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Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 11:33
AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] 1957 FURY, ROCK AND
ROLL AND HAPPY DAYS ON E BAY
This is the contrived schlock that really turns me off about
old cars and the drones that make this stuff popular.
Happy Days ?
Rock-n-Roll ?
Just add bobbi-soxin' carhops and poodle skirts and you got
yourself a fantasy stew of incohesive elements that *might* have represented
.1% of the 50's experience to .1% of the population. I just love the hot
pink and toothpaste splashes to round out that 1980's vision of "the good old
days". Maybe a neon flamingo could be included ? Oh, ... I
forgot. THEY DID !!!!
Barf !
How many really great photos are out there of vintage street
scenes with the *right cars* doing what they did in 1957 or 60 ? I have
seen countless photos like this. Why do commercial artists candy up
these trite images of emotional punch when such great images already exist
? That's right .... emotional punch. What better way to pry
dollars out of the wallet than play the emotional card of fantasy - 1950's
fantasy - and get fuzzy brained dreamers to buy the nothingness of a
nonsensical rendering of someone's conglomeration of iconic images ?
Few things get me excited like vintage photos showing Uncle
Ed and Auntie Edna posing in the drive with their new 58 Dodge, or a simple
street scene with Grandma Pittipoo returning from an errand sortee in her
finned grocery-gitter. But this cartoon stuff ?
C'mon folks, .... you got good enough taste to know a great
car when you see one. Know bad art when you see that too, OK ?
*sigh*
B.
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