Pick your Poison/Drug (Round 3)

"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390) 06/27/2017 at 13:06 • Filed to: PyP

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I know there’s three cars in the picture, your choices are the two in front: The Lamborghini Espada, and the Ferrari 365 GT4 2+2 for a euphoric tour of America (not counting Alaska and Hawaii). Which will you take?

The answer for me is obvious:

I’ll take the weird Lambo with the aircraft cockpit.

CB > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 06/27/2017 at 13:13

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Lamborghini is the only logical answer. A road trip in it would be rad.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 06/27/2017 at 13:22

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I actually like *some of* the looks of the Fezzer more, but the Lamborghini looks more *fun*, visually speaking, and it also seems like it would schlep cross-country trip supplies better and be more comfortable. No-brainer.

Milky > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 06/27/2017 at 13:24

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Neither are pointy enough.

Maserati Khamsin

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 06/27/2017 at 13:30

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I’ll take the Ferrari because the glass doesn’t shatter when you close the door.

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 06/27/2017 at 13:39

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The Espada, it has fixed head lights.

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 06/27/2017 at 13:39

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The Espada, it has fixed head lights.

Die-Trying > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 06/27/2017 at 13:40

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because the options given are too reliable......

alfa romeo montreal......

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 06/27/2017 at 13:42

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I’ll take the Espada. Preferably in green.

RT > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 06/27/2017 at 13:43

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V12 Lambo Grand Tourer all the way… but maybe this one instead.

Lamborghini Jarama.

diplodicus > Die-Trying 06/27/2017 at 13:44

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I’ve never seen one of those with that body kit.

random001 > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 06/27/2017 at 13:46

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What is that Mustang Mach 1 doing in there?

0pihl > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 06/27/2017 at 13:53

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I’ve driven an Espada and the 365's successor 365GTC and I’ll take the Lambo.

Die-Trying > diplodicus 06/27/2017 at 13:55

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gt ........ group4.........

Steve in Manhattan > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 06/27/2017 at 16:00

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The Ferrari, please, but I want it followed by a tow truck.

AuthiCooper1300 > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 06/27/2017 at 16:06

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Actually I quite like the GT4 2+2, but compared with the Espada... there is no contest. Of course the Espada is more than anything an evolution of the Bertone-Jaguar Pirana one-off, but it also reminds me of the fabulous Marzal (all three by Gandini while at Bertone).

Sheer drama. Another unashamedly 60s car whose significance goes well beyond that of the car per se.

AuthiCooper1300 > 0pihl 06/27/2017 at 16:09

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Great! Care to elaborate?

AuthiCooper1300 > Die-Trying 06/27/2017 at 16:13

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Excellent choice, although I don’t particularly like the front dam.

Who cares if it is unrealiable? That car is simply a gorgeous sculpture.

Of course, Gandini again.

AuthiCooper1300 > RT 06/27/2017 at 16:16

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I quite like the Jarama “as is”, but after reading a feature on the restoration of Wallace’s personal one (Arancio Corsa + satin black bonnet, with quite a few improvements by the man himself) the standard one just doesn’t seem to be quite enough.

arl > RT 06/27/2017 at 16:17

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Gorgeous. I don’t think the wheels in that picture are original, but they’re very cool. Here’s one for sale for a cool $185k.

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/lamborghini/jarama/1972/433430

Die-Trying > AuthiCooper1300 06/27/2017 at 16:30

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chin spoilers used to be a bit of a thing.......

CaptDale - is secretly British > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 06/27/2017 at 16:39

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Those are much too reliable. I would have a

1987 Aston Martin V8 Vantage X-Pack

Perfect GT car with 403 hp

AuthiCooper1300 > Die-Trying 06/27/2017 at 16:41

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... and I have never really liked them, particularly when they are so big as in the Bobcor Montreal. But that can be forgiven, because it is a Montreal and that is enough.

Thanks for your correction. You are right - in this case it is a spoiler and not a dam, I should have known better.

(By the way, that 3 litre in the Bobcor Montreal was also used in the more or less stillborn Alfetta GT V8, also called La Bomba for reasons more than obvious. It seems the bigger engine version had been developed specifically for speedboats.)

AuthiCooper1300 > CaptDale - is secretly British 06/27/2017 at 16:56

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But the aesthetics are impossible, way too brutish.

The earlier DBS with Marek’s inline six was so much easier on the eye.

CaptDale - is secretly British > AuthiCooper1300 06/27/2017 at 17:20

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I think these have a perfect aesthetic. Just the right mix of elegant curves and strong muscles. I think it is one of their best designs.

I mean look at the car!

But then you are talking to someone who believes the Vantage V600 Le Mans is also one of their best designs and I will own one someday

oh la la!

AuthiCooper1300 > CaptDale - is secretly British 06/27/2017 at 17:30

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I still think that going from the four-headlamps grille to the “two + two” one made Town’s original design less graceful. Then they even put spats on it!

Have a look here at the early version:

http://www.simoncars.co.uk/aston/dbs.html

However, that is a personal opinion, so we can perfectly agree to disagree.

I still remember when people joked that the late 80s-90s Virage/Vantage series was a plus-size Calibra though...

Edited: *grile. Ouch.
Also there is one “still” too many, but that’s life.

CaptDale - is secretly British > AuthiCooper1300 06/27/2017 at 17:41

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Yeah I never cares for the 2 by 2 lamps on most cars for some reason. Plus there was always something off looking about the DBS. I think it may be the Barracuda type rear end with the oddly swooping down hood.

But yes, these are opinions.