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Nice chapter. I remember going to a car show once with my dad. I was too young to understand the appeal at the time but looking back at it, though were good days.
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It is hard to appreciate those kinds of things when you're younger. I grew up around my dad's '73 Roadrunner he bought back in 1983, and when I was little I always thought it was odd I never saw another one, particularly at car dealerships we passed. Then there were the car shows I was taken to where he would display it alongside my uncle's '67 Barracuda and my grandpa's '66 Chrysler 300 - didn't seem special at all. It's hard to appreciate that kind of stuff. The Barracuda and the 300 are gone - wish I had more pics. Hell, wish I had the money when the Barracuda was for sale, lol.
Good chapter. Pity that we didn't get to see a Midnight/Celestia interaction. I'd like to see Midnight talk to more pony-bots.
I don't mind "rice rockets", but can't say I'm a fan of hearing those damn fart cans
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Yeah. My dad had a 67 Dodge Charger that was supposed to be part of my inherentance but it got sold when my parents divorced. My mom didn't care how special the car was or what it meant to me. Part of the reason I don't speak to her anymore.
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I’m sorry to hear that mate. I missed out on a lime green Monaro as my inheritance from a divorce aswell. Life is strange sometimes ain’t it
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Not stranger than my mom serving my dad the divorce papers at my grandma's funeral and then forcing him to get a ride home with one of his brothers.
Nice chapter, if for both the characters playful dialog, but just as much the "car show" and the many ref's used for that. Funny thing about Javelins. I always thought that they were mainly another last gasp from AMC, which by then, as represented by your '74, was pretty much running on fumes, corporate-wise. The Jav in your pic does look sweet, however, and you should be proud of it. I may never work on a car (I'm now 67 in age), but that does not mean I don't appreciate another's handiwork.
Sick car brother!
Do you live in the US? I'm not that far away from York, PA where they hold the Street Rod Nationals East.
The 69’ AMC javelin is one of my favourite cars of all time, props to you for managing to get one albeit at 74’ and for fixing the thing, probably a whole lot more than I could do.
Wait till Midnight sees a '58 Cadillac El Dorado. Sure it's a boat of a car, but gad damn it had style.
Nice AMC! I don't see very many of those at car shows around my area. What motor is in it? Reading this makes me wish I would have bought my Grandfather's 64" Mustang with the 289 option.
Lol.
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401. According to the VIN, it was originally a straight six car, but that got tossed at some point in its life. There were a lot of confusing mismatched bits with the car, including the wrong style of carpeting for the year.
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Yeah, I am. I live in a general area rife with automotive history.
That time when in the middle of a chapter you google what an AMC Javelin is, and at the end of the chapter it turns out there is an excellent example attached.
I’m not an American, it’s hard for me to understand what a muscle-car means to an American; they didn’t exist in Europe. But they, of course, look wonderful and beautiful, as well as masculine.
Modern camaro, mustang, chardger, etc. It's a parody of ourselves.
And AMC has ceased to exist, which means this car is truly unique.
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awh don’t undersell yourself, it really is a high quality fic
i loved this chapter and you wrote it well. for a person like me who knows nothing of cars, your descriptions painted an accurate picture. also "I will beat the stupid out of you" got a big laugh from me.
ALSO GASP!!! she needs a crispy creme or jelly filled STAT!
They don't build cars like that anymore, do they? Everything these days looks so damn samey that I actively want to look at cars less. Then again, the march of technology has done the same to pretty much everything. Be it furniture, vehicles, videogames, or whatever else.
As great as we have it, technology is a step towards something different instead of a step towards something better. So many different crafts have died, and it's... it's such a damn shame.
I was once a collision repair guy-- more of a sportscar guy than muscle cars, but I did restore a 68 Nova for a mechanic friend that I trade work with. He is in to drag racing, which I, as a sportscar guy, just dont 'get'. But anyhow the Nova is tubbed, has a fiberglass front clip (even though the metal was fine, he wanted to save weight) and a fiberglass decklid. The side windows are plexy, and I shaved the door handles and wipers. I had to do a little rust fixing on the lower doors and patch panels on the quarter panels but now its perfectly straight and show ready--- Other than the bugs splatting permanently on the nose at 120mph.
God damn that's a beautiful car
I'd love to see Midnight try to interact with a Pinkie Pie and not either strangle Pinkie or herself just to end it.
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I've pretty much lost interest in the modern car industry. But it's less the result of technology and more the result of politics and regulations.
There is so many things that automakers have to include or regulations they have to abide by, that the canvas they're afforded is limited. There's got to be room for all the gizmos and sensors required by law now that force certain dimensions into existence, and the designers have to work with those in mind
That's not to say it's bad or to make this into a political debate (please no) - after all, I can about guarantee if I get t-boned by someone running a stop sign in my Javelin, I'm wormfood. It also needs to be said that while I love the design, it shares a common problem with many cars of the era - rear visibility sucks. The fastback profile means rear quarter view is nonexistent, while the ducktail spoiler cuts off anything immediately behind - and the sideview mirrors basically just exist as side ornaments, thanks to their small size and the wide kicked-out rear flanks.
But the more rules that get put in place, the more everything has to follow the same formula as everyone else or fall by the wayside.
A good example of that is the last generation of Dodge Viper - while I think its time on earth was limited either way by the cost compared to the Hellcat cars and the buzz surrounding their power numbers, the fact of the matter is the car was going to have to be completely redesigned for incoming regulations that required side air bags be equipped. The doors didn't have the space for that, nor did the sills, a-pillars - everything was built and packaged in a way that the design couldn't evolve into another generation - it had tonstart from scratch. Wasn't worth the cost.
Same thing with what's mentioned in this chapter on the Corvette - the 5 mph bumper regulations introduced for 1974. That requirement, while cutting down on repair bills from minor collisions, meant designs like the first iteration of C3 Corvette or the Chrysler B-Body siblings (Charger and Roadrunner) had to forfeit their wraparound front bumpers, as any collision there damages the fenders due to no clearance/shock absorbing.
Yet ironically 50 years on, with all the sensors packed in behind the bumpers and everything form-fitted to improve fuel economy, we're back to minor bumps often becoming high dollar repairs.
I got a '78 c10 cheyenne.
I’ll admit I know little about cars, but that Javelin is a sexy looking thing.
That's one sweet-ass Javelin, dude! The one car from my past that I wish I could get back is an off-white 85 Olds CS, with the chrome bumper option (as opposed to the dumb-looking body-color bumpers). Can't say what kind of motor it had, but it went 0-60 in Fast.
My dream car is an 81 DeLorean. (World's best-looking lemon.) I was excited by the new DeLorean, until I saw one on TV. It looks like a gray Tesla. New cars are basically iPhones on wheels, which is just lame.
Tactically evaded conversation with the owners, we see. 😈
Nothing like a good old 50-footer (Never mind, it was older the that).
Alternatively; the dumping ground for the Big Three's surplus parts.
Also, dang your Javelin looks great.
My father bought a 68 Mustang when I was a teenager, for us to restore. I blew him off.
Teenage me was an idiot.