Classic cool wall

Luke Crowley

Just had an idea for a Top Gear Cool Wall style thread. The rules:

Pick any car, and say whether it is seriously uncool, uncool, cool or sub zero (and, in very exceptional cases, certain cars could go in the DB9 fridge). The most important bit, though, is that you MUST back up your claim. (Or tell us why you are right and the rest of us are wrong, if you are going to do it Jezza's way )

Here's a few:

Fiat 127: It's cool because it's small and Italian, and its engine is so good that there was an entire class in banger racing just for it.

Peugeot 205 GTi: Sub zero, because it's from the Eighties, and it's a brilliant hot hatch.

Mercedes W123: Uncool. It may be a very good car, but that doesn't make it a cool car. Especially when people find out that your Mercedes has wind-up windows and no power steering.

Standard Eight: Seriously uncool, because it was rubbish and was totallly upstaged by the Triumph Herald that replaced it (which is definitely a cool car).

Edit: No offence to any Standard Eight owners out there, just like the real Cool Wall this is entirely subjective and most likely a load of sh!te.

Max_Damage

My opinions:

Sub Zero: 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429 (a real man's car! )

Cool: MG Montego Turbo (underrated classic IMO).

Uncool: 1980 Cadillac Seville (looked terrible, and the crappy diesel-converted Oldsmobile diesel engines were terrible in them)

Seriously uncool: Fiat Ritmo / Strada (enough said)

carchaeologist

Luke Crowley wrote: »

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Fiat 127: It's cool because it's small and Italian, and its engine is so good that there was an entire class in banger racing just for it.

Surely you mean hotrod racing?Iv never heard of a 127 being bangered,but the engines were little dingers alright,you could rev the nuts off them.

2cv

Luke Crowley wrote: »

Mercedes W123: Uncool. It may be a very good car, but that doesn't make it a cool car. Especially when people find out that your Mercedes has wind-up windows and no power steering.

I'm sorry Luke, but that's the biggest load of sh*te i've ever heard... If having electric windows and power steering is a criteria for being a cool classic, then i'd say that 95% of us can pack it in right now... In fact, i like the fact that most of them have manual windows.... gives it the extra touch of classic class

Big Nasty

My Classic Cool Wall:

MercMad

2cv wrote: »

I'm sorry Luke, but that's the biggest load of sh*te i've ever heard... If having electric windows and power steering is a criteria for being a cool classic, then i'd say that 95% of us can pack it in right now... In fact, i like the fact that most of them have manual windows.... gives it the extra touch of classic class

+1

I dont see how one of the most timeless and durable cars of all time could be considered uncool just 'cos it doesn't have electric windows, and if someone was foolish enough not to get PAS thats hardly the cars fault.

I also think that anyone who thinks a black Trans Am with a bird on the bonnet is cool is on another planet. I'm liking the others though, but I feel this thread is going to turn into an argument so I'm gonna bow out, I already have too many conflicts in my life ! :rolleyes:

2cv

MercMad wrote: »

+1 but I feel this thread is going to turn into an argument so I'm gonna bow out, I already have too many conflicts in my life ! :rolleyes:

+1

I'll leave the whole cool wall thingy to Jeremy, Richard and James... Let them fight over it :D

Blue850

carchaeologist wrote: »

Surely you mean hotrod racing?Iv never heard of a 127 being bangered,but the engines were little dingers alright,you could rev the nuts off them.

The 1049cc Sport redlines at 7200!, not bad for 1978

Luke Crowley

2cv wrote: »

I'm sorry Luke, but that's the biggest load of sh*te i've ever heard... If having electric windows and power steering is a criteria for being a cool classic, then i'd say that 95% of us can pack it in right now... In fact, i like the fact that most of them have manual windows.... gives it the extra touch of classic class

As I already stated, "just like the real Cool Wall this is entirely subjective and most likely a load of sh!te."

manta mad

MCMLXXV wrote: »

ooohhhh i just want one of them :eek:

definatly sub zero !!!!!!!!

ianobrien

Mine would be

Sub-Zero - Shelby King Cobra (427ci IIRC) or a Mk1 Granada Coupe (I sorry now that I just missed one last year)

Cool - RS1600 and the RS1800, as driven by Coleman, Vatanen, Clarke etc. Also a 205GTi, 1.9 in white

Uncool - Most BL stuff from the '70 & 80's (except 6R4's & the Rover/Buick V8)

Seriously uncool - that Trans-am in 1975's post. At least there's room for the ten gallon hat

carchaeologist

MCMLXXV wrote: »

The charger is cool,but the trans am is nasty..i couldnt drive around in that and expect to be taken seriously!!

Kevin_Herron

I'd have the same opinion of an orange painted Charger with a flag on the roof!

Mycroft H

Any series land rover, as this video explains:

Big Nasty

carchaeologist wrote: »

The charger is cool,but the trans am is nasty..i couldnt drive around in that and expect to be taken seriously!!

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

I'd have the same opinion of an orange painted Charger with a flag on the roof!

Horses for courses lads!

carchaeologist

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Horses for courses lads!

Absolutly!!:)

DannyBuoy

Not as exotic as some of the previous posts, but this does it for me.

V480

The Volvo 480??

Hifive

Sub zero
BMW 3.0 CSI


Hmm!
Not sure where to put this one:D


Cool family car
AML brake

corktina

I have to have my garage defrosted once a month....:p

ianobrien

V480 wrote: »

The Volvo 480??

I never liked them, but if that's you one, respect for a nice one of them....

Blue850

Merc W108/109s

Saab Ed

Cool as f*&k :cool:

Bitten & Hisses

Bordering between cool and Sub-Zero:

A Mk2 Golf GTi, totally unmodified, 3-door, either 16v or 8v, on original steelies and with small bumpers, in non-metallic red.

RobAMerc

Bitten & Hisses wrote: »

Bordering between cool and Sub-Zero:

A Mk2 Golf GTi, totally unmodified, 3-door, either 16v or 8v, on original steelies and with small bumpers, in non-metallic red.

Mk 1 surley.
Granada coupe
Alfasud

Bitten & Hisses

RobAMerc wrote: »

Mk 1 surley.
Granada coupe
Alfasud

Never liked the Mk1 as much as the Mk2, although I'm with you on the Granada and the Sud.

MercMad

I would agree that the Mk1 Golf is far cooler, especially in small bumper/rear lamp form.

Hermy

Blue850 wrote: »

Merc W108/109s

What's in the boot?:o:p

Blue850

40 bags of cement:p

3nero

I don't like Merc's ever since i had a bad one....
But thats the dogs danglies :cool::cool:

Hermy

Blue850 wrote: »

40 bags of cement:p

So it's not some fancy hydro-pnuematic thingy then?:p

MercMad

Hermy wrote: »

So it's not some fancy hydro-pnuematic thingy then?:p

.........leaking air suspension is what it is. The W109's used air and the later model, the W116, used hydropnuematic. Neither are supposed to drop down ever !