Accord, imported.
Allegro, a forgettable nameplate.
Alpine, Sunbeam, I think.
Amigo, imported and given this roughtough name
Aurora, Olds. Very fashionable. Beautiful. Not as quick as you'd expect for this money. Expensive as hell.
Avanti, one of the FewRoses actually named after a car.
Bonanza, Chevy. Of course.
Cacaphony
Chatterbox
Corehead
DICmickey (one person hasn't heard this)
Caribbean, Packard. Rare and most desirous. This particular one was more expensive than a Cadillac and most proud of it. So they snubbed their noses into Chapter 11. They coulda beena contenda.
Cavalier, Chevy. Another Chevy throwaway.
Celebrity, Chevy. One of the first Chevy throwaways.
Challenger, Dodge. 1967, way behind Mustang. 426 Hemi, way in front of Mustang.
Chieftain, Pontiac. Great cars. The hood ornament had a lighted face, the Indian.
Chrysler Imperial, Chrysler. I doubt if it'll be back. I used to think it would be.
Cimarron, Cadillac. The suckiest Cadillac ever assembled. A joke.
Comet, Mercury. The more affluent Falcon. There were actually some very cool nice-lines Comets. Sometimes stealthy.
Conestoga, Dodge (an image they are shedding, like losing Plymouth)
Cosmopolitan, AMC. Barb's mom had one once.
Cricket, Dodge. disgusting.
Dakota, Dodge. not bad for a dink.
Dauphine, Renault. Joey Mann's Major Dad had oneathese. This was the first foreign car I ever rode in. In fact. This is the first time I have ever flasht on this.
Deville, Cadillac. Like I said, Coupe deVille, otherwise forget it.
Eagle, AMC/Chrysler
Elite, Ford. smaller joke.
Escort, Ford. joke.
Fairlane, Ford. The name of Henry Ford's (he had 2 or three roses named after him) Garden (Rose Garden) was Fairlane. Bet you didn't know this.
Firebird, Pontiac
Fleetwood, Cadillac
Focus, Ford. Ford's newest.
Galaxy, Ford. I think there were some Galaxys that weren'tGalaxy 500s
Granada, Ford
Holiday, Olds. A nice mid-50s run. Very nice.
Hollywood, Hudson, the Hudson Hornet Hollywood. I've driven one. It had no brakes, I didn't care. Huge Straight-Six. Bucky once got two Hudsons--one a Hornet Hollywood, one a Hornet--for fixing a windmill. Nothing like doing a sideways slide on a dirt road in a Hollywood. Whatagas. I've had a lot of fun in life, cometothinkofit.
Horizon, Plymouth. A true throwaway. One of the truest.
Impulse, Japanese
Legacy, Japanese
Lumina, Chevy. Dale Earnhardt puke. Jeff Gordon alright.
Malibu, Chevy. A Chevelle, actually, originally.
Martin Martin
Merry Christmas
Nutkhut
Nymph
Pekinois
Peppermint Patty
Silver Columbia
Snookie
Sparkler
Total Recall
Very Busy
Welcome Stranger
Matador, AMC. A nice car, I mean it. AMC always had to try harder than the other guys, these weren't bad cars. noone cared.
Mayflower, Plymouth. They dumpt Mayflower. They dumpt Plymouth.
Medallion, Dodge (I think).
Mercury
Meteor, Mercury. A Comet. The top Comet as I remember.
Monterey, Mercury. Not bad Mercurys. Mid-60s.
New Yorker, Chrysler. They quit making the New Yorker in 1995. It was at this point the cheap version of the LHS. A dumb thing to be for a name with its history.
Nighthawk, Studebaker. Right? They had every other kinda Hawk, in any case.
Parklane, Mercury. This is the only place I've cheated, I think. I think it was actually Park Lane. The car you bought if you wanted Lincoln luxury and didn't have Lincoln cash. Still one elegant unit.
Phoenix, Dodge. In its day the cheapest Dodge.
Polaris, Dodge. Very nice run of Dodges. I paricularly remember the 1961 very fondly. I still have a model.
Prélude, Japanese
Rocket, Oldsmobile (I think they had a Rocket in 48. In any case they made the Rocket V-8 motors, which put horsepower on the front page.)
Roundabout, I forget--I know there is a 'Roundabout'
Saratoga, Dodge. The image they are still trying to shed. And succeeding.
Satellite, Plymouth. The Tameboy's Roadrunner.
Scamp, Plymouth. Al Bundy's car, almost.
Silverado, Chevy top-of-the-liner great truck.
Skylark, Buick. Skylarks were very respectable. Solid. In the mid- 60s schoolteachers bought zillions of them, and rising young bank execs could get a huge V-8 and a Buick image.
Sonoma, a tough one. either Japanese or a Dodge. hmmm. maybe neither, but definitely made by someone, possibly Chevy.
Southampton, a real old one. Desoto???? naw...something else. Bentley perhaps.
Sprint, another forgettable throwaway
Subaru, if someone tortured me and made me buy a Japanese car, it would be a su ba ru, definitely.
Sun Valley, Chevy or Pontiac, I think it was a pickup but it could be a minivan or it could be a dink convertible-- totally forgettable, in any case...
Sunbeam, who made Sunbeam? Sunbeam might have made Sunbeam.
Sunbird, Pontiac. StarDotBird, Pontiac.
Sundance, Dodge? nehhh. Chevy?
Sunfire, SunDotStar, Pontiac
Tacoma, disgusting Japanese truck
Valiant, Plymouth. ahhh, the fake Continental-Kit, remember it? Introduced compact cars, along with Falcon and Corvair, to America. Never did like them but did sorta admire their oddity. If you chromed them up and optioned them out, they were just short of respectable.
Venture, ventureventureventure, hmmmm. Chevy.
Victoria, Ford, early Fifties. The Crown Victoria, the Queen of Fords, The Queen of AllFords, 1955, 1956.
Vision, Eagle, AMC/Chrysler. The NewVision is Dodge, and they dropt Vision.
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