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That last one - the Phantom Corsair - it must have been like trying to drive a high speed pill box with those slits for windows !! Also he knocked two motorcyclists off the road .... I hope you brought this to the attention of the Police !!
If you are a car guy, you KNOW ALL THESE. But really the only cars which some people might not have heard of, is the Lagonda Shooting Break, and the Tucker Torpedo (yes,. Tucker 48 is the actual name, but they are known as the Torpedo). If you have ever watched Anime, or seen an Anime movie, chances are, you have not only seen the Soobee... (Subaru 360), but you have also seen the Grifo, a car surprisingly popular as bad guy race car in Japanese comics and cartoons. Everyone knows the Cizeta-Moroder V16T, at least if you are over 30... it was the ultimate 90s poster car, rivalling the Lambo Countach and Diablo, and Ferrari Testa Rossa as THE 90s poster to have, as Gorgio Moroder was pretty famous a musician/composer at the time, working with some of the biggest names in music, and some of the biggest Hollywood movies of the era. The Cult Hero of those crazy 90s Supercars though, the outsider everyone knew about, that you had a poster of if you were a non-conformist, the car the non-car people were rooting for to come along shake up the established 90s Supercar players, like McLaren and Jaguar, Ferrari and Lamborghini, was the Vector W8... even people who did not know what it was, or who made it, where, and what it was called.... KNEW it, because for a while it was creeping in everywhere. The Ma and Pa, Apple Pie, Coca Cola, rolled up sleeves and guts American, inspired by American cool, like Fighter Jets, that was going to take it to the Europeans. Perhaps, PERHAPS the Cold War made it hard for many folks to know about the Tatra, but it was well known by car people. An ingenious design, which lead to even more whacky ones, like the very last Tatra sedan, the T800, a rear engined, air cooled, rear drive, V8, luxury Saloon, with the very best the Czechs could offer for luxury coming off the fall of the wall, but with a manual gearbox, and slew of other quirks no Western maker would dare on luxury car... and this car was the Genesis of all those which followed. Also, everyone knows the SAAB 99 Turbo yo. That is one of the most iconic and IMPORTANT cars in history, as it is the Day 0, foundation car, for the Hot Hatch, and the Bang-For-Buck boy racer. Without the 99 Turbo, there may not be any of the French or German hot hatches, or Japanese ones, nor any Japanese working mans rockets like the Subaru Impreza WRX or the Evo Lancer, or any slew of Nissans. SAAB essentially showed you could make a safe, affordable, reliable, daily driver... with GRUNT, that did not have to handle with a vagueness of a Muscle Car. No self respecting car guy does NOT know that car. Also, the rear engine in the Tucker is even more interesting than just commenting it is a rear engine V8.... it is a HELICOPTER engine, Tucker brought a floundering post War Lycoming and used their piston Helicopter engine, for his car. Additionally, the AM Logonda (which was originally NEVER badged Aston Martin, but sold a Lagonda, a separate marque, which AM just happened to own) Shooting Break, is NOT a Shooting Break. A Shooting Break is NOT a Sport Car X Estate... a Shooting Break, in the loosest terms... is an Estate Coupe. As in, imagine, I dont know, a Volvo 260GLE... that came from the factory, or was custom delivered with coachbuilt body... as a COUPE, NO back doors, just ALL body. But not an EWB/LWB vehicle, like the Ghost Busters car, which was an old 50s US Ambulance, or oversized or highline body, like a Panel Van, or both, like a Hearse, but just a standard dimension, Station Wagon body.... but a COUPE. THAT is a Shooting Break... and the AM-Lagona Estate had FOUR DOORS. They CALLED it a Shooting Break, but it technically was NOT.
These cars may be sought after by collectors and while the price is probably more than most could afford I wouldn't call them sky high in price. My semi today cost more than these cars and if one took into consideration that my truck is classic as it's a 1973 Kenworth, well that's where prices will skyrocket. Most of today's vehicles are more than what most ordinary people can afford. Is rather have a '32 deuce coup, '55 Chevy Bel Air two door hard top Or something from that era.
