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VANITY * * * Gee, Our Ol' Lasalle Ran Great . . . * * * Vanity
self ^ | March 15, 2023 | knarf

Posted on 03/15/2023 12:27:14 PM PDT by knarf

I occasionally noodle around in Youtube memory lane, and All In The Family is a favorite place to straighten out my head.

But, what the heck's a Lasalle, anyway ?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; History; Reference
KEYWORDS: acarsname; lasalleautomobile
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To: Boogieman

But it was a Cadillac model, not a Buick. Both were GM cars though.


41 posted on 03/15/2023 1:09:25 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: dznutz

Actually, I was of the mind that comedy was education . . . O still do . . . I miss Robin and George.


42 posted on 03/15/2023 1:13:36 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Looks like GM took styling cues from their first year Corvette...


43 posted on 03/15/2023 1:17:47 PM PDT by W. (Biden, America's Piss Boy--His finest hour!)
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To: TangoLimaSierra
I heard every word clearly.

I tried to post last night regarding the line;

"Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again"

Trying to draw attention to the corruption in American politics and it was rejected because I used a WICKY link for Joe McCarthy.

Mister, we could use a man liker Joe McCarthy again !

44 posted on 03/15/2023 1:17:53 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Oh yeah, that’s right.


45 posted on 03/15/2023 1:30:03 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Fiji Hill

Makes sense especially considering their Detroit (or should I say “de twah”) roots.


46 posted on 03/15/2023 1:38:02 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
So did Le George.
47 posted on 03/15/2023 1:42:00 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: knarf

Yes, comedy is based on truth.


48 posted on 03/15/2023 1:47:34 PM PDT by dznutz
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To: dinodino

My mother’s father owned a LaSalle Touring Car and in the photos and 16mm movies, it was magnificent. He had the car shipped to Europe on the same ocean liner that carried my mother, two siblings, father and governess. The car carried them around Depression-era Europe for 6 months without so much as a hiccup.

LaSalle’s were among the royalty of American-made automobiles in the 1930’2.

And yes, it was subsumed by GM and the marque lost forever.


49 posted on 03/15/2023 1:53:05 PM PDT by T. Rustin Noone (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: knarf

LaSalle... back when GM took pride in a name:

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9-Robert_Cavelier,_Sieur_de_La_Salle

(Unlike, say, the Cadillac Lyriq or the Buick Enclave)


50 posted on 03/15/2023 1:54:59 PM PDT by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: knarf

The 1927 LaSalle looks pretty amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DegZYWyzXFQ


51 posted on 03/15/2023 1:56:18 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: dinodino

“It wasn’t cheap—it was sold under the Cadillac division.”

That’s what I thought. I think that’s the badge that my dad’s grandfather owned. My dad learned to drive it at age 12 and served as his grandfather’s driver.

The era before driver’s licenses. If you could reach the pedals and see over the dash you were good to go. My father was always a very careful driver, finally surrendering his license at age 92.


52 posted on 03/15/2023 2:19:34 PM PDT by Pelham
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To: Impala64ssa
...GM brought out the Cadillac Seville in 1975...

We'd cut out about 2 feet from the Seville, lengthen the nose, and put on fake wire wheels...Pompano Beach in the late '70's.

Pimp my ride!

Sold it @ 40K IIRC. I think they're still using the same basic design, putting out 'fancy stuff' that I think they call 'Excaliburs'.

53 posted on 03/15/2023 2:39:09 PM PDT by spankalib
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To: Paladin2

Naah! More like a Packard.


54 posted on 03/15/2023 2:48:55 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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To: Tucker39

I had to look this up:

“LaSalle was an American brand of luxury automobiles manufactured and marketed, as a separate brand, by General Motors’ Cadillac division from 1927 through 1940. Alfred P. Sloan, GM’s Chairman of the Board, developed the concept for four new GM marques - LaSalle, Marquette, Viking and Pontiac - paired with already established brands to fill price gaps he perceived in the General Motors product portfolio. “

Packard was its own independent self.


55 posted on 03/15/2023 2:54:41 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: spankalib

Looks like fun.


56 posted on 03/15/2023 2:55:43 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: spankalib

I’ve seen a few of these. The Seville was built on the X body platform like the Chevy Nova


57 posted on 03/15/2023 3:35:05 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire NPR, CBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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To: knarf

It was a Cadillac production...
Had one, a 1938 convertible coupe, for about 3 months when I was a Jr in HS (1949)...
Traded it to a classmate for 2 1936 Plymouths...


58 posted on 03/15/2023 3:36:10 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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