[Shotimes] Futura... was: If Ford Asked you ...

[Donald Mallinson]

Carl,

the question was about other possible Futura's that were 
better than the one mentioned, and the Falcon Futura was a 
good car that was thought of well in the 60's and is sought 
after by collectors today.

I agree that the name itself is dated, but in the 50's and 
60's everything was about space (Rocket 88, tailfins) chrome 
and excess.  Excess on a small compact car sounds silly but 
then there are the very expensive and excessive small cars 
from Lexus, BMW, Mercedes, etc.  They are no more outrageous 
than the Futura Falcon was in 1964 (not sure how many years 
they made that model, but I am pretty darn sure that 64 was 
one of them).

Personally I don't think Ford should bring the name back, 
because it is dated.  Like Art Deco.  Still those are neat 
cars and draw a crowd at any cruise-in/show.

I assume, Carl, that you dislike other made-up-from-nothing 
names like Lexus, Infinity, Acura, and a host of other 
modern names.  Names that sound like something but are pure 
fiction and made up by people that are also too lazy to 
think of a good name!  :)

I have a little stuffed Bull in my 91 SHO and people all the 
time are asking why...then I explain about "Taurus" and they 
still have a blank stare, at least you and I and few hundred 
other SHO (and SLO Taurus) fanatics know what it is all 
about!  ;)

Don Mallinson

Carl Prochilo wrote:
> I'm with Joe on this.  Futura is not a name I want on my car.  I'd 
> be okay with Falcon; my uncle owned a plain Falcon in the 60s with a
> manual transmission and it didn't leave a big impression on me, just
> transportation.  But Futura sounds like a word that someone made up
> because they were too lazy to think of a decent one.  At least
> Taurus is "bull" in latin.