# What Model "Retro-Car" would you like to see re-intoduced next? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 11, 2002, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473 "2002-07-11T18:33:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![octothorpe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b77776/32.png) [@octothorpe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octothorpe)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473/21 "2002-07-12T06:00:23Z")
Good call on the **Studebaker _Avanti_** but my choice would be the 1937 \*\*Cord 812 [_Beverly_\*\*](http://www.automaven.com/Gallery/Cord_Gallery/cord_gallery_3.html). As pure automotive art, it can’t be beat. # ---
**Author:** ![taggert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@taggert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taggert)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473/22 "2002-07-12T08:09:36Z")
56 or 57 Chevy. How come I’m the first to say that? Haven’t you guys any pedestrian taste? ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473/23 "2002-07-12T13:02:21Z")
taggart, check out the [Belair](http://www.chevrolet.com/belair/index.htm) concept vehicle. It should be out in 2005. For any fans of old Chevy trucks, check out the [SSR](http://www.chevrolet.com/ssr/index.htm) Mopar fans check out the [Crossfire.](http://www.chrysler.com/) The link is at the bottom in the gray “in the news” box. And for something really ugly, think 1940’s Dodge pickups. The kind used during WWII. Then look [here.](http://www.dodge.com/autoshow/news_events/m80/) I would like to see a retro 66 GTO. Pontiac is coming out with a new GTO but it is just an Austrailian built Holden. Nothing retro about it except maybe the performance. See it [here.](http://www.pontiac.com/pontiacjsp/passion/news/main.jsp?source=ponthome) ---
**Author:** ![p\_cific\_812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@p\_cific\_812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/p_cific_812)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2002, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473/24 "2002-07-12T15:57:04Z")
Ummm… I think the PT Cruiser kinda looks like a big purple hearse. That, or The Munster’s car. I haven’t decided. I would like to see the return of the 1987 Nissan Sentra. Sure, it was kinda cramped and it didn’t exactly turn heads going down the street-- but that could all be worked out with the current advances in automotive engineering! (Is 15 years long enough to make it _retro_?) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473/25 "2002-07-13T07:22:07Z")
The Austin Healey Bugeye! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473/26 "2002-07-13T17:10:18Z")
There’s a concept-car update of the [VW Microbus](http://www.motortrend.com/july01/microbus/1.html). I’d like to see a modern version of the Austin Healey 3000 or MGA. I think it would be hard to do, though, since the curve of the fenders is shaped like a wing. Cars are fast enough now that you have to worry about generating too much lift, and I don’t know how you’d get around that without ruining the lines of the car. ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473/27 "2002-07-14T03:34:49Z")
I’m just happy to see the designers starting to win out again over the wind tunnel. We went through such a period of blaaahhhh cars in the late 70’s and 80’s that it’s nice to see some style coming back. Heck, we might even get to the point one day of being able to actually TELL which cars are which again! For me, I’d love to see a remake of one of the mid-60’s Pontiac GTO’s - that was my childhood fantasy car. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473/28 "2002-07-14T23:39:31Z")
I shall probably cop some stick for this, but I’d like to see the Citroen [2CV](http://www.highway-one.com/Images/Photos/Citroen/SparberCitroen.jpg) make a comeback (I used to have one, how I loved that car. We planned to drive away from our wedding in it, but it got written off after an accident (not my fault) just a few weeks beforehand, I suppose I should be grateful nobody was hurt). ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473/29 "2002-07-15T15:06:41Z")
I’d kinda like to see an aquacar. What were the old ones called? I know they were prone to rust, but the idea of just driving right into Lake Michigan and driving out again on the Michigan shore just seems so cool. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473/30 "2002-07-15T18:23:34Z")
Well all these Colonial cars are all very well in a brash north american way… However for sheer class and quaintness you cant beet the Morris Minor Traveller: [http://www.dimebank.com/Sam.html](http://www.dimebank.com/Sam.html) Tudor cars are definately the next big thing. (They’re actually pretty fabulous cars as well). They still build this in India: [http://auto.indiamart.com/cars/ambassador/index.html](http://auto.indiamart.com/cars/ambassador/index.html) Which is a British car from the forties, completely untouched, and they sell hundreds oft housands a year. ---
**Author:** ![octothorpe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b77776/32.png) [@octothorpe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octothorpe)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473/31 "2002-07-15T21:11:11Z")
**photopat** , I believe you are referring to the _ **Amphibicar** _. # ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473/32 "2002-07-15T21:37:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by octothorpe \* > **photopat** , > I believe you are referring to the _ **Amphibicar** _ Or maybe the [ul][_][Amphibi-Ranger](http://www.4wdonline.com/Amphib/AmphiRanger.html) or the[_][BY5020TSL from China](http://www.4wdonline.com/Misc/Beijing.html) or the[_][Dutton Mariner](http://www.4wdonline.com/Amphib/Dutton.html) or maybe even the[_][Hobbycar from France](http://www.4wdonline.com/Amphib/Hobbycar.html)[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2002, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473/33 "2002-07-16T04:27:59Z")
74 AMC Gremlin - the year with the BIG bumpers… oh yeah, also in lime green with the Levi’s interior option! ---
**Author:** ![Lure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@Lure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lure)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2002, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473/34 "2002-07-16T06:56:50Z")
I’d buy a restyled (round off the corners-get rid of the running boards) 30’s coupe with a rumble seat. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2002, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473/35 "2002-07-16T08:23:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by renigademaster \* > \*\*Doh! I mean 240, the 740 was a good car too! \*\* I think the older Volvos looked better - in particular the [Amazon](http://welcome.to/classicvolvo-amazon) and the [P1800](http://www.saint.org/volvo.htm) (the car used in _The Saint_). The 240 is nice too, I agree. The 740 may be a good car but I can’t blame those who say it looks like a refrigerator. By the way, isn’t it about time someone came out with a big convertible again? Not a sports car, but a spacious, comfortable sedan with an open top, like the 70s Caprice Classic or the 60s Ford Galaxie. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2002, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473/36 "2002-07-16T11:21:06Z")
Anyone who gets the rights to make any of the dusenbergs with the complete options ( incuding record player ) body and style I’ll be a totall shill for Ive seen one in person and several on the history channel … And why not the old 69 sting rays ? And the old gremlin hatch backs …The first car I remeber as a kid [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-model-retro-car-would-you-like-to-see-re-intoduced-next/118473.md?page=1)