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Kitskaboodle
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JUN 05, 07:43 PM
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It’s all a matter of personal taste.
I’ll agree with some of those choices (like the Pacer) but some of those cars like the later Riv and the 914 look pretty good to me. 😀
On a different note, compared to car design in the 40’s, 70’s car designs look pretty good. There is no more “slap in the face” for a car designer than to design your car to look like a potato because you have no other sense of creativity. Want proof? Look at this thing below and tell me a potato was not the inspiration for its styling. This period of car design is sometimes referred to as the “potato era of car design”.
Kit
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Kitskaboodle
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JUN 05, 07:48 PM
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It’s all a matter of personal taste.
I’ll agree with some of those choices (like the Pacer) but some of those cars like the later Riv and the 914 look pretty good to me. 😀
On a different note, compared to car design in the 40’s, 70’s car designs look pretty good. There is no more “slap in the face” for a car designer than to design your car to look like a potato because you have no other sense of creativity. Want proof? Look at this thing below and tell me a potato was not the inspiration for its styling. This period of car design is sometimes referred to as the “potato era of car design”.
Kit
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Patrick
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JUN 05, 08:32 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Kitskaboodle:
Want proof? Look at this thing below and tell me a potato was not the inspiration for its styling.
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I've never seen a blue potato... but yeah, crew cab pickup trucks are dead ugly! 
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BingB
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JUN 05, 08:43 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by cvxjet:
A friend of mine was an AMC nut- built his '71 Javelin up using Mark Donahue's "The Unfair Advantage" book |
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To me the Javelins looked like crap and were not super fast, but then in 1971 they got the new body with those big bulging wheel flares and the 401.
It became my #1 choice from what I call the "late muscle car era" (post 1967).
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BingB
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JUN 05, 08:57 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Kitskaboodle:
. This period of car design is sometimes referred to as the “potato era of car design”.
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This is known as a "Hot Potato"
I want a front bumper like that on my Fiero.[This message has been edited by BingB (edited 06-05-2024).]
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MarkS
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JUN 06, 07:52 AM
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Back in the day, wasn't the Pacer known as a Pregnant Pinto?
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