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This is the contrived schlock that really turns me off about old cars and the drones that make this stuff popular.
Happy Days ?
Rock-n-Roll ?
Just add bobbi-soxin' carhops and poodle skirts and you got yourself a fantasy stew of incohesive elements that *might* have represented .1% of the 50's experience to .1% of the population. I just love the hot pink and toothpaste splashes to round out that 1980's vision of "the good old days". Maybe a neon flamingo could be included ? Oh, ... I forgot. THEY DID !!!!
Barf !
How many really great photos are out there of vintage street scenes with the *right cars* doing what they did in 1957 or 60 ? I have seen countless photos like this. Why do commercial artists candy up these trite images of emotional punch when such great images already exist ? That's right .... emotional punch. What better way to pry dollars out of the wallet than play the emotional card of fantasy - 1950's fantasy - and get fuzzy brained dreamers to buy the nothingness of a nonsensical rendering of someone's conglomeration of iconic images ?
Few things get me excited like vintage photos showing Uncle Ed and Auntie Edna posing in the drive with their new 58 Dodge, or a simple street scene with Grandma Pittipoo returning from an errand sortee in her finned grocery-gitter. But this cartoon stuff ?
C'mon folks, .... you got good enough taste to know a great car when you see one. Know bad art when you see that too, OK ?
*sigh*
B.
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