> > I know this happens in movieland at least twice a week.
> > "We're going to make a movie."
> > "What about?"
> > "Oh about and hour and a half or two hours."
> > "No, I mean the plot."
> > "Plot? We don't have a plot."
> > "No plot? Who are we going to star in it?"
> > "We don't have any stars. We can go with cheap actors."
> > "Who's the director?"
> > "Nobody you ever heard of."
> > "No plot, no stars, no director? How can we dupe people into paying money to see it?"
> > "I don't know. Maybe we could smash some cars."
> > "You mean paint up some worn-out obsolete taxis?"
> > "Naw the suckers won't pay to see that. We need a couple of BMW's or a Lincoln."
> > "How about vintage cars? An A Model Ford, maybe."
> > Better yet, how about a '34 Studebaker or a '28 Buick."
> > "Sounds good. But I think a couple of Mustang Mach I's would look better. We could run them off a cliff and then detonate the dynamite just as the wreckage stops tumbling."
> > "Yeah. We could have it ram a new Harley just before going over the edge."
> > "Or how about we park a '55 Olds 88 convertable and have some crack-pot attack it with hammer?"
> >
> > I'm sure you get the point by now. Personally, I avoid movies that destroy irreplaceable classics.
> > It happened in the otherwise-entertaining movie, "1941" where they trashed late 1930's and early 1940's cars. I saw a clip on TV the other day when they were smashing a sports car. It looked like an early '60's Austin-Healey 3000. I was horrified. I've seen several Porche cars destroyed in movies and countless Cameros, Mustangs, Thunderbirds, Cadillacs, Studebakers, Packards, Lincolns etc. If the movie is set in 1950, that's the model year that gets trashed.
> > I don't call that entertainment.
> > How"I still miss my '46 Ford"ard
>
> Is Fozzy's Studebaker from the Muppet Movie a classic? Persoanly I liked it after the Electric Mayhem repaint it.
>
> Speed'Ah,abearinhisnaturalhabitat,aStudebaker'ball

In my mind, all remaining Studebaker cars and trucks are classics. The same applies to Packard, Nash, Hudson, Crosley, DeSoto, and LaSalle. If you look at a '49 Ford, you will see little that reminds you of Fords that are produced today, so I think of it as a classic, too.
Howard