Almost too good for the name "Dart". They should have gone back a couple years further and called a "Lancer".

Chevy's built an egg with three doors

It looks like they took every model from the past sixty years, ran them through a blender and ended up with a car that looks like it smelled a fart on both ends.

IMHO, Ed Welburn is the THIRD true styling head GM has had. The other two, of course, were Harley Earl and Bill Mitchell. Earl and Mitchell pretty much had a free hand where Welburn is forced to work with all manner of constraints - from size to government mandates. When cars started to become smaller, Bill…

I'm sorry I'm late to this party because I know that everyone at GM and, especially Cadillac, is asking, "yeah, but what does doug-g think? Get Wert pronto and see if he's heard anything yet!!!"

I'm not sure of the state of the art of taxidermy back then; they could have stuffed him and put him behind the wheel of a Model T. That would have been cool. We know they weren't Jewish so there were no time constraints and the options were limitless. The lack of creative thinking was obvious at Ford even then. …

Looks like they could have whipped something up in house, it's not like they didn't own a car company.

No, the woman who jumped off the Hollywood sign was Peggy Entwistle. Peggy was related to Brian Keith, if memory serves me, who also offed himself.

They had to carry the original Henry Ford in a Packard back in 1947.

Looks like they added mirrors to the front fenders since the Dad died in '94. If you look closely at the black and white pics, it looks like bubbles under the vinyl roof on the "C" pillar (or is that a "D" pillar on this limo?) Rust is a common problem under the vinyl roof of this generation of American cars.

I read the story and it sounds to me like the guy's fiancee is jinxed as it only happens when she is in the car.

Whenever an accident occurs, there are people who immediately jump out of their cars to render assistance and others who begin looking for a path around the carnage so they can get on with their lives. I fall firmly into the latter group and sometimes question myself about it.

Mitt Romney, Melvin Dummar and now David Dopp. Are all Mormons idiots?

If this had been a Ferrari he could have just set it on fire and no one would doubt him.

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"Risky and forward-reaching"? How is stealing the pinched grill off a 1961 Plymouth forward-reaching. Fifty years later people still look at the front (actually the entire design) of a '61 Plymouth, scratch their heads and ask, "what were they thinking?" This is Lexus' "new" design language? What, Ford still hold…

I was indirectly led to Curbed Detroit by Morning Shift. It's rare that I have my senses assaulted on so my fronts before I've had my first cup of coffee; the kitchen is a particular horror. I guess we should be thankful the house itself is still there with many original period details intact.

CP. The man must have been single as his wife at some point would have gone into the garage, seen he was nuts and called for help.

I shared this about a year ago, but perhaps a refresher is in order.

I thought the ad said "as is"... I always have to wait for you to post and then reply because COTD is the one place where I always have the failed comment issue. Imagine not being able to comment and congratulate someone for a good comment. Irony!