GTP Cool Wall: 1977-1979 Clènet Continental V8 (Series I)

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1977-1979 Clènet Continental V8 (Series I)

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I just realized, it's probably 208. For some reason I didn't realize it at the time, but I could have probably just used a contemporary Lincoln Continental for specs, and it had 208 IIRC.
 
White & Nerdy
I just realized, it's probably 208. For some reason I didn't realize it at the time, but I could have probably just used a contemporary Lincoln Continental for specs, and it had 208 IIRC.
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I find it funny how they can rate it so low on one car and have it be different on another when the drivetrains are entirely the same...
 
I know my taste will be forever questioned after this, but I actually kind of like it, strangely enough.

Just to dig the hole I'm in a little deeper, I think the first two Adam posted (the two black ones) are pretty cool in a really weird this-was-built-for-a-movie-villain-to-drive kind of way, especially the second one. I don't know how they look side-on or in different colors or anything, but from that angle, in that color, they're pretty cool. The others? Absolutely terrible in every way, especially that horrible Zimmer thing.
 
Seriously uncool. It's a car that's trying way to hard to be something it isn't.
 
Meh. Could be better, could be worse.

If you're going for looney tunes, at least use a decent car as a base:

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*cue a million Nisso-philes crying out in agony... :lol:

The Mitsuoka is just crazy enough to be possibly cool.

This lazy thing... isn't.

Meh.
 
The whole purpose of cars like this was to provide the wealthy with another way to stand out and show the world how special they are. Its classless, gaudy, and certainly not cool.

Add in the fact that it doesn't even look like a proper retro car (more like a cross between retro and hot-rod) and the poor engineering (200HP from a 7.5L V8? Surely that's bad even for the 80s?) and I'd actually change my Uncool vote to SU if I could.
 
Automobilismo
The whole purpose of cars like this was to provide the wealthy with another way to stand out and show the world how special they are. Its classless, gaudy, and certainly not cool.

Add in the fact that it doesn't even look like a proper retro car (more like a cross between retro and hot-rod) and the poor engineering (200HP from a 7.5L V8? Surely that's bad even for the 80s?) and I'd actually change my Uncool vote to SU if I could.
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Why do people keep referring to it as an 80s car? The model years are clearly written in the thread title. It was only the late 70s when smog-era V8s were that bad.
 
XS
Why do people keep referring to it as an 80s car? The model years are clearly written in the thread title. It was only the late 70s when smog-era V8s were that bad.
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Big blocks didn't hardly change in the 80s.
 
So far what intrigues me the most, who's teh fella that voted SZ so far? I'm actually disgusted. I mean, look at them votes, it's incredible.
 
...Jahgee1124?!

Hey, @Jahgee1124 I think you misclicked. You might look at getting a mod to change it for you.

HINT: Click on the number of votes an option has recieved to see who voted that option, assuming the poll allows it (Cool Wall posts, except for the Superbird poll, do).
 
Slash
Lolwut? Fords big blocks were never that low on power. The 164hp rating for the 6.6 is correct but the 7.5 never went lower than 245hp and 385 lb-ft of torque. I don't know we're you got your rating from but that is not correct at all. You might want to change that so people don't get the wrong idea.
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Yea, we would't want to think the American car industry built some woefully underpowered V8's for half a century.

Pretty uncool car. Got way too much nasty early 80's excess vibe going on.
 
Mike Rotch
Yea, we would't want to think the American car industry built some woefully underpowered V8's for half a century.

Pretty uncool car. Got way too much nasty early 80's excess vibe going on.
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It wasn't the point. We all know they are horrid on power stock.
 
Cool.

I like the design, it's done well and this is retro-retro (cool) rather than future-retro (uncool). But as someone said on the first page, 200hp from 7 odd litres is almost impressive.
 
It's a horrible car that produces 200hp from a V8, that's pointless in my opinion, seriously uncool.
 
Cooler than the Panther cars of the era, but not as cool as Excaliburs. Not that it matters, they're all so uncool it hurts.

SU.
 
I'm going with uncool on this one. It's certainly fairly unique, but I think we all know that unique =/= cool. It looks a bit too off to be meh as well.
 
A 1970's car trying to be a 1920's car never worked for me. People are going to assume that you have taste and money, and then you have explain it's a 70's knock-off. Then you have to explain how you get such little horsepower from such a massive engine while trying to look like you're not killing the planet just to look cool with your shag carpeting.
 
Quite like it. There were a lot of cars that were angling for the same thing that are a whole lot more tasteless; nevermind most of the cars from the 1970s. Stutz, for example. Or the Zimmer. Or even some of the mainstream cars whose success had to do entirely with trying to superficially emulate prewar cars.

Ken Koios
Then you have to explain how you get such little horsepower from such a massive engine while trying to look like you're not killing the planet just to look cool with your shag carpeting.
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Is this actually a question someone in the entirety of history has ever asked when you show them your car?
 
Tornado
Is this actually a question someone in the entirety of history has ever asked when you show them your car?
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Well, not that exact question.
 
Tornado
There were a lot of cars that were angling for the same thing that are a whole lot more tasteless; nevermind most of the cars from the 1970s. Stutz, for example. Or the Zimmer.
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YOU DIDN'T.

I love those two ):
 

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