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Originally Posted by AerostarMonk
Oh my, I love Studebakers! Oh if only I could land a car like that. So beautiful. They don't make cars with real style anymore.
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You got THAT right! Most of today's cars look just alike; if you can't find the company logo, you can't tell what it is. I pass a car dealership that sells late-model used cars, and with just a couple of exceptions, all the cars on the lot look basically the same, even though they're of all different makes and models. Back in the "old days", which lasted pretty much through the '70's, you could tell what kind of car you were looking at just by seeing the taillights at night, since each was that distinctive. The copy-cat syndrome actually wound up being part of Studebaker's downfall in the '60's, when they began making cars that were exact dublicates of European sedans, especially Mercedes, and a lot of American car buyers just didn't like the Larks and Daytonas, figuring that if they were gonna have a car like that, they might as well spend a few thousand more and get a real Mercedes! I really loved the look of some of the early '50's small manufacturer's cars, though, especially the Studes and the Kaisers, since they were vastly different from the big, chunky, rounded style of most cars of that era.
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