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| Thread ID: 93419 | 2008-09-16 01:29:00 | For Surfer Joe, as America goes into crisis..... | Billy T (70) | PC World Chat |
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| 705466 | 2008-09-16 04:51:00 | Aaah yes Joe... but remember, there is a difference between arse and class. Ken :) Totally agree there mate! I've met some classy arses in my day. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 705467 | 2008-09-16 05:01:00 | Which leads neatly to the next quote from the NYTimes about the Edsel "Among other things, it was derided for having a grille that looked like a toilet seat. Time magazine popularized the wisecrack that it looked like an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon." and "Edsel Every Day Someone Else Laughs" | PaulD (232) | ||
| 705468 | 2008-09-16 05:12:00 | Totally agree there mate! I've met some classy arses in my day . :cool: Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 705469 | 2008-09-16 05:42:00 | Oh gosh....it's nice to see that an icon of American industrial brilliance and pulse-feeling has found a (reclusive) home in a foreign land. There y'go SJ, I knew it would raise your pulse a few notches and put a (nostalgic) smile on your dial. :D The owner has a never-ending parade of aged and decrepit vehicles including trucks (not what you yanks call trucks though, those things are just clinically-obese utes) and busses parked outside, plus an icecream van on the front lawn. I don't know what he's about though, because he never seems to do anything to them or with them, though he takes the Edsel for a stroll every now and then. Are there many Edsels still running in the States? I should imagine they'd be quite valuable now. This one is really in quite good condition for its age, the paint looks original and there's very little rust showing. I think "industrial brilliance" is a bit strong though, and I'll bet the Edsel stopped more pulses than it raised, especially among the marketing team when sales failed to eventuate. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 705470 | 2008-09-16 06:05:00 | We have a lot of antiques running in SoCal . . . more than I can even muster in thoughts . They seem to live on forever here in No-Salt-On-The-Icy-Roads . . . . we don't get much snow at all . Satisfying as that may sound, my nephew when visiting from New Jersey was flabbergasted by the "replicas" running around on the streets as daily-drivers when he and I went to Huntington Beach one day . He was nonplussed by the fact that they were NOT fiberglass repli-cars and that they were OE metal without Bondo body filler to cover the rust out places we so amicably call "cancer" . The fact that we don't get body rot here makes the presence of these dragons and land yachts all the less a serious wow factor . I too have a few oldsters in the automotive category . . . although I am personally approaching the "antiquities" category myself . :sleep I see 1956 Packards, 1957 Chevys, 1958 Pontiacs and 1960 Cadillacs all the time . I am pretty well jaded . . . well . . . a nice 1958 Corvette gets me boiling a little . . . but they are exceptional even if plentiful . . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 705471 | 2008-09-16 06:10:00 | I often wonder what it is like to be completely devoid of taste. Those cars corner like an aircraft carrier. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 705472 | 2008-09-16 06:12:00 | You can't beat cubic horsepower.....cornering is for sissies who can't go fast in a straight line. But I guess if I had to drive a vehicle on a tabletop HO train set for an island, I'd be satisfied in going 'round and 'round. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 705473 | 2008-09-16 06:16:00 | You can't beat cubic horsepower.....cornering is for sissies who can't go fast in a straight line. But I guess if I had to drive a vehicle on a tabletop HO train set for an island, I'd be satisfied in going 'round and 'round. If you ring up Colin Chapman he will disagree,he left your yank tanks for dead at Indianapolis 500. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 705474 | 2008-09-16 06:26:00 | If you ring up Colin Chapman he will disagree,he left your yank tanks for dead at Indianapolis 500. We gotta start checking visas and green cards a little closer. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 705475 | 2008-09-16 06:30:00 | We gotta start checking visas and green cards a little closer. I don't think Colin needed the above to revolutionise the race cars. |
Cicero (40) | ||
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