favorite cars of the golden era

[Micawber]

Harold's custom hearse (hubba, hubba!) Extra points if you know what this used to be...

E-Type (XKE) Jaguar?

I was fond of my Silver Shadow

 

[Jay]

I still want a Porsche Spyder replica. And I still can't afford one...

Weird... This is my 550th post...

 

[Dan G]

that is pretty creepy...lol awesome car though

 

[PastimeSteve]

This is a tough one. I'd say a '65 Corvette Stingray with the split window. My second choice would be a '67 Camaro.

And, for some strange reason, I've always had a fixation with the highly customized 1949 Mercury in that cheesy Stallone movie, "Cobra."

Steve

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Here we go...
Harold's custom hearse (hubba, hubba!) Extra points if you know what this used to be...

Looks like a series three XK-E, which would make it very late sixties to early seventies - no later than '74. And a coupe, at that. Not a 2+2. Harold likes short wheelbase hearses. Must haul the extra-tragic small cargo (or the victims of bad or beginner magicians. )


Lee
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"They say the grass is always greener over a corpse, but I wasn't dying to find out if it was true." - Kinky Friedman

 

[HoosierDaddy]

This is a tough one. I'd say a '65 Corvette Stingray with the split window. My second choice would be a '67 Camaro.

And, for some strange reason, I've always had a fixation with the highly customized 1949 Mercury in that cheesy Stallone movie, "Cobra."

Steve

Hi Steve
Might want to go with a '63 Corvette Coup. Only year for the split window.
HD
I had a '65...92..and '93 Vette. I think the 1982 may be my fav.
My younger brother had a '67 Camaro SS 396..barely street legal!

 

[VivianRegan]

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Sorry, plutonium and "OUTATIME" vanity plates not included. lol

I find the history of the car more interesting than its subsequent appreciation as movie prop. Don't get me wrong... BTTF is a bitchin' flick, and flux capacitors are the bomb, but an untouched DeLorean, well! He was the Tucker of the '80s, only with more cocaine.

Looks like a series three XK-E, which would make it very late sixties to early seventies - no later than '74. And a coupe, at that. Not a 2+2. Harold likes short wheelbase hearses. Must haul the extra-tragic small cargo (or the victims of bad or beginner magicians. )

In the film Harold and Maude (1971), Harold's mom gets quite fed up with the ugly thing parked in her driveway, so she buys him a brand new silver Jag. It's so great... the very next scene, you see Harold lower his welder's helmet and light a torch. Voila! Jag Hearse!

This is what Harold's mom had carted off because she though it was hideous (add it to my dream car list...)

 

[PastimeSteve]

Hi Steve
Might want to go with a '63 Corvette Coup. Only year for the split window.
HD
I had a '65...92..and '93 Vette. I think the 1982 may be my fav.
My younger brother had a '67 Camaro SS 396..barely street legal!

Oops! Thanks HoosierDaddy -- that's right.

I'm assuming your brother doesn't still have the Camaro?

Steve

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Hey,JC!!
You're pic helped talk me into it!! Picked it up yesterday(first day of summer). Whata fun car...can't stay outa it.
Kid Again

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Way to go, H.D.!!


Lee

 

[plain old dave]

1961 Chrysler 300G with the 405hp 413. Giddy up go.

 

[Prairie Dog]

The Datsun 240Z is my idea of a cool classic sports car.

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

1961 Chrysler 300G with the 405hp 413. Giddy up go.

Not to mention one of the coolest dashboards in the known universe. The first time I saw one at night with the electroluminescent lighting, I was mesmerized.

 

[priestyboy]

Ahh, a 1946 black Ford convertible like "Biff" drove in the "Back to the Future" movies!

 

[LadyStardust]

I'm sorry, I have to add another car to my list. It's just too pretty not to.

1937 Cord 812 Phaeton

 

[HadleyH]

I love cars from the twenties and I like this one a lot, a 1925 Isotta Fraschini!

 

[MrNewportCustom]

I'll take one of these, thank you.

And just for the heck of it, how about one of these, too?

Lee

 

[HadleyH]

I'm not really an expert on this topic, but to my eye the cars built in the 20s and 30s were absolute works of art!!! Like this 1930 Bugatti for example ...

 

[kpreed]

With so many great cars, it is hard to pick one, but my favorite AMERICAN auto would be a L-29 Cord like this:

 

[carebear]

Passed a late-40's Buick Roadmaster coupe on the road yesterday.

That was pretty.