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To: PAR35

In the ‘70’s when I worked for a driver, you could tell Chevy from Ford, Ford from Plymouth...Plymouth from Dodge...

Now they all look the same....


17 posted on 07/23/2017 12:12:31 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: JBW1949

For a while, weren’t they all really the same car with different badges and grilles?

Did a quick Google - looks like they still do - they are all built on the Car of Tomorrow chassis. It appears that all of the sheet metal (and now, carbon fiber) has to fit the same template, so it’s basically identical, as well. - You can build any body style you want, as long as it fits the template.


34 posted on 07/23/2017 12:37:02 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: JBW1949

“In the ‘70’s when I worked for a driver, you could tell Chevy from Ford, Ford from Plymouth...Plymouth from Dodge...”

Heck, back in the day even AMC was in the game for a while - remember when Bobby Allison won the 1974 Darlington in a Matador?


74 posted on 07/23/2017 3:20:06 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: JBW1949
Now they all look the same....

Because they are. They haven't been "stock" cars in decades. Same basic shapes. The only Chevy/Ford/Toyota parts are under the hood.

99 posted on 07/24/2017 8:18:01 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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