Some guy has opined on the Top 15 Most Beautiful Vintage Cars Ever Made, and I agree by and large, taking issue with #15 (Dodge Charger, seriously?), the rankings of the Dino 246 GT at #12 (should have been at least #3) and the Lamborghini Miura at #14 (LOL). And then there’s the inclusion of the Ford Shelby Mustang (performance, yes; looks, blecchhh).
My favorite (about the ’50s Corvette): “…the best-looking car Chevrolet ever conceived” — talk about a low bar.
It’s only 20 minutes long, so help yourselves and then add your thoughts in Comments.
Saw something on InstaPundit’s Open Thread this morning, and thought you might like it. It’s long, and I haven’t watched the whole thing, but the vehicle looks like something you’d appreciate.
https://youtu.be/a1Xmydm-Cms
My word!
A few hits but mostly misses. The author mistakes rarity or cost for beauty.
Agreed, the early Jaguar E types are up there, but where is its daddy, the D type long nose.
And speaking of Jaguar, where is the XK120 roadster? (How the Brits can take a beautiful design and evolve it into a lumpy misshapen piece is not understandable.)
Where are the Ferrari 250 GTs of the late 50s and 60s? As far as American designs, where is Lance Reventlow’s Scarab? Or Brock’s Cobra GT?
Porsche, beautiful? Functional, fast, valuable yes, but beautiful, no. For German cars, where is the Mercedes Benz 540 K?
Back to the Brits again, where are the Aston Martin DB 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s?
Where is the Bugatti type 35, where France & Italy come together?
Not one Pinin Farina design either.
OOPS Pinin did design many of the 50s & 60s Ferraris.
Where to start???
The person who edited the video is either incompetent or knows nothing about vintage cars since they kept mixing in images of the wrong models as examples that didn’t match the narration. Then he keeps confusing “Beauty” with high performance so brutes like the 427 Cobra and Shelby Mustang race cars are mixed into the list along with the GTO which also doesn’t belong on the list. and whatever the custom wide bodied thing was that they tried to pass of as a Muria, it wasn’t a Muria. Sort of looked like one, but it was all wrong. And besides I choose and Espada over a Muria.
even though I’ve owned a several 911’s and there one in my garage at the moment, If 427’s are on the list then I would have selected a 550 Spyder or 356 speedster or even a 906 (They were street cars in theory) over a 911 for beauty.
A Dino ?? to represent Ferrari? I would have selected the original pontoon fender Testa Rossa or the 250 LM over the the Dino and the 250 GTO.
And I like the lines of a Charger, they just sit too high. A good friend of mine and I drove his to the GP of Canada at Morsport in the 1960’s, a 2,000 mile trip. It was a great car that ran for hours at 100 ( untill we needed more gas ).
And how can you have a list of ” Beautiful” cars and not have half the list be French? No Citroen SM’s, No Talbot’s ?
As to Cars also missing, If you must include a BMW I’d have selected an M1 over the 507. How about an Alfa Spyder? a Bizarinni 2000 GT? A Duenburg SJ Speedster ? Mercedes SSK ?? Even a Pierce Silver Arrow?
I sure I’ll think of more.
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Some interesting old cars, a decent selection by body style but then they add performance and the fun affordable muscle cars like the Mustang do come into play, various silly mid-size cars from all the auto makers with huge, over-size, gas guzzling engines and a bit of extra chrome deserve some recognition. I would also consider the two seater late 50’s T-birds as well as the 1958 Chevy Impala which morphed into Chevrolet Super Sports, decent Detroit big iron sun cars and if a person got laid for the first time on the bench seat of one of those old USA cars that makes them ever more special. Without a doubt the Italians designed and still do some excellent, high maintenance pieces of art that sound good and go fast. The E-Jag and most all of the older Jags were lovely, when they would start and run and the Krauts made some elegant fun cars and they still do. To me these list are similar to making lists of the older beauty queen actressess who were stunning and mostly high maintenance creatures who were not always easy on those living with them, lots of fun to admire and dream about so, there’s that. Thanks Kim for another silly thing to think about.
One more thing I meant to add was the 1959 Corvette was my favorite, the top of the heap for total style and rather fast too. (I do miss the edit feature).
My tastes lean more towards voluptuous curves rather than sharp angles.
I’m disappointed there’s no mention of Studebaker Commanders or various Hawks from the 50’s and 60’s
A Vintage Car was built before 1930. That definition is universal. Perhaps our video compiler means a Classic. Although there is a Classic Car Club of America, their definition of 20 years plus is not recognized by any motor sport organization. To race in Classics it must be 25 or older.
That notwithstanding I was surprised how many of his choices I agreed with, despite the dismal Charger that opened the show followed by a Rat Rod.