Re: OT: They don't style them like this anymore.

Frank Boettcher wrote:
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:22:13 -0500, "J. Clarke"
<jclarke.usenet@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Frank Boettcher wrote:
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:00:50 -0800, "Lew Hodgett"
<lewhodgett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Somebody wrote:

I think the last interesting year for American cars was
probably '59 or '60.

The only thing that can be said about those years is "..What a
friggin joke"

My first new car was from the '60 model year, I held my nose and
bought one out of necessity, not because I was impressed.

If you remember, '60 was the year that gave us the Corvair, the
Valient, and I forget what POS Ford was offering in competition.

Lew



Hey, I owned one of those Valiant's. 225 slant six, three on the
column, no air, no radio, rubber floor mats and vinyl seats. It
was
cheap, very reliable tranportation.

I and drove one of those upscale Corvairs, what was it called a
monza
or spider or whatever. An absolute thrill to drive. You never
had
to
slow for corners and it would stay absolutely flat in the turn.
Now
if they could have figured out how to keep that motor from falling
out
the back end........and if ole Ralph hadn't happend along....

Ford was offering the Falcon. Now there was an abomination, at
least
the entry level version.

My mother had one of those. So did my best friend in high school.
He was a bit out of touch with reality--he honestly believed that
driving his "Foulcoon" he could have beaten Peter Gregg in a works
Porsche because unlike Peter, he "didn't have anything to lose".
My
mother's wasn't bad for the time--kept your *** off the ground and
the rain off your head and got you to the grocery store. Drove
across the US twice in it with cats (the cats are significant
because with cats in the car you can't open the windows very far
lest there shortly after be fewer cats in the car) and that was
_not_ much fun especially since it was Jacksonville to San Diego in
the summer the first time. I think that that was the last
non-air-conditioned car she owned.

--
Imagine two adults, six kids, one large Russian wolfhound dog, one
parakeet in a cage and all the luggage and supplies necessary to
sustain them, Biloxi, MS to Severna Park, MD, and back in August in
one of those early model, six cylinder, non-air conditioned, Falcon
station wagons. I still have nightmares.

Ack. Horrors. I thought that _I_ had had a bad trip.


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