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Yes, interesting styling and proportions. Very French. A pretty decent commercial success with almost 10,000 sold over 6 years or so. Praised for its ...
Jack, I will just add my voice to the chorus of good wishes for a steady and full recovery, and I hope you will soon feel strong enough (and inspired ...
The twin grilles on the '59 Pontiac are really dramatic, they almost look like they are stretching out to infinity on either side, which makes for an ...
The '70 is a badly bloated and heavy-handed parody of the original design. A lot of people dislike the "boat tail" on the '71 but I think it is perh...
Oh, I don't find it quirky at all! It was also used on the Chrysler 300, where I thought it looked pretty good, especially viewed from the rear ...
Yes, interesting, and, yes, a bit too egg-shaped, although some pics in the article make it look worse, while in others it maybe looks less "eggy" ...
For some reason I have a real fondness for cars with a wide-based or "triangulated" C pillar, and an equally strong dislike of C pillars that narrow t...
I was quite intrigued by the Scimitar and went looking for a bit more background. Interesting that rather than just a one-off styling exercise there w...
If it wasn't for the typical Chrysler windscreen/windshield shape I'd have sworn it was a customized '59 Edsel. (And every bit as lovely, I might add)...
Funnily enough, at a quick first glance I was fooled by the same optical illusion as David. The shape and colour of parts of the boot/trunk lid and bl...
Based purely on looks rather than the car's merits as a performance vehicle, l always disliked the 68-69 style. I thought the body sides looked like r...
Here is one of my notoriously quick and dirty Photoshop efforts, extending the roof to give more of a long hood-short tail look, but I don't think it ...
It was me who mentioned that I have my white metal models (Brooklins and others) sitting on foam to try and stop the tyres flattening. But those model...