The Conservative Cave
Interests => Around the House & In the Garage => Topic started by: CactusCarlos on July 11, 2008, 12:34:50 PM
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http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/completelist/0,,1658545,00.html
1899-1939
1899 Horsey Horseless
1909 Ford Model T
1911 Overland OctoAuto
1913 Scripps-Booth Bi-Autogo
1920 Briggs and Stratton Flyer
1933 Fuller Dymaxion
1934 Chrysler/Desoto Airflow
1940-1959
1949 Crosley Hotshot
1956 Renault Dauphine
1957 King Midget Model III
1957 Waterman Aerobile
1958 Ford Edsel
1958 Lotus Elite
1958 MGA Twin Cam
1958 Zunndapp Janus
1960-1974
1961 Amphicar
1961 Corvair
1966 Peel Trident
1970 AMC Gremlin
1970 Triumph Stag
1971 Chrysler Imperial LeBaron Two-Door Hardtop
1971 Ford Pinto
1974 Jaguar XK-E V12 Series III
1975-1989
1975 Bricklin SV1
1975 Morgan Plus 8 Propane
1975 Triumph TR7
1975 Trabant
1976 Aston Martin Lagonda
1976 Chevy Chevette
1978 AMC Pacer
1980 Corvette 305 "California"
1980 Ferrari Mondial 8
1981 Cadillac Fleetwood V-8-6-4
1981 De Lorean DMC-12
1982 Cadillac Cimarron
1982 Camaro Iron Duke
1984 Maserati Biturbo
1985 Mosler Consulier GTP
1985 Yugo GV
1986 Lamborghini LM002
1990-Present
1995 Ford Explorer
1997 GM EV1
1997 Plymouth Prowler
1998 Fiat Multipla
2000 Ford Excursion
2001 Jaguar X-Type
2001 Pontiac Aztek
2002 BMW 7-series
2003 Hummer H2
2004 Chevy SSR
Pictures and commentary at link.
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I loved our Corvair !
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Interestingly, it was Ford President Robert McNamara who convinced the board to bail out of the Edsel project; a decade later, it was McNamara, then Secretary of Defense, who couldn't bring himself to quit the disaster of Vietnam, even though he knew a lemon when he saw one.
Interestingly, it is Time Magazine who takes an entertaining articles about the American automobile, throws in inappropriate political comments unrelated to the subject, and makes a disaster out of an American magazine.
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Wasn't it about the early to mid 90's when the Ford Explorer became the number one selling vehicle of all time ? I think it replaced the Ford pickup as the number one selling vehicle.
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1995 Chevy Blazer, aka the P.O.S. New model year. 11 recalls.
I will never purchase a :censored: GM product again.
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Chevy Vega with the aluminum block engine,early Ford Escorts with the interference 1.6 litre engine.
Any vehicle that GM installed the 5.7 litre diesel (tried to convert the very reliable 350R Olds gas engine into a diesel).
The trail of broken crankshafts and other problems was long.
There is a longer list of bad ideas the car makers have tried then exactly individual cars.
Composite brake rotors,rear disc brakes on GM cars,Dodge putting that Mitsibushi engine in its Caravans and some cars/pickups.
They had a carburator so complex and fragile that it was impossible to fix and expensive as all heck.
Once the vehicles had the miles on them when the carb crapped the word was out and the value of the car was almost nothing.
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Where the hell is the Ford Pinto?!? That's the poster child for POS!
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The Model T — whose mass production technique was the work of engineer William C. Klann, who had visited a slaughterhouse's "disassembly line" — conferred to Americans the notion of automobility as something akin to natural law, a right endowed by our Creator. A century later, the consequences of putting every living soul on gas-powered wheels are piling up, from the air over our cities to the sand under our soldiers' boots.
This is why they listed the Model T. Politicize? Time? No way!!!!!
Also, I assume this means this asshole bikes to work every day. And bikes to other cities.
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Where the hell is the Ford Pinto?!? That's the poster child for POS!
It's on there 1971 Ford Pinto
:-) Wasn't that the car of the exploding gas tank fame? :-)
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:banghead: ID10T's No mention of the Toyota Tundra?.....and all the free engines Toyota is buying?...how about all the headgaskets that Subaru is trying to duck out on?...or the coil eating Nissans?....or transmission trashing Hondas?
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Where the hell is the Ford Pinto?!? That's the poster child for POS!
It's on there 1971 Ford Pinto
:-) Wasn't that the car of the exploding gas tank fame? :-)
Yes, that's the one. I thought it came out later, though, so maybe that's why I missed it.
My dad bought one of those. My mom wondered what he was on and how much in order to buy a Pinto.
Oddly enough, they got rid of it at 26,000 miles in '79 when the engine seized. From there, they went on to this:
(http://www.beforeblack.net/images/79zamiska1.jpg)
The 1979 Buick Century Turbo Coupe (ours was in gold). V6, column shift automatic, nice sounding car. Took a shot from a deer back in '85 and kept on running. Loved that car.
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Too much Libtard commentary in that POS.
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Too much Libtard commentary in that POS.
It's Time. Would you expect anything less?