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    Prior to the start of the new Formula 1 season, another arbitrary taste-based thread.

    I was going to make it 'Most beautiful F1 car', but I knew that we would soon wander, so I made it an open-door policy regarding formulae.

    For me, it has to be between this one from the pre-F1 era:

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    And this one from the 'classic' F1 era:

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    Neither will be everyone's cup of tea, of course.

    #2
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    That top one's not pre-F1 is it?

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      #3
      Most beautiful racing car

      Anyway, one of my favourites :

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        #4
        Most beautiful racing car



        Ferrari 156

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          #5
          Most beautiful racing car

          There's lots, isn't there :

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            #6
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            I'm going to avoid open-wheelers as I think most of us like similar cars.

            250gt SWB Competition


            GT40 (in Gulf colours, of course)


            206SP


            T35

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              #7
              Most beautiful racing car

              I see your French car, and raise you an English one :



              and a German one :

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                #8
                Most beautiful racing car

                Mmmmmmmmmm



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                  #9
                  Most beautiful racing car

                  Bentley Speed Six (apparently driven by the modern day Keystone Cops)

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                    #10
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                    Hey, G.O.:

                    That Vanwall is the modern-day (i.e. current) road-going replica version (with the tyre-tread wheel-arches) not the original!

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                      #11
                      Most beautiful racing car

                      Mercedes W196, piloted by Fangio:-



                      A photo that made a huge impression on me as a kid was two of these drifting round a corner with their wings bashed in, which the accompanying text informed me was due to aerodynamic forces - sadly I couldn't find it for this thread.

                      I also loved the mobile fag packet:-

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                        #12
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                        If you want formula 1 cars there can be only one

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                          #13
                          Most beautiful racing car

                          Chaparral 2E

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                            #14
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                            More rally than race, but still pod-frothingly gorgeous.



                            The iconic Le Mans car



                            Chevron B8



                            Gerry Marshall's Old Nail Firenza

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                              #15
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                              I considered all of those and I love all three but decided that beautiful didn't exactly describe any of them.

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                                #16
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                                Not even the Chevron? That's a bonny wee thing, though perhaps not as stunning as the GTO that Theo posted.

                                I think the others are beautiful in their brutishness, but to me that's a huge part of their appeal - it doesn't have to be all sensuous curves, there should be a sense of barely contained power and fury about them.

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                                  #17
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                                  dm, I preferred the body of that Merc that I posted.

                                  Clive, that doesn't take away from its basic shape, does it.

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                                    #18
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                                    bewaldeth or glory wrote:
                                    Not even the Chevron?...
                                    A gorgeous car, indeed. It just looks like a Duck Billed Platypus.

                                    I agree with what you say about brutishness being part of the appeal - it's why I love cars like the Alfa SZ for example - but that doesn't make them clasically beautiful.

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                                      #19
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                                      bog, I think you'll find that Eggy had already posted a picture of The iconic Le Mans car...

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                                          #21
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                                          Gangster Octopus wrote:
                                          bog, I think you'll find that Eggy had already posted a picture of The iconic Le Mans car...
                                          Hmmm... and there's me thinking that I had.

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                                            #22
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                                            Stick with the classics, I always say…

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                                              #23
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                                              Some hobbesian rightness at the end of page 1.

                                              The Lotus 49 looked lovely, won everything in sight and even came with a choice of brilliant drivers (Clark, Hill):

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                                                #24
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                                                Gangster Octopus wrote:
                                                dm, I preferred the body of that Merc that I posted.

                                                Clive, that doesn't take away from its basic shape, does it.
                                                Sorry, G.O. - only just seen this.

                                                No, you're right - it was a beautiful shape. Probably the best of the front-engined era.

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                                                  #25
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                                                  At the end of the 50s Lister produced enough beautiful cars to fill a whole thread. However, for me, this is the pick of the bunch - the Costin-bodied Lister Jaguar, from 1959:

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