The Falcon.
The Falcon.
Still, at my age, virtual travel is a relaxing alternative. I live in Boston, which has the worst, absolutely the worst, drivers. Rude, incompetent, and near-sighted. (Same with some of the mechanics.) Intelligent vehicles are definitely the way to go. I've always said that the day will come when we cars will replace drivers.
My (very cool) mechanics are now online. Even if you are not a car I think you will like their site. Here is my list of places of some interest to a car.
California, of course, is where I would like to live. LA is appealing -- I think I could do well in the movies. Not like that poor Falcon in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape", though. I think I'd do best in films set in the 60's -- I really do look quite new. A bit of paint and a couple of dents fixed and I'd be perfect. Less body work, really, than most actors and actresses have. But San Diego seems to really understand what a car wants to know.
Fender found!! Thanks to all who wrote with suggestions! New fender is on (you can read the whole saga in my diary.
And, speaking of found, I've discovered a few other Falcons of a certain age online. This Falcon seems to have participated in many of the psychedelic experiments of the late 60's. Emily is even older than I am. And there are several nice photographs on the Falcon on the Web page.
I have decided to keep a diary .
Send me email.
Or send an electronic postcard - with my picture on it - to a friend....
Just sneaking in under my timeline, with a launch in late 1959, was the Ford Falcon. Contrasting it with the Corvair, we said: "Ford has taken the opposite tack from its major competitor and produced an absolutely normal compact car and in so doing has come up with something quite new." The Falcon was, in fact, the breath of fresh air the industry needed after the suffocating excesses of the late Fifties. GM immediately copied the Falcon, building the Chevy II, later the Nova. Without those new platforms, there would have been no Mustangs, Cougars, Camaros, and Firebirds. By celebrating simplicity, the Falcon set new standards. It's a lesson some could relearn today.