The "What's the best looking car ever made" thread.

Been meaning to pull a few off of my Pinterest board.
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The Maserati Raced by Stirling Moss
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1957 Ferrari 625 TRC
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951 Jaguar C-Type
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1958 Ferrari Testa Rossa
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1931 Cadillac 452A V16 Pininfarina Roadster
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1939 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Corsa
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1937 Delahay 135MS Figoni et Falaschi
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Mercedes Benz W196 ‘Silberpfeil’ 1955
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Cord Phaeton
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A favorite since I was a kid, the Maserati Bora
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Jaguar XJ13
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1936 Auburn Speedster
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1939 Bentley 4 ¼ Litre Overdrive
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1961 Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato
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Peugeot Darl'mat Roadster
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Chevrolet Camaro SS 396
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1966 Pontiac GTO
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Ferrari California Spider
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1932 Duesenberg SJ Convertible
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'36 Auburn Roadster
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Mercedes Benz 500 K Special Roadster
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1937 Cord 812 SC “Sportsman” Convertible Coupe
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It's funny, all these cars are beautiful, but dont the Italians just immediately stand out? Maserati and Ferrari....that California Spider up there just screams even among all the rest of the drop-dead head turners posted here, it still jumps out. Just gorgeous.
 
If I had to pick just one though….

I'd have to go with TomcatMF's choice, the Pagani Huayra

Just an amazing car, and supposedly it gets 30+ mpg highway too, as long as you aren't a lead foot.

 
I was beginning to get nervous when I'm almost through the second page and hadn't found a cobra. Seriously... even seeing a kit version makes my daddy parts move.

My only problem with Cobras is that there are now more "original" ones around than were ever built....lol.

In other words, 99% of them that you see are kits.

But yeah, it is a rocketship, for sure.
 
Great choices... love the Jag X13, the Testa Rosa (two word car is completely different than the one word car), the early Porsche speedsters, and the Astons.

I have always thought that the Ferrari P4 was always the most beautiful version of the Jaguar-esque curves with the fire of an Italian car.

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Bump for this car, seeing as I found this vid, and if you love little euro sport sedans, or just high output little motors, you will love this vid. Enjoy.



I love the GT, Spider, and sedan, which are all on the same running gear and power plant, but this little sedan is perfect in its quirkiness. A fiercely independent little car. I would ideally pick the 1600 version but the vid of this 1300 is so nice.
 
Bugs are pretty awesome, in almost all their variations.

This is untrue. The new ones (when they came back out) had a FLOWER holder in the dash.
Immediate fail for that one.

Other than that though, it was a pretty cool car. My neighbor got one and let me drive it, and it was pretty peppy.....
 
This is untrue. The new ones (when they came back out) had a FLOWER holder in the dash.
Immediate fail for that one.

Other than that though, it was a pretty cool car. My neighbor got one and let me drive it, and it was pretty peppy.....
No, you're thinking of the New Beetle. Not the same thing. Just like the new Rabbit is not the same as the Mk I - IV.

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My only problem with Cobras is that there are now more "original" ones around than were ever built....lol.

In other words, 99% of them that you see are kits.

But yeah, it is a rocketship, for sure.

I've seen one museum quality original.... and wow. when you're standing up close, the hand bent aluminum skin is something to behold. Actually not as flawless as the fiberglass replicas, but you can tell there's a whole lot of heart and soul in that metal skin. It's the closest thing we have on land to a great white shark... you're mesmerized by it's lines, it's beautiful... but really scary at the same time. Those tiny doors just make you realize that Carol Shelby has balls of brass.
 
I've seen one museum quality original.... and wow. when you're standing up close, the hand bent aluminum skin is something to behold. Actually not as flawless as the fiberglass replicas, but you can tell there's a whole lot of heart and soul in that metal skin. It's the closest thing we have on land to a great white shark... you're mesmerized by it's lines, it's beautiful... but really scary at the same time. Those tiny doors just make you realize that Carol Shelby has balls of brass.


Well the body and the doors had nothing to do with Mr. Shelby. It's just an AC Bristol. Shelby stuffed and engine into the body and did some tweaking.



Carroll Shelby and the Cobra[edit]
In 1962, AC was approached by Carroll Shelby to use a small block Ford V8 engine in the Ace chassis, producing the AC Cobra. Shelby needed a car that could compete with the Chevrolet Corvette in US sports car racing. The resulting Cobra was a very powerful roadster, and it is commonly blamed for the introduction of the 70 mph (110 km/h) limit on British motorways. While this was a major factor in the decision, after a coupe version was caught doing 196 mph (315 km/h) during a test run,[11] a then-recent spate of accidents under foggy conditions also helped the introduction of the limit.[12]

At the end of the 1964 racing season, the Cobra was being outclassed in sports car racing by Ferrari. Carroll Shelby decided he needed a bigger engine. A big block Ford FE series 390 V8 was installed in a Cobra and the result was scary—the car was virtually undrivable. It was decided that a completely new chassis was needed. With the combined help of Ford’s computers and the experience of the AC engineers, the new MKIII was born with 4-inch (100 mm) main tubes instead of 3-inch (76 mm) for the chassis, huge cross-braced shock towers and coil springs all around. This, along with a bigger 427 ci version of the FE, made the new AC Cobra MKIII an absolutely unbeatable 2,200 lb (1,000 kg) race car. Specifically, the engine that was installed in the car was Ford's famed 427 FE NASCAR"Side-Oiler" V8, a power-house engine developing 425 bhp (317 kW) in its mildest street version. Unfortunately, the car missed homologation for the 1965 season and was not raced by the Shelby team. However, it was raced successfully by many privateers and went on to win races all the way into the 1970s. The AC 427 Cobra, although a commercial failure when in production, has now become one of the most sought-after and replicated automobiles ever.

It was produced in two versions: a street model with a tamer motor, optional dual carburetors, a glove box, and exhaust running under the car, and a competition version with a stripped interior, no glove box, different instrument layout and revised suspension. The competition version also had a more powerful motor with only one carburetor, side exhausts, a roll bar and wider fenders to accommodate racing tires. At the end in 1966, Shelby was left with 31 unsold competition cars; he decided to sell them to the general public under the name of Cobra 427 S/C or Semi-Competition. Today these S/C cars are the most sought after models and can sell in excess of 1.5 million dollars.

Carroll Shelby sold the Cobra name to Ford in 1965 and went on to develop the famed racing Ford GT40.

Meanwhile, AC went on producing a milder version of the 427 MK III Cobra for the European market fitted with the small block Ford motor. The car was called the AC 289 and 27 were produced.
 
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