Bill Napoli's on a roll again. This time, he's dishing it out on wimpy cars.
Bill Napoli, State Senator and owner of the Motion Unlimited Museum and Antique car lot has comments in yet another newspaper today - the Rapid City Journal. And who is his target?
Spendthrift government agencies? Nope. Out of state media? Wrong. It's not even Stan Adelstein. Today he's giving heck to our culture of wimpy cars in today's Rapid City Journal Good, Bad and the Ugly:
And don't forget to check out Bill Napoli's business website where the politics are invisible but American iron is the only mode of transportation.
(One of Bill's cars for sale that I'd never be able to afford.)
Spendthrift government agencies? Nope. Out of state media? Wrong. It's not even Stan Adelstein. Today he's giving heck to our culture of wimpy cars in today's Rapid City Journal Good, Bad and the Ugly:
The Ugly:Yeah! As a former Dodge Dart owner (and as someone who would kill for a Galaxie Convertible) go read it all in the dead tree edition of the Rapid City Journal, or on-line (if they ever get it posted). I had a perfect AMC Matador too once, but it had the distinction of being the first car I ever wrecked. *sigh*
"These big beautiful American cars have been replaced with skinny, anemic, rounded, homely looking communist cars with names like Yugo (huh?) ...."
And don't forget to check out Bill Napoli's business website where the politics are invisible but American iron is the only mode of transportation.
(One of Bill's cars for sale that I'd never be able to afford.)
Comments
At least, until after the accident.
Anemic cars are no fun, but how many more soldiers and billions of dollars does Napoli think we should p*** away on oil and oil wars?
I wish I still had my '58 Jaguar Mark Vlll limousine. It was an incredible pleasure to drive.
They do have a fabulous museum. A lot of rare cars and antiques. Well worth a visit.
That was very nasty...and very funny.
My son stopped out at his car business. Had a good time talking to the Mrs. there. I would guess even if you can't find a good car there, you might find a good conversation...just don't talk about virgin cars with virgin vinyl seats and virgin tires.
Incidentally, a research study has just indicated that "abstinence education" has essentially zero impact. Compared to nothing, there is no difference in age of first sexual experience or frequency.
A few 100 million down another rathole. As a personal behavior code abstinence may be wonderful..as a policy as supported by people like Napoli and what's her name with the chiropractor husband, it is a failure.
As a car, the policy is dead with flat tires, a leaking fuel tank, and a heck of a parking bill.
Now, douglass, it sounds as though your son is a stalker. There are stiff penalties for that in South Dakota. It would seem he needs help too. It can be hereditary. Perhaps you can get a group rate on counseling.
Cars are ligher in weight for the most part (reduce fuel usage), people like to drive faster and more and more rules and regs are being placed on safety. Thus an air bag here and an air bag there (no pun intended by the way). Soon cars will have a complete airbag (bubble). I just threw in the medical part which is part of the whole.
Don't get me wrong i am for safety but, some of the regs and rules don't need to be mandated. These mandates also jack up the cost of products too.
Look at some of the older cars they have steel & metal in them when you were hit they didn't cave in and cause so much damage. Maybe the car was dented but most of the divers and passengers were safe and unharmed.
Look at what happens when someone hits most bumbers now! almost the full front ends has to be replaced and look out if it was at high impact the front end is gone and so is the car. So we put those airbags in there. I just don't think they have hit the mark yet on any of this.
These days, American cars have made a comeback. Cadillacs today are finally world class again after decades of being cookie-cutter chevy's with wimpy engines. Corvettes have more power than they have had at any time since the 1960's. The Hemi is back too. Even the Ford Fiesta and Festiva are replaced by a much better and more powerful Ford Focus.
Bill's complaints would have been more timely in the early 80's.
No. An assertion with no factual basis. Lots of old cars with a big hole where the windshield was punctured with a severed head and a steering wheel was driven through the driver.
The primary threat is probably still drunk drivers rather than car design however.
Never mind the doctor 11:46 PM, his license was suspended years ago and only when his attendants fall asleep can he get his hands on a keyboard. Like 20,000 monkeys typing, it now and then appears as if an actual sentence has been written, but it is all a matter of pure random chance.
Just for the pure hell of it, I will have to look at Napoli's cars next time I am in RC and also chek out the new car display there. Might take a look at the museum at Murdo too. No sense leaving South
Dakota for a little fun.