Epitome of COOL

One view I've read (at least about cool as a specific quality some people have rather than just a synonym for 'good'): a surfeit of vitality. Like the stereotypical rock star who does enough drugs to kill a herd of elephants and still has the energy to run around like a mad thing. All our other concepts of iconic cool boil down to that. It's about expecting to survive adversity or danger as a matter of course.

It's why cool characters traditionally smoked, and why cigarette-shaped nicotine vaporizers will never be cool. The things are just too safe: it misses the point. They don't even involve setting fire to anything.

But this only applies to that sense of the term cool. It's quite possible that being cool isn't very cool in the other sense ...

But as to the actual question: I suppose I'm of the generation for whom the Monkeemobile was a sort of catalogue of automotive cool. TV and model kits really shaped my first sense of coolness in cars. Things have shifted on a bit but one retains a fondness.

 

So VERY well put.

 

WOW! You guys sure like men.
You have to leave some room for all the super-cool women, too.

Well, I like women and they don't come much "cooler" than Paula Murphy.
First woman licensed to drive a nitro funny car, jet car pilot and all-around car woman....now she's COOL...

 

When you know you like it, but you can't put your finger on why.

 

my new cool is the guy riding the moose....

 

That "guy" is President Teddy Roosevelt

 

When I was sixteen, and driving my stock '48 Chev coupe, cool was what the older guys were driving:
A '57 hardtop with a built 283 and three-speed. At least until he covered up the beautiful red paint job with an ugly green one.
A '40 Ford coup, kinda ratty, with a stock flathead that sounded soooo cool.
A totally stock-looking '55 Chev hardtop with a very hot 283 and a three-speed. This was the cleanest daily driver I ever saw. Never saw a speck of dirt on it.
A Henry J with a dual-quad Caddy engine and slicks. This was an abortion, but it was very, very quick.
An old F-100 with a flathead, a faded yellow paint job, and the words "Old Yeller" carefully painted on the side.
What wasn't cool was the car that a guy spent the most time and money on - A 'purple '60 Chev convert with a seriously built 348 and four-speed. He had every geegaw he could think of on it, but it just wasn't cool.

 

Heres a link to the ultimate (OK maybe Bonneville is a bit cooler) cool. The last of the non corporate sponsored cars. To me El Mirage is the ultimate cool. BTW, the June meet is next Sunday (13th).

http://www.dlra.org.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1192

 

Re: Epitome of COOL

<HR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #e5e5e5; COLOR: #e5e5e5" SIZE=1>Heres a link to the ultimate (OK maybe Bonneville is a bit cooler) cool. The last of the non corporate sponsored cars. To me El Mirage is the ultimate cool. BTW, the June meet is next Sunday (13th).

http://www.dlra.org.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1192


I agree.

 

To me, meeting Billy G was way cool.



Scotty.

 

Anyone got anything else?

 

i got dissed by billy g one time...

that was kinda cool.

all over elvis.........

 

hahaha NO BODY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER!!!

 

okay okay, time for a real answer...

Mike Vallely for one,

Gene Winfield because he was a sweet heart and autographed the best picture in the world for me...

and all the dudes that paved the way for me to be where I am now.

anyone that does what they want because they love it.

dudes that build kustoms and hotrods and show m***ive restraint.

less is more
not everything needs to be over the top...

 

hotdamn, very nicely put.

 

thanks Komo!

 

- cool.

 

for me cool is all the cars my older friends had when i was younger not always desirable but always heaps of fun

 

Well said Dragter Dude... btw what cars were they?