With all the relatively solid big Detroit cars from the 1960s getting eaten by The Crusher in these days of $4/gallon gasoline and $250/ton scrap steel prices, how does a rough survivor like this sedan manage to stay out of the Chinese steel foundries? (Read More…)
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Look at the picture above. Now pretend it’s your rearview mirror. That giant set of batwings is right behind you and gaining; now it pulls into the fast lane. A couple of teenagers grin as they zip by you ass-backwards at seventy miles an hour. The front grille of the ’59 Chevy slowly recedes in the distance ahead. If you spent any time on the roads of Cincinnati around 1969, this may well have happened to you.
Posted in Curbside Classics, Editorials
Tagged as 1959, Biscayne, Chevrolet, Chevy, Curbside Classic, Harley Earl, Paul Niedermeyer
Tagged as 1959, Biscayne, Chevrolet, Chevy, Curbside Classic, Harley Earl, Paul Niedermeyer
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Summicron - Hell, yes! Bring back small fuselage bodies! The ’65-’69 Corvairs were another example of this clean aesthetic.
thelaine - Would you rather hide a dead body in a trunk or a hatchback Leek? Think!
mike978 - I understand your point and agree with some of it. But one thing – “VW products are infinitely better than GM products”. Really? That is an example...
Summicron - America doesn’t bother with roundabouts until Boomers reach the age where maybe we shouldn’t be driving. Then there’s a mad, messianic frenzy...
thelaine - I think you must have really hit on it for me ttacgreg. I am usually attracted to clean, minimalist lines. That is a pretty car.
LeeK - I’ve always wondered why are Americans so enamored with a car with a trunk, rather than a hatchback. I know that hatchbacks don’t sell...
ttacgreg - The Manta has such beautiful understated sublime styling. One of the few cars whose styling is timeless. Most certainly today’s...
thelaine - bfb, I never even heard of the Manta until today, but after looking at the photo in the story and then more online, I very much agree. Bad...
Compaq Deskpro - Why do gay people drive such shit cars?
Xeranar - It sounds like it was an issue of two people who weren’t interested in building electric cars as much as building a company that builds electric cars....