Cars of the seventies and eighties that you still like the look of

[Reynard]

That varies according to the rules over the years. There's a reason they call the pits "Gasoline Alley."

I know. I've been following motor racing for over 40 years - and been involved in the sport on the technical side. These days I'm largely a nerdy archivist.

 

[Chris S]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet.

 

[Chris S]

... or the Toyota version

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet.

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They're huge, same body as the Superbird, Road-Runner, GTX, etc..
I've seen several
Three of note;
- A genuine Warner Brothers 'General'
When it was open, & before the collection was split up & sold, there was one in the 'Cars Of The Stars' musem in Keswick (Cumbria)
I think, from memory, it was had the 440 'magnum'

- A replica, was in storage, at The Oil Can Cafe at Hepworth, near Holmfirth

- A 'Bullit baddies' replica

A few years ago, 'Practical Classics' magazine had the 'Generally'

 

[Drago]

Indeed, Dodge did their own version of the Superbird, the Charger Daytona.

 

[Chris S]

They're huge, same body as the Superbird, Road-Runner, GTX, etc..
I've seen several
Three of note;
- A genuine Warner Brothers 'General'
When it was open, & before the collection was split up & sold, there was one in the 'Cars Of The Stars' musem in Keswick (Cumbria)
I think, from memory, it was had the 440 'magnum'

- A replica, was in storage, at The Oil Can Cafe at Hepworth, near Holmfirth

- A 'Bullit baddies' replica

A few years ago, 'Practical Classics' magazine had the 'Generally'

I think they were all replicas. They wrecked about half a dozen cars every episode doing stunts.

 

[Drago]

I think they were all replicas. They wrecked about half a dozen cars every episode doing stunts.

They destroyed well North of 200 Chargers during filming.

 

[grldtnr]

They destroyed well North of 200 Chargers during filming.

That's a jolly good start ......

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

They destroyed well North of 200 Chargers during filming.

The one at Keswick had papers with it, & bought directly from the studio, all of his cars were genuine films/TV cars
He had quite a few '007' cars, the only surviving 'Mad Max Police Interceptor'/FAB 1, Flintstones (from the live-action films)

Circa 350 were damaged/destroyed, according to the ‘D O H’ book that l have


EDIT @ 08:02

This book; https://pangobooks.com/titles/the-dukes-of-hazzard

 

[Conrad_K]

About 20 years ago I was driving east through Tennessee on Interstate 40. I saw a pickup truck pulled off on the shoulder on the westbound lane. It had an open trailer with a replica of the General Lee, with a blond guy who looked amazingly like an older version of John Schneider fiddling with the chains holding the car down.

A while later I saw an article about Schneider taking his Lee replica to north Texas (about a thousand miles from that spot) for a speed event being held... a couple of days later. So it was probably him.

 

[MontyVeda]

Probably all of them... car design went downhill when Ford launched the Sierra... that was bloody ugly with all its rounded edges; like a half sucked boiled sweet

 

[Gunk]

Probably all of them... car design went downhill when Ford launched the Sierra... that was bloody ugly with all its rounded edges; like a half sucked boiled sweet

They did a pretty good job polishing a turd

 

[Drago]

They did a pretty good polishing a turd

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Development consisted of smearing it with glue and ram raiding the Ripspeed counter at the local Halfords. Chavlicious.

 

[Conrad_K]

Ford claimed the Sierra was "the first Ford styled by a woman." Car enthusiasts of the day mostly looked at each other and rolled their eyes.

We got the Sierra in the 'states as the "Merkur XR4Ti," dressed up with wings and spoilers and ugly wheels. Since none of the Brit-spec engines were certified for US emission controls (which was a long and expensive process), Ford used the 2.3 "Lima" turbo four from the Mustang. The 2.3 vibrated like a cheap motel bed, used a lot of gas, and was only 50 pounds or so lighter than the 5.0 V8, which also got better mileage and made more horsepower. Ran a lot smoother, too. Performance of the XR4Ti was underwhelming, even by smog-choked 1985 standards. Ford pumped it up a bit later, but it still wasn't enough to make such a heavy car sprightly.

Mercury was Ford's "upmarket" brand. "Merkur" (mare-koor, supposedly) was supposed to be the upmarket-upmarket car line. But the XR4Ti bombed, and Merkir went the way of the Edsel.

 

[Gunk]

Ford claimed the Sierra was "the first Ford styled by a woman."

are you sure? I thought that was the Cougar