Obviously you do not attend many old cars shows. If you did you would know which cars are there and which are obviously missing LOL
mike hunt
> Really? I was at a major old cars show today. Loads of small British,
>> German, Italian and French cars from the sixties among the Corvairs,
>> Falcons, Valliants, Nash Ramblers, Hudson Jets, Henry Js, Studebaker
>> Larks, Willys and even some Chevettes, but only ONE Jap car, a 240Z with
>> only 23K on the clock.
>>
>> What ever happened to all those 'superior;' Jap small cars, they're sure
>> not still on the road. There were more than 30 VW bugs, nearly 40
>> Nash/Hudson/AMC Metropolitan coupes and convertibles and a half dozen
>> CROSLEYS for goodness sake and a couple Isettas but only ONE low mileage
>> Jap car, curious. ;)
>>
>> mike hunt
>>
>>>> Overall, their problem is they are too slow in responding to the
>>>> marketplace and seem to clueless in designing cars with appeal. >>>> John
>>>
>>> and that their cars have been and in some cases are still less reliable
>>> than their Japanese competitors.
>
> Where are all the old Ford Granadas? Fairmonts? Chevy Citations? Chevy
> Monzas? Plymout Reliants?
>
> There used to be fleets of these things, roaming wild on the expressays of
> the entire continent. Now... no more...
>
> Back in 1973 - and later, to some extent, a Japanese car was so rare that
> it was just about a curiosity. I remember the first time I met somebody
> who owned a Subaru in 1972 or so - it was unique in my experience, not
> just because it was the first Subaru I'd ever seen but because it was the
> first Japanese car I'd ever seen. Until that time, I didn't even realize
> he Japanese made cars (I hadn't seen "You Only Live Twice").
>
> So, how often do we find a '72 Gran Torino still on the road? '77
> Chevelle wagon? '69 Ford Country Squire? Performance cars, luxury cars
> and convertibles tend to keep going longer but the cheap uninteresting
> junk - and Detroit made lots and lots of cheap uninteresting junk - tends
> to get, well, junked.
>
> I saw a '79 or '80 Pontiac Sunbird the other day. I'd forgotten these
> things had even existed and my brother-in-law had owned one and I owned
> its sibling, the Chevy Monza. There were probably 20 of these things
> built in '79 for every Crown or whatever Toyota managed to sell into the
> US that year. I've seen one. Where are the rest?
>
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