As a counterpart to the thread for pretty race cars, let's have one to celebrate the ugliest.
This LeMans Cadillac thing:
The Superchicken hillclimb car:
As a counterpart to the thread for pretty race cars, let's have one to celebrate the ugliest.
This LeMans Cadillac thing:
The Superchicken hillclimb car:
Any kit car made on a VW tub? Where is that "GT40" someone linked recently lol
The Ram chargers The High & The Mighty. I know everything done had a purpose to maximize performance of the primitive drag racing parts of the day, but damn is that a goofy looking car.
This car immediately sprang to mind:
This car gets a lot of heat, and it is goofy looking, but I appreciate the extremely functional design of it. They made the best nose aero design they could with F1's rules at the time and they didn't care how it looked, as if to make a statement:
The Mosler Raptor was clearly meant to be enjoyed from the driver's seat, so approach it backwards:
The proportions are way off, the windshield is too upright, the wheels are mis-matched, the flares are chunky, the tail is ridiculous...it SHOULD be ugly right?
Daytona Prototypes when they had the huge greenhouse
F1 has had some howlers inthe form over function, although in most of these cases function was for doodoo as well.
Ol yeller wasn't much of a looker.
Probably low hanging fruit but here's what I thought of.
Oh man, I need to find a pic of Version 1.0 of our team's Formula Hybrid car from college. That POS would end this thread immediately 
. I'll see if I can dig one up tonight.
no deltawing yet from anyone? wow.
In reply to fidelity101 :
I'm gonna have to disagree with that one. It's beautiful in form and function. And you have to respect an engineer that's willing to throw out the rulebook and design from first principles.
I’m gonna need ibuprofen after this thread...
I disagree on the deltawing too. There is not an extraneous line on the car. Everything is there for a reason and done in a relatively pretty fashion.
Presenting "The Bug," widely credited for being the first dragster. An old Ford with pretty much everything not needed to get it across the finish line removed.
In reply to Rusnak_322 :
Agree; ugliest cars of the modern era. Yeesh.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ said:As a counterpart to the thread for pretty race cars, let's have one to celebrate the ugliest.
This LeMans Cadillac thing:
Only if you mean AWESOMEST. C'mon. That thing is super rad. The history of it makes it just incredible.
In reply to dculberson :
I mean awesome for just about everything in this thread- they don't have to be concours winners to be cool as hell!
Another plus for Deltawing. Nothing that cool could be ugly.
Delta wing is ugly, doesn't mean it isn't functional, well engineered, ground breaking or cool. Still ugly.
But beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Adam
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