trinacriabob
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My Dad bought the Cutlass Supreme new and then added an ultra-low mileage Regal of the same year that a British lady in L.A. was selling just because "it was there." The Cutlass was Olds 350 V8 powered and the Regal had the odd-firing 3.8 V6. The amount of room under the hood was absurd, but it was severely underpowered. Now, did you have the opera-windowed coupe or the fastback coupe with more triangular rear quarter window? V6 or V8? That Century with the opera window and the lean-back triple-slat grille was interesting. You didn't see many then and you don't see many now. Every now and then, I will actually see a 76 or 77 Regal coupe.
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Little Havana
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Well, except for its praying-mantis front grille, the Grand Prix is sleek while the Charger is bloated...IMO. Polarizing can get gauged by having created two camps: the "gotta have it" and the "can't stand it" groups. I think it's safe to say many Chrysler products today would get that reaction.
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I disagree that good design will offend many people. If you want to talk architecture, for example, not everyone thinks Frank Gehry is good design while many people think Richard Meier or IM Pei are purveyors of good design. The "safer" stuff need not be vanilla. Case in point: the wedgier (than the year before) 76 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme coupe with its trademark rectangular lamps and waterfall grille. In its day, there was no better looking mainstream automobile. The result: 512,000 sold in ONE year. And normal people were buying them. The association with 300/Charger is pimp and gangsta all the way. At least half of the ones I see are being driven around by some dirtbag, with windows shaded and blingy wheels. Then throw in a couple of lime colored Chargers here and there. Their polarization runs down the line. The PT cruiser was polarizing....an obnoxious little statement of sorts. The Sebring is not well put together at all (I've rented a couple) and the 4-cylinder is noisy and the shift quality is poor. Then, their big trucks -- I wonder what the demographic studies show for the big Dakota or Ram with the bombastic grille -- probably "third leg challenged." When you see who drives those, you say "yep." When you see who is behind the wheel of the comparable Chevy or GMC product, you can't make such generalizations. Normal people buy those.
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Bom dia and Wwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkkkkkeeeeeeeeeeeeee uuuuuuuuuuppppppppp!!! It's officially your birthday in YOUR time zone, so have a great birthday, Pedro! I had to make sure I started this thread and beat "the hairy one" to it! :rotflmao:
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Does everyone :rotflmao: when they see this guy? Unbelievable! Is it raining there today?
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That's cool. If that's want you want. The only "accessory" I have is my watch... I assumed you were Italian...from the photo and from the general area you live in (we lived in Teaneck NJ for a brief time).
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Y M C A (is there an icon for musical sounds?)
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egg foo yung
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Where's that taken...a lake, the Hudson River? Looks like a nice area.
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Since you haven't, please don't. Besides, think about how much baby food and baby toys you can buy with what you would pay for that "art," if that's what you want to call it. Not only that, it brands you as belonging to an era. When you're older and you're at the beach or at the gym, people will look and say "oh, look at that (insert name of generation/decade)." The same is true of every decade's fads. No one would be caught dead in disco clothes (70s) or leg-warmers (80s). At least, people can discard those because they are not affixed to you.
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cruise control
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