Some car names have been great names and have become famous, like “Chevy” for example; others, well, not so much. Here’s a list of a few model names that just missed the mark and others that were just simply ill advised. Enjoy!
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Like many people, you spend a lot of time in your car getting from place A to B and have gotten used to the smell of your car or truck. Often it takes a friend to comment that “something smells bad in your car” before you know that something’s wrong. Well, it’s not a welcome thing to hear but at least there’s a solution – a good thorough cleaning and sanitizing. Besides, as Don Vance Chrysler points out, if you are thinking of trading soon, a clean car will bring you more money in trade. Here’s a step by step guide to help you make your car smell just like new again.
Believe it or not, it used to be illegal to pump your own gas into your car. This was because of fire laws. Most of the states had fire laws that prohibited “untrained personnel” from dispensing flammable fluids. This, of course, meant gasoline being dispensed at gas stations. Here’s the story.
The Super was a car that Buick launched in 1940. Like its Cadillac, Pontiac and Oldsmobile counterparts, the Buick Super was built on the General Motors C-body platform. The C-body platform was General Motors newest large sedan chassis that was designed to be longer, wider and lower to the ground than previous generations. It had an aggressive looking stance that provided more interior room while at the same time improving aerodynamics and styling.
On standard cars, spoilers are those curved shaped things that usually swoop up from the rear of the car. Generally they are plastic or fiberglass and are affixed to the rear trunk lid. On race cars, they are much more elaborate. They might be huge affairs that rise up way off the car and on F1 Indy cars, they embellish just about every surface and just about touch the ground.
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