Horse of a different color? Not really, just a Fancy Stripe

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
03/26/2014 at 13:47 • Filed to: None

And a vinyl top. Because '70s. Also, "NASA" scoops -wut.

DISCUSSION (13)

Merkin Muffley > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/26/2014 at 13:49

I guess they misspelled NACA?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Merkin Muffley
03/26/2014 at 13:50

They're "NASA - type" according to the ad - they're not really NACA ducts, so it's hard to say.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/26/2014 at 13:51

Well, NACA became NASA and they wanted to be hip.

For Sweden > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/26/2014 at 13:53

I want to be a woman so I can wear that outfit

crowmolly > For Sweden
03/26/2014 at 14:17

It's the belt, isn't it?

Monty Totten > For Sweden
03/26/2014 at 14:19

I want to stay a man so I can have a woman in that outfit.

Monty Totten > Merkin Muffley
03/26/2014 at 15:03

NACA, or the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics became NASA as we know it today. The NACA duct was developed under the initial name. I'm assuming all the buzz around space flight at the time lead Ford's advertising gurus to utilize the updated name for the space program, NASA, to push their new product rather than the antiquated NACA name.

Wildstar > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/26/2014 at 15:13

The top is not velour, its vinyl. On is fuzzy, the other is on the car.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Wildstar
03/26/2014 at 15:16

Fixt.

Wildstar > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/26/2014 at 15:25

I never was sure what the fascination was with vinyl tops in 60s and 70s, but pretty much anything that was supposed to be the up market model had them. I know from experience that white ones were a bitch to keep clean...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Wildstar
03/26/2014 at 15:33

My grandmother had a vinyl-top Skylark, fortunately dark grey, but very hard, dried out, and nothing like one was supposed to be anymore. Strange, as the rest of the car's paint/etc. were decently okay, and the Caddy on the other side of the family (greenish) never went that way. I guess the foam dry-rotting took the excessively cheap "skin" with it, and the Caddy's was sterner stuff.

Wildstar > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/26/2014 at 15:44

The Caddy got the "high grade" vinyl! ;-)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Wildstar
03/26/2014 at 15:54

I know, right? Even over a Buick!

In fairness, the Buick'd spent most of its life outside, and the Caddy was garaged - and from a different decade (late 70s vs. early 80s). The Buick may have been cheaped out on a bit - 80s GM and so forth.