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08/09/09
I love those little thumbnail cartoons in the Vauxhall ad: It has a big nose to better smash unruly boys; contains both a speedometer AND a fuel gauge; the rear window is included, even though they couldn't be bothered to build the middle of the back seat.
But I would totally rock that Daimler, if it didn't have a slushbox. Why, it's practically the practical man's Rolls Royce!
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They were saying that even before my parents were born. Valentino Balboni put it well when he said 'You have to become one piece only.' With a manual transmission, you are an integral piece of the machine, stirring coals deep in the heart of the fire, while computer controls have very little need of you being there, and would eliminate you entirely if they could. Silicon transistors do not require and do not respond to any change of force or delicacy, reason or subtlety; they are creatures of absolutes. And while their absolutes and boundaries have been made smaller, they have become far greater in number, their scope more expansive, their control more complete, your input less relevant. You are placed ever further from the nerve center of the machine, replaced by digital senses. The tide has turned: destroyers of machinery gave Luddites their name, but now it is the machines, electrified and calculating, that destroy the human.
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Not sure it's technically post-war, but have to have a Bently
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@Murilee Martin: There is one with the guy running from a shiny side up Gremlin, but I agree with your sentiment.
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This is a British car company, so clearly they're referring to some strange kind of traditional Druid witchcraft alchemy unfamiliar to us Americans.... you know, you bring home some hay today, shape a few handfuls of strands of it into an effigy of a chicken, whisper some incantations under the light of a full moon, burn the straw chicken effigy; then mysteriously, the next morning you have a yardful of chickens.
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Forget Corvettes. Porsches, and Ferraris. You're not going to win over the really cultured hot babes unless you drive a 1954 Wolseley. Never mind that it's built on a stretched Morris Minor platform and only might manage 75 mph with a strong tailwind. Sex appeal is more important than these trivial concerns, right?
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Wrong.
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The most amazing feature of these finny MoPars is the tailfin modification for the wagon. Chevy just left the 57 fins, for example, as they were, protruding past the rear gate. MoPar brilliantly angled them forward, so they are not really fins at all anymore but have the same tail light config. One of my favorite adaptations ever.
Why yes, I'm an idiot; why do you ask?
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Both outside key operated or driver remote controlled, your choice for expedient decapitations. Just one more great feature on Plymouth for '57.
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Same fins (but with the added triple-taillight bonus), 9-passenger capacity, and a dual-quad.. on a 341 hemi.
05/17/09
1. Wagons require rear overhang to be roomy.
2. Rear overhang balances out the design and makes it attractive.
3. Without rear overhang you have to make the vehicle tall and blocky and ugly.
4. Lack of rear overhang gives us sedans that have theoretically big trunks that you can't load with anything big because of the mail slot sized decklids.
5. We won't have good looking cars again until we start putting some car behind the rear wheels!
05/17/09
Tahoe: ugly and oddly-proportioned. Suburban: a bit less ugly, correctly-proportioned. The colour makes a difference - but not that much difference.
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Well, the doors help too, because of the fat pillars - the longer doors help keep 'em in proportion.
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See? I can save Chrysler!
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My buddy has a Magnum r/t, isn't much of a sports car but it can haul...
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