Cars of the 60s and Early 70s I Grew Up Lusting Over and Wanting - To Scale

I grew up lusting over sports cars from the 60s and early 70s but living near the end of the Earth never got to see many in person, let alone ride in virtually any of them and everybody else I knew was a pickup freak. I eventually bought my dream car, although I can't remember why that was.

I also am a fighter plane freak and have always wondered how they related in size to one another so I started scaling them in Cad. Same goes for cars.

So, I have made a collection of cars I would like to own to scale so I can compare their sizes. Its hard to find nice photos in profile view on the web. I also have to do a print screen snapshot to get these cars out of AutoCAD after scaling them from their wheelbases and rotating them to level which degrades the completed final jpg photo quality. Anyway, for your amusement... 

Edit: I think that these sets of jpg collages should all always be in the same scale.

Cool!

My goodness man, I am a fiend for scale. I want all of it - toy giraffes vs lions vs blue whales, construction equipment like cranes vs bulldozers, tanks vs jeeps vs helicopters vs bombers vs fighters, aircraft carriers vs destroyers, toy cars vs trains -- I want ALL of my things to be to scale and comparable 

Sorta relevant, especially if you need to waste a bunch of time but are tired of binging webcomics and https://www.etymonline.com/

There's a website where you can do a size comparison between a couple cars using scale images.  https://www.carsized.com/en/

Most of the cars are newer and European, but it does have some older and weirder cars too.  IDK if there are more websites out there doing the same thing.

Every time you refresh the homepage it shows two different random cars if you don't want to pick anything on your own.

Bonus: if you leave the units set to cm, you get to practice approximating the conversion.

I need a big ol fat Dodge Charger to really put things into perspective. Too bad I'm not sure if I can make a second or third set of cars and be sure they will be in scale to the first set. I'll give it a try later today. I think that if I draw the same rectangle around the set of cars and then zoom the rectangle to fill the drawing screen, every jpg photo will always be the same size and every car will be to scale with each other. This might require redoing the first set of car but no big deal. I'm glad GrassRootsMotorSports now allows me to edit my posts with no time limits.

Edit: I can, please see my original post.

I have 3 of those cars in 1:1 scale in my driveway.

VolvoHeretic said:

I grew up lusting over sports cars from the 60s and early 70s but living near the end of the Earth never got to see many in person, let alone ride in virtually any of them and everybody else I knew was a pickup freak. I eventually bought my dream car, although I can't remember why that was.

I also am a fighter plane freak and have always wondered how they related in size to one another so I started scaling them in Cad. Same goes for cars.

So, I have made a collection of cars I would like to own to scale so I can compare their sizes. Its hard to find nice photos in profile view on the web. I also have to do a print screen snapshot to get these cars out of AutoCAD after scaling them from their wheelbases and rotating them to level which degrades the completed final jpg photo quality. Anyway, for your amusement... 

Edit: I think that these sets of jpg collages should all always be in the same scale.

Sometimes even that view at scale can't really explain the size differences. There's just so much girth to some cars that a wheelbase/length-centric comparo can't explain

108 wheelbase vs 107

51.6 vs 54.x height

P3PPY said:

Sometimes even that view at scale can't really explain the size differences. There's just so much girth to some cars that a wheelbase/length-centric comparo can't explain

 

108 wheelbase vs 107

51.6 vs 54.x height

This is why the current Challenger is such a horrible design.

Mr_Asa said:

P3PPY said:

Sometimes even that view at scale can't really explain the size differences. There's just so much girth to some cars that a wheelbase/length-centric comparo can't explain

 

108 wheelbase vs 107

51.6 vs 54.x height

This is why the current Challenger is such a horrible design.

 

If you think you can meet safety regs better then the big three and sell at a profit feel free to show me how you manage that. Design is following requirements not the other way around and has been for the last 40 years. 

In reply to wearymicrobe :

Never said I could.  Just said the design sucks.

preach said:

I have 3 of those cars in 1:1 scale in my driveway.

I have one of those cars as a low quality 3D print, in 1:26 (ish) scale, on my desk?

Big Fat Charger for scale, but it's probably not as Ol' as you wanted.

In reply to P3PPY :

I think that we can all agree that the 69 era Charger is on the extreme size of a sporty car.

But you are right about girth.