By Robert Emslie
Screw picking up the kids, let’s race for pinks.
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Scion, we hardly knew ye…
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/toyota-kills-its-ailing-scion-brand/ar-BBp4Lxb?ocid=ansmsnmoney11
It’s Geo all over again. Does a relatively pointless sub-brand sold through the same parent dealers ever work?
Lexus?
http://blog.toyota-town.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ToyotaTown-Lexus-of-London.jpg
Mini?
http://www.asheconstruction.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/0299-060.jpg
Mini is probably the best example you could have given. But it is still very much unlike the parent brand, whereas Geo and Scion cars were differentiated only by hopeful marketeering. The cars themselves were indistinguishable from the parent brand’s.
Shelby Cobras were sold thru Lincoln/Mercury ?
Pantera at Mercury?
it had even become a hip-hop insult. “you drive a Scion,” raps Action Bronson, “you ain’t ridin’, dawg.”
Scion passes away while Buick thrives. Who would of thunk that ten years ago?
I wonder what the most amount of yellow paint ever applied to a passenger vehicle (read: non-bus) was. Lede image may take the cake
Maybe one of these? It’s gotta be close, at least.
http://offroadaction.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/1972_International_Harvester_travelall_1.jpg
Yuma Yellow 72, I’ve got one but mine is the IFS version with the Custom Exterior trim package which gives it wood grain goodness.
Actually the Travelall is not as big for its time at least in length. They are actually shorter than many of the car based wagons of the era. It is even shorter than a Panther.
What about an 8-door Checker?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Checker_Taxi.JPG
Speaking of 8 dr Checkers I saw one in traffic last Sat. It was nicely restored in black and is done up in the livery of an area recreational Marijuana store.
Here’s one which sucked up some yellow:
http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp29/mckellyb/OurbrandnewHondaGoldwing_zps14e73507.jpg
BTW, that pillion seat has my wife in the most unflattering position, possible. She’s 5’7″, 135 lbs. in this picture, though, the suits, Aerostich Roadcrafters (worth every single cent…and they require many of them), are over us when we’re fully-dressed. As in, unzip/remove the suit, go in and have lunch, dressed as if you got out of a car.
Here’s another…yes, they were both mine (the second one is a found image, though):
http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp29/mckellyb/73CoupedeVille-1.jpg
4 human doors
1 cargo door
2 headlight doors
2 fuel doors
Adorable.
Ninedoorable.
http://wwwa.autotrader.ca/a/Dodge/Monaco/CALGARY/Alberta/19_8993389_/?showcpo=ShowCPO&orup=1_15_1
Bitchin’ as Fuselage wagons are, the wood really sets it off.
Asking $3900 http://www.cars-on-line.com/82047.html
With a 122-inch wheelbase and a curb weight well over two and a half tons, it’s difficult for me to think of a ’70s Monaco Wagon as a performance car, regardless of what you do to it.
The two door Ram SRT-10 was about the same weight and wheelbase, and the four door version was heavier and longer…
Ok, with a beautiful, fitting Last Call like this I can’t resist another non-final status update on my kids’ play area: The Volvo wagon is cut out and almost finished painting. Needs another layer of yellow, all silver effects, signal lights, doors and wheels. I’m unsure yet if I go for standard steelies or Turbine wheels, which might be a bit too artistically challenging for my skill level.
http://s18.postimg.org/btm1u8n7t/IMG_20160204_093552.jpg
Here you go, have 4 of these printed on some thick paper, and glue in place. Image is 14″ across
so some adjustments may be needed.
http://media3.giphy.com/media/IxJMT1ugyBMdy/giphy.gif
Matt LeBlanc has been hired as the new host of Top Gear Britain
Comedians in cars yadda yadda yadda
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/feb/04/matt-leblanc-to-co-present-top-gear-bbc-chris-evans
http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/shocked_joey_friends.gif