Goofyernmost
Well-Known Member
And originally it was probably a spectacular two or three tone paint job.
I know mechanically we have better cars today. We have more bells and whistles now but, in the past, the body style changed almost every year and you could identify the make and year of the car without having to see the logo's or ask. The other day I was following a Porsche SUV. A $100,000+ car that looked almost exactly like a Kia. It doesn't even pass as a status symbol if you don't immediately recognise it as a Porsche. Why spend that much on a car that only a few would know from a Chevy? I guess I'm too old to understand the motivation. And they cost a fortune to repair when something breaks? Things do break no matter what you paid for an automobile.
This is probably going to make all the device lovers shake their heads, but in the days before all that stuff when September came around we would all pile into the car and go to every car dealer to see what the new cars for the coming year looked like and many a vehicle was purchased based on looks alone and many times why people always bought Fords, Chevy's, Buicks or whatever was more pleasing to their eye. You could always tell a General Motors car from Ford, Chrysler, American Motors, Studebaker or any other manufacturer. Currently most all car are white, silver, gray, black or an occasional red. You cannot tell one SUV from another. It's getting to the point where our eye's no longer need to contain color cones. The new black and white era. I noticed the other day that some make of SUV, when you look at the front it, looks like a Star Wars Stormtroopers helmet. Since the rest of is looks just like ever other, I don't know what the brand was.
