Jeez! That took while! I figured I'd just scan this two-page ad of this old DeSoto, then paint out the magazine's crotch/binding, then pen tool both cars out of their backgrounds, poke out their windows, reverse the badges for the flipped versions, and then post them. By the time I'd finished all that, my license had expired and I needed a shave again.
For some reason, DeSoto chose to feature their car in brown. I've never known anybody who owned a brown car and loved the color. Brown cars are the ones you inherit from your grandmother, or the ones you buy at a discount because the dealer couldn't get rid of it otherwise. They should have put the two-tone green car front and center. I've never daydreamed about buying a new car, or fantasized about the day I get to drive my shiny brown status symbol into my driveway for the first time.
Anyway, for all our zygote readers, DeSoto used to be a car company. I didn't know if they had gone out of business or if they were bought out by somebody else, but it turns out they went belly up in 1960,
or so says Wikipedia. Chrysler bought them in 1946, but the brand was dropped due to economic blah blah blah 1960 blah...
Who wants a graphic gift? Okay, everybody line up and show me your rude finger. get ready to right-click-save with those fingers in three, two one...
I'd take the brown!
ReplyDeleteIn the 1970s, all cars were brown. ALL. And even more bizarrely, so were motorcycles.
ReplyDeleteWHO THE HELL ORDERS A BROWN MOTORCYCLE?!
I had a 1973 Moto Guzzi. Brown. I cannot imagine walking into a goddamned Italian motorcycle dealer and saying "Yeah, I'll take that one that's the color of metal-flake excrement."
The really disturbing news is that brown is back. I saw a brand-fired new 2011 Porsche Cayman the other day the color of a steamy turd.
I like cars, luggage, bikes, shoes, etc in colors that no one would ever want to take, because they think it's fugly.
ReplyDeleteWell we certainly appreciate the firestorm of debate that the color brown has started, and it's reassuring that the commenters have kept things civil during this time of chromatic unrest. I admire the tenacity with which you all argue your viewpoints.
ReplyDeleteWhile I would still never actually want a brown car, I respect Sue for her dedication to the idea of being contrary for the sake of it. Stick it to the man, Sue.
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Sue, why do you hate America?
ReplyDeleteI wasn't given a chance to properly rebel at the appropriate teenage time. Now I rebel as an empowered adult.
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