Classy or unclassy?

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 03/06/2015 at 16:13 • Filed to: None

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I'd go with classy, myself.

My citroen won't start > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/06/2015 at 16:16

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For me it's messy.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/06/2015 at 16:16

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Never liked the look.. but a Classic for sure.

TheHondaBro > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/06/2015 at 16:17

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Class, it lacks.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheHondaBro 03/06/2015 at 16:18

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I'll admit '67 on Marlins look preposterous, but '66 and earlier look rather nice, IMHO.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > My citroen won't start 03/06/2015 at 16:22

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I think the whole is less than the sum of its parts - a tapered pillarless fastback with pseudo-fins, Lincolnesque slab elements and a streamliner nose should look a bit better than it does. But, that's AMC for you. It's still at least somewhat stately.

JR1 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/06/2015 at 16:25

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Sporty

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/06/2015 at 16:47

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I like it from that angle, and I think the coloring helps, but I've always had a problem with that roofline. It just looks like an afterthough, giving it a sort of hunchback proportion.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 03/06/2015 at 16:53

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I wonder if a different shape to the rear window would help? I think that, a slight tweak to the roof profile (about 1" to about where the window top is) and a little more rounding off of the "nose" on the rear deck would have softened the sharp contrast between curves and straight lines enough to make it look really good.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/06/2015 at 17:21

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That would certainly help. I think they carried the standard sedan roofline too far back, when it should have started tapering down at the B-pillar. The rounded 1/4 windows are a bit incongruous as well.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 03/06/2015 at 17:32

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The initial concept (the Tarpon) was all square and didn't play around with roundness. An early plan drawing had the quarter windows as triangles. I like the way the quarter windows look, but they're incongruous with *some* of their surroundings - I think it's actually easier to fix the surroundings than fix the windows, because the window line and buttress standing alone (absent a tweak to the top), ring true, as they say. The buttress and windows, the slab side, and some of the other elements all work, but they converge somewhat unevenly to a point where they don't match up right. With a little more bulge and a little more well-blended roundness, it would evoke rather than emasculate the sense of the 40s fastbacks.

It's an attempt to do this with square mid-60s styling, and misses the mark, but only just. It's possible to fix.

472CID > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/06/2015 at 17:34

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The Marlin, as a model, is neutral not especially classy or unclassy.

Shift24 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/06/2015 at 17:56

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Looks like the dulled version of the original charger

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/06/2015 at 18:23

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I agree. The windows are lovely in and of themselves, almost like they wanted to copy the E-Type, but the surrounding bodywork and rear window shape & size lets the form down. The low rear fender line doesn't help it, to my eye. I'd love to see one reinterpreted in the metal by a good custom house, or at least a rendering.

In any case, this is my benchmark for big 60's fastbacks:

TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/07/2015 at 00:30

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I don't think it's classy, but it's certainly one of my favourites.