Saturday, August 23, 2008
A good question to banter over when talking to car people, Who has designed the best looking cars in the past 100 years?
I arrived at that question when looking at http://www.ridelust.com/designer-century-most-beautiful-cars/#more-1423 which may be accurate, in awarding Giorgetto Giugiaro the honorific. I'm not debating Ridelust on this, just offering this premise to you for bench racing the next time you are among other knowledgeable automotive people who can offer their thoughts.
Sadly, I don't know of anyone I can discuss car designers with who is topically knowledgeable on them. I'm no expert, but I can hold my own by knowing the cars, car names and manufacturers, and possibly remember the names of designers if someone else jogs my memory, and the cars they worked on.
I offer Chip Foose, Dick Teague, Pininfarina, Bill Mitchell, Harley Earl, Virgil Exner, Marcello Gandini, Raymond Loewy, J Mays, Buckminster Fuller, Paul Jr, Larry Shinoda, Elwood Engel, Henrik Fisker, Syd Mead, Freeman Thomas and others I'd recognize if someone mentioned them
Sadly, I don't know of anyone I can discuss car designers with who is topically knowledgeable on them. I'm no expert, but I can hold my own by knowing the cars, car names and manufacturers, and possibly remember the names of designers if someone else jogs my memory, and the cars they worked on.
I offer Chip Foose, Dick Teague, Pininfarina, Bill Mitchell, Harley Earl, Virgil Exner, Marcello Gandini, Raymond Loewy, J Mays, Buckminster Fuller, Paul Jr, Larry Shinoda, Elwood Engel, Henrik Fisker, Syd Mead, Freeman Thomas and others I'd recognize if someone mentioned them
“Auto racing was born the day the second automobile was built.”
If you are near Philiadelphia, you might want to see this museum to race cars.
"There are few illustrations of the effects of competition as dramatic, and beautiful, as the evolution of the racing sports car. This is the theme of our exhibition. Here you can learn how racing improves the breed. "
The Simeone Foundation Museum is Dr. Fred Simeone’s personal collection of 60 amazing race legends from the 1909 American Underslung to Le Mans winners to modern day race cars.
http://www.simeonefoundation.org/ via http://www.ridelust.com
"There are few illustrations of the effects of competition as dramatic, and beautiful, as the evolution of the racing sports car. This is the theme of our exhibition. Here you can learn how racing improves the breed. "
The Simeone Foundation Museum is Dr. Fred Simeone’s personal collection of 60 amazing race legends from the 1909 American Underslung to Le Mans winners to modern day race cars.
http://www.simeonefoundation.org/ via http://www.ridelust.com
Have you ever seen anyone this laid back in heavy traffic?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klteYv1Uv9A
The amount of cars switching lanes in close proximity to each other isn't a bother to most of us in huge cities of over a million people, but the guy on the cycle appears to be oblivious to the fact he's in traffic at all! Imagine him on a chair, bench, or couch instead of on his motorbike in traffic! See what I mean?
The amount of cars switching lanes in close proximity to each other isn't a bother to most of us in huge cities of over a million people, but the guy on the cycle appears to be oblivious to the fact he's in traffic at all! Imagine him on a chair, bench, or couch instead of on his motorbike in traffic! See what I mean?
a few gems from the world of unholy modified cars.
1921 Oldsmobile Model 46 above is from Ridelust's The 50 Most Famous Cars Of All Time and isn't part of the modified cars I refer to in the title of this post, but I contend it should be, for it's a shame to put a 1921 Olds on top of a monster truck frame
http://www.ridelust.com/modified-cars-the-evil-that-men-do/#more-2727
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