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02-07-2003, 08:32 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Menomonie, Wisconsin,
Posts: 3,505
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Best Automotive Design of All Time
Been down this road before, but we have a lot of new members and people do have a habit of changing their minds. Give your choice for the best automotive design of all time (your favorite).
A number of years ago Road & Track took designers, enthusiasts, and writers from a wide number of automotive magazines and polled them on this question. Guess what design won?
PLEASE!!!!! Only ONE mention. No "my second and third choice would be" stuff. ONLY ONE. Take a guess at the second question if you like. Hop to it.
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02-07-2003, 08:34 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Mesa, Arizona,
AZ
Cobra Make, Engine: Unique 289 FIA,302 Crate,Holley 600cfm
Posts: 362
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I remember a vote for most beautiful car ever about ten years ago and the winner was the E type Jag.
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02-07-2003, 08:41 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Uranus,
cal
Cobra Make, Engine: NAF replica, 351W, about 420 HP
Posts: 3,046
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Cobra !!!
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Edley, The Cobra Rogue!
"If you think that you can cut it, if you think you got the time, you'll only get just one chance, better get it right first time. 'Cause in this game you're playing, if you lose you got to pay, and if you make just one wrong move, you'll get BLOWN AWAY. Expect no mercy.
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02-07-2003, 08:46 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Seattle, WA,
Posts: 1,389
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(1) Auburn Speedster Supercharged
(2) Probley a VW
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Foolish consistancy is the hobgoblin of tiny minds
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02-07-2003, 08:58 PM
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Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Altamonte Springs,
Fl
Cobra Make, Engine: Hunter FIA style body with Ford suspension, 351W/396 by Southern Automotive
Posts: 394
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Cal - It seems to me I remember a question like this several years ago, but I'm not sure if it was the same "contest" to which you are refering. I believe the winner of the one I remember was the Cisitalia.
Bumpster
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02-07-2003, 09:11 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Early 60's Studebaker Avanti for me.
63 Jag E-Type win that poll?
Ernie
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02-07-2003, 09:23 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Syracuse,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: Contemporary classics 3041,sbc 350(have no fear ford guys for there is a FE 428 in the garage waiting to be rebuilt & installed) but for now she is a driver while other projects take precidence.
Posts: 405
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way to tough!
My favorite...hmmmm
American- '53 Studebaker starliner. Low,sleek, beautiful w/simple
clean lines. Stack it up against most of the rest of the
early 50's cars and it was light years ahead. Still looks
better than most. But alas...Studebakers get no
respect.  
Foreign- '61 ferrari 250gt........Stunning......Nuff said.
as for the best of all time impossible to pinpoint.Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! This thread could be as bad as a BB vs SB thread.
everyone have a good one!
Dan
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02-07-2003, 09:30 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Syracuse,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: Contemporary classics 3041,sbc 350(have no fear ford guys for there is a FE 428 in the garage waiting to be rebuilt & installed) but for now she is a driver while other projects take precidence.
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Ernie,
Beat me by a second... reason I did not pick the Avanti (since I have one) is that it evokes only two responses...
"I hate it"...
"I love it"...
But like a Cobra I surmise, after a ride, there is always a smile 
at least they get a little respect.
Dan
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2030, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.
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02-07-2003, 09:41 PM
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Join Date: Feb 1999
Location: Kansas City,
MO
Cobra Make, Engine: CRL, 351W, Tremec TKO
Posts: 2,299
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Design? Do you mean visual impact? Engineering excellence?
Or how about a car you can keep running for darn near ever with not much more than duct tape....
... original VW bug.
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Who is John Galt?
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02-07-2003, 09:41 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Las Vegas,
NV
Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham#182/Shelby 496c.i.
Posts: 756
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1969- Lamborgini Miura P400S-- 
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"You can NEVER teach a pig to sing! You'd just be wasting your time and annoying the pig!"
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02-07-2003, 09:42 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Atlanta,
GA
Cobra Make, Engine: CAV GT40 with 331 KC
Posts: 2,187
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Today for me it is a Ferrari 250LM.
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02-07-2003, 09:48 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Olympia/Lacey,
WA
Cobra Make, Engine: West Coast. 514 / 6 speed Richmond overdrive
Posts: 1,981
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Maserati Barchetta 3500
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02-07-2003, 09:48 PM
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Avanti 176,,,well get some pics posted of that bad boy! An Avanti is "art", not everybody understands "art". The "timeless" beauty and styling cues that will keep that car "modern" for....well...forever!
Ernie
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02-07-2003, 09:51 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Fresno,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: KMP 184/482ci Shelby
Posts: 14,445
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The Model T or the Bug may be the most important designs...
The Jag XKE may have won some votes...
The Cisitalia may be in the MOMA...
But, for me...the 57SC Atlantic coupe by the ultimate Master.
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02-07-2003, 10:41 PM
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Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: Bay Area,
FL
Cobra Make, Engine: What Cobra?
Posts: 7,193
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Don't laugh!
Citroen SM
TURK
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OBAMA IN in 2012
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02-07-2003, 10:47 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Fresno,
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Cobra Make, Engine: KMP 184/482ci Shelby
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Turk
No laughing here--had a client in El Centro that had one in the early 80s--smoothest thing I've ever ridden in despite the dirt roads--and a Maser engine to boot. Actually a damn good choice.
But, as with my choice--it is French! FTF, but love some of their cars. 
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02-07-2003, 10:48 PM
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Location: Seattle, WA,
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HAHAHAHAHA
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02-07-2003, 11:07 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Alice Springs, central Australia,
NT
Cobra Make, Engine: Classic revival kit (CR3181), gen III engine, T56 6 speed box, AU XR8 lsd diff
Posts: 5,699
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best looking car
In my eye it must be the lambo miura sv
PS LOL @ Turk
haveing both driven and worked on the citreon, it isnt in my favorites list
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02-07-2003, 11:14 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Maple Valley,,
Wa
Cobra Make, Engine: Unique 289 FIA gone now
Posts: 199
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Ta-dah!!
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Luck occurs when preparation and opportunity converge.
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02-07-2003, 11:27 PM
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Bob ,i'll see you that Cord ...............and raise you one..................................SPEEDSTER!
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