GTP Cool Wall: 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow

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1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow


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I've seen 1 of the 3 surviving cars on two different occasions, and it's absolutely stunning. I found myself staring at it more than any other car at the show. I can't vote anything other than SZ because of that.
 
It's definitely a hard one. It's about as much of a unicorn as a car can be, even new. And it was the ultimate display of ostentatious wealth, well after that went from Gatsby Coolness to A Very Bad Thing. To the overwhelming majority of people who basically got more use out of eating money for all the good it was, not only was it uncool but it was in hideously poor taste to even covet. It was the Hummer H1, and the Great Depression was its Inconvenient Truth.


So does 80 years removed from the circumstances of its birth allow it to sit high as it would have had it debuted five years earlier? I don't really know, but my gut says sub zero.
 
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I kinda like this thing... Not exactly sure why but it looks pretty cool so I guess it's just enough to bump into cool (as opposed to my normal old car rating standard of meh).
 
I pretty much will vote anything before 1950 uncool because when people drive them today it seems as though they are driving them to be looked at.
 
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