Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Round and round she goes
Reading a 1986 issue of Collectible Auto.
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From a feature on a '52 Ford panel truck:
Time would soon overtake both the sedan delivery and the truck-sized panels. ... The final blow came with the growth of shopping malls and big supermarkets, which meant fewer and fewer merchants delivering the goods they sold. Nowadays Ford panel trucks are in short supply. How pleasant to be reminded of the days when merchants actually delivered to your doorstep.
Now Bezos has "newly" "invented" the idea of calling in your order and having it delivered, which was the NORMAL way of shopping for groceries before WW2. And sedan deliveries are definitely back in style,
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From a feature on the Stepdown Hudson:
Though its high waistline and low-profile windows seem very dated now, the Stepdown offered outstanding visibility.
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Speaking of panel deliveries but not from the magazine:
It looks like the PROPER use of electric vehicles is finally coming around again after 10 years of delusion. Mercedes is introducing an electric panel delivery specifically aimed at in-city "short radius distribution" with a range of only 100 miles. This was the ORIGINAL USE and still the BEST USE of electric cars and trucks. Short range stop-n-go driving, with daily scheduled downtime for charging. Lithium batteries are far less durable and far more explosive than nickel-iron, but lithium batteries still require hours to charge properly.
Elon led us down a fraudulent path toward the PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE goal of an all-purpose electric sports car for drag racing and highway travel. Now we're finally settling down to the CORRECT purpose.
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Speaking of panel deliveries but not from the magazine:
It looks like the PROPER use of electric vehicles is finally coming around again after 10 years of delusion. Mercedes is introducing an electric panel delivery specifically aimed at in-city "short radius distribution" with a range of only 100 miles. This was the ORIGINAL USE and still the BEST USE of electric cars and trucks. Short range stop-n-go driving, with daily scheduled downtime for charging. Lithium batteries are far less durable and far more explosive than nickel-iron, but lithium batteries still require hours to charge properly.
Elon led us down a fraudulent path toward the PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE goal of an all-purpose electric sports car for drag racing and highway travel. Now we're finally settling down to the CORRECT purpose.
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