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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] (quite a few images, so apologies for the wait) Once upon a time, there was a television show entitled "Car Trek". It was about the adventures of a guy named Kirk who crisscrossed the American heartland in the mid-seventies. He drove a 1975 Chevy Monte Carlo, which the show's devoted fans nicknamed "Ol' Constitution." <img src=http://www.raymond.aikens.com/74MonteCarloimages/image003.jpg> The show would spawn a movie franchise, and the producers decided to freshen the look of the "Ol' Constitution" by this time using a 1979 Monte Carlo. <img src=http://www.thunderhillclassics.com/gm/79_monte_carlo/left_front.jpg> In [i]Car Trek III: The Search for a Short-Cut[/i], we caught a glimpse at the future of car design when we saw the "Excelsiorific" 1985 Ford Taurus, which was far sleeker and more modern-looking than anything that had come so far. <img src=http://www.nctd.com/95/reviews/taurcar.gif> The show's producers went a step further when they put together a sequel show, [i]Car Trek: The Next Gas-Station[/i], jumping a whole twenty years to the mid-nineties. In accordance with this, they used a car a whole 20 model years in advance of the original "Constitution." This time, a curvier, larger, and more comfy car was used, the "Galaxy" 1995 Oldsmobile Aurora <img src=http://cg.superpages.com/photos/lg/95128281990215.jpg> This show was wildly successful, and between it and its numerous spinoff series and films a whole family of cars from about the same time would be introduced... One was the smaller and sleeker lines of the "Intrepid" 2000 Ford Focus. <img src=http://carpoint.msn.com/merismus/Gallery/c438358a.jpg> Another, the longer and still-sleeker "Sovereign" 2001 Chrysler 300M. <img src=http://carpoint.msn.com/merismus/Gallery/c438541a.jpg> Often, the show's production staff would look for ways to create a unique-looking car. One way they came up with was to radically alter the back end of the cabin by removing the back roof altogether, resulting in something called a "convertible." One such car, a little older in vintage than the Galaxy-Aurora, was the "Akira" 1992 Chrysler LeBaron. <img src=http://perso.wanadoo.fr/morbius/chrysler.lebaron/pictures%20galerie/lbc_89_b1.jpg> And then word came that there would be a new "Car Trek" show, taking place in the distant and primevial [i]mid-fifties[/i], and with a car as much older than the original as the "The Next Gas-Station" was ahead of it. Now, the fans had never actually seen a car from before the seventies, but by now the show's devotees had figured out a pattern to the design lineage of these cars... as time went by they got bigger and sleeker looking, while preserving the same basic shape. So they all guessed that the car in this show would look like <a href=http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/boxcar.gif>this</a>. But, no, a picture of the car leaked, and it didn't look [i]anything[/i] like that. It was a Plymouth, apparently from 1955. <img src=http://www.moparpicturebook.com/55PConvertible.JPG> And there was outrage online! "It looks all curvy and modern-looking," said one. "It's just a ripoff of the Akira-LeBaron," said another, "I mean, look, the entire arrangement of the back of the cabin is exactly the same!" "There's no way this could predate "Ol' Constitution," they all howled. And they all lit torches and charged off into the deep dark forest, looking for the Big Bad Plagiarising Wolf named Eaves. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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