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Sounds really cool. Any photos of it?
I liked the PT Cruiser. They didn't last long on the UK market, but I saw some that were given great custom makeovers that gave them a really "vintage" look. It's always nice to see something on the road that isn't the usual wind-tunnelled sameness.
@Flightengineer, that's pretty cool!
It's a shame you had to let it go!
@Edward, there was also the Prowler, which had a great retro hot rod look.
If you want something more 'European' vintage looking, the Nissan Figaro and Pao were neat looking little cars. Both based on Micra/March mechanically, it's a shame no one ever took the turbo out of the Figaro and put it in the Pao. Both have got a 60's Italian vibe.
That's not only an inspired airbrush, it's just so original too, I love it. The PT Cruiser hadn't been in production very long when a 'Woody' version came out. It was never an option available in Europe, I saw it the US. I don't know if it's a Chrysler special or a specialist company's own conversion, but it certainly looked the part. Not nearly as good as DC-3 though.A few years ago I owned tuned silver PT Cruiser with painted Douglas DC-3 airbrushing for half car. When I parked usually it to my airline parking, all old pilots/veterans turned they heads and said - look at this beauty , that's a decent car for pilot . Sadly I sold it to my good friend 4 years ago, sometimes I miss this car ...
That's not only an inspired airbrush, it's just so original too, I love it. The PT Cruiser hadn't been in production very long when a 'Woody' version came out. It was never an option available in Europe, I saw it the US. I don't know if it's a Chrysler special or a specialist company's own conversion, but it certainly looked the part. Not nearly as good as DC-3 though.
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I liked the PT Cruiser. They didn't last long on the UK market, but I saw some that were given great custom makeovers that gave them a really "vintage" look. It's always nice to see something on the road that isn't the usual wind-tunnelled sameness.
Hi Edward. A while back I had a copy of Motor Trend from 1957, sorry I cannot remember the month but the first line in the editorial read like this ' Have you noticed that all cars these days look the same'. That may not be a word for word quote but it says just the same as your 'wind tunnel' theory. Many folks go on about these cars having character, a style of their own etc, but in actual fact we are saying what many motoring journalists were saying 60 years ago. But after all that, I kind of agree with you that the PT was pleasingly different for a modern car..
Cars, aviators and leather jackets have been around for a good many years. I wonder if the designer of this car knew that the bullet shape was aerodynamic:@scottyrocks, IIRC, you're an engineer, right?
I was thinking about your comment, and I was thinking that maybe the reason that most cars from the same era look so similar has something do with safety regulations/requirements (or lack of?) being applied equally to all manufacturers, and then I was thinking that a lot of the similarities maybe reflect the the state of technological progress in manufacturing and safety (at cost effective levels?) in any given era. Maybe that's the biggest driver of design similarities?
@scottyrocks, IIRC, you're an engineer, right?
I was thinking about your comment, and I was thinking that maybe the reason that most cars from the same era look so similar has something do with safety regulations/requirements (or lack of?) being applied equally to all manufacturers, and then I was thinking that a lot of the similarities maybe reflect the the state of technological progress in manufacturing and safety (at cost effective levels?) in any given era. Maybe that's the biggest driver of design similarities?
I was also thinking that another reason why so many vintage/classic cars look so great is maybe because so many surviving examples, and cars we see because they were in movies were not 'ordinary' cars? For example, I was wondering if more high power/sporty versions survive because they were always more special than ordinary four door sedan versions? Do more DHC examples survive than FHC?
People wouldn't save, say, an ordinary Ford Falcon four door saloon, but they would save a two door coupe like Mad Max drove. For U.K. members, who saves a standard bottom spec blue Ford Cortina? No one. Who would save a 2 door Lotus Cortina? Everyone.
And I was wondering if this meant there is a bias in what vintage cars we see because they survive or we're cool back in the day, and if that makes us feel that all cars back in the day were cool.