Jalopnik 
Enter your username and password.
-
posts about #jonathanschipper more → Look, Two Pontiacs Kissing!
Nooooo! Two Sweet Pontiacs Destroyed For Sake Of Art
Detroit, 4:55 AM
Tue Dec 1
29 posts in the last 24 hours
Tip your editors:
tips@jalopnik.com
Editor-in-Chief:
Ray Wert | Email | AIM
Road Test Editor:
Wes Siler | Email
Weekend Editor:
Murilee Martin | Email
Associate Editor - Houston:
Matt Hardigree
Associate Editor - Detroit:
Ben Wojdyla
Editor-at-Large:
Mike Spinelli
Contributors:
Mark Arnold
John Krewson | Email
Andy Didorosi
| posts about #jonathanschipper more → |
Look, Two Pontiacs Kissing! |
Nooooo! Two Sweet Pontiacs Destroyed For Sake Of Art |
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
05/14/09
05/14/09
Firebirds in the night exchanging glances
Wondering in the night
What were the chances we'd be sharing paint
Before the night was through.
Something in your lights was so inviting,
Something in your grill was so exciting,
Something in my carb,
Told me I must hit you.
Firebirds in the night, two lonely Pontiacs
We were Firebirds in the night
Up to the moment
When we bent our first fender.
Little did we know
Love was just a twisted bumper away,
A warped embracing crumple zone away and -
Ever since that night we've been together.
Twisted metal what a sight, we're stuck together.
It turned out so right,
For Firebirds in the night.
05/14/09
05/14/09
05/14/09
05/14/09
05/14/09
The only problem is that art is meant to be eternal; Brilliance automobile crash test results indicate that they are transient at best.
05/14/09
05/14/09
05/14/09
[www.torontosun.com]
I tipped the Overlords, but who knows if they'll post it?!?!
05/14/09
Depends on your definition of lucky, I guess.
05/14/09
05/14/09
Really, prior to the stunning decision to shut it down, the truck plant had been one of the jewels in the GM Canada crown. Always has been. Building trucks has been a staple from 1919 when 675 Chevy trucks rolled off the line that very first year. In 1923, GMC trucks were introduced. It took until 1958 before the one millionth truck rolled off the line, 1973 before the two millionth hit the streets.
During the Second World War, Canadian Military Pattern vehicles were produced by Canadian automakers and General Motors and Ford complied, going at it full force and combining to produce about 800,000 vehicles. GM came through with about 400,000 of those so-called CMP vehicles which helped win the war, cranking them out between 1940-45.
A new south Oshawa truck plant opened in 1964. It was revamped two decades later when a more modern facility, which opened in 1987, helped produce better trucks and paved the way for the award-winning GMC Sierra and Chevy Silverado. And just before that devastating announcement last June, GM was even considering building hybrid versions of the pair in Oshawa. It was a nice vision for the 21st century, until more mundane realities -- high gas prices and the recession of 2008 -- intervened.
To all those who ever worked in the truck plant, who bought the trucks made there and who loved and cared about General Motors, we salute you. It's been a great 90 years.
05/14/09
05/14/09
05/14/09
05/14/09
Modern art is such a sham. I once went to the Smithsonian Museum of Art, and in the Modern Art section, their centerpiece at the time was an 8'x8' white canvas square with a two-inch thick red line painted halfway through it.
After that moment, I lost a great deal of respect for both Art and the Smithsonian.
05/14/09
05/14/09
05/14/09
&ViperBorg - SpaceBat hates Facebook:
Maybe we can buff Jonny right out!
05/14/09
What is he going to crash now?
05/14/09
05/14/09
Sorry, but you struck a chord with me.
05/14/09
05/14/09
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
First comes love
Then comes marriage
Then comes plastic cladded badge-engineered crap
05/14/09
05/14/09
Haha...
I hate to say this..
But that doesnt rhyme..
And Yes.. there is a whole LOT of F'ing going on in the land of GM badge enginnered stuff.
WHOLE LOT!
05/14/09
05/14/09
05/14/09
05/14/09
05/14/09
Fine, but Megan Fox is way finer.
05/14/09
05/14/09
05/14/09
05/14/09
Tickets will be free.
Everyone will get to chose if they want to dip their shoes in glue then broken glass, nails or vinegar filled sponges. The choice will be yours.
I will call this exhibit "Satisfaction Avenged."
05/14/09
05/14/09
05/14/09
05/14/09
05/14/09
Why can't you leave Firebirds alone?
I hate you.
Love,
pauljones
05/14/09
05/14/09
05/14/09