And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
That wagon's more than enough most families needed and still need. The current SUVs and 4 Door Pickups are nothing more than overpriced, ego boosting plumage for insecure dudes who talk their wives into "needing" them because in a crash the big pieces of overpriced crap will keep the soccer mom and the brats safe.
Dear Boggy I have a mind exercise for you. Park that wagon beside a 4 door pickup truck, not one of the 4 wheel drive high in the sky ones just a 2 wheel drive standard. now compare seating, leg room, and head room, front and back including head room getting in and out. not much difference. 1st they cramped our full size cars out of existence then took the downsized ones and turned them into jellybeans with a low raked roof line. Then the mini van, that wonderful people mover ( we had a first gen dodge, great room to get in the front seats) turned them into spaceships with so much windshield rake that I cannot get in to the front without hitting my head or ducking in head first. So people went to SUVs. same thing, had a first gen Honda CRV, nice enough and a square roof line, now another damn jelly bean, have to duck to or squeeze to get into my wife's new one. Well guess what that leaves trucks, quite similar to a 57 chevy if you compare. People don't like tight jellybeans, period. The best full size cars built in my mind were the 1977 on downsized gm's great headroom and roomy inside!
I'd take both.
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Would have guessed a Bel Air wagon. 2 tail lights. Impala had 3.
DeleteThat wagon's more than enough most families needed and still need. The current SUVs and 4 Door Pickups are nothing more than overpriced, ego boosting plumage for insecure dudes who talk their wives into "needing" them because in a crash the big pieces of overpriced crap will keep the soccer mom and the brats safe.
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DeleteI have a mind exercise for you. Park that wagon beside a 4 door pickup truck, not one of the 4 wheel drive high in the sky ones just a 2 wheel drive standard. now compare seating, leg room, and head room, front and back including head room getting in and out. not much difference. 1st they cramped our full size cars out of existence then took the downsized ones and turned them into jellybeans with a low raked roof line. Then the mini van, that wonderful people mover ( we had a first gen dodge, great room to get in the front seats) turned them into spaceships with so much windshield rake that I cannot get in to the front without hitting my head or ducking in head first. So people went to SUVs. same thing, had a first gen Honda CRV, nice enough and a square roof line, now another damn jelly bean, have to duck to or squeeze to get into my wife's new one. Well guess what that leaves trucks, quite similar to a 57 chevy if you compare. People don't like tight jellybeans, period. The best full size cars built in my mind were the 1977 on downsized gm's great headroom and roomy inside!
and PS my wife and CHILDREN are far more important to me than you. Do not call them brats to my face you might get hurt
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I recall riding in the very back of one but ours was blue. Love the windup back window. And probably no seat belts other than Mom's arm.
ReplyDeleteMemories of camping trips with Dad, in his red and white '56 Ford wagon. The first new car he ever bought, at 37 years old.
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I still remember riding my bike home and my stepfather comes down the road in his 61 Ford wagon, tells me to grab a door handle and he'll give a tow.
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