Art & Inspiration What car/year really makes you tick??????

I'll start. I really love 1949-1953, there was so much going on, with regards to design. I have had a couple Chevys, Desotos, Dodges, but the Chevys (Fleetlines) really sing to this guy. I was just having a beer last night and looking at my '41 Special Deluxe and thinking, there is not a thing I want to do to this car, it was just built right. So cartoony! Am I getting old?

That being said, I got into Lincoln Continentals pretty heavy...1965/1966 was my sweet spot. Hell, I bought three of them for $1000 a pop in 2021, drove two of them home. Neat cars. Vacuum things suck though.

So, what cars make you smile?

 

Definitely Fat Fender cars draw my interest consistently. I dabble with others but love Fat Fenders of many different designs. Someone tried to buy my 41 Plymouth this past weekend and I simply said, "I don't want to sell it." It's the only 5 speed car I have and I built it like I wanted it. For 12,000 miles, it's made me smile. I'm working on a 34 Ford right now but what I really want to do is to work on the 37 Packard Biz Coupe. So many cars, so little time.....

 

'64 GTO.

 

1940 Ford coupes and 32 Fords.

 

1963 through 1966 Buick Riviera's...timeless styling and lots of chrome inside and out,
along with plenty of available horsepower.

 

Fat fender cars also draw me in.

 

ALL of them, Car crazy all my life. I worked hard, played hard and have owned all of my dream cars throughout my lifetime to this day. I will say that I sometimes miss my 32 Ford and maybe I should have kept that one for an occasional cruise,

by wicarnut posted Aug 24, 2013 at 12:03 AM

check my albums as I do have pictures posted of many of my cars back to the 60's, now an Old Timer and enjoying my OT hobby cars as the comfort factor weighs in Big Time, enjoyed cruising to a show saturday 2 hours away, 90+ day, very unusual here in Northwoods Wisconsin.

 

I prefer two seaters
just pure car

 

1960 Ford Starliner. Batwing perfection, face of an innocent damsel, add a 2” chop and I’m in love. Plus you get the go ahead to plop in a big nasty tripower FE. Drop it down to a stock car stance and wheels and just throw some dirt on me, I’m done.





Like this but maybe a little less chop.

 

I will second Cobs post! I also love them all & fight the "one of each" mentality daily

God Bless
Bill
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ar-transport-hauling-open-or-enclosed.614419/

 

Been in love with '40 Ford's since I was a kid building models.

 

I’m with Cob and Bill. I honestly don’t have favorites…which means I have been on a quest to own them all at some point (or something crazy like that).

 

Would love to have a '64 Galaxie again.

 

Like most cars, but first half of the thirties really does it for me. The decade starts out fairly basic with great shapes for bare bones hot rods, a couple years later sleek, sleek- oh the opportunities…

 

I like the mid-late 50s styling, also some of the 30s styling, when they finally figured out what you could do with curves. And of course the 60s HP race gave us some nice engines to put in these good looking earlier cars

 

I have automotive ADHD. I like all kinds of cars. New and old, hot rod and custom, ferrin, and domestic.

But '60's style '28-29 Fords and '55 Chevy hot rods are my faves.

 

30’s style, 50’s style, 60’s style. That about covers it for me.

 

Whatever makes me tick is the one I'm working on, until I see the next one that makes me tick.

 

I like a little bit of everything, but my personal favorites are Model A's, '54 Ford 2dr cars, and '56 Ford F100's. I've owned several of each over the years, they just do something for me.

 

Rusty junky crap
Stupid low stuff
Taildraggers
Old big trucks
School busses
Step vans

 

For me it’s about style and attitude, and it’s not something it can nail down but I know it when I see it

 

On this side of the HAMB, for the most part, anything relating to the 1932 Ford.
I can't really speak of the others here!

 

I'm a spaz for so many different cars. 30-31 chopped 5 windows with attitude, Cadillac Sedanettes, 55Chevies, Gassers, Altereds, Short rear deck econo coupes, like the 60 falcon i'm building and the early Chevy IIs/little Ramblers, etc, Opel Cadet gassers (Space Cadet build is awesome), About any big powered factory Mopar in the 60's. 70 Superbee has one of the meanest grille ever. (dad had a 70 Coronet500 ragtop)... Starliners... Skyliners...

CHROME......

Any thing with rounded bubble glass green houses always gets a second look or 10 from me. (my 60 Falcon, lol). I just get lost in the feeling.

4 speeds with bench seats are mean. Non-console bucket 4 speeds are too. Nickle plate and as-cast parts are hot.

-rick

 

There could nothing more perfect than a '40 Ford Coupe

And a special Shout Out! to all makes of 1932's and 1957's

 

Car first loves,well kind liked going to the grand openings with my Dad; That started in the late 1940s for the new models. Was fun an some times I'd get a toy car model of a brand new one from dealer!
But in late 1952,the new 1953 models,there was just one new design that grabed me" 1953 Studebaker 2D hard top V8" super WOW"
Like most kids in my group of car nut buddys,I'd pick up the latiest news stand hotrod n custom car mags/we traded them with each other=so we got to look through most new ones as they came out.
By the mid 1950s,when starting Jr High,I also started collecting as many free parts as I could drag home> To build a hot rod for High School. The parts I liked an could find=shaped the hotrod I built. 28A with Ford Y V8. By 60 I also got a used Henry J, n customed the heck out of it too.
Many years later,after collage,I did buy a used 53 Stud Starliner V8 Coupe*, as a every day driver. That love had never left!! Yet some were those cars,we also love,but can't even think about owning;1937 Cord 812 Supercharged I though was as cool ,but out of site.

But still have my 28A.

 

The list is too long....couldn't single one out.

 

beater/driver old pickups...

 

Yes.

 

Ford cars '54 and earlier, especially shoeboxes
Chevy cars '55 and later
All trucks '72 and earlier
OT Buicks '68 to '75
Corvettes '72 and earlier
...........OH Hell!!!!! I like 'em all