A few days ago I was watching a show on cable about the fashion designer, Ralph Lauren's automobile collection, several of which were being prepped for a show at the Boston Fine Art Museum. Got me thinking. So I thought I would throw out a couple of question for discussion.

1) Are cars appropriate things to display in a fine arts museum. And--

2)What do you consider the three most beautiful cars in history.

After some thought my nominations for the second question are

1) Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, http://www.autoblog.com/photos/speed-st ... ll/#430621

2) The Ferrari GTO (the original one) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1962_ ... O_34_2.jpg

3) The Jaguar XK-E (the early short wheelbase, pre safety bumper ones) http://www.remarkablecars.com/main/jagu ... 00026.html

And after looking at some of these my answer to the firs question is a resounding yes.

Transward

1954 Jaguar XK 120M Special Equipment OTS Roadster.

1956 Ford Thunderbird hardtop/convertible.

1954-1957 Mercedes-Benz SLS gullwing

River

Aston Martins from the 60's

Ferrari America sedan

Mercedes 100 SS

Any year Bentley Continental Flying Spur

1948-49 Cadillac

1960-61 Plymouth Valiant

1948 Buick

1955 Chevrolet BelAir

how about a sub-thread of Most Beautiful cars that we can afford?

Mini Cooper S-second generation

VW Beetle-first generation

Anything from the early 30's

transward (imported) wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:39 pm A few days ago I was watching a show on cable about the fashion designer, Ralph Lauren's automobile collection, several of which were being prepped for a show at the Boston Fine Art Museum. Got me thinking. So I thought I would throw out a couple of question for discussion.

1) Are cars

works of art?

Of course they are. I like your three choices..and I think the late 20's and early thirties provided many fine examples of American automobile art, particularly Chrysler, Deusenberg, Auburn, and many others...The depression seemed to squeeze the life out of these wonderful designers..I loved this era..

Thanks dragonfly

How about the 2009 corvette stingray concept. Hasn't been released to the general public yet but when it is im so there.

Eunuchorn (imported) wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:04 am how about a sub-thread of Most Beautiful cars that we can afford?

I can't think of one.

River

The most beautiful car ever is the Citroën DS (Paris october 1955) DS = in French: Déesse = the godess. In the Netherlands also called the flat-iron or pike