The non-muscle American car thread (READ THE OP)

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In your opinion, which country makes the best looking cars?


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Holy moly.

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That’s kinda perfect right thar.
Circa. early to mid-eighties, me and one of my cousins would bring out this car catalogue the size of a Sear’s catalogue.
Go through all the makes and write down the options and deletes we’d want for our choices. GM were the best. Endless options to mix & match.

Living in The Bronx, we’d see Caprice Classics like this.
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However, visiting relatives down south, we’d see more Caprice 2-doors like the one TexTex posted. Tints, Rally wheels and BFGs. Doesn’t get much better than that. Good memories.
 
I think about this car a lot. It was a minor plot point and made occasional appearances on NBC's crime drama Life some fifteen years ago.

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It's the striping that does it for me.

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In particular I dig the way the stripe "misses" the hood bulge.

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I really like these. Definitely among my favorite Fox cars. The nose is a bit of a letdown like the '83-6 Thunderbird and the '87 facelift similarly improved the front end tremendously, but I don't care for the rest of the Cougar facelift.

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This thing is unbelievably clean, it's just a pity it's a V6 car.

I do prefer the more symmetrical '83-4 dash, especially the XR7 without the fake wood.

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More-door hardtop Torino!

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This particular example is rough, but oh, mama, I would love one of these. The '70-1 Torinos had one of the most attractive interiors, to my mind, of the muscle car era (perhaps second only to its sibling Montego).
 
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But was it actually powered by one? I've read multiple, conflicting accounts, including that it was just a standard Windstar with cosmetic changes.

Saleen, however, built a Windstar "RRR" for Tim Allen with a supercharger on top of the 3.8 V6 that it came with.

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