| -- End Ad Box ---> | | | | I can remember the smell of the leather seats |
| What is at the heart of cool cars everywhere? Is | | | | and look of the wooden dash surround. Plastic just |
| it the speed they can travel at? Is it the thought | | | | doesn't cut it, especially not in more mass |
| of the wind brushing your hair? If it's the latter, | | | | produced models. |
| then you have a soft top (convertible), or | | | | And it had curves! |
| someone's pinched your roof! | | | | So what else puts the cool into a car for you? |
| Well, it could be either of these things. Or perhaps | | | | For me personally, low is cool. The closer I am to |
| cool cars mean something else to you entirely. | | | | the ground, the better I feel. Some people like to |
| But to me, it is the shape of the car. Not so | | | | have a high vantage point, and perhaps that is |
| much cool cars but cool curves ... Sexist? Perhaps, | | | | cool to them. It certainly helps to have a better |
| but true none the less. I think I classic car is | | | | view of the road from a practical point of view. |
| defined by it's architecture. | | | | For many, the colour of a car defines its 'cool'. |
| Look at any sports models over the years. What | | | | Red is often the colour to fuel associated with the |
| has defined them, made them stand out? Ok, the | | | | hottest cars around (not surprisingly really). But |
| price is one thing, but take a step back and really | | | | what about black? There is something mystical |
| think about what makes a hot car so cool? | | | | about jet black automobiles, don't you think? To |
| There is something else that makes a car cool, at | | | | some, an unusual colour is the height of chic as |
| least as far as I am concerned. And that is the | | | | far as a car is concerned. You might not like |
| interior. Or to be more precise, what the interior | | | | bright yellow or lime green, but your will always |
| is made of. My first car lives in my memory to | | | | notice them, won't you. And to some folk, that is |
| this day, and surely that is the mark of a cool car. | | | | all that is required from a cool car. |