I agree with Rich 200%. However, I seriously doube that Detroit will change
their present 'generic' car production unless people just stopped buying cars
until Detroit came up with something along the lines of what we felt for the
older cars we care so much about. "Soul" is a real good way of trying to put
that feeling into words. Guess thats why so many guys (and many women too!)
have a special love for their vehicles. I tried to explain it to someone once
and the best I could do was this......it's like when you are looking for a
new house to buy. If you go into a brand new house, one that was just
recently finished, or not yet finished, you get, or at least "I get", a
feeling of emptyness. No one has lived in this house yet. No one has spent a
part of their life in it. No one has raised their kids, laughed and screamed
at them also, ran after the dog which had just stole the dinner off the
table, or cleaned up the mess from countless breakfasts, dinners, midnight
snacks and football games. No one had stayed up waiting till their just-
turned-driving-age children came home for the night, or shared the good as
well as the bad times we all have to go through with kids, pets, relatives
and family in general.
Go into a 60 year old house that has had people living in it most of its life
and I get a VERY DIFFERENT feeling!...not spooky or a 'poltergeist' feeling,
just as though these walls and rooms have a history that, for lack of a
better way to say it, have taken on abit of the spirit of those that lived
there. Its not a bad or a good feelin. Its just that compared to a brand new
house there is not question that THIS ONE is a lot 'fuller' than the brand
new house.
Thats the same way I feel about old cars, and I'm not trying to sound like
Stephen King and his story about the car CHRISTENE. Everyone in the IML has a
special 'feel' for cars or you would not be a member, and you certainly would
not have spent the time it has taken you to read this so far. Sometimes I
wonder, as weird as it sounds, if a little bit of ourselves doesn't 'rub off'
onto the vehicles we care so much about. Not in a 'good' or 'bad' way, just
kinds like leaving someone with a 'memory'.
Sorry, getting kind of deep here!.....but those of you who know what i mean
will have no trouble referring to your cars as family members no matter how
weird others look at you!!!! ( sort of like the way the wife thinks I am
weird about my cars!)
Anyway, I doubt if anone can really break down the feeling we have for our
cars but can you imagine the vehicles that Detroit could put out if that
feeling were able to be reproduced and put into cars coming right off the
line????????? Will Detroit ever 'wake up'? probably not unless they could
make money out of it, unfortunately.
Happy New Year all!!!
Dan Melnik
> The biggest problem with today's cars are the fact they have no character or
> soul. Years ago you could tell what kind of car was coming at you on the
> road. You would know the make/year/model. Look at the character of the
> Imperials from the mid fifty's to until the early seventy's.
>
> When will Detroit wake up?
>
> Rich Woolf
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
> I agree with Allen..
> Today's cars are isgrace..just put an old Imperial
> next to a brand-new Cadillac....Pretty obvious..the
> caddy..doesn't even look like what a Caddy should look
> like!
> What's wrong with detroit's designers..are they all
> blind..or tasteless???
> I'll take a a 50'2 Mopar to anything on the road
> today...And crazy people spend forunes on BMW's??
>
> Somebody needs to tell Detroit to wake up!
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> > Wrom: CAXZOWCONEUQZAAFXISHJEXXIMQZUIVOTQNQEMSFDULH
> > Subject: RE: IML: Negative Comments
> > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:29:14 -0500
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> > Good for you Allan, and I agree 100% with you!
> >
> >
> > Rich Woolf, Hamilton, New Jersey
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Wrom: PQQWOYIYZUNNYCGPKYLEJGDG
> > [mailto:ChiPieAlandPaula@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 3:00 AM
> > To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxx club.com
> > Subject: IML: Negative Comments
> >
> >
> > Hello All,
> > I do not understand how this thread has gotten this
> > far. If some ignorant
> > youngster doesn't have the good sense to just "shut
> > up" then chalk it up to
> > ignorance. I personally do not feel comfortable in
> > today's cars. The size
> > simply does not fit my frame. I know someone out
> > there has am image of me as
> > a 400lb monster. Not so. I am just an average sized
> > American male. That is
> > why my collector car is a 64 Imperial. Even my daily
> > drivers are full sized
> > Caprice wagons and Electra sedan. They fulfill all
> > of my needs in spades.
> > And if some brain washed product of our national
> > public school system
> > doesn't like it, tough ----.
> >
> > Allan
> > from Billings, Montana
> >
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> > for you Allan, and I agree 100% with
> > you!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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> > Woolf, Hamilton, New
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> > face=3DTahoma=20
> > size=3D2>-----Original
> > Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> =
> > ChiPieAlandPaula@xxxxxxx=20
> > [mailto:ChiPieAlandPaula@xxxxxxx]<BR><B>Sent:</B>
> > Tuesday, December =
> > 30, 2003=20
> > 3:00 AM<BR><B>To:</B> mailing-list@xxxxxxxx =
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> > Negative Comments<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT =
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> > face=3DArial size=3D2 FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF"
> > PTSIZE=3D"10">Hello =
> > All,<BR>I do not=20
> > understand how this thread has gotten this far. If
> > some ignorant =
> > youngster=20
> > doesn't have the good sense to just "shut up" then
> > chalk it up to =
> > ignorance. I=20
> > personally do not feel comfortable in today's
> > cars. The size simply =
> > does not=20
> > fit my frame. I know someone out there has am
> > image of me as a 400lb =
> > monster.=20
> > Not so. I am just an average sized American male.
> > That is why my =
> > collector car=20
> > is a 64 Imperial. Even my daily drivers are full
> > sized Caprice wagons =
> > and=20
> > Electra sedan. They fulfill all of my needs in
> > spades. And if some =
> > brain=20
> > washed product of our national public school
> > system doesn't like it, =
> > tough=20
> > =
> >
> ----.<BR><BR>  =
> >
> ;  =
> >
> ;  =
> >
> ; =20
> > Allan from Billings, Montana</FONT> =
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> > From: "Quint Villanueva" <Qlv@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: IML: A rare opportunity
> > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:42:19 -0800
> > Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Greetings Dick!
> > To each his own. My everyday, drive around the
> > neighborhood car is my 1953
> > Imperial. I drove it from NJ to CA seven years ago
> > without a mechanical
> > problem, only a blowout which was easily handled.
> > My other car which I am in the process of restoring
> > is a 1949 Cadillac.
> > I've driven this mucho miles with no problems and
> > now I'm working on trying
> > to make it look good.
> > Both cars have served me well....but I do prefer my
> > Imperial!
> >
> > Quint
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Woolf,Richard" <richard.woolf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:55 AM
> > Subject: RE: IML: A rare opportunity
> >
> >
> > > Dick, and Arran,
> > >
> > > All of us have our favor brands, and our stories
> > as to why we love them.
> > I
> >
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