one day if I ever get time, I will post the thousand plus images I have of the restoration of the Alfa 8C2900B coupe on my website. This is from Nov '07 before the bumpers were rebuilt, trim recreated and numerous other details attended to before it went to paint. Fantastic car and no reason to ever go back to Pebble Beach for myself ever after that day...
It was shown back in posts 139 and 142, but I certainly don't mind looking at it again. It was a cool car than GM should have built.
They don't come much swoopier than this !!! The furriners are definately beautiful ,but good old North American customs can and do match them " swoop for swoop"
No way, I can't see liking a swoopy one more than that. And some of these have had a swoop only a mother could love.
Lancias and Farina designs of the '30s (often one and the same) were especially elegant swoopies. The French were right in there, too; this style of Delahaye knocks me right out: I think I've already posted the second image in this thread. I am not ashamed.
There are a lot of cars that have had an influence on the shape of my '40 -- the Ralph Jilek Ford and the Glen Hooker '40 Merc (both were Valley Custom builds) probably more than the others. Is that what you meant?
I was going to comment that the Embiricos Bentley is bitchin' and unique, but it had never occurred to me how similar the BMW coupe was to it. I wouldn't especially want to own or drive either of those cars, but I think that they're terrific and distinctive looking in their own way.
In vaguely similar vein: 1939 Bentley Corniche prototype. From the same interesting Swedish website: 1938 Bentley 3½/4¼ with very pleasing coupé body by Van Vooren. Not swoopy at all, this 1927 Mercedes-Benz nevertheless caught my eye because I'd been playing with an idea for a sort of utility saloon, though a four-door, with a similar "back-pack" integral trunk:
That first SAAB picture just knocks me out. Not a car that I ever think of as particularly swoopy, although I know that it was designed with aerodynamics in mind, but the picture! The car's detail is minimized, the background is so elegantly simple, and there's just enough blur to make it look speedy -- wonderful!
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