Interesting Riviera's that might have been....

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http://forums.aaca.org/f169/art-gm-designer-paul-deesen-361157.html

[60FlatTop]

Oops! I commented in that forum. Here's the quote:

How's this quote: "Once upon a time the American people thought of the automobile as an instrument of sensuous pleasure. Once upon a time, indeed, it was just that, and many a man still alive remembers the day. Aye, many a man crossing a city street that is a turgid river of jelly-bodied clunkers too clumsy to get out of their own way remembers a day when he ripped down a country road in a canary-yellow, bucket-seated Mercer, master of all he surveyed, high-riding, able to see where he was going, with a wheel in his hands that really steered the car instead of shyly suggesting that it change direction. Or he remembers the dead-silent steamers and the thrill of their incredible acceleration. He may be younger, and remember Stutzes, Cords, Auburns and the regal Duesenberg roadsters that used power normally apportioned to a couple of lorries to move a mere two passengers in utter glory.

It’s all past now."

Ken Purdy C. 1949

Bernie