What famous car made the biggest impression on you?

Milner's coupe first and of course Falfa's 55

 

Ala Kart gaudy cool show rod!!

 

There is a lot and go ahead and hate but I cant get over the chopped Nova on Carlitos way.Minus the wheels,this thing has its own facebook page.

 

It was the Moonglow for me. One killer Chevy.

 

Thanks, appreciate that. Build photos under my Albums section, if interested.

 

My top 3 would be--Alexander Bros-Adonis; George Montgomery-33 Cammer Willys; and Sox and Martin's '64 Comet A/FX. Syl

 

These two are my favorite. I am into different I guess American Graffitti's 58 Impala & the second speaks for it self. Most of Barris work was really inspiring, but these two seem more fun for the normal folks.

 

I know it's cliche at this point,but I know the exact moment that I knew I was a hot rodder to the core. I was about 8 years old the first time I saw AG. When Milner uncapped the coupe,backed out of the shop, and ran his left rear tire over the curb I just about shit myself. Heck, that scene still gives me goosebumps all these years later.
It doesn't matter that it has some goofy proportions and is pretty crude,that car (that whole movie)has ruined thousands of us.

 

The '55 Chevy that was in the movies "Two Lane Blacktop" & "American Graffiti".

 

The 1934 Ford 3 Window (Pete and Jakes) The California Kid

 

Cool! I have the '36 Ford in this color and another in CHROME!

 

There are sooo many! The first for me wasn't famous, and I was so young I don't even know what year it was - all I know is that it was old with big rounded fenders, very cramped with 2 adults on each side of 5 yr old me. The old man thinks it was a '31 5 window and it was very loud and fast - I was wide eyed and definitely hooked!!!

Later, maybe 11 or 12 yrs old, a neighbor friend took me for a scoot in a '58 Vette, that only deepened my affliction.

Early Nascars impressed me as well as "The Snake and Mongoose", "The little red Wagon"

BUT, the question was: "What famous car made the biggest impression on you?" For me that would have to be "Cadzilla" - What a machine! And it was driven cross country to prove to all that it actually runs and drives!!!

 

Favorite rod since I first saw the movie as a teenager.


Not famous, but this car literally changed the course of my life... It's a Dave Masterman supermodified. The day I saw it, I know I was going to build one myself, and dedicated myself to that purpose. 14 years later, I did...and I still have the disease.

 

Did you sell that on ebay??

 

I always had a thing for the Dragula so i did
my own just a bit different

 

Very cool!!

 

The 1970 Dodge Challenger in "Vanishing Point". When Kowalski is pulling into the biker guy's place in the middle of the desert with "Mississippi Queen" blasting on the radio of the Challenger, I knew I was hooked from then on!

"If it's under control your not going fast enough"
Parnelli Jones 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302 Trans-Am

 

Ok, it's crazy, I know, but, the Vette from 'Corvette Summer'.......lol.......... at the time my dad had several hot rods and I was about 7 years old, I was amazed that you could change a car into something like that..... I told my Dad "I am going to own a car like that some day!!"..... LOL.............since then my first car was a '69 Chevelle, I have owned 9 Chevelles all at the same time, Camaros, Cougars, Mustangs, trucks, Firebirds.. etc... and now finally own a '55 Chevy.....

 

Those little Matchbox Lesney toy car versions of Graham Hill's B.R.M. & Phil Hill's world F1 champ Ferrari turned me on as a little kid.
Later, Con Mantzaris' 'Rhapsody in Blue' hit me hard when I was a bigger kid at the '73(?) Adelaide (Australia) Rod Show. This thing cleaned up at the big national aussie shows in '71- '73.

• Here's a detail of my drawing of it (there will be some prints)..

 

YEP.

Jeez, I hate admitting it, but I kinda dug Corvette Summer too. There, I said it too.

 

"Two lane blacktop" '55 Chevy for me...that car was badass!!!

 

munster coach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

nice work

 

Gary Kollofski's 55 chevy Awesome still have the mags 1976 popular hot rodding was 11 years old at the time.
It's funny, had many cars since, but never built a clone,HUMMMM.

 

Wasn't a famous car for me at all. It was my cousins classic car collection as a kid, riding in his shoebox, building a '57 chevy stepside with my stepdad, stories of my grampa's rods when he was younger, and even the stories my grandmother told me of her family's model A RPU she leaned to drive in that did it for me.

 

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The Shelby Cobra from Gumball Rally.

 

Andy Brizzio's Oakland Roadster Show winning T-bucket back in about 1967? Had seen it in magazines and we were about to be on a family vacation (MN to California). I got dad to stop by the Brizzio shop but Andy had gone home for the day. Explaining why we were there (and that day only) an emplpyee called Andy at home, and we were invited to go to his house! Did get there, his family invited us in & back by the pool for a lemonade. Roy (maybe 12 aqt the time?) drove the T from the garage back to by the pool so we could see it! Talk about hospitality? We were "no one" from MN, and Andy treated us like his new best friends. THAT impressed me, and seeing the car in person was something I'll never forget. Owned 2 T's over the years, and always have loved them. Does that count as a famous car impression?

 

I have to say that the cars that got me hooked were locals THEN I started with magazines.The local car club "The Hot Sparks Putnam Ct." A/Altered 33 chevy coupe The" Emulsifier" sitting in bright orange paint outside a body shop here just after getting new paint and lettering I was 5 then 1960.Next at around 7 again a bright orange car this time it was a chopped ,Channeled heavily chromed 32 Ford coupe with White interior owned by a local hot rodder This car was show car put on the street it belonged to someone in the Webster Mass. area And he let me sit in it and rev it a couple times!I would love to see this car again today just to know it survived.Now all those fancy magazine cars were in California and they were on the other side of the world from N.E. Ct. but one day there was this tiny little refrigerator white model T hot rod called "The Lunch box special "From Boxboro Mass. now being a little kid here was a real hotrod from Mass in a magazine WOW!The lunch box told me what Ts were I knew I liked them then I saw the Grasshopper in a mag and that finished me off I knew 1 day I would build a T Hot Rod!I now have 2 Ts in the works .

 

Quite a few right here on the HAMB: Danny's 32 pickup, the Grits Coupe, just to name 2. Both awesome builds which I learned a lot from.