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

On Feb 20, 10:18 am, Frank Boettcher <fboettc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:22:13 -0500, "J. Clarke"



<jclarke.use...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Frank Boettcher wrote:
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:00:50 -0800, "Lew Hodgett"
<lewhodg...@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.

Oh yeah? Try crossing the US border from Canada with a load of whisky
and a car full of drunk Tommy-gun-totin' gangsters smoking big cigars!
In one of these:

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o290/Robatoy/Bucciali.jpg

Damn, I love the looks of that thing... and such a super-cool logo/
badge.

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o290/Robatoy/1932LOGO.jpg

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