Jurassic Park theme? You mean the one that borrows the riff from:

I have 22 of them but not the Edsel, unfortunately...

Into little pieces.

"My wife wanted to go to the store early to get her potato gloves, so I got her a potato clock."

With two minor exceptions.

And Detroit's answer to the Japanese and Europeans?

There used to be a ton of abandoned cars in my somewhat rural neighborhood when I was a kid (around 1970). Case in point:

If those guys want a real challenge, this somewhat modified '57 is for sale in Cuba:

License number might help - it's not on the Facebook page either. Also:

I recall it being around $11,000 with automatic and AM/FM cassette; I was too buzzed about buying my first new car to be a good haggler. The next Monday, my boss reminded me that his brother was the credit manager at Upland Ford and could have put me in a new Tempo for the same price. In retrospect, it's just as well…

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Just for clarity, here's the site from Google Maps (the green arrow points to the light pole they hit). Looks like they were going northeast on Hercules, coming out of the curve onto the straight when it happened.

Similar story here: in March of 1988 I had just enough money and credit to think about a nicer used car. The salesman at Westway Lincoln-Mercury whisked me away from the five-year-old Cutlass I was eyeing and off to the showroom we went... He showed me a dark blue Yugo which I didn't even want to test drive because it…

When they can keep the bulldozers from being stolen.

I wouldn't call this "demo derby" per se; more like a mashup of autocross and banger racing. Looks like a lot of fun, whatever you call it.

Thanks for the clarification - Time magazine had a less informed opinion of him, I guess. This article used to be available for free online:

Can't believe nobody's mentioned the Borgward yet. The sedans were a bit dowdy, but no worse than many other imports being brought into the US in those heady days of the late '50s when you could franchise damn near anything here (including Skoda and Wartburg). The coupes were sharp little cars, well-built with decent…

With what the toy Testarossa sold for, I wonder how much you'd get for one of these today? $399.95 was the price of a decent beater used car in 1960.