Are you sure they haven't been smoking that "laffin' t'bacca"?

Yes, but can they handle Canada's legendary Red Rose Tea...especially after seeing this classic 1960 TV spot for it:

Yes, the animation is lamer than Bob Hope's "comedy" was back then, but the White Hat Specials usually included an A-727 Torqueflite at no extra charge...a savings of around 10% of the car's sticker price (if all the stuff in the WHS package was ordered separately).

As I'm buyng a house, that means there's one more for whoever wants it.

And to think that the guy who designed these...Dave Holls...was a neighbor of mine at the time, who had a 1930 Caddy V-12 Roadster (among other things) in his collection, which he kept housed at a building down the street from where station wagons were made into Amblewagons.

Good to see any Chaparrals in motion, be it the first one, the 2C or the later ones ("sucker" car anyone?)

What The General needs to do is to create awareness the way it did back in the '60s...by getting those not yet old enough to drive to go absolutely bonkers about your current (& hopefully, the upcoming) product line by getting images/replicas of 'em into the cute little hoons-to-be's hands.

It looks like its designers watched WAAY too many episodes of the Gerry & Sylvia Anderson kid show "Supercar," which they did in Britain in 1960 (filmed in "SUPERMARIONATION!", as well as in glorious black & white).

Bet that a lot of folks who were heading to the Chicago lakefront for Taste Of Chicago really appreciated getting a whiff of that on a hot July day.

Actually, today's gold Merc is a '72—the virtually-identical '71s had a horizontal-pattern grille instead of the "egg crate" seen here. No biggie—that was about the only change, other than one character on the VIN number, from '71 to '72.

Call me a relic, call me what you will...say I'm old fashioned, say I'm over the hill...

Unless you're riding shotgun in said BMW's (or are a rear-seat passenger), fuck the iPhone/BMW interface...

That's Joost what I needed.

For you Pixar folks who like to view Jalopnik while working, how about these three wagons as characters in "CARS 2"?

Again, you guiys have picked a bunch of "winners", but I'll go with the 1961-62 Plymouths & Dodges, as mentioned above.

That is a car worthy of a movie where it "stars" as a badass vehicle, like the old tanker in Steven Spielberg's "Duel", harassing another vehicle (Prius? Segway?).

How about the '57 Chrysler 300C convertible that Chicago PD Lt. Mike Torello (played by Dennis Farina, a former Chicago cop) on the Michael Mann-produced 1986-88 series "Crime Story"?

Per the AP, the winner is deceased (IIRC, he died in 1979), so the Belvi will go to his heirs.

The Freep's sucked potatoes since before the big 1967-68 newspaper strike that damn near killed it and The News, IMHO.

All of the above, plus the '66 Dodge Coronet Deluxe four-door sedan that I saw in Don Garlits' museum with a factory-installed 426 Hemi.