Antique American
What befell the American Auto?
Although there is a great deal of buzz out there about foreign made cars, in my opinion, they merely don't have the comparable soul as antique American cars. Yes, there are a good lot of Japanese cars that can go faster, and last longer than most American cars, but none of them have the elegance and looks of a Mustang or a corvette. Those American muscle cars are the things that the fantasies of many were shaped by, with their speed, their torque, their opulence, and their hot styling. Well earlier than the days of the small and efficient rice burners, road hugging, petrol guzzling American cars really ruled the entire world, as the American empire did.
Of course, in several manners those years are past, and I imagine that it is accurate that they will not come again. Chrysler was taken over by Daimler Benz, and the other American car companies do much of their manufacturing over seas that it's a big challenge to even consider their automobiles as American. Certainly, they are American companies in the sense that they started out here, but in fact they are today multi-national corps that contain no feel of domestic loyalty at all, and are simply in it to make money. Yet, despite the cut backs and the downsizing, and what not, a bit of the spirit of American autos still exists on the highways today.
Look about you next time you go out, and you are certain to see a few antique automobiles. However, they are unfortunately going by the wayside, and being replaced with modern-day knock offs of the antique cars. Take a look at the modern Camaro, Mustang, Charger each of which have recently been redesigned by their designers in order to add more "classic styling" to them. Sure they seem decent, but it's just not the same as having a real piece of American iron to make the tires squeal and not beg for forgiveness.
In my opinion, if you are a lover of American sports autos, you shouldn't purchase the computer commanded, excessively sleek machines of nowadays, but get one of the more stylish cars of yesteryear. The fifties, and to an extent, the sixties were where it was at in terms of American autos was concerned. That was the time of the very strong steel chassis that would hold together like nobody's business, of the large, stout solid American cars that did withstand up to years and years of abuse. That was a long time before the travesty of uni-body construction kicked back in, when men were men, and American cars were automobiles. Maybe those years are gone, but the automobiles from those days – at least some of them – are currently on the highway nowadays, and some of them can be purchased by most reasonably well off collector. There's nothing better than the roaring of an older, bored out v8 engine below the hood of a classic American automobiles, and that is no lie.
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