"Goggles Pizzano" (gogglespizzano) 09/29/2020 at 00:23 • Filed to: murilee

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Edit: !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! has pointed out the ‘58 Packard came from the factory with this hack job. Cheers!

Jim Spanfeller > Goggles Pizzano 09/29/2020 at 00:30

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I saw these once before in a 50s cars book... They are just so uncanny valley, especially with the 57 Chevy. That’s just wrong. But there used to be car accessory catalogs full of stuff like this, from different hubcaps to fender skirts for pretty much anything to dual aerials and quad headlights and wha tever else you could think of to try and “update” the look of your car.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Goggles Pizzano 09/29/2020 at 00:50

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Now that is something so incredibly a product of its time that it really is quite fascinating. Well I've seen modern facia swaps on older cars (and not just Challengers and stuff like that). It looks more delusional than anything when you get Escalade taillights on a previous gen Tahoe but the world would be more boring without them.

barnie > Jim Spanfeller 09/29/2020 at 00:52

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Back in the ‘70s, us high schoolers were looking at the underwear models in the Sears Catalog in private and passing around the latest J.C.Whitney catalog amongst ourselves. Both were serious stuff, core research material .

Goggles Pizzano > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 09/29/2020 at 01:31

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Hindsight is 20/20. Who thought in the 50's an older car could be more desirable?

Urambo Tauro > Goggles Pizzano 09/29/2020 at 06:20

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Cars With The Old Fashioned Headlights Will Become Obs o lete

LOL

shop-teacher > barnie 09/29/2020 at 07:17

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By the early 90's, just before the dawn of widespread internet, we had moved onto Victoria's Secret catalogs. But we still had JC Whitney, and it was serious stuff.

shop-teacher > Goggles Pizzano 09/29/2020 at 07:17

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Ewww.

barnie > shop-teacher 09/29/2020 at 07:27

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History repeating itself. Love it! We knew the page number to every possible nipple from year to year. With VS I guess you got to see real ones. Thankfully we were able to grow out of that. The Summ it catalog? Not so much.

The Vibe Guy, Apparently > Goggles Pizzano 09/29/2020 at 07:51

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I believe that Packard is out of the factory like that. Packard couldn’t afford to upd ate the sheetmetal, so they went cheap with the adapters to try and fit in with the quad-headlight ‘58 cars, but still using the ‘56-’57 fenders.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Goggles Pizzano 09/29/2020 at 08:39

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True. The collectible classic market hadn't really emerged by then. 

shop-teacher > barnie 09/29/2020 at 09:17

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There was the occasional nip-slip in VS, and you’re damn right we knew where every one of them was!

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > Goggles Pizzano 09/29/2020 at 09:24

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It didn't seem so weird until the second ad. IT'S SO WEIRD!!!

onlytwowheels > barnie 09/29/2020 at 09:29

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I am sure that I have have two or three hundred hours of J.C. Whitney catalog time. I don’t how it hap pened, but at 13 or 14 years old, I recei ved an Adam & Eve catalog in the mail......... the Sears catalog was never the same.

Goggles Pizzano > The Vibe Guy, Apparently 09/29/2020 at 10:14

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U pdated post to reflect you are correct .