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Alfa Romeo Carabo concept car
Designed by Bertone

 

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1954 VW Beetle with period Judson supercharger, which boosted power from 36hp to 50hp and torque to 70ft/lbs from its otherwise stock 1.2L four banger.

 

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Full-size American muscle:

 

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Detomaso Pantera
From last Sunday at Retroclasica Bilbao 2022

 

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1967-1971 VW Project EA266; mid-engine, water cooled 4, 1.3L-1.6L, 65-125hp. Large engine had top speed of 120mph, 0-60 in just over 8 sec. Due to engine location the car was hot, noisy, handled poorly, and was a maintenance nightmare. Fifty were built, all but two were destroyed (by driving tanks over them), those two remain at the VW museum.

 

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1959 Shamrock. Plastic body was 17ft long yet powered by 50hp four banger from Austin, a twin carb option gave 73hp. Intended production was 10,000 but interest waned, funds dried up, and the factory closed with only ten cars produced; four are known to exist today, one in the US.

 

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1959 Shamrock. Plastic body was 17ft long yet powered by 50hp four banger from Austin, a twin carb option gave 73hp. Intended production was 10,000 but interest waned, funds dried up, and the factory closed with only ten cars produced; four are known to exist today, one in the US.

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The baroque bloated whale 1958 Lincoln Continental styling doesn't look any better in miniature . . .

 

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Dodge Stratus Supertouring

 

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Dodge Stratus Supertouring
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There was one being used int the swedish STCC too. Cool looking car, really stands out from the others

 

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1960 FSO Syrena Sport prototype. Polish car using Austin running gear, never went into production; whereabouts unknown, if it even still exists. But what a sharp looking car.

 

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Kenworth T300

 

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1933 Kenworth; the first diesel truck, the first vertical exhaust (to keep fumes away from pedestrians), the first "Big Rig".

 

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Rover 3500 SD1

 

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Call me weird, but I always felt British sedans with fastback/hatchback styling were attractive and practical. Now, the few cars (seems almost every vehicle is a crossover or SUV) left have this greenhouse profile--Ford Fusion, Hyundai Sonata, Kia Elantra, Toyota Camry.

 

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Rover TC 2000

 

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Call me weird, but I always felt British sedans with fastback/hatchback styling were attractive and practical. Now, the few cars (seems almost every vehicle is a crossover or SUV) left have this greenhouse profile--Ford Fusion, Hyundai Sonata, Kia Elantra, Toyota Camry.

You're not the only one

 

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Call me weird, but I always felt British sedans with fastback/hatchback styling were attractive and practical. Now, the few cars (seems almost every vehicle is a crossover or SUV) left have this greenhouse profile--Ford Fusion, Hyundai Sonata, Kia Elantra, Toyota Camry.

Auto design has become much like TV programming - if something is popular, within a couple of years everyone else has copied it. A few years ago they all copied that trapezoidal Audi grille, now it's that hideous angular "sci-fi" front end.

As a kid we could easily identify cars on the road; "there's a Pontiac", "there's a Mercury", that's an Olds" ...occasionally something odd, "what's a Renault?". Now I can walk through a parking lot and not differentiate 90% of the cars there without walking closer and reading the logo. (I was always irritated none of those wonderful concept cars ever reached production.)

 

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Renault Gordini RS

 

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Renault 8 Gordini rally car
Rallye Festival Hoznayo 2022

 

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Pegaso Troner 1440-38 TS
One of the last trucks of Pegaso before being acquired by IVECO