"PETER COGGON -> ROSS SAUER"  wrote in
news:20575$MATZDOBRE{at}JamNNTPd:

 PC> G'Morning Ross, and all....

 -=>> Quoting Ross Sauer to Peter Coggon <=-

 PC>>    Hmmmm, seem to remember the GM ... "See the USA in your
 PC>   Chevrolet"!

 RS>> That was before my time, but I have sen videos of those Dinah
 PC>   Shore RS> ads. They were cute.

 PC>    That I remember from that show and Pat Boone's ...  How old are
 PC>    you?
 PC> If you remembered the GM ads... how can my "see the USA in
your Chev"
 PC> be before your time?   I remember my uncle and family tooling about
 PC> in their 59 Chevs .... my other cousin had a Rambler stationwagon
 PC> with Overdrive... 

I was born in 59.

 RS>> Not to mention the horribly impractical and simply ugly body
 PC>   styles, RS> way too much sheet metal going into gimmicks like those
 PC>   horrendous fins RS> on cars.

 PC>     There were a lot of teens that liked the 63 Impala ... but yeah I
 PC> remember the fins...they all had them, and they all flew off the
 PC> highway in the winds or skidded in the winter...or flew into the
 PC> ditches.

I remember reading about a 59 Caddy that killed someone standing still,
a kid ran into that huge fin and it killed him.

 RS>> I think the most blame here goes to Harley Earl.
 RS>> He ran GM like his own little kingdom, and they simply made
 PC>   lousy RS> cars.

 PC>     Fashion sells cars, and made he was responding to what the
 PC>     customer
 PC> wanted.  As for being lousy, well many might disagree if they
 PC> are chevy fans...etc...we all have names for the other manufacturer.

 RS>> There's a Youtube video of two GM cars being crash-tested by
 PC>   running RS> them into each other at high speed, one a near brand-new
 PC>   one, the RS> other a 1950's GM car.
 RS>> VERY big difference!

 PC>     Yes... thicker metal in the 50s GM car.  The newer cars have
 PC>     lighter
 PC> material and then technology and mmmm someone told me better mileage.

The biggest difference I noticed was the driver's area was nearly intact
in the new car, while all sorts of intrusions shoved up into the
driver's area of the 50's car.

 RS>> The big "safety push" nowadays is stopping people from texting
 PC>   while RS> driving.
 RS>> Face it, people are going to be stupid and continue doing that.

 PC>      They passed laws here and there, and it still goes on.  People
 PC> are people Ross.

Yup.

 RS>> It is March, it's going to be better weather now.

 PC>      I hope you get to cycle in peace!   What happened to our
 PC> Hummer title?   Oh well it is a dead item here too...More
 PC> Jeeps offroad in the bush then that useless thing.

 PC>      My wife wants me to fix her shore bike, we carry on the boat
 PC> and also my other 3 bikes and give them away and buy a new
 PC> light weight one.    My bikes are aged.... from the 1970s and
 PC> while still fixable, the technology in bikes is a lot better
 PC> and they are a lot lighter...My British made Raleigh is a tank.
 PC> hahahahaha

When I was a kid I had a Schwinn, that bike was a tank.
Could take a WI winter no sweat.

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