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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