From the Pages of "CARS & PARTS" Magazine

I'm just the opposite, I prefer cars that blend in with the crowd but can out perform the crowd.

Buicks definitely stand out, why I dislike their styling, I guess. Same reason for the Edsel, too different, didn't blend in, wrong planet at the wrong time.  I appreciate them all and thoroughly enjoy looking/checking them out.  Wouldn't want to own one, too much responsibility for a vehicle I don't care for. A '68 Charger or '57 Thunderbird [which I don't have the logistics for, darn] I would gladly except responsibility for. 

@brush, we are all different.   

When I'm at an old car show, I'd much rather see one car like this '50 Buick than the usual twelve '57 Chevy's.  For me, it's the unusual and different cars that make the car shows fun.  

Posted by: @georgeschire

@brush, we are all different.   

When I'm at an old car show, I'd much rather see one car like this '50 Buick than the usual twelve '57 Chevy's.  For me, it's the unusual and different cars that make the car shows fun.  

You are 100% right on car shows.  Like I said, I like looking also and the unique/different/rare attract my attention over the Mustangs & tri-five Chevys. Maybe I just look at old classic cars like it is back in the day and which car I would like to have/drive/afford.

Had a friend that had 3 Buicks somewhere between '49 & '52 all were straight eights with the dynaflow trans and were between 8 & 10 years old and well used, when stepped on they either mooed like a cow or sounded like a vacuum and couldn't get out of their own way. Cruised  down the highway like a big heavy boat, bobbing and weaving. Had 3 to keep one running; left me with a bad feeling on Buicks 

That is my problem with negativity on a lot of cars because I got to drive/ride in them but they were well used by the time I got into them.

I wouldn't say that I love or hate the 50 Buick.  I disliked the look of that overbite grille as a young man but now appreciate it for its uniqueness and the bold styling statement it makes.  I enjoy seeing it at shows now.  The Buick that I loved from the first moment I saw it as a kid is the 1955 Century 2drht.  Its styling was crisper and sportier and its drive train much more "enthusiastic".

I always find it interesting how our "likes and dislikes" with regard to cars can and does change.  Sometimes it's first impressions or it may be the influence of others around us.  I remember as a kid, my Dad didn't like the styling of the '59 Chevy's when they were brand new.  He would complain that cars were no longer the cars of just a few years earlier.  Of course in 1959 I was just 8 years old, so many things my Dad said were gospel to me.  I took him at his word that the '59 Chevy was not a nice looking car.  

Flash forward to 1967 when I got my drivers license.  A school friends father had a car for sale and I was eager to get my first car.  You guessed it, the car for sale was a '59 Chevy!  When I saw the car, a white 2-door Hardtop with red interior, to me it looked like the coolest car I'd ever seen.  And the price?  I paid $500 dollars saved up from my newspaper route money.  When I brought it home, my Dad told me that it was nice car for the money.  He never told me he didn't like the styling, though when it was new I'd remembered he didn't like it.  I think it grew on him over the years and his attitudes had changed, because he told me that cars today (this was 1967) sure are plainer and not as flashy as they were back then (1959).  

For a first car that is an impressive ride for a young feller, George!

@jack-doddsm, it sure was for me.  I'd get that Chevy up to 70 or 80 mph on the back country roads of the city I live in at the time and those rear "Bat Wings" would feel like they were going to lift off the ground.  The car actually felt like it could take flight.  

Life's too short to drive boring cars or to drink cheep booze.

@sizedoesmatter  Yup...and it can easily be even shorter if you do both at the same time.

Posted by: @jack-dodds

@sizedoesmatter  Yup...and it can easily be even shorter if you do both at the same time.

Yeah, but what a way to go.

Posted by: @sizedoesmatter

Posted by: @jack-dodds

@sizedoesmatter  Yup...and it can easily be even shorter if you do both at the same time.

Yeah, but what a way to go.

LOL, I always say it's better to be able to say "you did it", then to "never do it" and wish "you did".  As for a life maybe being shorter, I've always felt that ones life isn't measured by how long or short it is, but rather by what one does within the time he had on the planet.  So if one dies young, but lived life to its fullest, was kind, giving, and made an impression on the lives around him, then he/she had a great life.  

Posted by: @georgeschire

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Posted by: @jack-dodds

@sizedoesmatter  Yup...and it can easily be even shorter if you do both at the same time.

Yeah, but what a way to go.

LOL, I always say it's better to be able to say "you did it", then to "never do it" and wish "you did".  As for a life maybe being shorter, I've always felt that ones life isn't measured by how long or short it is, but rather by what one does within the time he had on the planet.  So if one dies young, but lived life to its fullest, was kind, giving, and made an impression on the lives around him, then he/she had a great life.  

Yes George, quality over quantity I always say.