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31/07/2016 10:27 am
Pics: If you've had enough, you can take a pass on these.
It's too hot here in Virginia to be outside so here is another series of pictures as I sit in a cool environment thinking about my cars and the memories they bring.
This is Brooklin's '59 Thunderbird in Baltic Blue (BRK 64) produced from 1998-2003. Once again it was produced before the days of all the chrome detail but the casting is excellent and the details and proportions are correct. This was a Christmas present from my wife in 1998.
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After many years, I just finished rereading Unsafe at Any Speed by our friend Ralph Nader. Cars like this 'Bird and the stylists who designed them drove him crazy. Little did we think back then about such dangers as tailfins and front bumpers upon which hapless pedestrians could be impaled. We just loved those fins outback and those dagmars in front. Made for beautiful cars to look at but dangerous in certain situations. But we loved 'em.
David Knight
Richmond, Virginia. USA
31/07/2016 10:46 am
I like it! Now I'm wondering why it's not on my shelves. Hmmmm....