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Location: Lower Mainland BC | Previously, i made this post/joke about Australian Chryslers:
"Ah yes, the 59 Plainsman, where tiny hobbitses from the Shire and their C**ker spaniel, Daisy, meet the gigundous Chrysler for a road trip to Mordor. "
Today, while going through my 56 Dodge owners manual, I said to myself "Wait a minute, just how high is a 56 Dodge? And why is that person so small?" Must have been a marketing thing about making the cars seem larger.
The 56 Dodge is about 60.8" (5ft 0.8 in) high, making the owner by the car only about 5'4" tall. I know folks were shorter back then but was the median male height that short?
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| The Plainsman ad is hilarious. I don't know if people really were smaller then, but the average male height certainly wasn't 5'4"! Oh according to this site ****er Spaniel is a bad word |
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Location: northern germany | good question, and did they really live in a black/white world with only the cars and people in color? and did the fl signs on the hubcaps always point to the forward direction back then? |
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| spinners, blood and urine... dude is riding dirty... |
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Location: Parts Unknown | The burgeoning sales market to "little people" is well
documented in period copies of Midget News magazine.
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