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It's more than that. Auto styling was in entrenchment mode after the fin era. The extravagance went out of style and with it set in a rather disdainful outlook toward anything too wild. Couple that with the Federal gov't. dictating safety and economy standards and the industry was pretty much shut down on building anything "glamorously styled" like before, and turned their creative attention toward selling cars on mileage numbers and cup holders. Today, the new tradition continues with cars sold for in-car entertainment systems and similar "practical" features, with all emphasis taken off of building anything more than a stylized jellybean. I guess if that is what a person stims on in a car, then good for them. For a chump like me, who wants rolling sculpture, anything built after 1970 is nothing close to what the U.S. carmakers were famous for before style as a sales tool was abandoned. Burger From: "CenturyLink Customer" <tallfins@xxxxx> To: "The Grumpy Old Man" <cgico@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 9:00:45 PM Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Official Dodge Brothers Commer... Ocean Shores, WA ----- Original Message ----- From: The Grumpy Old Man <cgico@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 22:55:29 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Official Dodge Brothers Commer... You gotta be joking. Just because "the other guys" built worse junk, doesn't make the Mopar turds any less crappy. As far as I am concerned, Detroit closed the doors and turned off the lights in 1970. No matter what you look at made after that point, it is pure junk compared to what came before. Most don't make the grade just for being so #@! ugly and cheap looking. Burger From: "Adam Lindenbaum" <000006addfb175a9-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 4:27:46 PM Subject: Re: [FWDLK] ****COULD BE SPAM**** Re: [FWDLK] Official Dodge Brothers Commer... I don't like the way they skipped the whole 70's, 80's, 90's, and early
2000's. They might not have had the best cars Dodge ever built but they had
the 77-8 Dodge Monaco Police with the 440 which were the fastest US built car
those years, they had the GLH (and GLHS) Omni and the rest of the Turbo Shelbys
in the 80's which were once again faster than anything Ford and GM was doing at
the time. I guess the commercial would have been too long if they showed all of
Dodge's accomplishments over 100 years. In a message dated 10/25/2014 7:16:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
tehoema@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
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