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["Mahoney, John" <jmahoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>
MOST UGLY CARS I have ever seen, Warren Dorrill's "The Shark",
49 Ford ruination, it looks like an accident, really, and there's
nothing post-modern about it. Packard Pan-American -- "... whatis
unusual today may very well be the accepted thing of tomorrow"
<<

Shark attack?  From Ford

http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/334238/1
http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/334238/2

to forgotten independent,

http://www.hotrodhotline.com/feature/special/04sharkattak/index.html

old could be new again.

Teague talk?  Tomorrow,

http://www.desoto58.com/dreamcar/packard/balboa1.jpg

new things -were- accepted.

http://www.transmissioncenter.net/Packard3.jpg

http://www.webmycar.com/zonecar/webacarphoto.nsf/UNID/626F077F85E4D41FC1256D
AD005EDD3E/$FILE/xSony_0080061-vi.jpg

http://www.nfol.ca/naccc/jpeg_files/CarPics/efarrell_1964parklane/efarrell_1
964parklane49.JPG

AMC folks should at least know the "Gremlin" in Simca history,

http://www.bilhistorie.no/e70/lav36.jpg

but models from the earlier decades are far more interesting. 

>From the itsy-bitsy cute

http://n.v.v.free.fr/images/simca%205%2001%20h036.jpg

to the coachbuilt beauty 

http://www.allsportauto.com/modules.php?name=Sportphoto&zl_idMD=743

to the serious racing (bitte klicken "-->" three times at first link)

http://www.motor-klick.de/WueClassic2002/Hensler/page/image6.html

and

http://photo.popmonkey.com/9905wineclassic/9905group3/big/9905G3_42_Abarth_S
imca.jpg

and 

http://www.passionautomobile.com/gd_prix_pau_historique/2003/abarth_simca_20
00_gt.jpg

Simca is worth knowing

http://www.clubsimca.com/
  
as is Falk's '59 Peugeot

http://www.club-peugeot.com/sveitsi/JPG/columbo.jpg

(compare it to a '58 M-B

http://www.mbzponton.org/mbz220s/sellswap/mb_220SE_cabrio3.jpg

or Kenosha Duesenbergs and Cadillacs; more croissant/less dough?)

http://www.allsportauto.com/modules.php?name=Sportphoto&zl_idMD=168

http://www.columbo-site.freeuk.com/car.htm

worth knowing also.