>go to classic car show>it's all Barbie doll coupes and convertibles in pastel two tone colors with V8s and whitewalls>look at actual vintage photos of the 50s or whatever>most cars are plain-looking sedans in neutral colors, most with blackwall tirestl;dr was boomers lied all this time about the typical 50s-60s car
>>29136858>Pic unrelated
Imagine living in a time when you could call niggers nigger
>>29136864yeah, Ranjeesh? look at the pic. most of the cars in there are sedans.
>>29136869>Everyone who proves me wrong is IndianThis doesn't make you look good.
>>29136858Ford sold over 3 million Pintos in 1971-1980.Triumph sold about 600,000 cars (all models) during that same time period.Theres a good chance of seeing a few Triumphs at a car show but probably zero Pintos.And nobody understand why....
>>29136858Usually it’s the tri5 queers that insist on the Barbie aesthetic
>>29136858I count ~15 cars with visible tires and a third of them are whitewallswhitewalls look cool and classy, why do you hate them?I mean, you're spending a shitload of money and time restoring an old car, why wouldn't you want it to look its best?
>>29136935the other one is 50s Cadillacs. a lot of them were plain-looking sedans like this not pink and red convertibles.
>>29136858because if you go to a show with a six cylinder shitbox boomers will ridicule you and tell you to gtfo
>>29136869Wow you're right, they're all different shades of white or gray. Not a blue or pink car in sight.
>>29136858>>>/his/18761066the point is to create a fantasy pop culture 50s-60s instead of the real one which was more drab and grungy than AIslop images of diners with pink Cadillacs parked out front appear
>>29136931guess they had a higher survival rate than the Pintos
i've heard from AACA Forum boomers that only very tacky people had those jukebox multi-colored cars in the 50s and especially in the Midwest everything was very plain and usually six cylinder
>>29136858>City sidewalks used to be 35 feet wideGeez laweez.
>>29136940Seems like black is what a Caddy should be anyways.
>>2913696627 people died in Pintos fires.Total.10 people die in car crashes in just California every day.
>>29137031not the fires, the Pinto just being a disposable poorfag/teenager car that was thrown away and most became soda cans or something
>>29136858My dad lived there through the entire 50s. Showed him the OP pic and he spent a good 4-5 minutes zooming in and reminiscing. He even recognized going to that very kids clothing store as a young'n. He likes that 5-window pickup, says he spent a lot of time on tobacco farms in them. Pretty cool.
>>29136858does show how rare trucks were in the 50s outside of rural areas
>>29137031>10 people die in car crashes in just California every day.Those are rookie numbers. Needs to be at least a thousand a day
>>29137046>on your way to that Bradley's Luncheonette place on the cornerthis being a Southern state (KY) also POCs not welcome, we don't serve you. get out.
>>29137046>worrying that the commies would invade the Western world and nuke/put you in a labor camp.My parents, both born in '50 and former military officers, would tell you that we have more to fear today than they did then in that regard. It was merely talked about more openly then.Now there are more nukes, more tech, and more enemies.
>>29136858Virtually every car is a Ford or Chevy, there's a Plymouth in the foreground, a Nash, and a Buick--Buick was an upscale Mercedes E-Class tier make back then and would have meant you were rich and important.
>>29137062There's a Packard Deluxe I see.
>>29137062>>29137041the owner of the tobacco farm owned the Buick probably
>>29137063nvm that was the car i confused with being a Nash but it's a Packard, though an older 40s model
>>29137062my great aunt and her husband were Buick loyalists back then they worked in a garment factory and as a factory foreman plus they had a side TV repair business in their basement. they made some good money.
>>29136858>people want the car they wanted to have >instead of the car they actually had
>>29137064Tobacco was 35-40% of Kentucky's economy at the time, so yeah probably.
>>29137062Buick was said to be for people who could afford a Cadillac but disliked its tacky image while Oldsmobile was for people who wanted but couldn't afford a Cadillac.
>>29136858Just give me a fucking sequel already, I'm starved...
>>29137082the OP pic is Lexington, Kentucky not LA. a sleepy Southern town without much going on. though to be fair LA in the 50s was not as wild as LA in the 70s-80s.
>>29136931you can easily find pintos on facebook market place. you'll only see "triumph" at car shows and nowhere else.
>>29137167true, anywhere in the Sun Belt where they didn't rust you can find surviving Pintos
>>29137174You can find them listed in the middle of michigan.
>>29137062Or how Buick went from being a prestigious luxury car to a dismal Rubbermaid shitbox for retired UAW workers in less than one lifetime.
>>29137224GM couldn't figure out the modern-day premium car market until the Navigator came and finally clued them in to luxury SUVs.
>>29137224those Centurys were the most notorious Golden Corral dinner special geriatric driver shitwagons on the road
>>29137224Id still rather have a FWD supercharged Regal than any moneypit merc from the same era.
>>29137224the Q/C was good at least and those 90s-00s Buicks were almost unkillable
>>29137238It's kinda funny how Ford was frequently the one to find market niches and get the run of them for a couple years until GM hit with their version.
>>29137394in the sense that for example they had the only low cost V8 until 1955
>>29137254at the GM bailout hearings in 07 Bob Lutz said that "[Buick] hadn't had any money invested in it in a long time."
>>29137072I'm surprised by your take. Always thought Olds had the quiet designs and Buick and Cad had much more bold and brash styling.
>>29137082Is that a good game? Might have to look into it.
>>29137547you be the judgehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rNV61Rpo-0
>>29137082Be careful what you wish for...The state of gamedev is currently so pathetic that if a game is bug-free on launch day, it gets applauded — not to mention the complete lack of any proper optimization...If it’s going to be made by some Bethesda or Ubisoft, then it’s better that no one makes it at all.
>>29137224Roger Smith's reorganization of GM basically wrecked everything.
>>29137526Buick was always GM's favorite division back in the day and Harley Earl did the Buick styling first and the others divisions extrapolated from it.
>>29137526the boring part of the 50s when cars looked like soap blobs and Patti Page was the most exciting thing in music
>>29136858the real 50s not this gay rockabilly fantasy shit
>>29136858>go to classic car showwow retard is surprised a car show has top trim cars not some entry level camry
>>29137790>wow retard is surprised a car show has top trim cars not some entry level camry
Nostalgia slop has a 30 year cycle reallyThe peak of 50s nostalgia was the 80s (e.g. back to the future airs 1985)The peak of 70s nostalgia was the 00s (e.g. that 70s show airs 1998-2006)Right now we're in the peak of 90s nostalgia. Tweens and teens is about when you feel life is at its peak, then you enter a career and most people really hit their stride in their 40s. Naturally, they pine for their peek, 30 years prior.
>>29137224problem was Mercedes started selling premium cars for really inflated prices. this wasn't actually justified, but it did give them more snob appeal.
>>29137809Mercedes by the 70s were shipping about 70% of their total output to North America and Europeans had to get on a waiting list.
>>29136858>pastel two tone colorsWhat the fuck is wrong with colors now? Are you an unironic normalfag who's favorite color is NPC grey?
>>29136858https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWszWEQyuy0Obligatory music.
>>29137869Cars were treated as a fashion statement back then instead of just an appliance to get you to work.
>>29137082Here’s all the cars in that kino.https://www.igcd.net/game.php?id=100002953
>>29137873people were also super loyal to their favorite car make
>>29137869I think he was more saying that NPC gray cars were quite common back then, but that antique car shows give a misleading impression about what the average 50s car was like.
>>29137563kekhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmvSieBFPNM
>>29137884Of course. People don't save and restore cars that nobody liked. You can never recoup resto costs on unpopular cars. Better with a 57 Bel Air rag.
>>29137082By today's Rockstar? It will be about a trans detective fighting for women's gay rights to prove how wrong they/them racist parents were.
>>29138676I have chud fatigue
>>29136858>go to classic car show>80% of them are cookie cutters:>chevy small block or LS>TH350 transmission >Ford 9" rear axle>Mustang II front suspension It's so uninteresting. The Ford truck shows are the worst for it, because its almost all fat fender 56 F-100's built the exact way. I prefer the 57-60, specifically the 59 and the 60. 56's are more overplayed than Elvis or the Beatles.
>>29137082not after what Lamaj did during the last recording
there was a Motor Trend article from 1963 lamenting the ossified nature of cars, every year the same old I6 or V8 FR stuff
>>29137526Buick still running on prewar straight eights in 51, only Oldsmobile and Cadillac had new engines.
>>29139633ok not familiar with that era of GM vehicles tbqh
>>29139641>Oldsmobile and Cadillac get OHV V8s 1949 to replace their old prewar engines>Buick doesn't get a V8 until 53>Pontiac and Chevy not until 55>Oldsmobile sixes were dropped in 49, Pontiac sixes by 52 due to low sales>Buick used their prewar OHV I8 to 52, the bottom line Special kept it one more year>Pontiac continued using a flathead I8 to 54 because Buick cockblocked them from bringing out their V8 in 53 like they intended
>>29139646most of these engines were still designed for cruising at relatively low speeds as the interstate system wasn't online until the 60s
>>29139646>in 1977 all the unique engines for full size sedans and wagons get replaced with Chevrolet engines across the board>you wanted a buick or an olds? Too bad it's chevy underneath >people class action sue GM >angry customers abandon their cars at dealerships and walk away from them
>>29136867you can just do that now
>>29137642True
>>29139676actually no, what happened was GM decided to phase out the separate Buick and Pontiac V8s and the last year for those was 1981. after that, Chevy/Pontiac and Oldsmobile/Buick would share V8s. even before that they were standardized around 305/350 for small blocks and 455 for big blocks to reduce costs and make them easier to regulate for emissions.
>>29139692They also reorganized it so BOP would share bodyshells.
>>29139652The original Rocket V8 and the Nailhead were phased out by the 60s and extensively redesigned to make regulating emissions easier and also improve performance for the new interstate highway system.
>>29139692what he's referring to was earlier when GM put Chevy V8s in some Oldsmobiles due to a supply issue
My car may be predominantly original, but I'm going to paint it a more fun color because I didn't buy it to resell and I want a color that I actually enjoy. If you're going to spend tens of thousands on paint, why not get a cool color?
>>29140197Get some crazy chicano airbrush job.
>>29140201Love that, but a multi-layered candy job like pic must be extortionately expensive.
>>29139652>>29139700>Interstate is mostly done in the '70s>V8s are all asthmatic and make maybe 100 HP on a good daySasuga
>>29140223>retard-chan doesn't understand torque and gearing
