| Aug. 5, 2008 | Posted by: ellen |
Classic + Modern
I’m not a big car person, but I tend to have a soft spot for certain vintage cars. I find most modern cars (mini-excluded) to be rather boring and personality-less. The bodies all look similar to me, and they all come in the same handful of colors. Occasionally I’ll spot a car like this one that makes me wonder what happened to designing a beautiful car? This Ford Thunderbird (circa 1970s?) may just be my perfect car (hybrid engine forthcoming). The lines are so perfectly long and elegant. Not to mention it comes in my favorite color. If I owned this, I think I’d have to move into the neighborhood so I could park it in front of this mural everyday. It was even parked on the corner of Ellen Street!
It makes sense that cars like this are still around and people care for them. Let’s see if we feel the same nostalgia for 2008 Camrys in a few years…
I agree, I LOVES me the muscle car. My dream would be to fix one up and convert it to bio-diesel but Marc would NEVER go for such a task. My parents used to have a powdered blue Chevy Nova. What I remember most is that while doing a repair, my father cracked the dashboard. As a solution, he upolstered the whole dash with a pair of old jeans. SO 70′s.
I would love to convert the engine of an old classic! And I say this like I know anything at all about car mechanics… The story about your dad is classic. Did you bedazzle the dashboard? That would truly make it complete.
Bedazzle??? Uggh. Mini… take me away form this lunacy!
Mini? Small?
My first car was a really small (at the time) beauty!
A maroon Corvair Chevy Monza 2-dr coupe. With a sleek all black vinyl interior.
That’s the model with a sensational body style– and engine rear mounted in the trunk. I owned it and loved it for going on 10 years.
It met it’s doomed end along with a lot of other Corvairs when Ralph Nader named it as “unsafe at any speed” and GM was forced by low sales after that pronouncement to discontinue production.
You can still see them at vintage car shows of mid-century cars like Ellen’s baby.
Herb, I love the Chevy Corvair! Tell me you didn’t get rid of it… I looked up a picture of it online, and this is what I found:
Look familiar?
That’s the one.
The rear view of the car was it’s calling card with an almost flat top trunk with numerous parallel horizontal air vents. It had cute, simple round tailights as well. Very understated to me and seemingly cool.
I finally had to give it up, as these cars developed a reputation–known to becoming large oil leakers after a few years. Many trips back to the dealer for diagnostics, and fed up with having to add a quart of oil weekly, it finally but sadly was banished from my garage.
45 years later I succumbed to another small car 3 years ago when I became an early adapter to one of the very first Scion Tc’s available.
I’t all Batman black, well designed inside and out, and I think easy to love.