Sitting Room Cars

[kiteless]

Or, depending on where it is and what you call it, maybe "Living Room" / "Lounge" / "Front Room" cars.

Prompted by a recent article in Classic Cars magazine, and possessing the required cash, this crossed my mind as being so unutterably pretty that I would just place it in my sitting room to gawp at:



I'm thinking of cars that go beyond "good looking", and become 4-wheeled art regardless of racing pedigree / engine size / practicality / motoring importance. Where the overall design and detailing are things of unbridled joy for the petrolhead. For example, I love the lines of a 288GTO but it's not to me a pretty car; purposeful, yes, but not worthy of gawping at whilst on a plinth in your sitting room.

A 250TR, however, would IMO look just so as an ornament:



As would an Alfa 8C Competizione.

So, other nominations for a sitting room car?

[GuitarTech]

The only car I can think of that'd fit in my living room is a Smart, and they're so fg ugly

[johnnymaestro]

For me it would have to be this,

Edited by johnnymaestro on Friday 3rd February 23:24

[cragswinter]

Mate swmbo got a cob on when I cleaned my idle stabiliser valve in the kitchen never mind parking some old motor in the sitting room


But seeing as you're asking I'd have a 250 SWB Cali, or coupe I'm not fussy

[Lordbenny]

Somebody stop me!!!

My favourite has to be....

[GuitarTech]

I'd die for that Porker. It's just sooo right!

[macp]

Not everyones idea of a sitting room car but it is for me.

Edited by macp on Friday 3rd February 23:40

[matthias73]

A friend of mine has one of these in his bedroom:

[matc]

Would have to be an F40 for me!

[steviegunn]

This:

[kiteless]

Another one that springs to mind is one that isn't (in the overall scheme of all things 250GT) that valued. Yet I love its lines and beauty:



See I prefer ^ to a 250GT SWB, looks-wise, yet a SWB out-values a Lusso x3!

BTW, I love that pre-production Countach posted earlier. Very much "of its time".

[0a]

[macp]

0a said:

Good shout almost posted this myself

[billzeebub]

DB6 Volante for me, roof down. If I ever got bored of looking at it then I could sit in it to eat dinner, watch TV etc..

[0a]

macp said:

0a said:

Good shout almost posted this myself

It's the classic one, so I thought I'd get there in first. I saw one parked outside a pub in Mayfair once and just stood there and took in the shape... wonderful.

[SooperDan]

[Lordbenny]

You cant put an F40 in a sitting room for the same reason you shouldn't put a bird in a cage!

[Life Saab Itch]

The GP driver Jo Bonnier already did what I'd do.

[Jasandjules]

Waaay too many to choose !

[AlexiusG55]

macp said:

Not everyones idea of a sitting room car but it is for me.

Edited by macp on Friday 3rd February 23:40

Well, it's like a sitting room on the inside...

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