Happy Jack

How depressing. I hate it when they take a survivor, a good example of some particular car, and butcher it, adding all the modern garbage "conveniences" that will assure today's cars will never last as long or be as functinoal as what they ripped out. The guy bought it, he (presumably) paid for it so it's his to do with as he pleases. It's just too bad he has no class.

And as to the people who slam these old cars, it's something you would never understand. These cars were built when the country was riding a wave of optimisim, of can-do triumph, of joy. Cars like this, you want to pile in, grab an ice cold beer and take off down Route 66, Kitty Kallen's voice coming from the single, AM-radio's speaker, the un-air conditioned wind in your face, the wonderfuly smooth straight-eight engine purring away under the hood. Contrast that to the nightmare driving has become in the intervening years, to the appliances we pass off as cars, to the general malaise and depresssion that has overtaken us as a nation. It's awful, but then I am guessing many of you are too young to have known anything else.

I clicked on this article from the sidebar of an article about some new Audi. I didn't get a chance to finish the article as I was distracted by this one. But the pictures told the tale there - a hideously ugly, featureless electronically controlled artificial monstrosity that will in all probability die of one or another of the terminal electronic -isms European cars are so well known for, and within five or six years at that. Maybe that's what you naysayers want, and if so you deserve it.