On 03/21/2010 03:03 PM, Ross Sauer -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 RS> "Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
 RS> 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.

 RS> I call them junk because they were steel blocks with fins.

I don't care why you call them junk.

 RS> The stylists were given just about entirely free rein to layer on as much
 RS> crap as they wanted to, meanwhile the ads for cars were selling fairy tales
 RS> about the cars, treating drivers like they were little kids.

Nothing have changed WRT designers and ads. They still treat drivers like children.

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

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

I know several people who still drive cars from that era. Some of them have
only had regular maintenance. You don't know what you are talking about.
Cars today have shorter lifespans than those of the 50s and 60s.

Ed

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