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29/12/2024 10:44 am
GREAT shot!
Yeah, from one generation to the next, is like day and night! Black and white! 
29/12/2024 11:56 am
The modern glass lean-to on the old weather-board homestead is great touch and reprise of the Corvette generational theme.
29/12/2024 12:43 pm
Can you even imagine what it would be like to take someone that bought a brand new Corvette in '53 and put them behind the wheel of a brand new C8..
29/12/2024 12:44 pm
I ❤️ that pic Galen, thanks !
29/12/2024 3:01 pm
and put them behind the wheel of a brand new C8..
It's fun to think about... Furthermore, image a 2025 "anything" at a 1953 auto show. Naturally, the technology would dazzle, but I'm not so sure about the styling.
Without chrome, fins, whitewalls, and a high horsepower gasoline engine..... I truly believe crowds would've been no more impressed with the looks of any 2025 vehicle than we are today when we see, for instance, a "2064 Buick R-Type Pod-P7-52, or a 2055 Chevy Trek S-Sedric-U55" 😬 😬 😬
29/12/2024 3:13 pm
@chris How true Chris, how true! I kinda like that Buick R-Pod. Just wouldn't drive it on a windy day - a cross wind would probably knock it over! 
29/12/2024 3:52 pm
And here I thought Yugo's were ugly... sheesh 🙄
29/12/2024 3:57 pm
a cross wind would probably knock it over!
No way, it's equipped (standard feature ) with GIAM. Gyrocentric Interspec Auto Monitoring makes it virtually impossible to tip over. But I wouldn't expect anyone, in 2024, to understand this technology. 😏 😏
29/12/2024 4:04 pm
And here I thought Yugo's were ugly... sheesh
My point EXACTLY Steve. That's precisely, I presume, what a "1953 crowd" would say if they looked at a 2025 Corvette:
"Oh, heaven's me, if that's the future I don't want to see it!" 😬 😬 😬
29/12/2024 4:05 pm
29/12/2024 4:46 pm
Gyro? Why didn't I think of that. They even put those things in boats these days. OK, sold - I'll be buying the Buick R Type in 2064. (I'll be a spry 117!)a cross wind would probably knock it over!
No way, it's equipped (standard feature ) with GIAM. Gyrocentric Interspec Auto Monitoring makes it virtually impossible to tip over. But I wouldn't expect anyone, in 2024, to understand this technology. 😏 😏
30/12/2024 6:52 am
30/12/2024 7:11 am
and put them behind the wheel of a brand new C8..
It's fun to think about... Furthermore, image a 2025 "anything" at a 1953 auto show. Naturally, the technology would dazzle, but I'm not so sure about the styling.
Without chrome, fins, whitewalls, and a high horsepower gasoline engine..... I truly believe crowds would've been no more impressed with the looks of any 2025 vehicle than we are today when we see, for instance, a "2064 Buick R-Type Pod-P7-52, or a 2055 Chevy Trek S-Sedric-U55" 😬 😬 😬
Trying to be as objective as I'm able given the subject, I honestly think they would consider us all totally crazy. They would wonder what had happened to the structures disseminating taste and reason and whilst the technology would have undoubtedly dazzled them; a) it would do nothing that had not been popularly predicted and b) many applications (not Apps) would, I imagine, horrify them. Apps, too for that matter!
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