Your Coolest Car(s) Of All Time?

a 1936 Mercedes Benz 500K Spezial Roadster.

in case you’re interested, Göring had one

Seen on Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/253-mph-SUPERCAR-Very-Rare-BLACK-and-BLUE-/140444974649?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item20b32c3e39

Capt Propstrike at the controls.

No Morgan has (IMHO) ever reached any degree of coolness until the very latest concept which I think was just shown in the US

Certainly not that thing Richard Hammond drives 😮

Here’s a render of the new one. Let’s hope it looks a bit like this in the metal

Moggy

Can mass-production cars really be cool? Anyway.

Most early Maseratis, up to the Khamsin and the Kyalami.

A Reliant Scimitar Shooting Brake. Because all shooting brakes are cool.

These days maybe a Wiesmann MF4-S Roadster, or a Morgan Sport Roadster, and definitly the Maserati Quattroporte.

geez those Tatra sports cars look like suitcases! 😮

well the truck is nice !!! not keen on the cars though the t700 reminded me of a skoda !!

the first was nice though design seems to have gone downhill after !!

Lord!

I bet that Tatra T-700GT handled like a pig 😮

Moggy

5. Tatra T-700GT (1996, V8 aircooled rearplaced, 4479 ccm, 305 kW)

6. Tatra MTX V8 (1991, V8 aircooled, 3 919 ccm, 225 kW)

7. Tatra T-613-4MiLong (1991, V8 aircooled rearplaced, 3 500 ccm, 123,5 kW)

8. Tatra T-815-2 ZO (2010, V8 watercooled, 15 874 ccm, 735 kW)

Tatra celebrated 160th birthday in 19th august as the oldest vehicle producer in the World… happy birthday Tatra

My list (quite monothematic)
1. Tatra T-80 (1930, V12 watercooled, 5990 ccm, 120PS)

2. Tatra T-87 (1936, V8 aircooled rearplaced, 2 969 ccm, 55.2 kW)

3. Tatra T-77/77A (1934, V8 aircooled rearplaced, 3 378 ccm, 55kW, Cx=0,210 !!!! compare to for example Ferrari F40´s Cx=0,36 or Porsche 911 GT2´s Cx=0,34)

4. Tatra JK 2500 (1956, V8 aircooled, 2500 ccm, 103kW/140PS)

Town Cars aren’t really cool, but a used one will do 95% of what a new Rolls and Bentley will do (i.e. take you somewhere in comfort and speed) at about 1/20th the cost.

The Lincoln Town Car?

That reminds me, I need a new tumble dryer. 😀

Sorry but, American cars…Ufff! The old, proper, Ford Mustang was a nice thing but thats as far as I’d go to say something nice about their cars…

Just my opinion

it’s got to be something on the inside for sure !!!

Optimator’s list is an interesting view from across the Atlantic. The Impala certainly has a wonderful air of post-war excess and you can see why it would earn its place in a cool car list; though my vote would have been for the ’59

The Lincoln Town Car?

Hard to see what makes it cool. Care to expand Optimator?

Moggy

Quality, I really can’t argue. I still have my Dad’s Dinky model Bentley Blower from when he was a kid on my shelf 🙂

There were several Bentleys at the Le Mans Classic this year, but in the corner of the paddock was one Blower Bentley!! It was a beast! The guy driving it wasn’t exactly shy about pushing it on the track either. We watched that grid and he was doing well making sure it was competitive.

I guess then there is a central data base the police can access regardless of which state the vehicle enters?

Baz

Yes, a big computer network somewhere…

As my list shows, I love Bentleys of that era… though I’d probably prefer not to have a blower to make the car easier to live with and more useable.

I’m after a proper “gentleman’s” car rather than a Le Mans racer…

Here’s one I shot of one at a Seattle-area British marque car show a couple of years ago. Lovely thing with a fabric body.

I’ve been mulling over the thread topic and I am happy to suggest my nomination for Number One coolest car of all time.

Quality, I really can’t argue. I still have my Dad’s Dinky model Bentley Blower from when he was a kid on my shelf 🙂

Classics

mine,

1961 Chevrolet Impala Convertable
1983 Datsun 280ZX
1938 Mercedes 540K
1938 Mercedes 770
1954 Mercury Monteray
1987 Mercury Grand Marquis
2005 Lincoln Town Car
1997 Lincoln Town Car
1957 Chevrolet Convertable
1956 Ford Thunderbird

Thankyou Mr Boyle, always wondered how it worked.

I guess then there is a central data base the police can access regardless of which state the vehicle enters?

Baz

all very well for american plates !!

but not for british plates , the mercury is on british age relateds made to look american !!

429 XUD. Mercury Monterey. Flood damaged in a Mississippi storm in 1982. Left to stand full of silt for 20 years in a yard. Rescued and brought to England in 2002