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Offline Dowding

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Re: Most pathetic muscle car design transformations
« Reply #15 on: July 09, 2008, 09:34:54 AM »
The Delorean was an appalling car. The Chief Exec of the company was locked inside it on its launch, it was appallingly designed, underpowered and the less said about the build quality the better.

Most US cars look crap apart from the ones made in the 1960s. Taking the styling back to that period cannot be called an achievement, unless you call common sense an achievement. Were the designers of that generation of car culled in 1969, stuffed and preserved in some secret museum?
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Re: Most pathetic muscle car design transformations
« Reply #16 on: July 09, 2008, 10:14:45 AM »
Like I said... I hope we don't have another "80s style fuel downgrade" to our cars...

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BTW, after the '70 duster, I drove the above car ('86 Dodge Aires) until it wouldn't function anymore (1998).  Those were some dark years... 



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Re: Most pathetic muscle car design transformations
« Reply #17 on: July 09, 2008, 10:37:44 AM »
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Re: Most pathetic muscle car design transformations
« Reply #18 on: July 09, 2008, 10:39:29 AM »






I never understood their thinking on this one. Dodge Daytona
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Re: Most pathetic muscle car design transformations
« Reply #19 on: July 09, 2008, 10:42:34 AM »
I never understood their thinking on this one.

...the Daytona... nice... totally forgot about that one... note how they "kept" the spoiler in a pathetic attempt to show "lineage"  :aok
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Re: Most pathetic muscle car design transformations
« Reply #20 on: July 09, 2008, 10:44:48 AM »
I've been looking for 67' Cougar tail lights for some time now. Best tail lights ever made. :aok
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Re: Most pathetic muscle car design transformations
« Reply #21 on: July 09, 2008, 10:46:34 AM »
I've been looking for 67' Cougar tail lights for some time now. Best tail lights ever made. :aok

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Re: Most pathetic muscle car design transformations
« Reply #22 on: July 09, 2008, 10:54:36 AM »
...the Daytona... nice... totally forgot about that one... note how they "kept" the spoiler in a pathetic attempt to show "lineage"  :aok
Yes, excellent find Uptown. :aok

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Re: Most pathetic muscle car design transformations
« Reply #23 on: July 09, 2008, 10:54:56 AM »
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Re: Most pathetic muscle car design transformations
« Reply #24 on: July 09, 2008, 11:00:47 AM »
Never even knew that model existed Slam. I think my retina's are damaged by viewing the late model variant.

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Re: Most pathetic muscle car design transformations
« Reply #25 on: July 09, 2008, 11:02:42 AM »
Never even knew that model existed Slam. I think my retina's are damaged by viewing the late model variant.

...yeah I've been a fan of the Australian Falcons ever since I saw the original Mad Max movie  :aok
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Re: Most pathetic muscle car design transformations
« Reply #26 on: July 09, 2008, 11:06:24 AM »
And Chevy has had their brain farts too


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Re: Most pathetic muscle car design transformations
« Reply #27 on: July 09, 2008, 11:11:48 AM »
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Re: Most pathetic muscle car design transformations
« Reply #28 on: July 09, 2008, 11:12:14 AM »

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Re: Most pathetic muscle car design transformations
« Reply #29 on: July 09, 2008, 11:13:51 AM »
1969 Pontiac GTO Judge


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Probably the quickest downfall of them all.

Oh, and Dowding, you can take all of the horrid American styling designs collectively and they won't ammount to 1% of the turds that have come from Europe.  Here's one:



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