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Topic starter
14/11/2023 1:16 pm
NOT THAT MY OPINION MATTERS, but just for kicks and giggles, to my eyes, here are the full-size, top of the line, TOP 20 BEST LOOKING CARS" from the Big Three for the decade of the Fifties:
1) '56 Cadillac
2) '56 Oldsmobile
3) '57 Oldsmobile
4) '56 DeSoto
5) '56 Lincoln
6) '57 Chrysler
7) '59 Buick
8) '59 Oldsmobile
9) '56 Mercury
10) '56 Ford
11) '59 Pontiac
12) '58 Chevrolet
13) '58 Oldsmobile
14) '56 Chevrolet
15) '58 Edsel
16) '56 Chrysler
17) '58 Ford
18) '54 Mercury
19 '54 Lincoln
20) '59 Chevrolet
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
14/11/2023 2:09 pm
For me, it's I guess an impossible choice ! I like virtually all of them, in their own way. I have different scale replicas of many of those automobiles.
14/11/2023 2:15 pm
That's a list that I believe you thought long & hard about at some time or other - carefully contemplated. I'm very much like Mike, above, I like too many to be able to put together a list without going bonkers and changing it every 15 seconds - LOL!
And if someone asked my favorite car of all time, I couldn't answer with any specificity - too many to narrow down. Good post George!
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Topic starter
14/11/2023 3:03 pm
That's a list that I believe you thought long & hard about at some time or other - carefully contemplated. I'm very much like Mike, above, I like too many to be able to put together a list without going bonkers and changing it every 15 seconds - LOL!
And if someone asked my favorite car of all time, I couldn't answer with any specificity - too many to narrow down. Good post George!
It's a list that I've sort of had for the last couple of decades. When the Mints were producing models on a regular basis, these were the cars that I wanted most of all.
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
Tony Perrone reacted
14/11/2023 3:31 pm
1. 1950: 1. Hudson, 2. Mercury
2. 1951: 1. Ford, 2. Mercury, 3. Hudson, 4. Chevrolet
3. 1952: 1. Hudson, 2. Chevrolet, 3. Mercury, 4. Ford
4. 1953: 1. Hudson, 2. Mercury, 3. Ford
5. 1954: 1. Mercury, 2. Ford
6. 1955: 1. Chevrolet, 2. Chrysler, 3. Mercury, 4. Ford, 5. DeSoto, 6. Thunderbird
7. 1956: 1. Mercury, 2. Ford, 3. Lincoln Premiere, 4. Chrysler 5. DeSoto
8. 1957: 1. Thunderbird, 2. Cadillac 62, 3. Pontiac, 4. Oldsmobile, 5. DeSoto
9. 1958: 1. Thunderbird, 2. Cadillac, 3. Pontiac, 4. Dodge, 5. DeSoto
10. 1959: 1. Dodge, 2.Thunderbird, 3. Pontiac
10 years, 39 cars I just had to do it this way??
Christopher Moroni reacted
14/11/2023 3:31 pm
Yeppers! Of course the mints made a couple on that list but I'd want a model of EVERY last one of them! 
Christopher Moroni reacted
14/11/2023 3:39 pm
And if someone asked my favorite car of all time, I couldn't answer with any specificity - too many to narrow down. Good post George!
Easy for Me; '68 Charger for looks, comfort & performance.
Tony Perrone reacted
14/11/2023 4:27 pm
And if someone asked my favorite car of all time, I couldn't answer with any specificity - too many to narrow down. Good post George!
Easy for Me; '68 Charger for looks, comfort & performance.
You'll get no arguments from me - LOVE it!!
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Topic starter
14/11/2023 7:22 pm
Yeppers! Of course the mints made a couple on that list but I'd want a model of EVERY last one of them!
It would have been awesome to have a model of all of them. That's what was so much about the mints when they were releasing cars on a regular basis. We'd get some that were surprises and some that made me ask "why this car?". But I always had a "Wish List" of those I'd love to see produced. And yes, some we got, but so many we didn't.
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
Tony Perrone reacted
14/11/2023 8:07 pm
@perrone1 Tony I agree with your comments but I do have a few that I would substitute for the 58 Oldsmobile,58 Ford and 54 Lincoln...the 53 Buick Skylark, the 63 Corvette Coupe and the 63 Thunderbird Sports Roadster
Tony Perrone reacted
14/11/2023 8:10 pm
Oops I wasn't paying attention to this applying only to the 50s. Sorry.
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Topic starter
14/11/2023 10:11 pm
Oops I wasn't paying attention to this applying only to the 50s. Sorry.
LOL, the reason pencils have erasers Mr. Jackman. 
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
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