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I'm changing the World... one pixel at a time!
When this showed up on their street...
Rusty imagination? The idea of how different the car was back then is the point...not the image.Photochop would have not been in use then......
True, but the rest of what you stated is what I was after. It was a sea change in automotive styling and I wonder what people really had to say about it back then.In this photo...the round gave way to the chiseled block form. also the roof line was radically altered as well as the concave rear window. But in 69 that was already 3 years into the line.
I don’t think so, people drove a lot less then and the new cars came into neighborhoods a fair bit of time after they were released. I wonder if they said back then the same kinds of things we hear now...about the new cars and their styling vs. the old style body cars that had lived with for a few decades.That photo completely skipped 1960 to 1966. There were a lot of changes, stylingwise, in those years that would have eliminated most any of the shock value. .
How about seeing the first VW beetle 1950-55?They probably thought, "Damn, baby, that's a beautiful car." I would think it would have looked cool and futuristic. Imagine how people thought when the street was full of late 40s and early 50s cars, and the first 55 Chevy 2 Dr HT drove down the street.
The 55-57 Chevy cars were a mild design progression of the earlier cars. If you look in that image, there is a ‘56 Chevy next to the Dart and earlier cars ahead of it that don't look much different.They probably thought, "Damn, baby, that's a beautiful car." I would think it would have looked cool and futuristic. Imagine how people thought when the street was full of late 40s and early 50s cars, and the first 55 Chevy 2 Dr HT drove down the street.
The Beetle took the rounded car look to the extreme and was very much influenced by the 40s cars in a much smaller package.How about seeing the first VW beetle 1950-55?
They probably thought, "Damn, baby, that's a beautiful car." I would think it would have looked cool and futuristic. Imagine how people thought when the street was full of late 40s and early 50s cars, and the first 55 Chevy 2 Dr HT drove down the street.
My dad had a ‘55. Then it got hit,and wrecked. Cops pronounced him dead at the scene. Could imagine the look on their faces when he came to.They probably thought, "Damn, baby, that's a beautiful car." I would think it would have looked cool and futuristic. Imagine how people thought when the street was full of late 40s and early 50s cars, and the first 55 Chevy 2 Dr HT drove down the street.
Sure liked those trucks. I worked in the dodge dealersip,97. I bought a 94 last year,still on the fence about fixing it up.That's easy. Think back to '93 when the first drop-fender Ram hit the streets. Everybody noticed.
Yes, I still have a hard time getting past PLASTIC A pillow trim!!!!!!!they would have thought look at that cheap pile of crap that has no soul.. it out performs my old *** 50's car in every way but its new and has no soul so its garbage.. much like modern muscle is looked at today by many.. anybody can go buy a fast car i'd rather build mine.. i'm sure you heard that too..
I owned 56 and 57 never a 55. Although 55 was my favorite.Yes, I still have a hard time getting past PLASTIC A pillow trim!!!!!!!
Back in '64, local kid had a hotrod 55 chevy, fiberglass front, roll and tuck buckets, hot 327, 4 speed,.... I STILL to this day LUST after that car!!!!!!! LOL Yes all 50' cars had soul!! (even GM!???????????)