As a kid a concorde turned up at tehran airport where my dad was working so i got to have a look around, what most surprised me was that all the elegant design stopped at the cockpit door, inside the cockpit it was so different from any other airliner, brutish, functional and I guess, looking back, like the cockpit of a military aircraft.
I'm a tempest/typhoon fan too, I think it's the Muscle car aesthetic, like the F4U, the Fw190 and the Sea Fury too. Ive always found it odd that there hasn't been any on the airshow circuit, the closest Ive seen was a really late model spitfire with the tempest chin intake thing going on.