Just think - if the Barracuda and Marlin had taken off like the Ford Mustang did (and done so before the Mustang), we’d be calling them fish cars instead of pony cars.
Free my ass. Mine cost 35k!
Don’t be thinking small. Think BIG. Think Continental. Think New Yorker. Think Delta 88. Tbink about all those smooth-riding malaise-yachts with 150 horsepower lumps. Imagine doubling or tripling the power of one of those things and gliding along in silent splendor...
Related to this is the bug factor. I live in Florida. We have bugs; lots of bugs. If you hit the wiper too soon, you get smearing. During love bug season, you can literally blind yourself. If you let the rain soak into the bug splatter a bit, this smearing is minimized.
Hot + Hatch. Seems like its describing a quick car with a big door on the back. Says nothing about the transmission.
So Iacocca nixed it and we got the Mustang. The rest of the world made VW derivatives for Torch to ruminate. Win-Win!
I’ve had family go back to visit and they all come back saying they wished they never went because of the sadness that it brings them. Perhaps for people who are distanced from the entire history of the island should go and visit just to see what it’s like. I’ve had friends who are non-Cuban go and tell me that it’s a…
no one wearing seatbelt.. no one wearing any helmet :D
Ha. They won’t win any beauty shows. But something about them just brightens my day a bit.
Worked at a similar place, seen a kid drain the oil, then start the car, it took at least 30 seconds before he realized what he did and shut the car off. Put oil in it and handed the keys to the owner.
Why would someone bring a car to a stealership for maintenance in the first place? It's not like they use special oil, or use their actual technicians for the oil change. It will be the same 18 year old that doesn't care changing your oil, that it would be at Jiffy Lube, which would be cheaper. On top of that, places…