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

I still love me some Fiero. I remember being a young teen (pre-license) and stumbling upon a site called v8archie. Dedicated to stuffing v8 engines into Fieros. Also, body modifications like chopping the top, wide body kits, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Ford GT body kits. These people even made me appreciate the notchback View attachment 3692001 View attachment 3692003
Hmmm... wonder what that was inspired by?

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Me too! Here is my daily driver as pictured in my driveway last week!

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Nice! I always liked those



That, the BMW of the same era and the 3 versions from Volvo are some of my favorite cars



A friend's Mom had one when I was in High School... definite sleeper.
The curse of the Volvo SW... you will survive any sort of impact with that hood but will be forever thought of as a geography teacher.
 
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Walkin' through the grocery store parking lot y'day, and one of these Beautiful Bad Boys snuck up on me from behind...

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I was genuinely surprised to see a 30something driving!

Seemed to me that these are the kinds of toys that only 60somethings can afford, but then I went noodling around on a coupla car sites this morn and found half a dozen of them for between 20 and 25K!
 
Here is a one off, unusual car.

Restored in 1985, Beatnik Bandit was originally built in 1961 as an evolution of a design by Joe Henning. Underneath the bubble top is a single tiller that is used to steer, stop, and turn the rod.

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That's twice today you've posted things from my childhood that I'd totally forgotten about.









Awesome.
 
I still love me some Fiero. I remember being a young teen (pre-license) and stumbling upon a site called v8archie. Dedicated to stuffing v8 engines into Fieros. Also, body modifications like chopping the top, wide body kits, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Ford GT body kits. These people even made me appreciate the notchback View attachment 3692001 View attachment 3692003

My son is a Fiero fan, so far he's owned four of them...... three 87 GT's in the past and currently he has an 88 GT. Imo they're pretty cool cars for what they are, and the 88 is a one of a kind with a totally different suspension than the 84 - 87 models had.
 
One of my uncles had one of those. I heard he sold it.
He still has a pre-thirties Nash with a straight eight engine.
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A picture that my brother took of my dad, having a look at the interior of the Nash restored by his brother.

I'm not sure what the exact type-name of the car is, but it looks something like this one:
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It's a Nash 871 1931 Victoria cabriolet 8 cilinder.

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His A-Ford is pre- thirties, and the T-Ford pre-twenties.