That’s why, thanks to “a substantial number of complaints sent to Congress” a 1973 law that required seatbelts to be fastened before a car could be started was eliminated in October 1974.
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My dad flew transports in WWII and came away from the war convinced of the value of seatbelts. I was born in 1948 and my first memory is of the family’s ‘52 Lincoln in which he’d installed current-era aircraft lap belts. From the time I was a pup, I was accustomed to wearing belts in cars. I don’t think twice about…
I went to Dallas to talk to John Redding about the 1966 Datsun 1600 Roadster that’s been hidden away in his storage…
I wonder what his knowledge is of the other Toyota sports car from the 1960s, the Sports 800. The story goes that the car was a massive hit in Japan, released in 1965. In ‘67, Toyota sent 41 Sports 800s to the then only 41 dealers in the US (Zinn being one of them I’m sure), only to have the US dealers write back sort…
One of Robert Zinn’s earliest memories is of riding around in the back with his two older brothers in a boxy…
“So you subtract 1 from D, which gives you four numbers all divisible by 3.” Seems legit.
It goes way deeper than that, my friend.
The reason the Monarch and Meteor brands existed in Canada is because many towns were remote and only had one dealer. That could be either a Ford or Mercury dealer and either dealer was expected to offer a full range of products at every price point. So Ford dealer sold rebadged Mercuries as Monarchs and Mercury sold…
...and those lionine sections appear to have come from the coat of arms of Richard the Lionheart, which was used until about 1340:
The only way I’d support this is if he filled the car with coke and then drank the gas.
They’re actually 10th out of 27 for 2017.
we have owned 3 and they have be excellent and super reliable
That’s all fine - except for the externalities. It’s one thing for Joe Driver to make a decision for himself that he wants to work 80 hour weeks because that’s what it takes to earn the kind of money he needs to (support his lifestyle, or feed his kids, or dig his way out of the debt accumulated due to a medical…
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Nobody ever claimed that the Z32 Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo was a reliable vehicle. Here’s one of the reasons why.
This is true of EVERY 80's GM car............
That is the GM way.
The sad thing is that later examples had decent build quality and the design gremlins had been worked out. But by then, public opinion had been set against them.
I saw one of these at a Houston Cars & Coffee and completely lost my mind.
One Omega (or Carlton) to rule them all.
When you desire performance, but you need to show you’ve got some class as well, there is but one way to go: Oldsmobile SportOmega.