GTP Cool Wall: 1957 Rambler Rebel

[Wiegert]

1957 Rambler Rebel nominated by @Roger the Horse

Body Style: 4-door hardtop saloon
Engine: 5.4L petrol V8
Power: 255 hp
Torque: 345 ft-lbs
Weight: 1520 kg
Transmission: 3-speed manual with overdrive, 4-speed automatic
Drivetrain: Front-engine, rear wheel drive​

Spoiler: Additional images

 

[Tyger]

This one's new on me, and in its day must surely have been seen as a bit of a carbuncle (shades of the Safety Car), but now looks quirky and interesting. Lack of central pillars is cool too. That's a Cool then.

 

[LivingWithGames]

This thing had a freaking V8? Now that's a shock.

 

[Turbo]

I like the way it looks, but it is not as much of a Rebel as this:

Low Cool.

 

[Roger the Horse]

Nice doors.

 

[Tornado]

It's the racy sports version of a car that only skinflints bought ordinarily. Kinda... eh.

 

[Casey]

Can't say it's one of the best looking cars from the 1950s really but it gets a low cool from me.

 

[Wiegert]

The greenhouse proportions are... disturbing to say the least. No ounce of grace about the Hudson on which this is based and it's hard to imagine that the '57 Rebel was one of the real forerunners to out and out muscle cars.

A curious '50s sleeper. Calling it cool would be a stretch though.

 

[TexRex]

High Meh, but Meh nonetheless. Just a bit too awkward, and not in a kitschy way.

 

[AlvaroF]

This car looks kinda awkward... It isn't cool, but it isn't uncool either because it has a bit of class and the pillerless design is curious. But it isn't vanilla for a meh. But it's a Meh, I have no other vote for it.

 

[Adamgp]

Just barely makes it into Sub Zero range.

 

[TheCracker]

Must have been bought by people who were uncool 60 years ago. Uncool.

 

[Liquid]

Unremarkable and ugly. Even for a retro appeal it's lacking.

Uncool

 

[edawg456]

Back when cars had true style so subzero.

 

[Pupik]

Uncommonly fast for the times. Wanna see my B-pillar disappear? Rather ugly and dispropertionately-styled for any decade. That rear roofline turns the quirky aspect of the rest of the car into homely and imbalanced territory; to be fair, fastback designs wouldn't show up in design studios for another decade, but it sure didn't do itself any favors with a longer trunk area than hood. It always looks like it's rolling backwards up a gravity hill.

I don't want to put it in the Meh Zone, but I think I'll catch some weird disease if I look at it much longer.