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Id say you, with a foreign German Bimmer bike, didnt want to play with your 'paisanos'. They are the ones with the 'domestic' bike after all doing what Americans ALWAYS do! Being LOUD! Id say, YOU were the obnoxious one for NOT being loud! You are TOO good to be LOUD are ya???!!! WEHHLLLLl! LOOKIE WHO WE HAVE HERE???!!! An American who thinks he is Canadian.

@trinacriabob I would also like to know why of the name change. This saddened me.

LOL 1. '69 2. '77 I previously quoted you on '74 myself, but I never did post a '74. But that is an unimportant detail. I aint gonna 'defend' why I think those cars are beautiful in a sexy black and white dress. I just do. The 'design' of a '69, '74 and '77 will never ever catch the art world on fire. But do they have to in order for anybody to post any car in this thread? That is not the purpose of this thread anyway. Beautiful means different things to different people. And as such, any car deemed beautiful by anybody, could post a pic of that car in this thread. We could criticize the choice. Art critiquing has been around as long as art itself has been around. That is always fun. But to cease posting 'ugly' cars (to somebody) is not very helpful in sharing thoughts and ideas, in my opinion.

Each and EVERY car I post in this thread, I see a certain beauty aspect to it. Be it a paint job. Be it the angle of the shot with the lighting and the background that is represented with the specific car of choice or just the picture itself regardless of the vehicle. Be it the memory of a car regardless of so called beautiness. Cars do bring out nostalgia and that in itself is beautiful. Or simply, a truly beautiful car. A UNIVERSALLY beautiful car. But again, who is to decide what UNIVERSALLY beautiful really is. Universally, a 1960s Jaguar XKE is deemed to be THE most beautiful car EVER created. I dont think so. I, in fact, think its ugly. Well, ugly maybe too strong of a word, but I dont find it appealing in the least. There are many facets and standards of beautiful. And especially in a thread of "beautiful" cars. To each his own. If you dont appreciate the last couple of cars I posted. Its OK. You dont have to. Ill eventually post something you might find beautiful. I hope you could continue to use this thread though!

Yes. And you mention it yourself while denouncing it at the same time... And beautiful is a different standard and is viewed differently for different people. Sure, multiple people could view the same thing you view as beautiful and the same people could view things as ugly as you view things those same things. But, ugly, also is a different standard and is viewed differently for different people. Sure, multiple people could view the same thing you view as ugly and the same people could view things as beautiful as you view those same things. And... The things you view as beautiful and ugly, there are as many people that have the total opposite view as yours. And the many (trillions upon trillions) of different combinations of what the different human minds there are and have existed view and have viewed and will continue to view as beautiful and ugly. You dont get to decide, NOBODY gets to decide what ANYBODY could post in this thread if they deem to share it as a beautiful car. The IDEA is to APPRECIATE it, NO MATTER if its beautiful or ugly to you, or to me.

And there could NEVER be a line, because WHO is to determine what is and what isnt beautiful? Keeping in mind that little thing you called subjectivity. A 1974 Monaco, especially in a police uniform, to me, is QUITE the beautiful car. Now, you could vomit all you want with that statement, you cannot be judge, jury and executioner to tell me that a 1974 Monaco is not beautiful. Is what it is.

Your wish is my command. 'xcept imma do it in here instead. 1986 RWD (non muscle) Personal Coupes. Why...cant these be loved?

Thanks for pointing that out. When the switch to BEs will commence, I wonder if all the people involved in pushing out ICEVs thought about EV weight? In Quebec, our politicians KNOW and REALIZE that 18 wheelers, especially OVERweight 18 wheelers cause our highways to be shyte, I wonder if these same guys are aware that EVs are ridiculously OVERweight... I dont think the politicians pushing for EVs are aware that our roads are gonna be destroyed much much sooner than planned... 84 hundred pounds... SHYTE!!!

oh-kay The (mostly) economical, fun to drive and fun to be seen in, sporty coupes of the mid '80s (that I posted) are an appreciation of cars that are not offered anymore by any of the OEMs of today. There are virtually no offerings of these kinds of vehicles. It be cool if OEMs offered 2 door coupes of their CUVs, but (sadly?) OEMs and the public dont want anything to do with that kind of vehicle. The songs that I posted are an ode to these long forgotten cars. In your case, long and forgotten maybe a good thing? But in my case, I miss seeing these on the roads even if they didnt set any car designs on fire. But they were fun little cars. Maybe if OEMs took their time to design fun elements in their CUVs today, including having 2 doors, I wouldnt be lamenting on the loss of these... Because I certainly didnt like these when these were new. Except for the Toyota Supra. I liked that one. EDIT PS: Some OEMs HAVE tried to bring back fun and funky styling in the last decade to small cars and CUVs, but the public largely ignored them. I seen a Crown Vic a few weeks ago. Although it hasnt been that long since it cease to exist, I miss it already. The cop cars are an appreciation of that Crown Vic and how it lived its life during its final days. These cop cars happen to be my favorite cop cars. It is an appreciation thread after all. Beautiful could mean MANY things. It was a beautiful time, the 1980s. Car design may have been at some of the lowest in history, hence the term malaise era (among other things) , but at least (American) pop culture was at its peak and when we were living in it at the time, we had a BLAST indulging at ALL the things the 1980s gave us! Hence those posts.

I see Greeks in Greece do that exact same kind of parking! I think Europeans in general park with such liberties as their roads for the most part are tight. They gotta maximize all the real estate they have whether its for parking or for letting other cars use the damned road way.

I agree one thousand and one percent! Especially with those mags. Chromed of course!

Maureeece

That got me thinking. Why would these two have the same jingle? So I googled. It turns out that an even LARGER and OLDER windshield replace shop bought out Safelite in 2007. Belron. A United Kingdom headquartered company founded in Cape Town, South Africa in 1897. And guess what? Speedy Glass was also acquired by Belron. Lebeau being the Quebec version. Belron operates in 32 countries acquiring glass repair shops in those countries. Safelite was founded in 1947 in Ohio Speedy Glass was founded in 1949 in Ontario I believe. Lebeau Vitres D'Autos of Quebec was founded in 1947. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safelite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belron