[TR] A blast from the past

[David Brister]

The American cars of the late fifties were IMHO among the most exuberant and 
exotic cars ever made. All those fins and mouth organ fronts, the 
unbelievable length of bonnet and boot (OK hood and trunk) used to have we 
Europeans who visited the USA in those days absolutely bemused.
I used to think the whole styling to be vulgar and tasteless and when I 
hired one from A or H I was horrified by the roadholding. On an English 
country lane you would have been seasick long before you would have hit a 
(Massey Ferguson) tractor. However they were'nt designed to be driven on 
English country lanes
With the passing of the years however I have realised how those cars 
encapsulated the mood of the USA. WW2 was over, the Korean war was over, 
America was above all supremely optimistic about the future. How better 
could the automobile manufacturers express the feeling of the nation at that 
time and I now regard those cars with nostalgia and affection.

YMMV

Flame suit ready,

Massey Ferguson=Triumph content.

David Brister
1967 TR4A 


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