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Off-Roading Checklist, Go Prepared

By Expert Author: Alexander Pardo
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Even though there is a lot of buzz out there about foreign made automobiles, in my feeling, they just do not have the same feeling as classic American cars. Yes, there are a healthy bunch of foreign automobiles that can go faster, and last longer than some American automobiles, but none of them have the elegance and looks of a Mustang or a corvette. Those American muscle cars are the things that the fantasies of many were shaped by, with their acceleration, their torque, their opulence, and their red-hot styling. Well before the times of the compact and efficient rice burners, highway hugging, gas gulping American autos really dominated the entire world, as the American conglomerate did.

Naturally, in numerous manners those years are gone, and I think that it is true that they won't arrive again. Chrysler has been taken over by Daimler Benz, and the other American auto companies do much of their manufacturing over seas that it's become a big difficulty to even consider their cars as American. Positively, they are American corporations in the sense that they began here, but in fact they are nowadays multi-national corporations that have no sense of national dedication at all, and are merely in it to produce cash. Yet, despite the cut backs and the layoffs, and all of that, a bit of the spirit of American cars still remains on the roads today.

Look around you next time you get about, and you are bound to see a few older automobiles. However, they are unluckily going by the wayside, and being replaced with modern-day knock offs of the antique autos. Take a look at the modern Camaro, Mustang, Charger all of which were recently been revamped by their manufacturers in order to give more "classic styling" to them. Certainly they seem nice, but it's merely not the same as experiencing a authentic example of American iron to make the tires squeal and not beg for forgiveness.

In my opinion, if you are a fan of American sports autos, you shouldn't buy the pc commanded, excessively slick autos of today, but get one of the more classy autos of yesterday. The 1950s, and to an extent, the mid-sixties were where it was at in terms of American autos was concerned. That was the age of the stout steel chassis that could keep together like nobody's business, of the large, heavy strong American automobiles that would withstand up to years and years of misuse. That was a long time before the travesty of unibody construction kicked back in, when men were men, and American autos were automobiles. Maybe those days are gone, but the autos from those days - at least many of them - are still on the road now, and several of them can be purchased by most fairly well off collector. There's nothing better than the roaring of an old, bored out v8 motor under the bonnet of one of the older American autos, and that is no lie.
Alexander Pardo

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