The Opposite Locker - WayBack Wednesdays

"Tim (Fractal Footwork)" (fractalfootwork)
11/06/2013 at 20:42 • Filed to: The Opposite Locker, WayBack Wednesdays, Amber Heard, Porsche 959, Ferrari F40, OppositeLock

This is The Opposite Locker - Wayback Wednesdays where we try and sort out the cool from the square. This is a discussion system detailing how cool an older car was, not how fast, fun, or frivolous it may have been, but how well it looks in the cat's pajamas. But, you may be asking, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

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Wayback Wednesdays are like the normal !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , save for the advanced age of the cars on the block. For this series of posts, try and perceive the vehicle as if you were living in the time period of the car's release, and then base your vote upon its coolness, taking into consideration the evolution of culture.

Locker Space

Fly as Hell

Porsche 550

BMW M1

Mercedes-Benz 300SL

Cool

Chevrolet Camaro'67

Dodge Charger '68

DeLorean DMC-12

Nizzan 300ZX

Ferrari 575M Superamerica

Uncool

Ford Mustang'64*

New Kids On The Block

The 80s rivalry continues... The 959 was the tech car utilizing computers and systems to achieve its unheard speed that would most certainly appease the Bill Gates of the world (and did), while the F40 was the turbocharged leviathan that planned to rip your head off with unseen performance and a the lust Ferrari hadn't made since Lamborghini showed up. Did the 959's overcomplicated geekiness and puff-the-magic-dragon-wouldn't-even-smoke-this styling keep it from the Breakfast Club, and did the F40's age old ethos of attaining performance and its bare-minimum interior stop it from being the car that brought you back to those 16 candles?

Porsche 959

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Ferrari F40

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DISCUSSION (11)

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
11/06/2013 at 12:35

A '64 Mustang is uncool? Why the *?

Goshen, formerly Darkcode > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
11/06/2013 at 12:39

Because in 1964, everyone and their grandmother owned those I suppose.
Also, and note that this is my personal opinion shared with nobody, the design had its rough edges and powertrain/chassis was nothing special.

For Sweden > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
11/06/2013 at 12:49

Neither are particularly pretty.

Tim (Fractal Footwork) > For Sweden
11/06/2013 at 12:51

...but are they cool?

people keep getting cool, pretty, and fast mixed up on here. I'm not accusing you of anything, I just think the majority of voters here need to actually ask the 'cool' question instead of just voting for what they like/would have.

Hoccy > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
11/06/2013 at 12:57

Both are fly as hell. Everything even remotely related to Group B is.

04sneaky - Boxers. Blowers. Bikes. And bitches. > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
11/06/2013 at 13:16

Did we both just watch the same Top Gear episode?

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McLarry > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
11/06/2013 at 13:27

In my mind both are as cool as they come... In a way perhaps the 959 is even cooler because most plebeians will just think it's an old 911.

Also I appreciate your apparent affinity for Amber Heard.

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > Goshen, formerly Darkcode
11/06/2013 at 21:50

Pretty much. One of the older issues of Car & Driver I have, from late 1967 or late 68, if I remember correctly, places Mustangs on the very bottom of the street respect ladder, owned only by secretaries and high school kids. To be honest, though, I think most smaller engine pony cars shared that position, plus Buicks. In the middle were most of the intermediate sized big block cars, that is, the more traditional Muscle Cars from each company, plus small block vettes, while the top rung was occupied by Mopars, Big Block vettes, 396 Novas and the mythical Z/28 Camaros, as well as the rare european exotics that actually went street racing.

Not really relevant to the topic at hand, I guess, but I always thought it was some cool insight into car culture of 40/50 years ago. :p

Goshen, formerly Darkcode > BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
11/07/2013 at 15:16

It's not only cool, also necessary, otherwise people won't understand that the rules of the twenty-first century weren't the rules of the twentieth century.
Props for managing to own car magazines from the '60s. The oldest rags I have are L'Automobile year catalogues from the mid '90s.

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > Goshen, formerly Darkcode
11/07/2013 at 16:47

Haha, most of those issues I got from my father and grandfather so it's not like I was there. All of the american magazines were my grandfather's, he stayed in Canada for a while on two or three occasions and bought them there, which is odd because he couldn't speak a lot of English. At least that I know of. He wouldn't give me any details about his time in the US/Canada, only that he worked for Wernher von Braun and was damn proud of it.

Goshen, formerly Darkcode > BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
11/08/2013 at 09:35

Pretty cool, I'd be damn proud of that as well! Well, the pre-2002 magazines I own were all (and I mean all) found on the attics of people my father worked for. He generally came there, noticed any piece of hardware/tooling he wanted, asked what that was and they generally answered "oh, it's just some rubbish".