#classic v8

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1955 Buick Century four-door Riviera

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Oldsmobile’s top of the line Ninety Eight 4-door Holiday from 1956, the last innocent year of the 50s before the era of absurd wings and chrome excess began.

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Excalibur Phaeton Series III (1975–1980) with 454-cubic-inch big-block V-8 Chevrolet power. The neoclassic „Mercebaker" built by Studebaker design consultant Brooks Stevens to replicate the 1928 Mercedes-Benz SSK looked in its third stage of development more similar to the Type 380 Benz – if you ignore the Beetle lighting.

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Full-sized cars for long days

The Imperial was much more than a top-of-the-line automobile for the Chrysler Corporation. Founded in 1955 the Imperial Division was Chrysler Corporation's unique luxury brand until 1975 with a brief reappearance from 1981 to 1983. This 1964 Imperial Crown, powered by a massive 413 cubic-inch, 350 horsepower V8, could compete with Lincolns (which it looked like in parts somehow, because Chrysler hired designer Elwood Engel from Ford in 1961) and Cadillacs. An Imperial-exclusive assembly line had been the inspiration for the 1960 ad theme „America's Most Carefully Built Car”.

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This could be one of the legendary 1964½ Ford Mustang Convertibles (260 cui 4.3 L V8 from the Ford Falcon) and therefore one of the very first but it is most certainly one of the most iconic American cars ever made and in Hamburg the best vehicle to drive in the suburbs for the barbecue with colleagues, as it seems. If the Harley does not start.

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Full-sized cars for long days: second generation Ford Fairlane 500 (1957–59)

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The rumble-seat bulge in the rear of the slantback Cadillac Seville (here we have a 1985) looked somehow strange at its time in the late Seventies, early Eighties already but it appears to be really weired fallen-out-of-time from today’s point of view. GM’s smaller-sized luxury sedan was designed by the late Bill Mitchell in classic style of the British upper class cars like coachbuilder Hooper’s postwar Rolls-Royces and Bentleys. Unfortunately, the second-generation Seville was far away from reaching their quality.

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Handcrafted German Dry Gin in a handsome American 1962 V8 Chevrolet C10 Panel Truck. An excellent recipe! By the way, the next G20 Summit will take place on the 7th and 8th of July right in the background at Hamburg’s Messehallen Convention Centre.