The Opposite Locker - Wayback Wednesdays

"Tim (Fractal Footwork)" (fractalfootwork)
09/04/2013 at 12:30 • Filed to: Wayback Wednesdays, The Opposite Locker, Amber Heard, DeLorean, DMC-12, 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.

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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

Cool

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Uncool

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New Kid On The Block

It may have had some relativity issues when the speedometer went past 88 mph, yet the DeLorean seemed to capture our heats with its un-supercar-like performance, body work molded from your mother's refrigerator, and inefficient-in-real-life-scenarios gull wing doors.

DeLorean DMC-12

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DISCUSSION (15)

ddavidn > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/04/2013 at 12:32

Frigid. And not just because time machine.

Decay buys too many beaters > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/04/2013 at 12:34

It's a time machine with a stainless steel body and gull wing doors

It was frigid when it came out, it's still frigid today.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/04/2013 at 12:36

It's really come full circle. If you bought one of these when they were new, you were a dumbass. It's heavy, slow, unreliable, etc, etc... But if you're driving one around now, you're a true Jalop.

phenotyp > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/04/2013 at 12:36

Frigid is the only acceptable answer, here. You know it, I know, and the American people know it.

StoneCold > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/04/2013 at 12:39

'64* - No one will be impressed that you showed up to the party in your mother's 4 banger Mustang. Uncool.

Four banger? WHAT?!

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

So close to A MILLION people in '64-'66 thought these were uncool and bought them anyway?

Party-vi > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/04/2013 at 12:40

Er, the '64/65/60-anything mustangs didn't have 4-bangers. It was a straight-6 or V8s.

Also, the DMC-12 was cool in theory but sucked in practical application. I have difficulty thinking of a worse example of an awesome car being saddled with such a turd of an engine, unless every single beetle-based kit car counts.

Sparf > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/04/2013 at 12:41

Definitely Cool, but I'm not too sure about frigid. It's got a bit too much in common stylistically with cars from the same period that I'd vote uncool or square on.

Also, as unique and interesting the stainless steel finish is, I'm not a big fan of silver, gray or white cars.

Tim (Fractal Footwork) > Party-vi
09/04/2013 at 13:24

I think you may need to revoke my Jalop-Card...

Party-vi > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/04/2013 at 13:27

If it makes you feel better the Mustang II and Fox Body all came with 4-bangers :D

Corson Currently Coupein' It > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/04/2013 at 16:09

4 banger first gen mustang?? Hearsay!

While I vastly prefer my 67 mustang over the first gen ones, I gotta say I think according to your criteria, the mustang should definitely be a cool car.

Bandit > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/04/2013 at 20:20

Cool, I didn't live during that time, but I can imagine the stainless steel body was pretty damn cool back in the day (and still is).

Oh, some day you should do a '78 or '77 Trans Am. The 1977 redesign was so popular they didn't change it too much for 1978, and in 1979 they sold over 100,000 cars. (I may be biased)

William Byrd > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/04/2013 at 20:25

Geek cool.

webmonkees > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/04/2013 at 20:49

Frigid, even though the time dispersion field formed ice on the car only once, during Einstein's test, An issue apparently Doc instantly fixed since it never freezes over again.

But really, if you're going to build a time machine, use a Jeep. go back all the way to the 40's without attracting much attention.

yes, I have thought about that movie a bit much.

Remarkably-Average-Avalon > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
09/05/2013 at 00:48

So square. This car is considered cool only by people who don't know cars. People who know about cars know what a piece the DeLorean was.

It's really just like that actor that had a bit part in a big movie and has been eating dinner off of it for the last few decades. The DeLorean is the automotive version of "Hey, you're that guy from..."

The DeLorean isn't even the coolest car in Back to the Future anyway. The Hilux is so frigid it isn't even funny.

Goshen, formerly Darkcode > StoneCold
09/05/2013 at 05:35

Sorta makes sense if you're a hipster.