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.
Cool-looking deathtrap, worthless windscreen, pointless tailfin. Classic Detroit HUTA mid-1950s thinking: form follows stupidity. Squandered a twenty-year technology advantage to get their lunch eaten by Europe and Japan. That wasn't Boomers' handiwork, it was the "Greatest Generation" at work. Suck it, Millennials. :)
Reminds me of our office toaster ...
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Looks like the Oldsmobile emblem on the hood and Buick 'exhaust ports' on the fender.
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Mmmm, bugs in the teeth. Protein for the day.
ReplyDeleteYes, and you need goggles.
DeleteNo rollbar either. Hope it never flips.
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ReplyDeleteForm over function. A very common theme in American cars of the period
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DeleteYou can see the hand formed aluminum work, beautiful job, those long transitional ogives, in matched left-rights are surely difficult to master.
ReplyDeleteCool-looking deathtrap, worthless windscreen, pointless tailfin. Classic Detroit HUTA mid-1950s thinking: form follows stupidity. Squandered a twenty-year technology advantage to get their lunch eaten by Europe and Japan.
ReplyDeleteThat wasn't Boomers' handiwork, it was the "Greatest Generation" at work.
Suck it, Millennials. :)
I'd call this car art before I would say the same for a pollard painting
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