Ugly Car Thread

[trandy9850]

And Ford didn't have a monopoly on ugly in the late '50s to early '60s. Chrysler's Virgil Exner contributed mightily to the art of ugly as well:

I like every single one of those cars….they remind me of jet aircraft….or maybe space ships…they’re all grotesque….and super cool….both things at the same time.

 

[SuprHtr]

My Dad had a Ford Granada for a company fleet vehicle. It was silver with a red vinyl interior. Their print ads at the time compared it to a Mercedes 300. It was a pig. I still think an Aztek is uglier, though.

Also consider the Consulier GTP. It’s like a 5th grader’s doodle of a hot car.

 

[Memphis Soul]

This was my first car. This one not actually mine. This one one looks good compared to mine.

 

[tintag27]

Citroen - are you seriously telling me that Pablo Picasso would put his signature on this fugly thing...!?

 

[Paul45]

The Ford Scorpio was ugly as sin...

 

[donrichfan]

Cheap and sold a billion or so.

With those Ralph Nader bumpers and wacky hubcaps.
Was my 1st car, 200 bucks. P green / yellow with white vinyl interior. Its backfire had notes of 12 gauge blast.

 

[clydethecat]

My Dad had a Ford Granada for a company fleet vehicle. It was silver with a red vinyl interior. Their print ads at the time compared it to a Mercedes 300. It was a pig. I still think an Aztek is uglier, though.
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Also consider the Consulier GTP. It’s like a 5th grader’s doodle of a hot car.
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The Granada was still built on the 1960 Ford Falcon platform, shared with the Fairlane, Comet, Meteor, Mustang, Cougar, Maverick, Torino, and many other small/medium sized Fords and Mercurys between 1960 and 1979. Even the Lincoln Versailles.

To be fair to the Consulier, it was genuinely fast, and I think for a time it held the lap record for street-legal cars at several tracks.

 

[clydethecat]

This was my first car. This one not actually mine. This one one looks good compared to mine.

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Separated at birth:

 

[donrichfan]

My Dad had a Ford Granada for a company fleet vehicle. It was silver with a red vinyl interior. Their print ads at the time compared it to a Mercedes 300. It was a pig. I still think an Aztek is uglier, though.
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Also consider the Consulier GTP. It’s like a 5th grader’s doodle of a hot car.
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That Granada has a look of despair-like it’s not looking forward to sitting in a gasoline line.
It resembles Columbo a little.

 

[GeneB]

Playmobile Dashboard

 

[mexicanyella]

I always thought the late 90s Taurus was an exceptionally ugly car, from both the front and the back. The front end looks like a catfish to me...
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Man, that’s my favorite era of Taurus styling; like where all the attempted jellybean aesthetics of that automotive period finally came together in a single cohesive product.

But they didn’t stick with that look for long…

 

[boris bubbanov]

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'53 Kaiser

Just gorgeous, in my opinion.

My brother's '53 Dragon was the other way around (jade green body finish, ivory Bambu top).

I have a theory: Ordinary "non car" people try to determine which vehicles/models sold the least, and then like ignorant bullies, they pile on the vehicles that didn't sell many units or were made by companies that no longer make cars or went out of business altogether.

 

[boris bubbanov]

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1954 Kaiser Manhattan

We had one of these, as well. But the '55 version, with the McCullough supercharger, and a metallic green top, not this burgundy.

I wish you all could see the interior materials and finishes on these cars, and sit in them and marvel at how much lower you sat than in any other vehicle of the time (except Hudsons). Are they fast? No. Do they handle all that well? No. But you could cruise around and catch every eye as you passed.

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Doesn't anyone here remember how clunky a Telecaster seemed to most kids, in 1974? Educate your eye. Free yourself from schoolyard thinking.

 

[jackinjax]

We had one of these, as well. But the '55 version, with the McCullough supercharger, and a metallic green top, not this burgundy.

I wish you all could see the interior materials and finishes on these cars, and sit in them and marvel at how much lower you sat than in any other vehicle of the time (except Hudsons). Are they fast? No. Do they handle all that well? No. But you could cruise around and catch every eye as you passed.

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Doesn't anyone here remember how clunky a Telecaster seemed to most kids, in 1974? Educate your eye. Free yourself from schoolyard think

Guilty.