Ugly cars

Guess my Plymouth is pretty ugly but I don't care.

 

Had a friend who worked at a dealearship selling Asteks, he said in the end they sold them for exactly what they paid for them, and a couple for a grand less. They ended up giving away the last one in a promotional contest.

 

Not ugly in the least. That is stunningly BEAUTIFUL!

 

I'll second that----------^^^^^ Nice looking car. Altho when I was young and the neighbors drove those I didn't really care for the looks.
But I thought 57 Chevys were ugly back then too. Yet I loved bullet nosed Studebakers and early Edsels. I was a confused little boy! Glad I grew out of it!

 

57s were indeed ugly. 55s looked best

 

Don't know how true it is about 57 Chevys but I've heard many times that many of those people who trade every few years cancelled their orders for 1957 Chevys because they were so ugly.
I never thought they were actually ugly. Just to "busy". The 1955 was so much cleaner looking. Of course I really like the 56 BelAir with the spear.
Now I'll take one of each, in red. :banana:

 

The one thing I did not like about the 57 was the brake lights. Way to small and way too low for my liking. The 55 and 56 had much safer lights. Then again I have always had a thing about brake lamps. As a 9 year old, I didn't like the first generation Monte Carlo because the brake lamps were too small, and would wash out when the sun hit the chrome. Gramps thought I was strange until he saw one on a sunny day. LOL

 

Most people don't realize that even in the late 50's many American cars had no back up lights. Can't remember when that became law, as if anyone really pays attention to a car backing up.
So, with that in mind, my 1955 Chevy 210 wagon had no back up lights yet there was a plug in the housing where a socket could go and a white lens.
It already had Buick full lenses much like the "Lee" accessory lenses for 55 Chevys. These are full lenses without the back up lens. I added a second socket and now have two of everything on each side. The dual tail/brake lights are nice. Keeping with my mini van theme I added a third brake light above the tailgat lid from a 1987--------------Shuuush---Ford Escort! So now have five brake lights. Actually six because the Escort lens has two lights in it.
It's amazing the lack of lighting on many old cars of the past at any speed.

 

I believe back up lamps became required somewhere around 1966 or 67. Before that, they were an option on many cars. My Grandfather's 61 Pontiac Laurentian had them. Many of the base Strato Chief, a goodly number of Laurentians and even quite a few of the top line Parisiennes did not. Instead they had a metal plate shaped to look like the back up light lens filling the holes in the bumper. The 66 Chev had 4 different light assemblies, depending on trim level and whether back up lights were ordered or not. There were several years of Chev where that was the case.

 

When backing out of a parking space at the mall seeing back up lights is a signal to mash the horn vigerously and speed up!
Also a time to have your digit finger ready.
On my motorhome I added a Radio Shack beeper hooked to the backup light. It did help in campgrounds. I remember this accesory coming out later and used by some vehicle owners. Those also aided the horn honkers at the Big Box stores.

 

The 56's were at least usefull. The one on the left could get tilted downwards, so that it was possible to gain access to the gascap. Both taillights could be usefull as orange presses

 

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What is that? The headlamps look like VWs but the rest?

 

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