Happy (?) New Year 2025

[Latimer]

I always keep photos of the 1957 Continental Mark II handy - for good luck!

This is one of the most beautiful cars Detroit ever built. I may even like it better than the later, more famous slab-sided Continentals. What do you think? Happy New Year!

 

[EddMarkStarr]

And again I'm playing this song I love.

"Another Year" is simply magnificent and it hints at a quality I've grown to recognize.

Every New Year has a sort of "use car salesman" quality to it. The New Year is all shiny and sleek looking, but the same old mechanicals lurk underneath waiting to breakdown as soon as you drive the New Year off the dealer lot.

2025 reminds me of my favorite song from 1985:

 

[EddMarkStarr]

This is one of the most beautiful cars Detroit ever built. I may even like it better than the later, more famous slab-sided Continentals. What do you think? Happy New Year!

Strange personal aspect to the Continental Mark II.

I was in my school's library one day in 1967 just looking at old magazines. For my first time seeing a photo of the Mark II, had no idea this car even existed!
The more I stared at it, the more questions I had. The Mark II looks new and old fashioned, both at the same time. Somehow it just didn't look real.

Since the Mark II went out of production the year of my birth, 1957, I have adopted the car as a personal mascot, the same as the 1972 Continental Mark IV during my freshman year in high school.

 

[pornoboy]

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[pornoboy]

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[smokeshadow]

Predictions for the year 2025. . .



















from the year 1925

From immortality to ugly people: 100-year-old predictions about 2025

Visionaries of 1925 made their best guesses about the 21st century. Predictions included world peace, food shortages and 150-year-old people.

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[rareboy]

Some are remarkably spot on.

But generally an overestimation of human nature.

I wonder that no one predicted the world would still be fighting WW I.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Well, I have a prediction!

Star Trek: Section 31 will be the Talk of the Town when it streams on Paramount+ the 24th of January, 2025.

 

[rareboy]

yay!

 

[bendted]

Strange personal aspect to the Continental Mark II.

I was in my school's library one day in 1967 just looking at old magazines. For my first time seeing a photo of the Mark II, had no idea this car even existed!
The more I stared at it, the more questions I had. The Mark II looks new and old fashioned, both at the same time. Somehow it just didn't look real.

Since the Mark II went out of production the year of my birth, 1957, I have adopted the car as a personal mascot, the same as the 1972 Continental Mark IV during my Freshmen year in high school.

That was "Cannon's" car; that's the first thing I think about when I see it.

 

[Latimer]

Speaking of television series, if you've watched the latest edition of The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix, you've undoubtedly seen Mickey Haller's beautiful shiny blue 1963 convertible. The impeccably dressed Mickey looks like a million bucks driving it. What a great car:

CC TV: The Cars of The Lincoln Lawyer - Curbside Classic

The Lincoln Lawyer, with two seasons streaming on Netflix, follows the story of Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller, and is based on the series of Michael Connelly novels […]

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