Ugly cars

The Valiant is very much like the body work on the 67 through 76 Valiant and Dodge Dart here. When Ma bought the 72 Dart sedan she said then it would make a great wagon. Too bad it never made it here, though. It really did make for a very nice looking car.

 

Hey hey hey.... I LOVE EDSELS and LOVE they way they look. I'll take a '58 Edsel any day.. Cool wagons too!

 

I actually ment to say odd, even in this ugly thread..
I like the Holdens, would love to ride around in all of the cars you showed us.. But, honestly, the last blue one is hiddiously ugly.. Looks like a hybrid of the ugliest Ford mondeo / Opel vectra models of all time.. In my own eyes, that is. I have full respect for them who likes them, but i wouldn´t park them on my yard.. Am i all wrong when i have read, or seen on tv that you hav a lot of V8 cars in your domestic cars? I think i have seen a movie for example with a car that in europe should have been a ford granada, but sounded and moved like a v8 car..

 

When it comes to movies, give up trying to figure out engines by the sound track. I work in film, and the sound engineers MAY take 20 seconds of sound from a car exhaust, if it has a 'new' sound for their stock files. Otherwise, what you hear is what they add in. The number of times Chryslers have had G.M. starters, and Fords have had Chev engines is nuts. They don't even try to make the sound match the make and model off the car.

 

Back when I was into Anime (Japanese animation), I saw a video called "Gunsmith Cats", silly and with no redeeming values but it had cars in it and as I recall the production team used a GT500 to get the engine and driving sounds for the anime lead characters GT500. So one example of the correct car for the movies car.

 

Great point.

Was watching the original "Cannonball Run" a few weeks ago, and for the first time noticed that the motorcycle was a Harley, but it sure didn't sound like a Harley.

Check it out at 0:31:10, particularly the engine "soundtrack".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz3dcbGuUP4

 

I for one am I GIANT fan of Herman Munster's road machine! Show up anywhere in THAT and will have executive accomodations... I for one agree with a lot of you on the ugly wagons and weird Euro-machines. I love wagons and I know most are horrid but some are way cool. Love the thread!

 

You rang?!

Here are two more built on identicle platforms. The Ami's platform is somewhat longer. I love that interior, though:

 

Answered in the pretty cars thread!

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We have a new member in our garage since last week... Not only is it ugly, it runs a perkins 4 cylinder diesel from the mid 70ies and smell worse than anything ivé experienced...

 

Perkins diesel??? Didn't they use those as backup engines in sailboats???

 

Perkins... From a peugeot. You will find them in forklifts, ugly french and uk cars, boats and tractors.. And apparently in a Rambler It is no dieselcar from the start, someone in sweden have done a transplant..

 

Looks like they were trying to compete with Rabbit or Scirocco.

 

those damned lists

One of the things I noticed about most of the lists of "ugliest" or "worst" cars ever, was; the cars listed were on the writer's personal list of cars they disliked. Some hated Pintos, because their parents bought one, and when they got rides to and from school, they were embarrassed because "they were in the Pinto and all the other kids got to show up on the "cool cars", like the Hondas and the Toyotas(?). One lady explained her family's Pinto was in that horrible "pumpkin orange" and Hondas came in cool colors... In the 70's, Hondas came in five colors, one of which, their most popular color by the way, was "pumpkin orange" !!! Station wagons usually end up on the lists I've read, because (1) they're longer and more gas hoggy than their four door sedan counterparts. (2) The back seats came with too many seat belts, AND that many seat belts was confusing. (3) They hated the back-back seat BECAUSE it faced the wrong way! (1)some station wagons are actually shorter than their sedan counterparts. The only part that's longer, is the roof. They get the same gas mileage. (2) The seat belts were confusing, because these people were idiots. (3) The stigma of the back-back seat being the "punishment seat" stems from not using the middle row of seats as the punishment seat and not using the back-back seat as the "reward". In my family, the back-back seat is where the good kids get to sit. All my children WANT to sit there!

 

When I tell people about my wagon, some ask about the way back seat...sadly mine does not have this....