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A friend of mine was a designer at Tesla for many years. About a year before the Cybertruck was debuted, he left the company. The night of the livestream CT unveiling, and after I was finished laughing my ass off, I asked him if that was why he finally left Tesla. He gave me a non-response that said to me it had

1954 Maserati A6GCS Berlinetta

Citroen DS. Sex on wheels, novel engineering, cool as fuck, and in the States they are unusual as fuck.

I’ll give the cliché boomer answer. Tri-Fives sold by the millions for a reason. They perfectly reflected the American 1950's of postwar optimism, everyman achievability, rock and roll, powerful V8, style, comfort, yaddah yaddah yaddah. It’s like the example when it comes to the whole Americana marketing schtick.

Come on now...

Rich people really will buy anything to avoid giving money to the poor. 

I’m pretty sure I can buy a Ferrari Mondial for less than $1.9M... 😁

Ship of Theseus

There... fixed it for you.

That’s amazing. The antisemitism in 1:9 scale is remarkable.

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There are too many, I can’t choose!

Sweet, that’s an 80s-tastic Mustang! Good luck on your resto!

Jeez, there’s a lot of haters here. It’s 4/20, man. Mellow out, pop a gummy, and look at those sweet basketweave BBS wheels, soak in fender flares, and think about twisting up the boost controller while the negativity melts away, man. 

A couple things in the article are incorrect, but most is accurate. Example, only the #1 car had steel bodywork, the rest were fiberglass. There were also an even smaller number of V8 versions made later either as promo cars for Ford, or Dealer Special Order versions like mine below. They were dubbed the “Mustang GT

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Totally missed the guy who started it all HB Halicki

Not just missing HB Halicki, also Hal Needham should totally be on this list!

How is HB Halicki of Gone in 60 seconds Fame not on this list? 

At least it wasn’t a fake Merak SS