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Subject: Re: abingdon pillow
From: David Breneman <david_breneman@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:23:49 -0800 (PST)
--- Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com> wrote:

> I fail to see how you can consider a style of dashboard padding
> that was
> never seen before 1968 in any type of vehicle to be somehow "more
> in keeping
> with the aesthetics of a 1960s car" (especially one introduced in
> 1962) --
> it's simply beyond logic. 

Here's an execrise in logic.  If today Chevrolet introduced a new
Camaro with a vinyl top, one could rationally state that such a
car contained a styling anachronism that was more appropriate to
cars of an earlier age.  Simpy the fact that the car was introduced
in 2005 would not make that observation illogical; in fact it
would demonstrate the anachronism that the observation is
meant to reflect.  A styling faus pas does not make its
own correction non sequitir, it requires the very correction
itself.  The fact that a US government regulation lead to the
reconsideration of the design is only marginally relevant.
Could the design have been better?  Sure.  Am I an irrational
idiot for believing that the design is better than the
1950s-style dashboard that it replaced?  I'll leave that an
an exercise for the student.  :-)


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David Breneman         david_breneman@yahoo.com


                
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