ooh! I am a lumberjack and I'm okay I work all night and I sleep all day!{OLD Monte Python reference}
The guy is like most people. He wants to float down the freeway at 90 and feel like hes at home on his living room sofa. Talking on the phone. Watching TV. Drinking a coke. And then magicly show up at his destination.
All you s'thilly fellas are s'tho cruel to thayut poor mayun. You all should just be ashamed!...................NOT! Carry on.
Here I am looking for a good deal on an Avanti..what a rotten break, some guys have all the luck..put that Jerk in a Corvette and sell me the Avanti
I cut down trees, I eat my lunch, I go to the lavatry... I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars. I didn't know the transvestite lumberjack drove an Avanti.
We have a '63 Avanti R 1 that is a fantastic car to drive. It's obvious that this guy never held a tool in his hand or had any knowledge of cars in general or an original Avanti in particular. If he had done regular maintenance I'm sure the car would have given him much better service. Two months ago we drove ours from Tampa, FL to Charleston, SC for a Studebaker show and in August we will be driving her up to Hiawassee, GA for another show. This guy should be driving a Honda...
I can't believe everyone has missed the obvious. This particular tool has bought one of the only classics in the world that was in production for years after it's original maker stopped. Shouldn't have to look too hard to find an Avanti with FI, AC, and modern brakes. Basically, he's a tool because he bought an antique car, that didn't have to be an antique if he'd have shopped smarter.
The dork mentions that the Avanti doesn't have a "back up" brake system. I think he means it doesn't have a dual master cylinder, which became a federal requirement around 1967. The dork doesn't know it would be an easy retrofit. I used to wonder how so much bad legislation gets passed in regards to old cars, but this sheds some light on that subject.
I think he has just touched on something that has been infecting our society for years. Affluenza. This metrosexual bought a car as a fashion piece. It brought him no joy. He should stick to cufflinks and Armani suits.They won't bring him any joy to his hollow existence either but they won't leave him stranded on the road. Buy a Lexus and GFY...
I've seen it before....the best cure for someone that THINKS that they want a hot rod/musclecar/motorcycle is to make them drive one every day for two weeks; after that, 99 per cent of them discover that they don't want one THAT bad.
I think the article says something about his mechanic fabbing up a dual master setup using Mustang and Chevy truck parts. Sounds like a decent mechanic to me, who's willing to modify stuff instead of just buy new/replace. I do agree that this guy is not a car guy and doesn't appreciate these cars whatsoever, beyond being a fashion accessory for him. The comparison to some of the new Harley buyers was a good one I think. I will give him one point of credit. He bought the car to completely replace his other car, to use whenever he needed a car, not just as a garage ornament that only gets taken out for the occasional car show. Being that this was going to be his only transportation and he obviously knows nothing about old cars, a '63 Avanti has to be a very poor choice.
You can through away all the tech, all the classifieds, and all the articles and I'll still come back to the H.A.M.B. for the comedy . The onslaught is killing me.
While we're throwing about the Monty Python references-"No More Pooftas!!!!" The author should take note....
Sally here - hijacking. Lux I love you. It's the art. Most people have no concept or experience of the artistic process/sensibility/struggle/experimentation/failure/success/fruition that you guys embody. "Mid-century Modern" (hate that term) is and always will be MODERN. As a kid who grew up having Christmas pictures taken sitting in a Saareinen chair or lined up with the family along the side of our Howard DGA (Damn Good Airplane) I knew by living it, the difference, the excellence that fine design made in the backround and forefront of life. This is the difference made by the post-war designers (and those who came before) of Studebaker,Hudson,Buick,Nash,Chrysler,Lincoln, et al. The designers and manufacturers of that unique sculpture known as the automobile of the 50s & 60s were bucking the existing system, creating something so new and modern that they will always be so and deserving of continued use, continued driving by those with a true appreciation of every part and piece drive train to tail light. It's a scuptural, experiential life. You sit inside it and it moves you in all senses of the word. When I hold the steering wheel-look at the dashboard-step on the accelerator-watch the world and smiles go by I know what design,beauty,speed,slipping through space in a streamlined time capsule does for the human spirit, just as all you HA's (HokeyAsses) do. This poor couple are only at the beginning of their journey. They have a visceral reaction to a thing of beauty and they have no desire to really find out the why. Read a book, study design, learn some history, discover the mechanics find out about the lives of people like Raymond Loewy and Harley Earl and other true modernists like Vincent Van Gogh, Frank Lloyd Wright and Aalto. Then you might have an inkling of the connection between struggle and art and modernism as life. XXX
I pee sitting down, it's been scientifically proven that urinating in a seated position evacuates the bladder completely and helps in cutting down on urinary tract infections and other problems down there. I suggest that all you men start peeing sitting down, it doesn't make you gay, it makes you wise.
I read the article a day or so before it showed up here, and to me it's just a dude (clearly not a car guy) that tried something new, and it didn't work out. I was amused about the article, and I agree that the romance of a classic as a daily driver rarely matches the reality of it. But what I don't get is the huge anger some of you feel. I mean I just don't get it. You might feel ridicule towards him, but anger?
Anger is good for you, it helps cut down on cholestrol and it builds up muscles, ridicule makes you fat, so I'll stick with angry, thank you very fucking much.
^^^^^^PERFECTION I hate these tools who think its romantic/sexy to drive a classic but dont have the balls to tune a carb or do a brake job. (I am trying to channel some female thought processes hear so bear with me if my head explodes) isnt the whole reason a chick would find a classic sexy is the association with a time when men were men and fixed their own crap would rather read a craftsman catalog than slate and took charge of crap instead of whining about it in a magazine really why any girl would want to hang around some dork who cant get his hands greasy is beyond me. this totally exemplifies the douche bags of today all show and no go. seriously all metrosexuals should go gay already and quit riding the fence. man this pissed me off sorry for the rant.
we've all met these types. I've seen them at car shows. They usually have vettes. Basically, I look laugh and think to myself....these are the type of guys that need to finance balls.... so, they buy a finished car or they finance a harley.....only one word can describe that dude, "SOFT".
I'm with you - I read the article and forgot about it until I saw it here. Myth vs Reality type piece. It takes a real man to admit t himself when he's in over his head, a bigger man to tell everyone, and a smart one to get paid in the process.
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