Most "Race-car-looking" race car ever?

[GordonW]

I nominate this- the 1968 Matra MS11. The version with the six-pipe exhaust and the wing:


I maintain, that if you were to ask a 10 year old to draw a picture of the "best race car ever"- you'd likely get just about exactly this. I mean, the pipes, the wing, all the tubing all over the engine, the intake stacks with the screens over them, the exposed huge tires- it's got EVERYTHING. This is the most "Speed Racer looking" real car I've ever found.

And as a side benefit- it is most likely one of the top five best SOUNDING race cars of all time, too:

Anyone else got any contenders?

Regards,
Gordon.

 

[mkane]

 

[mkane]

16 cylinders

 

[mkane]

I could go on & on

 

[mkane]

 

[BigElCat]

I had a toy version of this when I was 5. It's definitive for me.

 

[Sandstrom]

I nominate this- the 1968 Matra MS11. The version with the six-pipe exhaust and the wing:

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I maintain, that if you were to ask a 10 year old to draw a picture of the "best race car ever"- you'd likely get just about exactly this. I mean, the pipes, the wing, all the tubing all over the engine, the intake stacks with the screens over them, the exposed huge tires- it's got EVERYTHING. This is the most "Speed Racer looking" real car I've ever found.

And as a side benefit- it is most likely one of the top five best SOUNDING race cars of all time, too:

Anyone else got any contenders?

Regards,
Gordon.

I agree, that thing is just cool as hell!

 

[leesonic]

How about more than four wheels?

 

[Cactus Bob]

Tommy Ivo's "Showboat from 1961. All wheel drive with four Buick V8 engines strapped to the framerails, It packed 1,856 cubic inches and made over 2,000 combined horsepower.

I had the model when I was a kid in the early 60's.

 

[mkane]

I'm old school so

 

[mkane]

Drool

 

[BigElCat]

Auto Union could build a motor back in the day.

 

[mkane]

off road

 

[sc427]

Anything from Jim Hall , the Chaparral in its high wing or vacuum version are what you picture when someone says CanAm racing. For NASCAR the nod goes to the Superbird/ Daytona..... They just screamed race car.

 

[WhiteSE]

I nominate this- the 1968 Matra MS11. The version with the six-pipe exhaust and the wing:

View attachment 954154
I maintain, that if you were to ask a 10 year old to draw a picture of the "best race car ever"- you'd likely get just about exactly this. I mean, the pipes, the wing, all the tubing all over the engine, the intake stacks with the screens over them, the exposed huge tires- it's got EVERYTHING. This is the most "Speed Racer looking" real car I've ever found.

And as a side benefit- it is most likely one of the top five best SOUNDING race cars of all time, too:

Anyone else got any contenders?

Regards,
Gordon.

How many people burned themselves working on that car!!?

 

[BigElCat]

The Lancia S4 put an end to open class Rally racing. It was too damn fast.

 

[WhiteSE]

 

[nj pheonix]

Hmmm

 

[needforspeed]

Always liked the CanAm cars, Like this Lola. Saw them at Riverside back in the day.

 

[needforspeed]

The mid 80's Monte Carlo "Aero" Couple.