Ugliest car you ever knew?

[GTP1960]

They're not all ugly - but there's a lot of jet-age aviation influence in the cars of the late '40s and into the 50s and 60s.

https://www.google.com/search?q=1950s+"car+design"+jets&num=20&newwindow=1&client=opera&hs=nw8&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMgd-DxfnRAhVI_IMKHT-iBacQsAQIGw&biw=1309&bih=693

Remember the 1950 Studebaker -

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my Dad loved his studebakers. 1st one was a used '51 , picked up in 53 or 54 ( noted in the album as "the" 2nd car, a new phenomenon for us)

 

[PAUL161]

I had a 50s bullet nose Studebaker when I was in Cuba for a couple years back in 58/59. Kinda ugly, but I liked it as it had a very comfortable ride. PJ

 

[Mickey Richaud]

my Dad loved his studebakers.

Same here, though whatever pictures we had are long gone... As I recall, though, we had a dark green bullet-nose Champion around 1952. Then the car I do remember well, a '53 Buick Century, two-tone green, most likely bought in '54. What a tank that was! But Dad often said he really liked the Studebakers.

 

[JPSmit]

My father came to Canada in '58 - drove an Anglia, which, when he sold it made it less than a block before the transmission failed - Had two Studebakers (Hawks) - then got married and traded the last one for a Beetle which he drove until the Falcon Wagon came along.

 

[NutmegCT]

Those Studebaker Hawks were quite a forward-looking design. Upscale car I think. Prior to 1960 there were several "levels" of Hawk: Flight Hawk, Power Hawk, hardtop Sky Hawk, Silver Hawk, Golden Hawk. In 1960 the levels were dropped and it became the "Hawk". We could never afford them, so stuck with Ramblers.

Here's a '57 Silver Hawk:


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[JPSmit]

I think my father's were Silver Hawks

 

[DrEntropy]

Mom had a 1950 ford, black. Dad always had Lincolns. Took my first drivers' test in a '61 "suicide door" Continental. Talk about a BOAT! Several of the uncles drove Lincolns as well.

A couple years later I got my first MGB.

 

[Deleted member 8987]

We got my buddies Lincoln sold last fall for his widow. I had a chance (after 20+ years of assisting in the restoration) to drive it. You thought a 61 was a boat.....1941 Lincoln Continental Convertible with a V-12.
The bonnet had to be six feet long.
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I thought is was a container ship....and kept looking for the radar to navigate in close waters.

 

[DrEntropy]

:lol:

 

[John Turney]

They're not all ugly - but there's a lot of jet-age aviation influence in the cars of the late '40s and into the 50s and 60s.

https://www.google.com/search?q=1950s+"car+design"+jets&num=20&newwindow=1&client=opera&hs=nw8&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMgd-DxfnRAhVI_IMKHT-iBacQsAQIGw&biw=1309&bih=693

Remember the 1950 Studebaker -

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Still featured in the cartoon strip "Pickles".

 

[GTP1960]

While watching the "new MG" clip.
i scrolled down and saw this remarkably ugly Ferrari.
the 1950 Ferrari Uovo.....for sale for $5.5 million ( I think)


https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/news/a32554/ferrari-166mm-212-uovo-for-sale/


Even the rear is ugly.

 

[PAUL161]

While watching the "new MG" clip.
i scrolled down and saw this remarkably ugly Ferrari.
the 1950 Ferrari Uovo.....for sale for $5.5 million ( I think)


https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/news/a32554/ferrari-166mm-212-uovo-for-sale/

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Even the rear is ugly.

I guess it proves that ugly has value-----To some people!:highly_amused:

 

[Popeye]

I guess it proves that ugly has value-----To some people!:highly_amused:

Or perhaps that love is blind?

I'm guessing, if most of us were to sit inside, start the engine, and start off in first gear, we would be wearing the proverbial "... eating grins". We would not care the slightest what the exterior looked like!! :welcoming:

 

[Bayless]

yep.

 

[GTP1960]

Or perhaps that love is blind?

I'm guessing, if most of us were to sit inside, start the engine, and start off in first gear, we would be wearing the proverbial "... eating grins". We would not care the slightest what the exterior looked like!! :welcoming:

I don't know.....
That thing looks like a cross between a lint Shaver & a stun-gun

 

[GregW]

I don't know.....
That thing looks like a cross between a lint Shaver & a stun-gun

Just think how comforted you'd feel seeing your spare tire every time you look in the rearview mirror.

 

[AngliaGT]

Well you got at least one thing right for sure Paul. The new Lexus front end just looks like they ran out of parts before finishing it.

I was reading a magazine that had an article on the new Lexus LS.It said that the designers said
that"it took six months to perfect the design of the grille's matrix,which has 5032 facets".