Comments on: Do we want more retromobiles? http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7151 I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:00:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CGHill http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7151/comment-page-1#comment-13297 CGHill Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:41:10 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=7151#comment-13297 Which is precisely why it didn't evoke the Bel Airs of yore: there wasn't much of anything restrained about the '57. (The '55, maybe.) Which is precisely why it didn’t evoke the Bel Airs of yore: there wasn’t much of anything restrained about the ‘57. (The ‘55, maybe.)

]]> By: Charles Pergiel http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7151/comment-page-1#comment-13296 Charles Pergiel Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:33:50 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=7151#comment-13296 re: Bel Air concept in 2002, and it was restrained, even tasteful? I'm sorry, it looks like any other appliance mobile. Where are bleeding tailfins? re: Bel Air concept in 2002, and it was restrained, even tasteful?

I’m sorry, it looks like any other appliance mobile. Where are bleeding tailfins?

]]> By: CGHill http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7151/comment-page-1#comment-13283 CGHill Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:24:49 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=7151#comment-13283 Ford eventually euthanized the neo-Bird, which is not the actual reason I left it off, but it will have to do for now. Ford eventually euthanized the neo-Bird, which is not the actual reason I left it off, but it will have to do for now.

]]> By: Flack http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7151/comment-page-1#comment-13281 Flack Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:02:24 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=7151#comment-13281 You forgot the 2002+ Thunderbird, which comes with a 3.9L V8 -- okay for a car that size, but I wouldn't line up against any of the other cars mentioned in your post (even the '57 Chevy). Dad has a rule that applies both to car restorations as well as retro-styled cars -- and that is, the original should have been a classic in its own right. The '57 Chevy at least has that going for it; the Thunderbird and Beetle, not-so-much. You forgot the 2002+ Thunderbird, which comes with a 3.9L V8 — okay for a car that size, but I wouldn’t line up against any of the other cars mentioned in your post (even the ‘57 Chevy).

Dad has a rule that applies both to car restorations as well as retro-styled cars — and that is, the original should have been a classic in its own right. The ‘57 Chevy at least has that going for it; the Thunderbird and Beetle, not-so-much.

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