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Old 12-22-2014, 12:46 PM   #71
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk View Post
That's why 60's and 70's cars come in so many "unique" combinations. For example, I saw a episode of one of the "graveyard" shows where a specific 65 Mustang was technically one of a kind because it was the only "red convertible inline 6" that was built with an electric clock (the clock part is right, the quoted part is probably inaccurate but you get the idea).
The reason why they don't do that anymore is because the car companies started looking into stuff like that, and they realized that it was a huge waste of money to have so many options that they'd sell only one car configured in such a way.


My dad told me a story about working at GM, they were looking into that very thing and they found that they had only built one single buick station wagon (or olds, I'm not sure honestly) with a particular sport handling package... the one they invoiced to themselves to validate the suspension on that car.
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