Fish bowl vs Camaro

Don't Forget the Ghia designed Fiat 2300 S Coupe that was presented already in late 1961 if I remember correctly. However with a three Piece design.


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mine 64 , get aquired my 340 t bars qa-1 suspension parts , got my 340 6pck , kh disc brakes , a833 4spd , 8 3/4 . clutch n headers needed next . oh ya did any one remember the corvette having long rear glass as well ? and they were all glass goldfish bowls !

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I don't care for that generation Camaro, but I do think it's a better design aesthetically than the first generation Barracuda. The glass is bigger on the Camaro, but the balance of glass to metal surround is different, and it doesn't stand out so much. Also, the front of the car is more tapered, versus the upright shapes on the Plymouth. The Camaro was also designed from scratch as a Camaro, rather than having a fastback attached to a Valiant as with the Barracuda.

More broadly speaking, I think Chrysler styling was at its best when bringing out a new generation of designs, rather than updating existing designs. E-Body Cuda versus the Valiant-derived Cuda. Second-gen Charger versus Coronet-derived Charger (although I do like those). The early-60s downsizing was not a success for many reasons, one of which I think is that they changed the original design to fit a different wheelbase and platform.
 
My understanding was that the Barracuda was to be introduced as the 67 Model but they caught wind of the Mustang and whipped together a car. If you look at the initial design studies you see the second gen Barracuda and not the first.

There is no doubt I'm a little biased
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GregG48203 said:
For the record, the AMC/Rambler Marlin was produced from 1965-67.
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The original concept car with this design was based on the shorter wheelbase Rambler and presented to the public in 1964 while developed in 1963.
Many say the Marlin should have stayed on that wheelbase as well, personally I like the lowest production 1967 (ca. 2500 cars only) when they actually had another wb. increase based on the Ambassador Chassis and with their stacked headlights, the others for some reason don't Appeal to me.
Good 6-page writeup concerning the Marlin btw:
Introduction to the 1965-1967 AMC Marlin

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Here’s one I pulled from a parts car last month. It’s not all that big. The Camaro glass is wider & longer but not as high. Very similar shape though.
 
I have read that the Camaro backlight was the biggest single glass molding to that point in a production car.
 
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