The non-muscle American car thread (READ THE OP)

[TexRex]

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Ford's IMSA GTP Race Cars

 

[TexRex]

Holy moly.

 

[TexRex]

 

[Populuxe]

1959 Oldsmobile Super 88 sedan

 

[05XR8]

Holy moly.

That’s kinda perfect right thar.
Circa. early to mid-eighties, me and one of my cousins would bring out this car catalogue the size of a Sear’s catalogue.
Go through all the makes and write down the options and deletes we’d want for our choices. GM were the best. Endless options to mix & match.

Living in The Bronx, we’d see Caprice Classics like this.

However, visiting relatives down south, we’d see more Caprice 2-doors like the one TexTex posted. Tints, Rally wheels and BFGs. Doesn’t get much better than that. Good memories.

 

[ScottPuss20]

@TexRex

 

[Serge.D]

 

[TexRex]

 

[Darla Starch]

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

 

[TexRex]

I think about this car a lot. It was a minor plot point and made occasional appearances on NBC's crime drama Life some fifteen years ago.

It's the striping that does it for me.

In particular I dig the way the stripe "misses" the hood bulge.

 

[Populuxe]

 

[TexRex]

I really like these. Definitely among my favorite Fox cars. The nose is a bit of a letdown like the '83-6 Thunderbird and the '87 facelift similarly improved the front end tremendously, but I don't care for the rest of the Cougar facelift.

This thing is unbelievably clean, it's just a pity it's a V6 car.

I do prefer the more symmetrical '83-4 dash, especially the XR7 without the fake wood.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Glickenhaus SCG004

SCG007 LM Hypercar

 

[TexRex]

That first one is just a Ford GT that's had a run through a rock tumbler.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

That first one is just a Ford GT that's had a run through a rock tumbler.

You not liking it oddly enough makes me like it more in this case.

 

[TexRex]

You not liking it oddly enough makes me like it more in this case.

Words are hard.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Words are hard.

So you do like it?

 

[TexRex]

So you do like it?

I don't know. I guess I like that it isn't as angular as the aforementioned Ford.

 

[TexRex]

Hnnnngg...

 

[Populuxe]

Hnnnngg...

I hope you realize you are personally responsible for the X100 becoming my dream Mercury.

 

[TexRex]

More-door hardtop '70 Wildcat.

I hope you realize you are personally responsible for the X100 becoming my dream Mercury.

I call that a win. While I'm a sucker for black-on-black like that one, I'd have to have the two-tone with the low gloss rear section.

 

[TexRex]

Lesser more-door love. Nova!

I'd need a black vinyl top, though. And a matching sliding ragtop like the Sky Roof would be neat, even if only two-doors were so optioned.

 

[TexRex]

More-door hardtop Torino!

This particular example is rough, but oh, mama, I would love one of these. The '70-1 Torinos had one of the most attractive interiors, to my mind, of the muscle car era (perhaps second only to its sibling Montego).

 

[05XR8]

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Well, this is weird. The Ford SHO-Star concept, a windstar with the Yamaha V6 used in the Taurus SHO.

 

[TexRex]

But was it actually powered by one? I've read multiple, conflicting accounts, including that it was just a standard Windstar with cosmetic changes.

Saleen, however, built a Windstar "RRR" for Tim Allen with a supercharger on top of the 3.8 V6 that it came with.

 

[Tornado]

Those headlights look awfully familiar but I can't directly match them with anything.