10 of the Most Gorgeous Vintage Cars
Posted by By Justin at 30 September, at 09 : 19 AM Print
You’ve heard the saying, and probably even said it yourself — “They sure don’t make ‘em like they used to!” That saying is likely never truer than with good old fashioned automobiles. Car aficionados the world over take great pleasure in finding, collecting, and restoring the classics.
Let’s take a stroll down memory lane and look at some of the finest classic automobiles of all time!
1967 Shelby Mustang Eleanor GT500
1957 Chevy Bel Air
1968 Corvette Stingray
Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato
1961 Ferrari 250 Lusso Competizione
1961 Jaguar E-Type
1961 Ferrari 250 GT Spyder
Citröen DS
1957 Porche 356a Speedster
1957 Chevy Pickup
I find it particularly interesting that certain years produced the best automobiles across continental and corporate divides. For instance, in 1957 most of the cars were gorgeous. In 1961, the same thing happened again, with American, Italian, and German cars all exhibiting the same beautiful traits.
When you look back at the great cars of the past, it really hits you just how sad and pathetic the state of modern automobile design really is. Back then, our parents and grandparents bought gorgeously designed, all-metal cars with solid frames, strong engines, and luxuriously designed all-leather interiors for less money than we spend on a computer today. Now, we’re somehow expected to pony up upwards of 20 or 30 thousand dollars for a piece of ugly junk from Asia with a cheap vinyl and plastic interior, an ugly plastic body, a weak frame, and a pathetic engine. It’s downright insulting!
For those of us with taste in cars, there are still some companies producing great cars, but these companies are increasingly fewer and farther between. We have two choices as a generation — produce better cars, or be consigned to buying old ones if we want quality. I think the choice is obvious. Don’t you?
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Mark Martin, 1 year ago
Let’s assume 5% rate of inflation, compounded annually. 1961 was 50 years ago. 1.05 raised to the 50th-power is a factor of about 11.47. $30,000/11.47 ~ $2,616. A couple of thousand dollars is in the ballpark of what new cars were going for in the 1960s. I paid about $1,000 for a new laptop computer one year ago. 1.05^49 ~ 10.92. $1,000 today has buying power equivalent to about $92 in 1961.
So, no, our parents and grandparents absolutely did NOT pay less for their new cars than we pay now for computers.
Uncle B, 1 year ago
please post photos of some of my favorites: Oldsmobile’s, Packard’s, Hudson’s, Desoto, Pontiac’s, Nash, Mercury’s, Kaiser’s, Monarch! post some spec’s too! Older fellows tend to forget how really low power, huge cube, lower compression high torque engines even sounded! How bout some sound tracks of the older engines, like the Lincoln V-12, or the older Cadillac engines, A Pontiac straight eight would be nice to hear again! Even the famous Ford that couldn’t breath right, the flat head eight with Lakes pipes would be nice to hear again. Massive “lumpy’s”, no photos left? engines available for them? sounds?
Michael, 1 year ago
I don’t think the truck should have been included since it is so stupidly modified.
Robbie, 1 year ago
yeah same goes for the porsche 356. those wheels belong on a pimpmobile haha
Digitalscot, 1 year ago
That is most likely a 1971 Jaguar not a 1961. They didn’t have the grill in 1961 and the later models had a longer wheel base. It also doesn’t have the glass over the headlights and the windscreen is more upright than the series 1 – get your facts right!
Shuttur, 1 year ago
Im a huge fan of the Ferrari
Jos, 1 year ago
Where is the Ford GT40 in this list ? The roaring GT is gorgeous and vintage ….
Majik, 1 year ago
Surely with the large grill and the bonnet hump, the E Type is a late 70′s V12
money does not buy you class, 1 year ago
Remove the fake ass 356 kit car speedster with the gay wide body kid and please put a proper 356B non modified roadster.
Zeynep, 1 year ago
Porche? Really?
Kai, 1 year ago
The Elenor mustang is just body kit that was created for the 1974 movie gone in 60 seconds in which a 1973 mustang was used. The picture you have is from the 2000 remake of the movie, so that car is from 2000 even though the base car is a 67 hardly “vinage”.
toby, 1 year ago
cars in say 1960 cost around $2000. In today’s money that is around $19,000. So no not cheaper than a laptop. Around the same as a car these days, maybe a little cheaper.
Bucco, 1 year ago
The Shelby GT is not a ‘Shelby GT Eleanor’. The name Eleanor came from a stupid movie, it was not the original name for the car. Shelby did give a license to make an ‘Eleanor’ version based on the movie in the mid 2000′s, the picture you have for the Mustang is one of those cars, not a 1967 Shelby.
Do some research before you post stuff like this, you’ll look a lot smarter.
Who let you make this list?, 1 year ago
Half the cars on this list aren’t even ‘vintage’ steel…
The ‘Elanor’ Cobra is heavily modified, same goes for the ’57 chevy step side and the Porsche 356.
all three of these cars in stock trim would’ve been acceptable.
I’m pretty sure the vast majority of anyone with functioning vision would agree when I say the 63 Stingray is far and away a better looking car than the ’68. the 68 is the second ugliest vette behind the C4s of the 80s (the only thing making the C4 a less attractive vehicle was ‘crossfire injection’ and the Doug Nash 4+3 grenade.
you missed the year of the Jaguar by an entire Decade…
Speaking of Jaguar… I find it laughable you try and compare a car from today to any of these cars you listed. you think any of these cars would be more reliable than a ” 20 or 30 thousand dollars for a piece of ugly junk from Asia with a cheap vinyl and plastic interior, an ugly plastic body, a weak frame, and a pathetic engine.”
you do realize your average 25,000 base import car is way safer with it’s integrated crumple zones, unibody frames, small displacement engines that make the same if not more power, more comfortably designed (you can still get leather) interiors for comparatively the same if not less money now than you would pay 30-40 or even 50 years ago?
you realize to be able to make one of your touted ‘all-metal’ cars with body on frame construction even come close to keeping up with today’s cars in terms of handling, power, safety, comfort and functionality would probably cost you another 20 Gs on top of whatever you shell out for it?
clearly you’ve never daily driven an older vehicle. especially anything italian, german or british.
they’re tempermental, cramped, not very safe in accidents and not really all that fast compared to what you can get today.
it really seems like you wrote this article in 1985 and then waited 25 years to publish it.
80s cars were shit.
Canada Goose Parkas, 1 year ago
the 1957 Chevy Bel Air is quite cool