"Designer Jeans- Designer Pickups- Designer President"
Here is daughter Holly in our new/old Mustang- a REAL sports car! Nothing fancy, but CLASSIC! I was thinking how we have gotten away from our roots: remember when a pickup truck was... A TRUCK? Not a crazy, rather ugly vehicle that cost more than a luxury sedan? Somewhere along the line, the humble, utilitarian pickup morphed into a ... designer pickup. Like blue jeans: completely utilitarian, functional, and yet, somehow, cool for all that. Along came designer, useless, ugly, ripped/distressed and decorated, all for MORE than the cost of fine dress pants!! I saw in a car magazine, a reproduction of the 1966 fastback Mustang... looked great! *Just like the original"! The only drawback: the new version had a "designer" brand NEW interior: engine, transmission, interior- all "state-of-the-art". $150,000 dollars... A "designer" version of a classic sports car! We have gone down the wrong (designer) superhighway: too much luxury, too much needless co...