They don't make them like they used to
London, ON, June 2011
This is probably the loudest vehicle I've ever heard. Since it's a convertible, I'm guessing the guy who owns it has probably suffered hearing damage by now. I'm also pretty sure as it slowly cruised through the parking lot, I could see the roiled air behind it, likely a byproduct of incomplete combustion and fuel "economy" that probably never managed to scrape its way out of single digits.
None of that matters a whit, of course, as I'm sure everyone who saw the car that day probably wished they owned it. Classic cars will do that to even the most green of anti-motorheads. They just have a presence about them that newer vehicles - appliances, really - don't.
Your turn: Thematic celebrates all things classic this week. Cars, architecture, people, whatever. If you think it qualifies as classic, shoot it and share it on your blog. Then leave a comment here letting us know where to find it. Visit other participants and generally share the photographic joy. We'll be doing the classic thing all week. For more info on how Thematic Photographic, our weekly photo-sharing extravaganza, works, just click here.
Completely awesome snap ! once a classic, always a classic !
ReplyDeleteWell, they don't make cars like that any more... Now its all plastic bumpers....hardly any steel... My entry is pretty straight forward..
ReplyDelete:-) http://afreshstartwithkalei.blogspot.com/2011/11/tp171-classic.html
Max is gonna LOVE this theme!
ReplyDeleteHere's mine. The photo's not good at all, but it's worth a laugh.
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That's a 1971 or '72 Mercury Cougar. Beautiful car. I've got a '70 Convertible Ford LTD, bigger cousin to the Cougar. I guess I'll have to do the classic car set, but I think I'm going to try something a little more obscure first.
ReplyDeleteMore obscure than my waxed paper?
ReplyDeleteWell, I found some cars, but a couple of other things too here
ReplyDeleteI forgot about these until Writer's wax paper made me thing about them. See my classics here.
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of car is it? I don't know cars very well. Ooh - thanks, Max!
ReplyDeleteI've got my classic here:
http://doves2day.blogspot.com/2009/04/april-enchantment-la-style.html
So many beautiful classics come to mind. You car pic is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteMy entry is here.
I think this is more like what you were expecting?
ReplyDeleteI was nearly stimied this week when you put up that car and Alan Burnett put an old chevrolet as his picture prompt on Sepia Saturday.
ReplyDeleteSi I turned to books instead.
http://bit.ly/tyhtQr
Great theme! Here is my contribution combining the theme and my current project of posting photos from travelling in Italy.
ReplyDeleteGot me another classic:
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Went to this show last night. Really nice, really wonderful to experience these artists, Herb Alpert and Lani Hall.
Well Carmi, (nice car) great capture of such a classic part of a great classic too.... anyway, I am running out of TP time and exhausted my search for the perfect telephone booth, and one that's actually alive and being used...so here is my 2nd best classic
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Chrissy and Writer best ever classics! timely and purposeful!
ReplyDeleteAnother round of Classics.
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