Posted on 06/03/2011 8:31:15 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
I have the same feeling every time I see some nice older car get destroyed in a movie. But hey, when your budget is in the millions, trashing a classic 70s muscle car worth say even $40k (not that many are) is a drop in the bucket to them, while appearing sacrilegious to the aficionado.
Camaros would have been even cheaper...
>>70s Firebirds weren’t worth a crap anyway<<
Funny you mention that. It is seeming that anything “vintage, as opposed to antique” is sought after these days. I’m big into “vintage” stereos and am a member of a few sites. Some of these guys will find old BSR turntables and Radio Shack receivers and speakers from the late 60’s and early 70’s and proudly pronounce it as though they struck a mile wide gold vein. But I used to sell that stuff. It was and IS CRAP. But it’s vintage crap! ;)
I used to say to my daughters that the world is changing as much in five years as it used to change in five generations. I think it’s more like every two years now. People cannot cope with this rate of change. Society will fray at the edges and finally come undone. I think a lot of people are learning to cope by doing anything they can to pull them into a simpler time. I was in a stereo store that sells new, fairly high end turntables (yeah, they play the big black CD’s using a little diamond needle) and he said most of his customers are in their 20’s.
Meanwhile, even I have purchased a sony walkman (50 cents at an estate sale) so I can plug it into the aux in for the stereo in my Scion xB and listen to the 300 + cassettes I’ve purchased over the last few months for a grand total of $11.
My daughters (all in their 20’s) are even getting into this stuff intependently of my influence.
It is kinda fun to watch, except the core reason is frightening.
Oh, and yeah, those firebirds were terrible cars.
Obama, whose chances of re-election next year could hinge on the health of the economy.
3.7 trillion down the rat hole for stimulus yea it’s the economy stupid.
Camaros would have been even cheaper...
I heard a few interviews with business owners at the time and they said if they received any government contracts at all someone from the government would call and question them about how many new employees they hired because of the contract. If the answer was none, as it usually was, the caller would then ask how many employees they would have let go without the contract. If the answer was none again the caller would keep cajoling them to agree that some jobs were saved. They said those callers were more persistent that door-to-door encyclopedia salesmen until most businessmen would finally give up and agree that some jobs may have been saved. Boom! Onto the list would go those "saved jobs" go.
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