Meanest car grille/Front end.

[NYLIBUD]

I’m not sure if this is the place for this post.?‍♂️Anyway,Just wondering,meanest car grille/front end.Post war-muscle car?For me,the 70 Road Runner,68 Charger,71 Cuda,I’am a Mopar guy,but a Ford guy too,69 Boss 429 Mustang,and a 70 Cyclone GT,

[JollySipper]

Not a muscle car, but the '59 Buick has absolutely The Most ticked-off front end of any car, I believe......

[Ace-Garageguy]

Maybe not the meanest, but certainly among the most unpleasant, with its Predator face...

The way you meant it...

[Keef]

My favorite angry grille 

[Chuckyg1]

Here's a few.

[Chuckyg1]

This one's angry because of what someone did to it.

[Rob Hall]

The '59 Dodge has a good scowl, and the '61 Plymouth looks like an angry insectoid alien. 

[NYLIBUD]

Wow those are some mean looking cars.,I gotta say.?And yea,Ace I said mean looking,not scary.?That predator car is really weird.Reminds me of some kind of a deformed Studabaker.What is it,and what year is that??Wow

Edited June 5, 2024 by NYLIBUD

[stitchdup]

While at first these 2 dont look too mean, during the 60s thru to the mid 80s if you saw these 2 being driven fast, theres an extremely high probability theres just been a bank robbery and about to be a vehicle fire. So being the gangsters favourites must qualify them as mean faced. only the petrol transit qualifies though, the diesel was a bit of a dog but ford gave them a different front so you didn't steal the wrong van

 

[NYLIBUD]

21 minutes ago, stitchdup said:

While at first these 2 dont look too mean, during the 60s thru to the mid 80s if you saw these 2 being driven fast, theres an extremely high probability theres just been a bank robbery and about to be a vehicle fire. So being the gangsters favourites must qualify them as mean faced. only the petrol transit qualifies though, the diesel was a bit of a dog but ford gave them a different front so you didn't steal the wrong van

 

Didn’t Twisted Sister have one of those Ford vans?

[stitchdup]

9 minutes ago, NYLIBUD said:

Didn’t Twisted Sister have one of those Ford vans?

every band had one of these, it was the reason british bands started using larger drum sets on tour

[NYLIBUD]

Yea they drove one in the video of You Can’t stop Rock & Roll.Great song.

[Mike 1017]

A gift to the man who owns everything. A Darth Vader Car

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

9 hours ago, NYLIBUD said:

And yea,Ace I said mean looking,not scary.?That predator car is really weird.Reminds me of some kind of a deformed Studabaker.What is it,and what year is that??Wow

It's a '57 Spohn. Maybe Spawn would suit it better.

https://www.story-cars.com/1957-spohn-convertible

[CaddyDaddy]

When I was a real little kid, our neighbor had a '59 Buick. Whenever he parked it in the street, I refused to go out and play!

[JollySipper]

19 minutes ago, CaddyDaddy said:

When I was a real little kid, our neighbor had a '59 Buick. Whenever he parked it in the street, I refused to go out and play!

I sometimes wonder why Mr. King didn't make 'Christine' a '59 Buick...... A lot more menacing looking! I guess the name 'Fury' was better suited....

[StevenGuthmiller]

For me, "mean" has a couple of different connotations.

It can mean "angry" looking as many in this thread are thinking, in which case my opinion is that the '59 Buick fits the bill perfectly.

Or it can mean, as I think Ron is implying, "aggressive" looking.

 

I think that the '69 Dodge Coronet not only exhibits a very aggressive, all business looking, muscle car character, but it also has a considerably angry disposition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

 

 

[StevenGuthmiller]

Our 2005 Honda S-2000 has a mildly "PO'd" look to it.

 

 

 

 

Steve

[ksnow]

As a young man when this car was released, I always liked this front end. Still do.

 

[thatz4u]

my opinion...

[Rob Hall]

27 minutes ago, JollySipper said:

I sometimes wonder why Mr. King didn't make 'Christine' a '59 Buick...... A lot more menacing looking! I guess the name 'Fury' was better suited....

A '61 Fury would have been better than a '57...more evil/deranged looking, IMO.

[NYLIBUD]

3 hours ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

For me, "mean" has a couple of different connotations.

It can mean "angry" looking as many in this thread are thinking, in which case my opinion is that the '59 Buick fits the bill perfectly.

Or it can mean, as I think Ron is implying, "aggressive" looking.

 

I think that the '69 Dodge Coronet not only exhibits a very aggressive, all business looking, muscle car character, but it also has a considerably angry disposition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

 

 

Steve,sir u hit the nail on the head as they say..Great example,a Mopar of course.I always said Mopars always had the meanest looking cars,IMO?

[iamsuperdan]

22 hours ago, JollySipper said:

I sometimes wonder why Mr. King didn't make 'Christine' a '59 Buick...... A lot more menacing looking! I guess the name 'Fury' was better suited....

 

A lot of his books featured Plymouths. I believe it was a '47 that was mentioned a few times in Rita Hayworth & The Shawshank Redemption.

 

Having said that, Buicks are common in his books too. He even has a a book called "From A Buick 8."

 

 

[iamsuperdan]

The new Mustang Dark Horse, and the new Mustang GTD are both angry looking.

 

 

 

 

And you can't forget this. Like the unexpected villain in a horror film, you just know this car is about to unleash some serious stuff.

[StevenGuthmiller]

1 hour ago, iamsuperdan said:

 

And you can't forget this. Like the unexpected villain in a horror film, you just know this car is about to unleash some serious stuff.

Looks way more "surprised" than "angry" or "mean". 

 

 

 

 

Steve