<VV> Chevy Nova = <N>ova <O>mega <V>entura <A>pollo

[Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per]

Remember that "Nova" stood for <N>ova <O>mega <V>entura <A>pollo ?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Underwood" <tonyu at roava.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: <VV>Retro


> At 01:24 AM 11/23/2006, Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per wrote:
>>The retro T-Bird was disappointing to me.  It looks those old Japanese 
>>tin-toys that had the driver painted on the outside of the windshield, and 
>>all of the features rounded off (to make it easy to stamp) and then 
>>painted on.
>>
>>The T-Bird needs the projectile-type headlamp protrusions, and of course, 
>>fins !!!!  (Or at least something legally reminiscent of fins ?)
>
>
> That's it in a nutshell.  If you're gonna do retro, the result has to 
> express its identity.    The new T-Bird didn't do this.    Neither did the 
> new "GTO" which had no ancestry at all outside its Holden Monaro legacy, 
> which has its own performance car image.
>
> This is similar to what happened in '74 when some moron at GM decided to 
> use the Chevy Nova (already plagiarized by Pontiac as the "new" Ventura) 
> as the next GTO...
>
> What's old became new again.
>
>
> tony..
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