I finally found it.....or them. "It" is an Austin 7 Sparrow. It came as a coupe or roadster....now I just have to decide which was uglier! :-(
I think this is the vehicle that started the term "cartoon"!
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I finally found it.....or them. "It" is an Austin 7 Sparrow. It came as a coupe or roadster....now I just have to decide which was uglier! :-(
I think this is the vehicle that started the term "cartoon"!
i`d drive it .. i like it :) but then my eyesite aint what it once was
http://www.johnrozum.com/images/mrmagoo.jpg
I thought the roadster looked like it was laying an egg! LOL!
NO WAY, the sedan is awesome! blown 392 on nitro in that would be fun!
looks like Donald duck should be driving them :LOL:
TL
That AMC Pacer get my vote :eek:
Now this is fugly :HMMM:
although ugly its sad how many people downplay amc's earlier jewls of the auto world, there ehad technology was pretty awesome fromt what ive heard from some of the old super stocker guys to, held alot of records.
Viking thanks for the photo . Thats the one :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by viking
NP, some people have weird taste :eek:
VIKING you are amazing ! You are the Man **)Quote:
Originally Posted by viking
pacer get's my vote...do you remember that the passenger door on the pacer was longer than the drivers door so you could get into the back seat...
this one seems pretty ugly, its an aurora, you cant tell by the picture but its 19 feet long.
my personal choice for a more modern car is the pontiac aztec, a friend if ours has one and she loves it, there goes that personal taste thing again!!!!!
I believe this "Aurora" thing was voted worlds ugliest a couple of years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by mooneye777
I think the Austin 7 is cute.................The Aztec on the other hand.............:eek: ........and I am a Pontiac guy.
It's surprising how people have different taste.
I'm okay with the Pacer, but find the Austin ridiculous looking. The Aurora is disgustingly overdone, and the Aztec always puzzled me, how they got the design past management. I considered it a low in Tiger Woods career, when he endorsed it! :-)
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Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT
Not for long though, now he runs a Buick!!!!:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
I do believe you're right! :-) (Maybe he "jumped ship" because of the styling.)
Im with gassersrule on that, i think his idea would make a cool ride!But that roadster if not my style.
The coupe isn't bad...
...but it looks like it was "over-inflated" by about 50 PSI! Someone better let some air out before it pops! LOL!
It's like the old GM space saver spares...you put it in the trunk deflated and use that little can of air to pump it up when you need to get to the gas station.
Just for the record, I thought the Aztec was outrageous the moment I saw it and wondered how it got out of the design stage. As far as the Pacer goes, I almost bought one off a lot which was like new and only had 12,000 miles on it. I think it had a 232 cu in straight six in it and it was pretty zippy! However the mpg was way low and it would be a real gas hog today. Those little foreign cars show how far you can go to try to get transportation for more than one person with high mpg numbers and maybe we will see more of these in the near future? With the new mid-sized Chevie and even the smaller Cadillac you can see the trend is away from land boats.
Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder
VIKING can you find and post a photo of that early Dodge Dart . I think its a 1962 model . That was a looker for a ugly car to ! :3dSMILE:Quote:
Originally Posted by tango
Cool 62. :HMMM:
With the '62 Plymouth close behind! They must have fired the stylist, because they were much better in '63!Quote:
Originally Posted by tango
You'll want to read a bio on Virgil Exner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_ExnerQuote:
Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT
I have a particular interest in the '62 Dodge/Plymouth. My uncle bought one of each. In '62 he bought a Dodge with buckets and a hipo 361 Torqflite. It was a nice blue metallic with white trim and interior. At the time, it was very "sporty" compared to the fin cars.
He divorced my aunt about two years later, and bought a '62 Plymouth Sport Fury with the 383. It was white with red interior, and (at the age of 16) the first car I ever drove over 100MPH! My uncle is gone, but I'll miss him!
My favorite designers are Larry Shinoda and Raymond Lowey.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter
Larry- 63 Vette & '64 Mustang
Raymond- '53 studebaker & Avanti
The 2 doors not bad . But the 4 door thats the more ugly one . :eek: Viking see if you can find a photo of that one .Quote:
Originally Posted by viking
hmmmm. I like the '62, matter of fact all the old Darts are kind of kewl, especially the '64 and '65 versions. At least the old cars had some styling... Everything on the road now looks like just a slight variation on the same old theme. Can't say that I ever have seen a 4 door that I could honestly say I like. My big old 4 dr. '97 Bonneville ain't no beauty, but it sure is a good cruiser. As for the Mustangs, my favorites are the '67 to '69.
If I had the money/ time and knowladge I would reskin/ remodel my '67 Falcon into a '67 Mustang 4dr... I'd need a donor Mustang tho, and that defeats the purpose of re skinning the Falcon.. it would be real hard I'd think to restructure the car into a H/T 4dr.. lots more than I have in time and experience.
VIKING where is the photo of the 1962 Dodge Dart 4 door . I know that if any one can find it you are the one COOL TANGO **)
Another fugly pic. :whacked:
Beauty is in the eye....but those old Darts were hell for tough! We had one ('62 2-door HT) that hit a rock pile on top of a hill, flew 411 feet, measured by the RCMP, landed sideways and skidded that far again , and stayed right-side-up! I still have the cop photos. Had a 354 Chrysler Firepower in it.
They also had the best coefficient of drag of any passenger car built up to then.
Now here is an opportunity to bring up some long lost history for me... and not a very positive one at that:HMMM:
In a land long, long ago my parents purchased a 1962 Dodge Lancer with a push-button transmission, slant six and no radio! Pride and joy rulled the day out on the home farm with the latest in detroit's imagination sitting in our old chicken coop that was now a garage for the new car.
Years go by, we move into the city and my sister and I grow up and head off to college. As an older brother it was my responsibility to drive my sister up to her school about 100 miles away. Since we still had the Lancer and my mustang was on shakey terms with something again, we took the Lancer.
After a routine route up the valley to my sister's school I was free to roll!:toocool:
To cut a long story to a medium story I ended up over at the coast where some coast guard friends lived to enjoy the beach nightlife. But during the day, there wasn't much going on so we decided to grab a case of our favorite beverage and head up into the hills and see how far this mighty Lancer could take us!:rolleyes:
After navigating some of the dirtiest, roughest, narrowest trails we could find, we decided to head back down to town to replace our favorite beverages. Now en-route we started to play games with mailboxes and swerving back and forth to do who knows what when we went around a corner to a dirt road, since the car was already dirty I headed for a great big puddle in the middle of the road to wash off the car:whacked:
This wasn't a puddle, it was one of the great lakes!:eek:
Memories are dulled by time and outside influences but I had sunk the Lancer!
Now back up the road a ways was a farmer who was pulling in hay up the road. I walked out there and asked if he could possibly find a way to help out a wayward soul?:rolleyes:
He had seen me go by earlier and sort of scowled at me and then said "I remember when I was young and stupid, hop on and lets go pull you out of that puddle"
Now my mind was whirling right now...in more ways than one! What was I gonna tell my folks about their daily driver? That I was now a submarine? Complete with a radio that I put in for the trip? I was doomed!
The gool Lord was watching out for me this day because when we got back to the scene of the attempted floating, the guys had the hood up and were looking happy. While the Lancer was leaning towards the driver side with water over the armrest of the drivers doors, water on the other side of the car was just a few inches deep on the passengers side. The slant six was slanted the right way so the exhaust manifold was just about 2 inches above the water surface. In addition, the back of the car was a bit higher and the gas cap was above the water! We pulled the car out and it started right up!:LOL:
Off we went for more fishing, figuring that the Lancer had past every single test that three 20-something guys could dish out!:3dSMILE:
Of course I tried to air out the Lancer but it never got rid of that wet car smell! I explained it to the folks as a result of carrying those huge fish that we caught in the back seat. Some years later (1995???) my dad donated the car to a junkyard or auction place and our Lancer was gone:CRY:
30 some years of abuse, punching transmission buttons at the wrong time, laughing at the way the car rolled around corners, trailblazing all without a whimper or a complaint!:3dSMILE:
Sorry for being so longwinded, but the '62 Lancer truly was ugly and this was a story I had to tell!
Many thanks to the tractor guy who was really doing God's work that day!
For those who weren't around then, the beginning of the 60's ushered in "compact cars" (yeah the Rambler came earlier but wasn't a trend maker yet)......................yeah, even then people whined about the price of gasoline.
Anyway, Ford did the Falcon, Chevrolet the Corvair (joined by the Chevy II in 62), and Ma Mopar the Valiant and Lancer. After 62 they moved the Dart name to the redesigned compact. Here's the Lancer in all it's glory.
...........back to the thread.........how about a "fat ugly car" :eek:
Wasn't this one designed by the Michelin Man? Looks like the Mazda Miata....after it grew up!Quote:
Originally Posted by viking
....or maybe it is the latest generation of air bag technology, moving them to the outside.
These are FUGLY??
I can't decide between "ugly"......and "weird". :-)~