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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

how did we survive without cup holders.

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

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!

I still like the looks of the Avanti.
 

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

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!