Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for March 02, 2010

Sounds like my $300 1984 Tercel; strictly a ‘transportation module’, it gets me from A to B. No glamor a’tall!

pbarnrob - them’s the best kind.

Main thing…it is paid for.

That’s not the original radio antennae on the clunker.

The old Desoto is getting in bad shape… Back in January it was looking pretty good

http://www.gocomics.com/shoe/2010/01/24/

http://www.gocomics.com/shoe/2009/12/29/

Curses.

Don’t leave the keys in and unlocked while your doing your business….Of couse who wouldn’t know the real owner.

poppy, you think smoke rollin’ out from under the hood is looking better? boy, have i got a deal for you!

Prof. Cosmo Fishawk has his De Soto.

Jack Benny had his Maxwell.

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Pretty soon he won’t have to worry about getting rid of his DeSoto. It will just self-destruct on it’s own. But the pink is disturbing. The only pink cars I remember were for people who made a certain quota selling Mary Kay products. Does Cosmo have a feminine side?

@dkram:

…and the Beverly Hillbillies had their truck.

And I have my 1974 240Z.

Sounds like my 20-year-old Harley with a whole lotta miles, a bit o’ rust, a couple dents, a few oil leaks and a fair amount of road slime. My anti-theft system is to park it next to a nice shiny clean new one. Works fine so far…

jrjb: pink (technically “salmon”) was actually a pretty common car color in the 50s. My dad owned a salmon-colored ‘57 Plymouth Belvidere (which looked a lot like the Perfessor’s DeSoto), and nobody asked if he worked for Mary Kay. Cars were in general more colorful (and more shapely) in those days (sigh)…

Well, he’s right. No one would steal it! Everybody knows that ride.

I still have my 1982 Chevy LUV diesel pickup I bought new. It STILL gets 40 mpg…never getting rid of it - it will have to rust and fall apart around me.

Here is a pic of the Desoto without smoke rolling out from under the hood…

http://www.gocomics.com/shoe/2009/12/29/

…….so is my car.

Re ‘feminine’ car colors; and perhaps related to tailoring to female car buyers: Chrysler through Dodge division in the mid 1950’s marketed a special option on the Dodge Custom Royal Lancer called the “La Femme.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_La_Femme

Colors available included “For 1956, Dodge replaced the Heather Rose and Sapphire White scheme with a Misty Orchid and Regal Orchid color scheme.”

By the way, the cars could and were ordered with the famous first generation “D-500 Hemi” engine capable of up to 250+ horsepower. Could one of these have gotten the “Little Old Lady from Pasedena” into drag racing? LOL

jrbj Ford had a pink color in the 50’s common name for it shall remain unspoken. Rise22 my 79 Chevy LUV did rust and fall down around me

That’s what all the cars in Cuba are like. His is in great shape compared to the ones in the twisted media’s “Land of milk and honey”.

The DeSoto looks like he went off roading. We had a 55 Chevy Salmon and charcoal gray.

I don’t think that a car’s appearance is ever a guaranteed theft deterrent. There’s always a more desperate thief / drug addict willing to take ANYTHING that they think they might make a buck off of. Heck, thieves would probably want it to parts it out - those have got to be hard to find and, therefore, worth $$.

That DeSoto would be a limo in Tijuana, Mexico and even better than that in other 3rd world countries.

I have a couple of paintings by a Cuban artist. One is of a 57 Plymouth and the other is a 53 Chevy.

A pox on all gray and metallic light blue, gold and silver cars. They’re almost invisible on the road. Why anybody buys such bland colors, I can’t imagine.

Funny that today, I saw a (fairly) new Mustang, painted what we used to call ‘Trainer Yellow’, intended for aircraft (so that everyone else in the sky could avoid them).