Like this I guess
eh, the kids love it.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 8:04
PM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re:
Crusher Alert/1000+ cars/Georgia
Hate to tell this but you are wrong - not
trying to pick an arguement, but people relate to what they grew up with -
Think about that - that is the reason that 90 percent of you are in love
with your AMC products - Just like I like those and the Kaisers - it's what
we knew when we were teenagers that sticks with us. My neighbout had a
37 McLaughlin Buick Century Coach with sidemounts - Always admired that car
and would love to have one someday - but how many relate to that??? very few
except perhaps true enthusiasts, and anyone who was familiar with them way
back when. How many of to-days youth know what a 51 Ford Coupe or a 51 Merc.
Coupe was, or have any desire to own one???? but ask them about something
to-day that is common, and they relate to it. How may of you have any
desire to own a Model"A"??? not many I would guess, but if you had one when
you were a kid, I bet you would like to have one now. History repeats
- and a lot of the old timers who owned those old wrecking yard
understood that, and those that are left are doing well with
them.
Tom
The old cars wether they were shitbox's or prestige automobiles.the fact
that they could be made into hotrods or be classics when they got old
are the reasons why they are acceptable today. You cannot tell me that one day
a 91 Ford Escort will be a car worthy of restoring unless you mounted the body
on a monster truck frame and shoehorned a fire breathing 572 cubed BB chevy in
it. When cars become plastic riddin fwd 4 banger turds it killed the future of
hot rodding and welding on a fart can and putting 67 hairdryers under the hood
doesn't make it a hot rod either. The last cars that are fairly new or new
that will be worth a damned or the-04-06 GTO, 08-09 G8's 82-92
Camaro/Firebird/Trans Am, 93-02 Camaro/Firebrid/Trans Am 79-93 Mustang 94-04
Mustang 05-? Mustang and 2010 -? Camaro 08-? Challenger and maybe a few others
but all in all your average fwd 4 banger shitbox won't be worth looking at in
the future. We need to quit comparing these abominations to Model T's and
other classics of the era. The Gremlin was the target of alotta jokes back in
the day and even today but it being a steel rear drive car gave it near
endless potential
Bart
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