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thepipesmoker said:
I don't think the Maserati Sebring's had a mention yet - what a classy looking car that is. Could someone do the decent thing and post a picture as I can't remember how
With pleasure:
A Sebring Mk1. Very nice too.
These cars have more style and class in their door handles than the entire modern car scene ! This thread is a feast !
Sebring
And more . . .
My god! Don't visit this site. Its loaded with
www.users.waitrose.com/~enrico/maser17.htm
>> Edited by dinkel on Friday 13th August 11:59
And more . . .
My god! Don't visit this site. Its loaded with
www.users.waitrose.com/~enrico/maser17.htm
>> Edited by dinkel on Friday 13th August 11:59
Maserati 5000GT - Touring, Shah of Persia - 1960, photograph courtesy MIE
Masser Frua Spyder
Masser A6 G-2000 Frua Coupe 2114
What we all really want is this classiness back to todays vehicles. Mission Impossible. Well they can make 60s Jags and Citroen DS' look 40 years old but hipo and today inside . . .
I poison this thread (but hey, I started it) with the statement that with the Russian money an MK2 Cerbera could be such a classy vehicle . . .
>> Edited by dinkel on Friday 13th August 12:31
Masser Frua Spyder
Masser A6 G-2000 Frua Coupe 2114
toppstuff said:
These cars have more style and class in their door handles than the entire modern car scene ! This thread is a feast !
What we all really want is this classiness back to todays vehicles. Mission Impossible. Well they can make 60s Jags and Citroen DS' look 40 years old but hipo and today inside . . .
I poison this thread (but hey, I started it) with the statement that with the Russian money an MK2 Cerbera could be such a classy vehicle . . .
>> Edited by dinkel on Friday 13th August 12:31
Mannginger said:
Top notch thread this!
I know it isn't classically beautiful but this is one of my favourite "old" Italians...
Purely because it is the first car that remember and it really started my interest in petrol!
Phil
Uggg! It's a Beta. I had a Beta Coupé that was fantastic to drive and beautiful to look at (once I'd hidden the rust). Can still get nostalgic about it, even though I'm sure it's reduced itself to a pile of red powder by now. Why oh why did those Italian gits have to use recycled baked bean tins to produce such great cars?
Lovely thread chaps - have been saving photos to make myself a tugworthy screensaver....
Zagato bodied Alfa Junior. Nice.
What about this.
An AC with a italian Frua body. The AC 428.
Its got a 7 litre V8 Cobra engine ! How awesome is that !
Built in Thames Ditton in the UK, from an Italian body and a US engine.
A coupe too,
A supertanker load of torque. 345 bhp. 0-60 in around 5 seconds.
You know you want one.
What about this.
An AC with a italian Frua body. The AC 428.
Its got a 7 litre V8 Cobra engine ! How awesome is that !
Built in Thames Ditton in the UK, from an Italian body and a US engine.
A coupe too,
A supertanker load of torque. 345 bhp. 0-60 in around 5 seconds.
You know you want one.
Picking up on the general feeling towards some or indeed most of the cars is that they embody an unquantifiable specialness.
Take the Miura, the LP400 or indeed the Pantera, the designs of these cars still look as fresh and as relevant today as they did thirty or so years ago. Bold styling and engineering solutions put them years ahead and it was only really the execution on limited budgets in troubled times that undermined them.
To me this is absolutely everything that is good and right about cars, the total antithesis of the many badge engineered offerings we are meant to be jumping up and down to buy today.
Maybe slightly off the general gist but these were truly lovely old dames
And maybe a little to old, the Fiat 8V with Ghia bodywork if I’m correct
And now if I’m correct again the Cisitalia, you think the Miura is porn?
Bangle, take note!
Take the Miura, the LP400 or indeed the Pantera, the designs of these cars still look as fresh and as relevant today as they did thirty or so years ago. Bold styling and engineering solutions put them years ahead and it was only really the execution on limited budgets in troubled times that undermined them.
To me this is absolutely everything that is good and right about cars, the total antithesis of the many badge engineered offerings we are meant to be jumping up and down to buy today.
Maybe slightly off the general gist but these were truly lovely old dames
And maybe a little to old, the Fiat 8V with Ghia bodywork if I’m correct
And now if I’m correct again the Cisitalia, you think the Miura is porn?
Bangle, take note!
Quite true, Vario Rob.
Take this Fiat, so well spotted on your behalf:
You are absolutely right. That design could so easily carry on in a modern car ! Its got a long bonnet for lots of engine option flexibility, long front overhang for pedestrian safety, and more importantly it looks gorgeous !
And to think that people though the Audi TT was gorgeous. They have really no idea...
That Fiat is lovely. And it shames the management team of Fiat for recent years...
Take this Fiat, so well spotted on your behalf:
You are absolutely right. That design could so easily carry on in a modern car ! Its got a long bonnet for lots of engine option flexibility, long front overhang for pedestrian safety, and more importantly it looks gorgeous !
And to think that people though the Audi TT was gorgeous. They have really no idea...
That Fiat is lovely. And it shames the management team of Fiat for recent years...
Mmmmh, I guess that's why the P1800 Volvo is a classic that never gets dull . . . I won't post a pic because of the italian connection here.
ALFETTA GT 2.6 V8 1977 Autodelta
www.autodelta.de/ADhome1/club/ar-gtv_galerie/ar-gal-gtv8_0.html
It's the Montreal V8 I guess . . .
ALFETTA GT 2.6 V8 1977 Autodelta
www.autodelta.de/ADhome1/club/ar-gtv_galerie/ar-gal-gtv8_0.html
It's the Montreal V8 I guess . . .
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