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Old 11-30-2015, 08:59 PM
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Default Wow, 3 taillights was not enough, how about 10 total

Interesting looking custom coupe from the good old days. Pretty nice (actually amazing) job on the top chop, that has to be really tough to do on a coupe body. It is on eBay.


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Wow!! How do describe something beyond ugly?
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Brutal!
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Well, if you still wear bell bottom pants, long sideburns, and a chain with a peace symbol around your neck.....that's the perfect car for you!

Actually stuff like that was "cool" back about 1970. I'm not saying I want the car, but as an example of how it used to be, that's well done.
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Well, if you still wear bell bottom pants, long sideburns, and a chain with a peace symbol around your neck.....that's the perfect car for you!

Actually stuff like that was "cool" back about 1970. I'm not saying I want the car, but as an example of how it used to be, that's well done.
Cool? Or "groovy?"
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chevrolet-Co...m=361436134583
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Oh you guys just never see the positive.

See I would change the 10 rear lights to LEDS and the next guy that someone rides up my butt I would apply the brakes and blind him to death
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Jim,
Perfect car for you..
Need any LED tail lights?
Cheaper by the dozen....
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It's funny how an ugly custom like that makes us chuckle but then one of the ugliest cars ever, a Dodge Daytona, just sold at Mecum for 900K. Go figure?
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Originally Posted by Railroadman
Well, if you still wear bell bottom pants, long sideburns, and a chain with a peace symbol around your neck.....that's the perfect car for you!

Actually stuff like that was "cool" back about 1970. I'm not saying I want the car, but as an example of how it used to be, that's well done.
You do realize bell bottom pants are coming back into style? This may be a unique opportunity to be ahead of the curve.
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Originally Posted by biggd
It's funny how an ugly custom like that makes us chuckle but then one of the ugliest cars ever, a Dodge Daytona, just sold at Mecum for 900K. Go figure?
69 Dodge Daytona’s are not ugly. I think that claim is reserved for the early Pontiac Aztek.
A Daytona rear ¼ photo shot looks like one of the meanest badest things to come out of Detroit (which it was), the beautiful design is also functional… if you are doing over 150.
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Originally Posted by colo63sw
69 Dodge Daytona’s are not ugly. I think that claim is reserved for the early Pontiac Aztek.
A Daytona rear ¼ photo shot looks like one of the meanest badest things to come out of Detroit (which it was), the beautiful design is also functional… if you are doing over 150.
I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In my eyes it's frugly!
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Let me guess, the owner is a Prince fan?
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Originally Posted by biggd
It's funny how an ugly custom like that makes us chuckle but then one of the ugliest cars ever, a Dodge Daytona, just sold at Mecum for 900K. Go figure?
Simple. Factory ugly will always be worth more than home-made ugly.
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Originally Posted by Swept57
Simple. Factory ugly will always be worth more than home-made ugly.
I understand it's value but that doesn't change the fact that it's frugly. Believe me I wish I owned one so I could cash in!
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Far Out, as Peter Fonda would say. Yes, it is ugly, but as Railroadman said, it is a well done time capsule. 10 times better looking than the Corvette Summer car. And long sideburns have been back in style for the past 15 years, just with short hair, tattoos all over, and duncan yo-yo's inserted in the ear lobes. But side burns, none the less.

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Originally Posted by 65 fi
You do realize bell bottom pants are coming back into style? This may be a unique opportunity to be ahead of the curve.
Damn! I knew I should not have tossed out my leisure suit last year!
Old 12-01-2015, 11:49 AM
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I got out of College in 1979 and interviewed and landed my first Job in a Leasure Suit.
I thought it was cool. It has been gone now for over 40 years. I don't miss it.
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Default It is so over the top!

That i like it! Even the color! It is totally COOL! This has to be a Bruno's car, because of the chop! That is actually extremely difficult to do on a Corvette!

I would probably only eliminate those front mud flaps or whatever they are and I would size rims and tires that would tuck in the rear after lowering down the a$$ end and throw in a vintage ZL-1 engine and the world would return to being in perfect balance!

There are some really trick things done to this car and some classic vintage parts, like the side pipes!


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