Good call on the Studebaker Avanti but my choice would be the 1937 **Cord 812 Beverly**. As pure automotive art, it can’t be beat.
56 or 57 Chevy. How come I’m the first to say that? Haven’t you guys any pedestrian taste?
taggart, check out the Belair concept vehicle. It should be out in 2005.
For any fans of old Chevy trucks, check out the SSR
Mopar fans check out the Crossfire. 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.
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.
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?) 
The Austin Healey Bugeye!
There’s a concept-car update of the VW Microbus.
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.
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.
I shall probably cop some stick for this, but I’d like to see the Citroen 2CV 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).
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.
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
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
Which is a British car from the forties, completely untouched, and they sell hundreds oft housands a year.
photopat,
I believe you are referring to the Amphibicar.
Or maybe the [ul][]Amphibi-Ranger or the[]BY5020TSL from China or the[]Dutton Mariner or maybe even the[]Hobbycar from France[/ul]
74 AMC Gremlin - the year with the BIG bumpers… oh yeah, also in lime green with the Levi’s interior option!
I’d buy a restyled (round off the corners-get rid of the running boards) 30’s coupe with a rumble seat.
I think the older Volvos looked better - in particular the Amazon and the P1800 (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.
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