"Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
news:20594$MATZDOBRE{at}JamNNTPd:

 RS>>>> Cars from the late 50's and early 60's were sheet-metal
 EH>>> montrosities with RS> overpowered engines.

 EH>>> You are an idiot.

 RS>>>> They were junk.

 EH>>> Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

 EH>>> You haven't a clue about which you speak.

 RS>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMK1WZjP7g

 EH> Safety has taken a leap in the positive, but that does not mean that
 EH> the cars in the 50s and 60s were junk.

 EH> They might have been less safe in an off center frontal crash, but
 EH> they are far from junk.

I call them junk because they were steel blocks with fins.
The stylists were given just about entirely free rein to layer on as much
crap as they wanted to, meanwhile the ads for cars were selling fairy tales
about the cars, treating drivers like they were little kids.

The average lifespan of a late 50's, early 60's car was a few years.
It was planned obsolencese at it's worst.

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