Editorials
THE CAR GUY JARGON LESSON PART THREE: KNOW YOUR CAR TALK
Last year we ran two articles about the language of car guys.
New visitors to the car hobby may wonder just what exactly are these car guys saying when they lapse into the lingo of the hobby.
This is a fair question that can be answered pretty easily by our MSCC primers.
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TEN WAYS THAT WOMEN ARE HEADED DOWN THE SAME ROAD AS OLD CARS IN RELATIONSHIPS
TEN WAYS THAT WOMEN ARE HEADED DOWN THE SAME ROAD AS OLD CARS IN RELATIONSHIPS
Recently MSCC took a look at 10 ways that men are similar to old cars in relationships and it is only fair to apply the same comparison to women.
It just makes sense not to exclude women in anything here in the 21st Century.
Here are 10 ways that women compare to cars:
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A WORLD WITH BLUE MAVERICKS STILL EXISTS IN OUR TOWN
The Ford Maverick was hardly the stuff of car guy dreams when it hit the Blue Oval lineup in 1970. It was a compact car that was specifically designed for a car owner on a budget and it lived up to its humble reputation as a low-priced practical form of transportation.
We saw many of them on the streets in the 70s but few of us mourned the passing of the brand in 1977. The Maverick was simply a forgettable car from a time when Detroit was about to re-think its philosophy toward passenger cars.
A Maverick was a primary example of a shift toward low-end automobiles that were not meant to dazzle us with their looks or their performance in the 70s.
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THE BIG, BAD AND BEAUTIFUL: DETROIT'S 400 CLUB OF MONSTERS
One of the driving forces behind the street wars of the 60s was a full-on big block bloodbath between the Big Three.
The boys from Detroit took it to the streets and there was only one rule: We do not take prisoners.
The baddest of the bad from the Big Three belonged to the 400 club and they were all bloodthirsty killers.
Ford and Chevy both showed up on the street with 427 cubic inches of brute force while Chrysler brought a 426 Elephant to the dance.
This was a war zone where only the strong survived and anything less than a big block was like bringing a knife to a gunfight, to borrow a famous Sean Connery line from 'The Untouchables'.
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THE REAL STARS OF 50s & 60s TELEVISION-THE WORKING VEHICLES OF A SMALL TOWN TV STATION
Most of the Baby Boom demographic looks back at the 1950s and 60s as the Golden Era of television.
In some cases like Gunsmoke, Andy Griffith or Bewitched there's a solid case for golden era status but, in many cases, live TV and major productions were spontaneous and crude.
That concept was even more evident with the small local television stations where everything was done live on a budget with giant equipment that had to somehow be made portable.
They had to rely on any available vehicles to get the show out to the public.
Read more: THE REAL STARS OF 50s & 60s TELEVISION-THE WORKING VEHICLES OF A SMALL TOWN TV STATION
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- TEN WAYS THAT GUYS AND OLD CARS ARE HEADED DOWN THE SAME ROAD IN RELATIONSHIPS
- MYSTARCOLLECTORCAR'S BIRTHDAY #4-THE TOP TEN OFF THE BEATEN PATH MSCC STORIES SO FAR
- WHAT THE TOOLMAN'S WIFE REALLY DROVE: HOME IMPROVEMENT'S PATRICIA RICHARDSON TALKS CARS
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