiful cars and beautiful photography find the books that Peter has done for collectors and museums all over the world. You be glad you did
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Mark Desmo said:
So now we all know you really seem to like driving round in loud cars/trucks.

Different strokes for different folks and all that.
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Quiet has it's place, but sometimes there's nothing nicer than the sound of a healthy Big Block Chevy with a non restrictive exhaust system.
 
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Mike N said:
Quiet has it's place, but sometimes there's nothing nicer than the sound of a healthy Big Block Chevy with a non restrictive exhaust system.
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When I was a kid in the late 1960s and early 1970s, my dad would take me and my brother up to Mid-Ohio to see SCCA races of various kinds. CanAm and TransAm racing was thrilling, for just exactly that noise. Same with V8 powered club racers of various kinds. The sound of two dozen big V8s breathing through large diameter drain pipes was awe inspiring. We usually watched a couple corners on the far side of the infield from the start/finish line. When the A Production and A Sedan races started, they would have a pace lap, and then all open up at once. It was like a 747 taking off, only a whole lot more like music and less like ugly noise. To an 8 year old kid, it was one of the best things ever.
 
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Gaolee said:
When I was a kid in the late 1960s and early 1970s, my dad would take me and my brother up to Mid-Ohio to see SCCA races of various kinds. CanAm and TransAm racing was thrilling, for just exactly that noise. Same with V8 powered club racers of various kinds. The sound of two dozen big V8s breathing through large diameter drain pipes was awe inspiring. We usually watched a couple corners on the far side of the infield from the start/finish line. When the A Production and A Sedan races started, they would have a pace lap, and then all open up at once. It was like a 747 taking off, only a whole lot more like music and less like ugly noise. To an 8 year old kid, it was one of the best things ever.
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My late business partner raced at mid-Ohio. I only saw him once there. He raced Fiat 124 spyders, although he owned dozens and dozens of other odd cars. For some reason his daily driver was a Peugeot sedan. After he became less mobile due to MS, he found one with an automatic transmission that he went from Ohio to New Hampshire to collect. It looked like a piece of junk to me but he loved it and it kept him behind the wheel for an extra couple of years.

May he RIP.
 
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D M C said:
My late business partner raced at mid-Ohio. I only saw him once there. He raced Fiat 124 spyders, although he owned dozens and dozens of other odd cars. For some reason his daily driver was a Peugeot sedan. After he became less mobile due to MS, he found one with an automatic transmission that he went from Ohio to New Hampshire to collect. It looked like a piece of junk to me but he loved it and it kept him behind the wheel for an extra couple of years.

May he RIP.
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I had the first crash of my driving career in a Fiat 124 spyder. I discovered that ice in corners was a problem when I was a 16 year old. I had a 1954 Triumph that wasn't running (surprise) and was driving my dad's Fiat. It spun well, but backing into a fence post was bad for it. I did a whole $22 worth of damage to the car. Those were fun to drive, but absolutely gutless. That makes them about the perfect club racing car, just like Suzuki SV650s are just about the perfect club racing motorcycle.
 
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Gaolee said:
I had the first crash of my driving career in a Fiat 124 spyder. I discovered that ice in corners was a problem when I was a 16 year old. I had a 1954 Triumph that wasn't running (surprise) and was driving my dad's Fiat. It spun well, but backing into a fence post was bad for it. I did a whole $22 worth of damage to the car. Those were fun to drive, but absolutely gutless. That makes them about the perfect club racing car, just like Suzuki SV650s are just about the perfect club racing motorcycle.
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I'm pretty sure he didn't race it stock. He did have a bunch of 124 spider carcasses lying around though from which he'd resupply the racer when damaged/broken. He also had Austin Healeys, Alfa Romeos, Triumphs, Lancias and a bunch of other ancient European sports cars. The Italian ones were his favorite though.
His wife, now widow, started an eBay business selling a bunch of hard to find parts pulled from the 60 to 70 carcasses he had in his barns and yard.
 
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D M C said:
I'm pretty sure he didn't race it stock. He did have a bunch of 124 spider carcasses lying around though from which he'd resupply the racer when damaged/broken. He also had Austin Healeys, Alfa Romeos, Triumphs, Lancias and a bunch of other ancient European sports cars. The Italian ones were his favorite though.
His wife, now widow, started an eBay business selling a bunch of hard to find parts pulled from the 60 to 70 carcasses he had in his barns and yard.
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He sounds like my kind of hillbilly. No need for the Chevy up on blocks when you can have a Lancia up on blocks.
 
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Gaolee said:
When I was a kid in the late 1960s and early 1970s, my dad would take me and my brother up to Mid-Ohio to see SCCA races of various kinds. CanAm and TransAm racing was thrilling, for just exactly that noise. Same with V8 powered club racers of various kinds. The sound of two dozen big V8s breathing through large diameter drain pipes was awe inspiring. We usually watched a couple corners on the far side of the infield from the start/finish line. When the A Production and A Sedan races started, they would have a pace lap, and then all open up at once. It was like a 747 taking off, only a whole lot more like music and less like ugly noise. To an 8 year old kid, it was one of the best things ever.
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One of the coolest things I ever experienced was standing between Top Fuel dragsters as they left the starting line. Back in 2002 we had entered a car at the IHRA Empire Nationals in Top Sportsman... our car ran in the 6 second range at over 200 mph (side note - we won "Best Engineered Sportsman Car" at that race).

Well, being we were competitors at that race, we had all access passes to anywhere on the grounds for the weekend.... so when they called TF to the lanes for qualifying, I decided to follow them up thru the staging lanes all the way to the starting line. The feeling of 6000+ horsepower on either side of you at the hit of the throttle is unreal..... much better than a Sunburst P Bass with 'tort and flats thru an SVT.
 
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Mike N said:
One of the coolest things I ever experienced was standing between Top Fuel dragsters as they left the starting line. Back in 2002 we had entered a car at the IHRA Empire Nationals in Top Sportsman... our car ran in the 6 second range at over 200 mph (side note - we won "Best Engineered Sportsman Car" at that race).

Well, being we were competitors at that race, we had all access passes to anywhere on the grounds for the weekend.... so when they called TF to the lanes for qualifying, I decided to follow them up thru the staging lanes all the way to the starting line. The feeling of 6000+ horsepower on either side of you at the hit of the throttle is unreal..... much better than a Sunburst P Bass with 'tort and flats thru an SVT.
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When I was a kid in the 60s, I had a friend whose dad took us to the NHRA Winternationals at National Trails raceway in Kirkersville Ohio. The top fuel and funny cars were just about the loudest continuous noise created by man or nature that I have ever heard in my life.
 
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Gaolee said:
When I was a kid in the late 1960s and early 1970s, my dad would take me and my brother up to Mid-Ohio to see SCCA races of various kinds. CanAm and TransAm racing was thrilling, for just exactly that noise. Same with V8 powered club racers of various kinds. The sound of two dozen big V8s breathing through large diameter drain pipes was awe inspiring. We usually watched a couple corners on the far side of the infield from the start/finish line. When the A Production and A Sedan races started, they would have a pace lap, and then all open up at once. It was like a 747 taking off, only a whole lot more like music and less like ugly noise. To an 8 year old kid, it was one of the best things ever.
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Nice, that's a way cool track. I went to school with Sam Posey's half brothers and got to see Sam race Trans Am cars for Roger Penske and Carroll Shelby at Lime Rock, with pit passes and the whole nine yards. Also saw him in FA/5000 and Can Am cars, all of which were crazy loud. But my favorites were F1 cars at Watkins Glen and especially the Howmet turbine endurance sportscars, which you could hear all the way around the Glen. You've probably also seen the turbine hydros on Lake Washington, I assume? To me that was seriously impressive stuff, both the noise and the speed.
 
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Mike N said:
Quiet has it's place, but sometimes there's nothing nicer than the sound of a healthy Big Block Chevy with a non restrictive exhaust system.
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Speaking of iconic, there are also some well known car engine sounds. Of course the small block and big block GM vehicles all have their distinct sonic signature, as do their Ford and Chrysler counterparts. One of the coolest sounds is from a Plymouth Barracuda with the 426 Hemi head and 2 4 bbl carbs.

These days I'm into turbos and just love the sound of a high revving straight 6 or 4 cyl turbo
 
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