From: klf@druwa.ATT.COM (FranklinKL)
Subject: Re: Dumbest automotive concepts of all time
Summary: Continental the first - Don't think so!
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In article <C5HHGM.1rM@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>, callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) writes:
| In article <1993Apr13.215605.26252@slcs.slb.com> dcd@se.houston.geoquest.slb.com (Dan Day) writes:
| >In article <1q4466INNb85@ctron-news.ctron.com> smith@ctron.com writes:
| >>
| >>It's a big aftermarket business.  Almost no cars come from the factory with
| >>vynal any more, and any fake "convertible" job _definitely_ came from some
| >>aftermarket place.  What amazes me is how much people are willing to pay for
| >>bad taste
| >
| >How about those really ugly fake wheel compartments stuck onto the
| >trunk or side (or both sides!) of some tacky luxury cars?
| 
| Some of 'em aren't fake (if you're talking about the Continental kit,
| named after the Lincoln Continental, the first car to sport one). I
| personally would _love_ to have a '56 T-Bird with a Continental kit
| (and the supercharged V-8 :-); that is one of the most beautiful
| cars ever built, IMHO.
| 
| 				James
| 

The Continental may have been the first "modern era" auto to mount the
spare on the rear of the car but it was hardly the first car to sport one.
Various mounting techniques for rear mounting the spare were quite common
in early automobiles, both US and Foreign.
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