A while back, I rented a Mirage. Nothing wrong with it but it really was a terrible little car. For taking off at a green light, I would pop it into sport mode, and then back into Economy. Worked fairly well.
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Pick your favorite iconic car from any decade....
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And this is your favorite iconic car?A while back, I rented a Mirage. Nothing wrong with it but it really was a terrible little car. For taking off at a green light, I would pop it into sport mode, and then back into Economy. Worked fairly well.
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That generation of Polaras had such a crazily long hood and trunk. It was like the had been stretched.1960 & 1969 Dodge Polara wagon
We used to buy land yachts like this for $500, pound them thru a winter and enter them in a demolition derby come summertime.
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That, sir, is the best use I could imagine for them!
When I fled the east coast and came to the west, my buddy and I took a month to do the trip, seeing friends along the way. This was in 1979. We stopped in Buffalo and I was blown away to see cars with their quarter panels so rusted out that they were just flapping. Not one or two cars... a bunch of them.
I'd show you a picture of my 2003 Chevy Silverado, but you'd need a tetanus shot first.
Sounds exactly like my road trip down to Minneapolis a couple weeks back: 5 hours on the highway and passed at least one serious flapper every hour
Chrysler Norseman
The Norseman show car has one of the strangest backstories of any Chrysler, as despite being hailed as one of the most futuristic, streamlined cars the brand had ever built, very few people ever got to lay eyes on it. Only a few photos of it survive, and those that do show one of the brand's most head-turning designs, with a groundbreaking pillarless roof said to be able to hold several times the weight of the car itself. This was Chrysler's vision of the future, but a tragic accident just a few weeks before its planned unveiling saw it lost forever.
The Norseman was on its way back from testing in Italy when the ship it was being transported on collided with another ship and sank, with 51 lives lost in the disaster. The car sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean with the rest of the ship's cargo, where it remains today. A complete one-off, the car was painstakingly hand-built with a reported 50,000 hours of research and development going into its design. Much of that work was lost with the car.
While many of the key design elements — including the pillarless roof — would end up debuting in later production cars, the Norseman remained a mystery hidden in the depths of the ocean, with the wreck itself becoming a popular location for divers looking to catch a glimpse of this mysterious one-of-a-kind show car.
The Norseman show car has one of the strangest backstories of any Chrysler, as despite being hailed as one of the most futuristic, streamlined cars the brand had ever built, very few people ever got to lay eyes on it. Only a few photos of it survive, and those that do show one of the brand's most head-turning designs, with a groundbreaking pillarless roof said to be able to hold several times the weight of the car itself. This was Chrysler's vision of the future, but a tragic accident just a few weeks before its planned unveiling saw it lost forever.
The Norseman was on its way back from testing in Italy when the ship it was being transported on collided with another ship and sank, with 51 lives lost in the disaster. The car sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean with the rest of the ship's cargo, where it remains today. A complete one-off, the car was painstakingly hand-built with a reported 50,000 hours of research and development going into its design. Much of that work was lost with the car.
While many of the key design elements — including the pillarless roof — would end up debuting in later production cars, the Norseman remained a mystery hidden in the depths of the ocean, with the wreck itself becoming a popular location for divers looking to catch a glimpse of this mysterious one-of-a-kind show car.
