Shangas
I'll Lock Up
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I prefer to drive 'Twenties machines, but find many 'Thirties designs to be beautiful. My favorite being the 1935 Chrysler CZ Airstream:
That...is...STUNNING!!
I prefer to drive 'Twenties machines, but find many 'Thirties designs to be beautiful. My favorite being the 1935 Chrysler CZ Airstream:
Someone at Pontiac had courage (or SOMETHING). They brought us the Aztec.
When it comes to modern cars I must say that I do like the PT Cruiser.
Funny, exactly what I thought of when Shangas said that.
I heard, whether or not it's true, that the Aztek was a design of many people put together. Needless to say, their ideas didn't jive.
Oh, and vent windows. I want vent windows or it's no deal.
And one day I hope to just withdraw from this modern society and either go live in a cottage in the woods somewhere or start a 1930s themed commune.
I'll agree with many on this thread, that somehow the definition of "quality" has changed without any notice.
We just threw away a lamp that gave out after only 5yrs. Dern thing was $150 dollars!!!
It's not the cost that bothers me, it's the short length of time before the whole thing quit working.
I'd gladly buy a modern car if I could find one without all the encrustations that cars have now -- I don't have any need for power windows or power locks, and living where I do, where the winters are long and cold, they are a real disadvantage: they freeze shut and can't be opened until the temperatures go up. I don't have any need for AC -- it's only hot enough for it two weeks out of the year here, so why waste the money on it? I don't have any need for GPS -- I know how to read a road map, and I hardly ever drive anywhere I need one. I don't have any need for a super-duper sound system -- I listen to AM radio or cassettes of 78s. I don't need power seats or DVD players or any of the rest of that stuff. Creature comforts aren't important to me -- it's a car, it isn't a house, and I think if you get too comfortable in a car you get lazy. When you're just uncomfortable enough you're paying attention to what you're doing.
So. Build me a stripped down, non-computerized, simple car with a very basic manual transmission, a cheap radio, a heater, and roll-down windows, a 21st Century equivalent of a Plymouth Roadking, and I'll consider it. Oh, and vent windows. I want vent windows or it's no deal.
I think it has been discussed here;
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?11170-Our-own-vintage-town/page143
But maybe we should start a new thread, because to me this is a very serious realistic plan.
I started a facebook group for it;
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1930scommune
How I love 1930's cars. It seems that there was a free reign on design on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1930's. Whilst Jaguar, or SS as it was known before the rise of Hitler's Gestapo, was a much coveted beauty, I would just love to find, asleep in a barn somewhere, the magnificent MG WA. This particular car was at this year's Goodwood Revival.I prefer to drive 'Twenties machines, but find many 'Thirties designs to be beautiful. My favorite being the 1935 Chrysler CZ Airstream:
And one day I hope to just withdraw from this modern society and either go live in a cottage in the woods somewhere or start a 1930s themed commune.
How I love 1930's cars. It seems that there was a free reign on design on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1930's. Whilst Jaguar, or SS as it was known before the rise of Hitler's Gestapo, was a much coveted beauty, I would just love to find, asleep in a barn somewhere, the magnificent MG WA. This particular car was at this year's Goodwood Revival.