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Thunderbird Club

  1. Thanks for that "in-the-know" industrial design history lesson - I love learning about this stuff! I agree - that's how design innovation happened then! But I'm actually blown away (via Pinterest) by the sophistication of car/motorcycle/bicycle innovation going on today - I'd have to believe it's at a new high-level.
    yeah fascinating stuff…..pretty unique to Italian car manufacture…..many of those italian coach builders used to build horse carriages before the advent of the motorcar and just continued…..if you notice, sports (luxury) car manufacture in other countries (Porsche, Jaguar, Mercedes', Aston Martin…) typically had the industrial design and styling done in-house ….just like over here we could recognize Pontiac from Chrysler from a Mercury, in Italy, folks recognize the coach builders before they recognize the brand…..trippy…
 
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  1. yeah fascinating stuff…..pretty unique to Italian car manufacture…..many of those italian coach builders used to build horse carriages before the advent of the motorcar and just continued…..if you notice, sports (luxury) car manufacture in other countries (Porsche, Jaguar, Mercedes', Aston Martin…) typically had the industrial design and styling done in-house ….just like over here we could recognize Pontiac from Chrysler from a Mercury, in Italy, folks recognize the coach builders before they recognize the brand…..trippy…
Today you can tell Pontiac from Chrysler from Mercury because only one of them still makes cars.
 
Love the Weber line up…
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Use mine nearly every night.

Careful there Dave, don't let the Ferrari enthusiasts catch you spelling Spyder with an "i" on the vintage Ferrari models. :D
Use ours every pretty much every night too. Tonight was sweet Italian sausage on pasta, salad, garlic bread and watermelon for dessert.
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Nice! Ferrari right hand drive. 250 Spyder I assume. :thumbsup:

Maybe a silly question, how do you know it's RHD from that picture?

@RedVee Are you familiar with the Lincolns? Their bass player just joined the Combo club.
Sorry Miles, I haven't heard of them. Just looking at the website now, they seem like something I'd like to see sometime.
Adelaide is a bit far though.
 
Seems I recall someone else playing one, not that model though. If they only made that one I'm confused. But the name sticks out and I think that popped up when searched a long time ago for what someone was playing.

Some famous players like T-Rex played Zemaitis guitars - but less aware of basses. It looks like Woody is playing one in that Small Faces vid.
 
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Maybe a silly question, how do you know it's RHD from that picture?


Sorry Miles, I haven't heard of them. Just looking at the website now, they seem like something I'd like to see sometime.
Adelaide is a bit far though.
He said they have played all over. Maybe they don't now?