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The 1972 Chrysler Cordoba was made to compete against the Chevrolet Monte Carlo, Pontiac Grand Prix, Ford Thunderbird and others which were part of the Personal Luxury Sedan category of the time and they had Ricardo Montalban as their spokesman. I have great memories of those commercials and the shows he was involved in like Fantasy Island. 

That was a pretty cool car for its day and Montalban was underrated as an actor at the time because of Fantasy Island.  But his motto was basically that if it paid, he would do it.

“Rich, Corinthian leather!”

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1955 Tatra JK 2500 Prototype

That one's appeal to me is almost all in the simplicity and the shape.  Very cool.   

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One of my favorite movies from the 80's was 1985's Back to the Future and one of its stars was a modified 1981 Delorean since the car company was a short-lived business, 1975 to 1982, and here it is parked at the National Mall in Washington D.C. in 2017.

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One of my favorite movies from the 80's was 1985's Back to the Future and one of its stars was a modified 1981 Delorean since the car company was a short-lived business, 1975 to 1982, and here it is parked at the National Mall in Washington D.C. in 2017.

We were watching the musical number from “Back To The Future: The Musical” during The Thanksgiving Day Parade when Charade mentions that the DeLorean that they had parked in from of Macy*s didn’t look right.  Sure enough, they don’t use a real DeLorean in the show, but had to create ones that fit on stage and did all sorts of cool things, including flying.

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1932 Auburn 8-100A Boattail Speedster

Gorgeous car

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Gorgeous car

Indeed it is, sir! 

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1932 Auburn 8-100A Boattail Speedster

Gorgeous car

One thing I really like about the cars of that era is how flamboyant they were and how, unlike most cars nowadays, they were not bland and had distinctive personalities. My $0.02. 

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1932 Auburn 8-100A Boattail Speedster

Gorgeous car

One thing I really like about the cars of that era is how flamboyant they were and how, unlike most cars nowadays, they were not bland and had distinctive personalities. My $0.02. 

An Auburn was an expensive car, so of course it had some flair.  But, as far as your ordinary Chevys and Fords were concerned, I think throughout the 20s and 30s they all looked very much alike. I would say that it wasn’t until post WWII that cars began to take on a real individual flare.  Most cars began to look like each other again as the 80s wore on with a few exceptions. 
Early 1930s NY

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1932 Auburn 8-100A Boattail Speedster

Gorgeous car

One thing I really like about the cars of that era is how flamboyant they were and how, unlike most cars nowadays, they were not bland and had distinctive personalities. My $0.02. 

An Auburn was an expensive car, so of course it had some flair.  But, as far as your ordinary Chevys and Fords were concerned, I think throughout the 20s and 30s they all looked very much alike. I would say that it wasn’t until post WWII that cars began to take on a real individual flare.  Most cars began to look like each other again as the 80s wore on with a few exceptions. 
Early 1930s NY

You are right, it was the luxury cars that were truly individualistic in those days but so many of today's luxury cars are bland and because so many are now SUVs, they look the same. 

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This is a 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu and this was the last model year that GM cars had front doors side vent windows but what I also clearly remembered was the commercial jingle of their ads, which to this day I still once in a while will sing, "Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet". Yup, they still tried to appeal to American patriotism back in the early 70's. 

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A car that ran in NASCAR races mostly unmodified back when NASCAR cars were real street cars with added safety gear. A 1970 Superbird with the "meeep-meep" horn.

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Back in 1968, during the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City, a cousin of my mother that lived near Abilene, Texas, in the little town of Merkel, whose land was part of an oil field, and he was paid quite a lot of royalties by Esso, now Exxon, drove to visit us with his wife and three kids because he wanted to go with us to the Olympic stadium near the Universidad de Mexico because my father had tickets and it just so happen that day I witnessed when Bob Beamon won the Gold medal for the long jump at 8 meters, 33 centimeters (27 feet, 3 3/4 inches), a record that wasn't broken until 1991. He almost jumped past the sand pit of the event. The car my mother's cousin, Uncle Tally, he had was the biggest car I'd ever seen up till then, a 1966 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham and I remember riding in the back seat with his kids and it was so huge we all fit fine. It was black like this one.

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Here’s a good follow-up to sol’s post with the ‘66 Caddy with the stacked headlights.  That stacked headlight design was, OMHO, the last good looking Cadillac for decades. 

Anyway, here’s the Pontiac stablemate to that Caddy, in this case a 1965 Pontiac Bonneville convertible

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It wasn't just GM that stacked the headlights, a nearby neighbor back in 1968 had a 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 two door fastback that looked like this one, but it was blue. 

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