First Oldsmobile =gone.Now Pontiac=gone.I guess Buick,Cadillac are next.They'll (GM)probably just end up making Chevys.The "old days" are fast disappearing.----------Edit=How many nice old cars have you owned??????????
I have a lot of interaction with younger folks, and I find it VERY HARD to keep from making references to stuff that happened way before they were born. The old ways are passing away, and new ways are coming to take their place... such is the way of the world... this is always how it has been and always will be. (dig the irony in that statement!) Learn to ride the waves. Now you know why your grandparents would sometimes just smile but not explain what they were thinking about... they were looking back at a world that used to exist that had passed away into something new.
Yes ,the only constant is change.I was a teenager in the 50s when the cars were ridiculously huge with their big fins and all,but really they were almost like sculptures.The 59 caddies and some of the Chrysler products and Chevies.Oh ,I guess I'm just nostalgic for the days when gas was 18 to 24 cents a gallon and I could buy cars from the 40s and fifties for 100 bucks or less.My first was a little 37 plymouth 2 door coupe with one seat I bought in '56 for 25 bucks.It was in perfect shape and I don't remember whatever happened to it.A few of the cool cars i have owned,all bought cheaply====3 '37 plymouths,one a four door--'47 Ford coupe---'49 Olds coupe---'50 olds 4 door---'55 Mercury--'39 La Salle--'40 plymouth 4 door--'56 buick 2 door hardtop,no post--'61 Chevy with a 348 engine and thrice carbs,and a bunch more.I just wish I had them all lined up in a garage--warehouse somewhere ,but that's the lament of most of all of us oldies.Including my '63 triumph TT 120 and my Cushman Eagle (gone,of course)I've probably had 150 vehicles over my lifetime.Only one left is my '67 Marlin(which HH said was a god-damn ugly car!)ooooooo--that hurt.(Rear view's in my gallery).
Scratcho......I am absolutely with you on this one....I really hate to see us lose Chevys and Fords and Dodges and...... I know what some people are saying....we haven't lost them....yet.... I was watching that TV show on the History Channel the other night, Pawn Shop and the guys bought an old black '62 Lincoln Continental. Man, what a cool ride that was. I mean that thing was classy. Now we have SUVs, mazdas, hummers, toyots, and bullshit like that. I would take that old '62 Lincoln any day. ...Drove my chevy to the levee...I love playing that stuff on guitar....I mean it seems like we are losing a part of us if all this Americana goes. I'm not overly sentimental but damn...sometimes its just too much. I mean what's next, apple pie?
All the new cars,at least for some years, look like jellybeans.I think Chrysler has been trying tho with some pretty cool looking cars.Saw a Plymouth Prowler a few days ago.I had forgotten all about those.Man ,those were differant.-And---NO APPLE PIE FOR YOU!! Next will be mom.
I have to chuckle about this. My first ever real date was with a boy who had a 1951 Plymouth. It was as plain and ordinary as a car could be, but I didn't care. At least I could scrunch over and snuggle next to him as he drove
Well, don't know how nice they were but my first was a '57 Chevy Got it in '66 at Ft. Meade Md. Seems the Army bought a fleet that year. Under the burgundy was olive drab. This was a beautiful car (tho whipped). My second car was a '56 Ford. It too was a mess - seems cars then didn't really last more than 10 years. I was in love with the design of this car since I was 12 years old - and for a while had one.
