Well this is my favorite "fat-mouthed shark!" LOL
Posted on 05/02/2009 2:08:35 PM PDT by kellynla
LOS ANGELES – It could crash through burning buildings, make a fool of any number of small-town Southern sheriffs, help save the world from giant robots, even take criminals off to jail while engaging in witty repartee with its driver.
In the end, about the only thing a Pontiac automobile couldn't do anymore was persuade enough people to keep buying it.
So General Motors announced this past week that it is killing off the Pontiac brand, maker of muscular, noisy, gas-guzzling V-8-powered vehicles immortalized in song and movies for the way they seemed to shout to every other car on the block: "Out of the way, pipsqueak!"
When Burt Reynolds needed to outrun Jackie Gleason's bumbling Sheriff Buford T. Justice across the South in the 1977 movie "Smokey and the Bandit," he chose a black Pontiac Trans Am. When he needed a car to crash through burning buildings in "Hooper," it was a red Trans Am.
On TV, the star of the hit 1980s series "Knight Rider" wasn't really David Hasselhoff, it was his talking Pontiac. When Jim Garner's private eye Jim Rockford needed to hit the road to solve a crime, he didn't get behind the wheel of a Ford Mustang or a Chevrolet Camaro. He chose a Pontiac Firebird.
And when a bored high school senior from Nashville, Tenn., decided to tune out his physics teacher's lecture one day and check out a copy of Car and Driver magazine, it was a picture of a hot new Pontiac he saw on the cover. By the end of class, John Wilkin had written the 1964 pop classic "GTO."
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I don’t like tail fins. But I do like fish mouth bumpers.
fishmouth bumper:
http://www.isra-online.org/images/Klinkefus_Steve-Marcia_Des_Moines_57Oldsmobile98.JPG
Double fishmouth bumper:
1972 Dodge Charger
Nope !
prolly be my last new car... 4x4's from now on.
personally, I'm building new-old cars from now on...
can't stand the “cookie-cutter” cars of today...
aside from the Vettes’s, you can't tell one from the other!
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