Best Looking Grand Prix Car

COOPERMAN · 1 Mar 2003, 21:56 (Ref:521705)

I've just finished watching my american import of the film
Grand Prix and i've been motivated to have a poll of peoples opinions of which grand prix car in there eyes was the most attractive, it did'nt have to be sucsessful or anything just beautiful to look at or listen to.... mine would be 1). 1967 Ferrari 312.... need i say more apart from the eagle weslake was nearly as nice to look at!

dretceterini · 1 Mar 2003, 23:21 (Ref:521803)

I love the D50 Lancia (before it became the Lancia-Ferrari) and the Mercedes W196 streamlined GP car. I also like most of the GP cars of the 1930s. The Lotus 25 and the Ferrari sharknose are my favorites from the 60s. I like the Arrows A2 because it is simply weird.

ensign14 · 1 Mar 2003, 23:28 (Ref:521808)

Scarab. You can't go wrong with royal blue & white.

Lee Janotta · 1 Mar 2003, 23:30 (Ref:521811)

Eagle-Weslake.

ss_collins · 2 Mar 2003, 01:19 (Ref:521947)

Eagle-Weslake

TimD · 2 Mar 2003, 01:33 (Ref:521968)

There are so many....

Mercedes Benz W125

Vanwall VW10

Maserati 250F

Sad to say, after wings started appearing on the cars, designers have never really been able to make designs work on an aesthetic level as well as a functional one.

Andrew Kitson · 2 Mar 2003, 08:55 (Ref:522142)

My all time favourites are the 250F, the Lotus 33 from 1965, The Amon Ferrari from 1967 and the Mario/Ronnie JPS Lotus 79 from the '78 season.

gfm · 2 Mar 2003, 09:20 (Ref:522162)

I once asked a pre-war GP Alfa Romeo to marry me, it was so beautiful ... although I was having to turn my back on some Bugattis. (It turned me down.)

bcobbus · 3 Mar 2003, 03:12 (Ref:523109)

Call me crazy but I happen to think the BRM P83 of 1966-67 was rather appealing. The car was a slug, but a pretty slug. The Lotus 49 was not all that bad either!

Nivola · 3 Mar 2003, 12:54 (Ref:523390)

I would go the Lotus 49 for what it is. Simplely beautiful.

but the 312 t/4 would be there on style(lack of it in some peoples minds.)

Mal · 3 Mar 2003, 20:37 (Ref:523779)

For me it is the Maserati 250F or the Shark Nose Ferrari - Both superb machines

D-Type · 3 Mar 2003, 23:36 (Ref:523975)

Must I choose just one?
Maserati 250F - Someone once wrote that if you asked a child to draw a racing car the result would be a 250F. I agree with him - it's just so "right"
The Eagle is just so beautiful - the colour and that beak!
Lotus 25 - Is it the car or the driver?
Lotus 72 - either the Gold Leaf or the JPS
Brabham BT52
Any of the West McLarens - say the MP4/13

It's got to be the 250F

dretceterini · 4 Mar 2003, 04:34 (Ref:524122)

I love the Maserati 250F, but given a choice between it and an Alfa 158/159, or an Auto Union, or pre-war Alfa or Mercedes....

krt917 · 4 Mar 2003, 11:17 (Ref:524330)

I always reckon it's difficult to differentiate between cars you like (perhaps due to a personal experience) and cars that are just great to look at. However, my list would probably include
Lotus 79 (in JPS or Martini liveries)
Scarab
Jordan 191 (an odd one I know, but I reckon the 7Up livery was great!)
Brabham BT46
Lotus 72
Mercedes-Benz W125

My Dad is in agreement with the Eagle people. No contest apparently (except from the Aston DBR4)

KA · 4 Mar 2003, 13:50 (Ref:524490)

Quote:

Originally posted by D-Type
Must I choose just one?
Maserati 250F - Someone once wrote that if you asked a child to draw a racing car the result would be a 250F. I agree with him - it's just so "right"
The Eagle is just so beautiful - the colour and that beak!
Lotus 25 - Is it the car or the driver?
Lotus 72 - either the Gold Leaf or the JPS
Brabham BT52
Any of the West McLarens - say the MP4/13

It's got to be the 250F

I'm not sure you CAN just choose one- everytime I try I come up with a different answer.....

Your list is pretty similar to mine- 250F, Eagle, Lotus 25 and 72- (72 has to be in JPS colours though- if only because it's one of the first F1 cars I remember....)

A few I'd definitely add to the list are the Lotus 49 (choose between Team Lotus green or Rob Walker blue- definitely NOT Gold Leaf though....), the original Jordan 191 or the streamlined Mercedes W196 from the 50's

paddy · 5 Mar 2003, 08:59 (Ref:525379)

Maserati 250f, Lotus 25, Lotus72 and 79. Colin Chapman was a genius, his cars were not only inovative, but fast and beautiful.

**Dani Filth** · 17 Mar 2003, 06:05 (Ref:538594)

Alfa 158/159 is one of the best looking one

Redlake27 · 17 Mar 2003, 08:34 (Ref:538667)

Lotus 79 in German GP spec with no tobacco advertising - beautifully simple

The original 1994 Ferrari was swoopy until half way through the year

davemorganfan · 18 Mar 2003, 10:29 (Ref:539949)

It hurts me to say this, as I don't subscribe to the Frerrari legend, but I do like the original 312B from 1970. And of course the Eagle Weslake. Wot a stunna.

verglas · 18 Mar 2003, 19:06 (Ref:540380)

The Eagle Weslake and how about a Brabham BT44B, the original Gordon Murray 'Triangulated' car - fantastic to look at..

Armco Bender · 21 Mar 2003, 03:51 (Ref:542733)

The '55 Kurtis Kraft was a looker,and yes it did run an F1 race.

ASCII Man · 21 Mar 2003, 09:30 (Ref:542883)

http://www.glink.net.hk/~alanw/pictures/87-mp43.jpg
McLaren MP4/2c
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http://www.legendsof67.free-online.c...Amon_spa_1.jpg
http://www.legendsof67.free-online.c...A300_wglen.jpg
http://www.legendsof67.free-online.c...Ickx_mza_2.jpg
http://www.legendsof67.free-online.c...s/france_1.jpg
Any of these
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http://www.markeysgallery.com/images/Dscf0075.jpg
Ferrari 312T4
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http://www.interq.or.jp/sun/mm-kas/h.../arrows-a2.jpg
A2 Arrows

gfm · 21 Mar 2003, 09:32 (Ref:542888)

Wow.

D-Type · 21 Mar 2003, 12:06 (Ref:543056)

Quote:

Originally posted by Armco Bender
The '55 Kurtis Kraft was a looker,and yes it did run an F1 race.

I've never heard of this before. Where did it run in a F1 race? The only Kurtis I can think of was at Sebring 1959, and it was a Kurtis Midget. Indianapolis may have been a Championship qualifier but it was not Formula 1.

DivineF1 · 23 Mar 2003, 10:13 (Ref:545084)

em.. em.. Bugatti Type35

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