Love the composition with the car standing in front of a sandstone rock formation. I expect this was some publicity shots taken at the time for the dealer brouchures. or other advertising.

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Command prompt is the name for the DOS window on Windows machines. Some clever folks can stilll do a lot with a few well chosen keystokes from the C; prompt. I learned a few tricks back in the late 80s on DOS 6.22 machines. I've forgotten a lot too. FWIW The command prompt is under the accessorries tab in the start menu for WIndows 7 and below. I don't have Windows 8 or 8.1 so I can't tell you where it is in that version of the OS.

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Doctor DeSoto - 2015-01-24 7:06 PM

Valiant_200 - 2015-01-25 12:46 AM The image of the twin 59 Dodges above gives a good comparison of the appearance of the two-tone versus monotone style. Even in black and white, the bi-colored car looks so much nicer and more upscale, while the exact same car beside it practically oozes "grocery getter." Just so it is out there, I want to be clear that this does not mean I hate one color 59 Dodges. I saw an all black one that stole my heart. But with bold styling like the 59, blending it all together underneath a single color paint is an opportunity missed.

================================================= Whether one looks "nicer" is a matter of taste and opinion. My Grandfather hated two-tone cars and referred to them as "circus wagons" because he thought they were so gaudy. Most of us are drawn to the flamboyant styling of the period, so our sense of aesthetics is warped to favor "more" over less blinged up examples. While I would agree that a 59 Dodge is trimmed in such a way to really make good use of a two color paint scheme, the entire design is so hopelessly overboard that I can't see it as anything but ugly. To my eyes, it was Exner's lowest point ever. Even a beautiful woman can be made to look bad if wearing too much "gaudy" and bling. I have become burned out on the hobby always favoring the excessive and am happy to see more and more people getting into plain jane and stripper models.

There's a place for everything.  I used to dislike the 59's but they have really grown on me and I actually like them a lot now.  When it comes to "art", and lets be honest, a lot of this is in the realm of "art", it's always in the eye of the beholder.  I think a police car based on a decked out 59 would look idiotic, artistically IMHO such a thing just makes no sense, but if you want to "look sharp", and again, IHMO, you look a lot sharper (if you are not the police) in a decked out 59 then in a stripped one.  Not greatly different then how you would dress differently to go to your job as a meter reader versus someone who's a bank teller.  Very few people by their car simply because they "need transporation", although some certainly do.