What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it?

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (Vince Macek)

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:33:20 GMT

MilwFoodlovers

I still like the looks of the Avanti.

I'll take one with the round headlight lids and a supercharger, please!

I was born in 1955 and all the cars I consider milestones of car lust (most of them already mentioned here) were around before I really discovered cars in my early teens...just in time for the 1970 Camaro/Firebird, and the Barracuda/Challenger. These were real-life versions of what my classmates and I were scribbling in our school notebooks!
Then there were the Italian supercars of the time, like the Lamborghini Muira (http://www.totalheadturne..com/details.php?Id=481) and the DeTomaso Mangusta (http://www.lotusesprittur..._Tomaso_Mangusta.htm). Wouldn't own one even if I could, but Holy Shamoley, just LOOK at them!

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (mayor al)

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:37:39 GMT

I fell in love with the descriptor of the Edsel's vertical 'mouth' Grill
referred to as "An Oldsmobile sucking a Lemon" !

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (MilwFoodlovers)

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:31:19 GMT

I still like the looks of the Avanti.

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (joerogo)

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:01:54 GMT

My brother had a Toronado, forgot the year, but it was a beauty. 455 with front wheel drive, this car screamed. The big deal back then was no hump on the floor(FWD). All front end, silver with a black vinyl top.

He got rid of it because it was killing him on gas.....at 1970's prices!

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (love2bake)

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:20:12 GMT

Here are links to the two cars I mentioned in a previous post:
http://gomotors.net/Oldsm...nado.html#.UMn_s4XgK1s

http://www.musclecarclub....r/mercury-cougar.shtml

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (starfire62)

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:59:53 GMT

how did we survive without cup holders.

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (mar52)

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:00:09 GMT

Brad... Added Mag Wheels, Air Shocks, the right hand side mirror and the mud flaps. The department store where I sold coins and candy also had an auto department.

How did we ever survive without right hand side mirrors?

I was part of the Van Nuys Boulevard car crowd and also did car rallys.

Those were the days!

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (Vince Macek)

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:05:13 GMT

I clearly remember seeing the 1968 Corvette for the first time, parked at a curb in its bright metallic blue glory.
Soon after I saw a Lotus Europa - must have been quite rare then, more so in the middle of Kansas, where it was attracting a crowd. So tiny and so low, it looked not of this earth.

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (chewingthefat)

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:15:12 GMT

baileysoriginal

There have been a few through the years - and I was fortunate to own a some of them but right now the Cadillac CTS VCoupe sends my heart racing - a true thing of beauty.

I got a 2013 CTS V Coup at the end of August, Black Diamond, 556 HP, it is a true beast whrn you put the pedal to the metal, handles as good as a Corvette and can outperform most of them.

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (ScreamingChicken)

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:12:40 GMT

mar52

1969 Pontiac Tempest purchased brand new for $3,000. It was a light metallic green and oxidized something awful. It was also a lemon having 3 different engines in it the five years I owned it which is why I had it painted yellow.

Did you add the mags yourself, Mar?

joerogo

ScreamingChicken

Excellent choice, Jim. I'd love to own a '63 or '64 Riviera someday.

[<font]Funny, I can't really think of an answer to your question. The cars (and trucks) I really like are ones that I was either too young or not enough of a gearhead to notice when they first came out.

Oh come on Brad!

Hmmm...you're close. I remember when the neighbors' oldest son bought a black '75 Camaro either new or slightly used; it was my first up-close-and-personal experience with that body style so I guess that and the '59 Cadillac would be my answer.

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (chefbuba)

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:02:20 GMT

A buddy of mine bought the CTS last year, Very Nice Car!....It's cozy and Fast.
First time he got on the throttle, my back cracked!

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (baileysoriginal)

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:56:15 GMT

There have been a few through the years - and I was fortunate to own a some of them but right now the Cadillac CTS VCoupe sends my heart racing - a true thing of beauty.

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (mjambro)

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:52:21 GMT

Ah - my first car

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (MetroplexJim)

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:48:01 GMT

carlton pierre

1964 T Bird and 1968 GTO. Still love those cars

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (MetroplexJim)

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:44:25 GMT

jman

MetroplexJim

Mar, you reminded me of prices. Mt 1968 GTO was $3,200 brand new. And a four-function Monroe Calculator then cost $1,200! (They were half the size of a Sampsonite attache case and also did square roots!).

I remember sitting around back then with fellow engineers talking about the unlikelyhood that a hand-held calculator would ever cost less than $100.00. Idiots, everyone of us.

How about the fact that an i-Phone has more computing power than the Apollo Program? Or 60" flat screens < $1,000!

In 1993 I was the "go-to" place to watch the game with my state-of-the-art $1,700 35" CRT Mitsubishi TV! Finally set it on the curb (took a hand truck; damn, it was heavy) a few years back and the neighbor kid snagged it for his video games. It was on the curb again last week!

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (jman)

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:53:57 GMT

MetroplexJim

Mar, you reminded me of prices. Mt 1968 GTO was $3,200 brand new. And a four-function Monroe Calculator then cost $1,200! (They were half the size of a Sampsonite attache case and also did square roots!).

I remember sitting around back then with fellow engineers talking about the unlikelyhood that a hand-held calculator would ever cost less than $100.00. Idiots, everyone of us.

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (MetroplexJim)

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:12:58 GMT

Mar, you reminded me of prices. Mt 1968 GTO was $3,200 brand new. And a four-function Monroe Calculator then cost $1,200! (They were half the size of a Sampsonite attache case and also did square roots!).

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (carlton pierre)

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:10:53 GMT

1964 T Bird and 1968 GTO. Still love those cars

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (mar52)

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 01:54:37 GMT

MetroplexJim... Here is a rear view of my first car a pseudo-GTO.

It had just been involved in a hit and run and I wasn't driving.

1969 Pontiac Tempest purchased brand new for $3,000. It was a light metallic green and oxidized something awful. It was also a lemon having 3 different engines in it the five years I owned it which is why I had it painted yellow.

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (MetroplexJim)

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 22:40:30 GMT

ScreamingChicken

Excellent choice, Jim. I'd love to own a '63 or '64 Riviera someday.

Funny, I can't really think of an answer to your question. The cars (and trucks) I really like are ones that I was either too young or not enough of a gearhead to notice when they first came out.

I'm just asking what "snapped your neck" when it first whizzed by. For me, it was an XKE on the corner of S. Wade and E. Beau in Washington, PA. I thought the freaking aliens had landed and disguised their rocker as a car!

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (joerogo)

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:31:59 GMT

ScreamingChicken

Excellent choice, Jim. I'd love to own a '63 or '64 Riviera someday.

Funny, I can't really think of an answer to your question. The cars (and trucks) I really like are ones that I was either too young or not enough of a gearhead to notice when they first came out.

Oh come on Brad!

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (ScreamingChicken)

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:40:59 GMT

Excellent choice, Jim. I'd love to own a '63 or '64 Riviera someday.

Funny, I can't really think of an answer to your question. The cars (and trucks) I really like are ones that I was either too young or not enough of a gearhead to notice when they first came out.

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (Route 11)

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:40:13 GMT

I was still in college and squeaking by in the summers working as a DJ in Orange, VA. Reynolds Buick always had one of these up front, facing Route 15. I would walk by it all the time and just wish.

I could buy one now but ... rear wheel drive is the last thing I need. Still...

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (MetroplexJim)

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:42:00 GMT

This ain't mine, but it is a pic of the "coolest" vehicle I ever owned: a 1968 GTO in the then avant garde color of avocodo green: (Saw that year and model recently; it was then a "mid-size"; today it seems HUGE!)

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (jman)

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:27:17 GMT

Here's mine: 1973 Chevrolet Monte Carlo

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (MetroplexJim)

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:20:26 GMT

love2bake

1966 Oldsmobile Toronado and 1967 Mercury Cougar. Haha--yeah! But they're pretty funny looking now...

Be nice.

"Funny now" isn't the issue. "Knock your socks off when you first saw it" is.

Marilyn Monroe was a size 12 when she knocked Joe DiMaggio's socks off! That reminds me of a cute story - true or not:

Marilyn: "Joe, when I entertained the troops in Korea there were 50,000 people screaming for me at the top of their lungs. You can't imagine that!"

Joe: "But, dearest, I can".

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (MetroplexJim)

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:06:43 GMT

Gentlemen and Ladies: this thread "welcomes" pictures.

(BTW: Jim, were you alive and old enough to be sensient when that was new?)

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (Foodbme)

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:19:04 GMT

If you're a car buff, you owe it to yourself to gome out to Scottsdale for the Barrett Jackson Auction. A must on your Bucket List.
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/scottsdale/

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (Foodbme)

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:09:13 GMT

1931 Auburn

Re:What new car design "knocked your socks off" when you first saw it? (Michael Hoffman)

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:44:03 GMT

Chewy, remind me to tell you about my '53 Aston Martin DB2 drophead sometime..