balthazar

I've still only seen right about 4 fiat 500s - they are NOT moving in central Jersey. Must be too appliance-esque for this region. As far as looks go- I think the Spark is hideous... tho I don't think I've seen ANY yet in person. IMO, the fiat is bland & homogenous, not distinctive other than it's size. And as far as that goes, I think the IQ would catch more eyes than the 500 here. I've seen 1 IQ on the dealer lawn.

I'd rather have a luxurious pick-up in my marque's catalog, than a cheap, stripper cargo van!

The 3 or so radio ads I hear locally only scream DEALDEALDEAL, never anything about the product.

An even one thousand cheers.

All right- I posted a LaSalle 'bullet' ornament. IIRC, it was a '39. Someone else post one.

This & the Checker.... 2 aesthetically-challenged, tough-to-love peas in a pod. As DD said; cheers for wierdness.

^ "nobody buys them". No; the middle finger was the H1, this is just pure evidence mercedees is going in multiple directions at once.

^ It was a bit less than $200 more than a Biscayne wagon. You did get better seating position & visibility, straight-cut rear doors, flat floors and a LOT of interior space on a relatively shorter exterior. Checker billed them as having 30% larger interiors than any other 4-dr sedan. I've heard tell the seats were very comfortable (I've never sat in one personally). Checkers were also well-renowned for their durability. ... but yea. Total '71 Checker production was approx 4500 units.

AT least this one has the pre-IMPACT! bumpers. As a wagon, they are quite uncommon, ESP at this point in time. I too would like to find something to love here.... but the blah interior kinda holds that up. I don't recall seeing a Checker wagon in person. Have to vote 'cheers' due to the rarity.

Putting aside my personal preferences here, it'd be nice to see a truly large car, esp width.

OMG- this thing is STILL in production?? With the original Beetle finally getting thrown in a 6-ft deep hole, the mantle of 'Hoariest Ancient Thing' now falls on the benz-vagon. The body hardware...... All the panache & class of a Lego build....

0.26 secs (you'll have to pause/advance it) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDDiMqNDSpc

^ I'd absolutely get behind that!

I had a '64 Merc (Park Lane Marauder) for a short while, with bucket & console, it was a neatly styled car in & out, not overstuffed with plastics & vinyls either. With the 390, it moved out. 10X the car the '69 was.

A '64 would be interesting. Stylistically, a '69 is a universal blunt object.

If it was a coupe, the price would be double that, and it'd sell. Amazing time capsule. Wonderous.

There were a bunch of 'icky' colors in the 70s, but the same applies to many decades, except for the '90s-now because they're all so bland. I have period Cadillac ads where a car is pastel yellow, and another pastel green. Blorf. But I like that copper color ("Saddle Firemist"); it's butch.

Not Olds

cube is everything wrong with modern auto design. No efforts in engineering or aesthetics could make one remotely interesting.

Nice to see one survive, but still a flat 'no' in my personal book.

Saw an '81 Eldorado a few days ago, sweet white Biarritz. But yea; this gen of E-Bodies is a rare sight indeed these days.

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/05/11038136-ferdinand-porsche-sports-car-designer-dies?lite

That was it. Not working for the site in question.... tho the actual site says 'be back soon', so perhaps this question is moot. I HAVE to learn to back things up immediately.....

A while ago we had a link to really old internet backup (?) of early C&G pages. I had started up an O/T thread on a message board, and it grew to 5 or 6 pages, all technical info, but the site just went down due to non-payment. I have no contact info for the admin, either. Is there some way to view cache'd images or straight text of my pages in question; ala the early C&G pages??

It's not going to get 25 slogging thru NYC.