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Older car styling

Fruit of Loin #2 is much enamoured of the Corvette C3, mostly in blue. Can’t say I disagree with her:

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For me, that’s the best, well that and the e type.
 
Oh yes the Stag, very pretty car and a shame to mention it without a piccy...

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There was the slightly similar Fiat 124 as well...

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Why did old Italian cars have RHD when the Italians never drove on the left?
Lancia were a Turin company, so at the foot of the Piedmontese Hills and at the Alps end of the country. They always used to prefer to build their cars with right-hand drive so that the driver was on the "drop" side of the car (and so able to judge the distance from the edge of the road better) when driving on narrow mountain roads. I don't know about the other, more southerly, manufacturers. Could be the same reason, I suppose. Another possibility is that it might have become a bit of a fashion. Back then, Lancia was regarded as the aristocrat of the Italian motor industry, and widely considered to be more sophisticated and technically capable than their rivals. It could have been an attempt to steal some of that glamour.
ML
 
Lancia were a Turin company, so at the foot of the Piedmontese Hills and at the Alps end of the country. They always used to prefer to build their cars with right-hand drive so that the driver was on the "drop" side of the car (and so able to judge the distance from the edge of the road better) when driving on narrow mountain roads. I don't know about the other, more southerly, manufacturers. Could be the same reason, I suppose. Another possibility is that it might have become a bit of a fashion. Back then, Lancia was regarded as the aristocrat of the Italian motor industry, and widely considered to be more sophisticated and technically capable than their rivals. It could have been an attempt to steal some of that glamour.
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Part of that is correct. Some drivers preferred to be on the "drop" side and so ordered their cars with RHD. In fact until the late '60s most Italian lorries had RHD, for the same reason. Up until Lancia was taken over by FIAT, I think around 1970, you could still order your car with RHD, (and on some models a "long" or "short" differential!) and a few traditionalists or maybe snobs did. My wife's uncle still drove a RHD Fulvia coupe' in the late '70s, he had inherited it from his father.
But in Italy driving on the right only became official in the late '20s. Before that each city had its local rule, or custom, and outside the towns it was a bit of a free-for-all. In any case there were so few cars it did not really matter. The only big car factories were in the north, Turin and Milan, both near mountains as you say, but the rest of Italy is also full of hills and mountains and twisting coastal roads, so I don't think that was the reason, since they supplied the whole country as well as exporting everywhere.
 
Not sure if this counts as 'old' but the 996 Porsche is growing on me...even the front lights. Especially the GT3 (Which aren't actually insane money ATM).
Recent Porsche GT's have gone a bit mental IMO

Love the rear end stance on the old GT3...simple panel lines intersecting

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Here's a newer rear end...different but not sure if it's better?
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996 for me - 991 has too much going on IMO. 996 values have probably gone a fair bit since this was posted though especially the GT3..
 
996 for me - 991 has too much going on IMO. 996 values have probably gone a fair bit since this was posted though especially the GT3..
Two on Autotrader at £70k, one at nearly £90k. I bet the usual specialists have some at crazy prices. I’ll take a nervous peek.
 
Probably around the mid 40s - maybe more. Was it a C2S?

At a Porsche dealer? No way. Top 40s more likely mid-50s.

I had me pennies all put aside for one from a main dealer and now the prices have gone mental. Seems I'll have to address my mid-life crisis with a different marque.:(
 
Just out of curiosity, since many here seem informed of Porsche prices, what would an unrestored 1987 Carrera coupe', 220,000 km, the odd scratch, signs of wear, sunroof, full leather, be worth?
 
I did very nicely trading in my 991.1 C4S that I'd had for ten months for my current ex-demo BMW 540i Touring. It was novel having the dealer actually pay me when getting a new car! Which, incidentally, they did very promptly indeed. At the same time I also sold my Macan back to the dealer who I originally bought it from a couple of years ago, & did nicely out of that too. A good time to sell, not to buy.
 
At a Porsche dealer? No way. Top 40s more likely mid-50s.

I had me pennies all put aside for one from a main dealer and now the prices have gone mental. Seems I'll have to address my mid-life crisis with a different marque.:(

Ah, that's a bummer. What about a well looked after Gen 1?
 
As an antidote to the stream of not-very-old Porsches, any excuse to repost a picture of the best-looking car ever...

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Amongst newer cars I do have a soft spot for the Nissan S-Cargo though.
 


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