Friday, November 09, 2018
Y no automobile?
From an article on the Willys Aero in Collectible Auto, Feb 1990:
It's hard to believe, given the short life of the Aero-Willys, that its maker was ever one of the Big Three. Yet Willys-Overland had held that distinction for a decade, 1910-1919, usually the second most popular nameplate after Ford.
Now, of course, Willys is back in the big three. Depending on how you separate brands, it's usually #3 in sales among American nameplates.
Again from CA:
Willys didn't resume automobile production after WW2, choosing to concentrate on Jeep-inspired vehicles instead.
I've often made the point that by modern definitions Willys never stopped making passenger cars. We now consider pickup trucks and big station wagons (=SUVs) to be passenger cars. In 1955 when Willys stopped making SEDANS, the definitions were different.
Well, that's revisionism, which is unquestionably bad logic. It's not fair to apply today's rules to the standards of the past. Most of today's toxic "news" is grotesque revisionism.
New thought:
This isn't revisionism. Even by PAST standards the Jeep fitted into the category of passenger cars. It was and is an automobile.
Here's a WW2 Jeep:
And here's a 1905 Cameron runabout, which was the TYPICAL body shape in 1905.
Same form. Four seats, open sides, rear seats above front seats. If this form was the DEFAULT passenger car in 1905, why didn't the Jeep count as such in 1945 or 1955?
And here's a 1905 Cameron runabout, which was the TYPICAL body shape in 1905.
Same form. Four seats, open sides, rear seats above front seats. If this form was the DEFAULT passenger car in 1905, why didn't the Jeep count as such in 1945 or 1955?Labels: Asked and unanswered
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