[FrankR]

I first laid eyes on the PT CRuiser in a newspaper ad years ago...as a child of the 40's and 50's I was very impressed...until I saw one.

The ad offered no reference to it's size, and I thought it was at least as large as say, a Chevy S10 Blazer...but it was, alas, just a Dodge Neon with different skin.

I went to a dealership and even test drove one...one of the early ones...and one of my old Dad's sayings about underpowered cars came to mind, i.e."That thing wouldn't pull a greased string out of a cat's butt.".

I still think they are very neat looking, very 40's retro, but I don't like compact cars much...now certain seqments of our society were drawn to them, but I'm rather partial to at least mid-size and larger. I think it would have been even a bigger hit, had it been a bit larger.

[RobRoy]

>>I first laid eyes on the PT CRuiser in a newspaper ad years ago...as a child of the 40’s and 50’s I was very impressed...until I saw one.

The ad offered no reference to it’s size, and I thought it was at least as large as say, a Chevy S10 Blazer...but it was, alas, just a Dodge Neon with different skin.<<

That was EXACTLY my take as well. If it was increased in size by, say, 20% I’d have been really tempted to get one. It surprised me that the size completely changed my opinion of the look. I guess some things look good big, and others look good small...