<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by svede1212:
i'll echo Mr_GTO . let's see. in 1964 there were three (four if you want to count Rambler) car companies and pretty much no choices in HiPo cars. today there are... heck i don't even know because there are too many choices. having lived thru it i also know that the 60's were full of national fads. remember a fad called the beatles? there have been many great bands since then but never a phenomenom like them since. (don't give me an argument "what if they tried to bring back the beatles." they were people not cars) there are too many genres and choices in music now. the times made the ledgend of the GTO as much or more so than the car. "That compares very poorly with the sales of the 1964 GTO, which had 32,450 _even though it was essentially the same as the Tempest_. " that statement kind of comfirms that doesn't it? the '64 also needed those numbers to continue. the '04 does not. "That is what some of us "Purist" were afraid of, and it has happened." PURISTS? i think old farts is a better term. maybe you have your AM radio turned up too loud to hear that times have changed. most of these types of statements on this board have been uttered with glee and hoped for since the car was announced. i have too much respect to go to your section and trash your car. apparently you don't even tho i wish this site catered more toward the '04 enthusiest than the elitest, 'royal blood' menatlistly that seems to prevail here. "Basterdizing the GTO name " <sigh>(by the way it's bastardizing). did you spout that gibberish when they made those P.O.S in the 70's? that my friend was bastardization not this baby. i'll bet you didn't because you actually think there is some sort of bloodline. what a joke. don't worry your baby will always have its niche in history right there with the beatles and your lost youth. i only think about those kind of things when i read this stuff and i have to shake my head. most of the time i have my nickleback cd cranked up too loud to hear your echos of the past. maybe you ought to rethink your motivation for this continued hoping beyond hope that this car will fail... or maybe you ought to go out and give an '04 a spin... and get a little young at heart again. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Having lived through the 60's, your old age is catching up with you. You forgot European imports. You also need to bone up on your automotive history about high performance cars of the late 50's and early 60's. (Mr_GTO will probably want a list). As far as the Beatles; (Not that big of a fan), being a fad, since when do fads last 8(?) years? I've worked hard, and lived through much, and am proud of my old fart status. I don't need to crank up Nickleback, or anyone else to try and keep up with the times. It also gives me the right not to accept someone else's version of a reborn legend
, which an Austrailian car with chevy parts badged "Pontiac GTO" most certainly is not. Believe me, I don't need this import, Nickleback, Puddle of Mud, (or any new group), or a toupe as any precieved crutch to keep me young at heart
