Can't go wrong with an early 2nd gen F-body.

I love a flat-back MACh1.

Cougar Convertible? Not as stunning as the originals and this generation didn't fully embrace the grotesque oversized awesomeness of the ones that followed but I'd rock a 'Vert.

I put forward the Pantera as the coolest of '72 below but other cars from my birth year I'd like to have include the Pontiac Gran Prix - I have a thing for personal luxury coupes and the GP has the longest hood of all time which means it wins.

After literally tens of seconds of consideration, I have arrived at the De Tomaso Pantera to represent 1972 on my behalf.

It's a De Dion suspension - Alfa seems to have been fond of it but others have used it too, including a number of sports cars makers through the years, like Ferrari and Aston Martin. It reduces unsprung weight a good bit over a live axle which helps handling and ride and it had some real advantages over some…

It does have a certain late 70's~early 80's flavor to it which is pretty good for being a decade out.

This is not helping to quell my desire for a V8 powered 700 series at all. Jerks.

It died doing what it loved.

Ooof, that puts that Virage chimera to shame. Yummy.

Manual vs. Auto holy war aside...

I imagine a normal V8 Falcon is more reasonable though.

I liked it better when it was a '94 Town Car.

Where's all the "SRA FTL" posts? I'm disappointed.

I think the Buicks are my favorite incarnation of the classic '55-'57 GM shell but that is a beauty too.

Oopsa, meesa sorry.

Yup, Charger. Civilian or law enforcement.

It is taking all my strength not to hitchhike I-20 over to Atlanta and bring this back home.

I actually think the Mustang could really use a 4 cylinder entry level motor, the 300HP V6 upsets the classic ponycar formula by making the base model's performance too high. The base model ponies have always sold on the image of their V8 siblings, who in turn were supported by the volume of the base models.

That's pretty bad but then it depends on whether a V8 equipped truck driven the same way in the same conditions gets even less than that, the same or more.