2nd Round Moderns: Mirrord v. U Totem s/t

U Totem.

micky wrote: t d wombat wrote: Oh lordy ... American autos. Jaysus. Must admit I loved them when I was a youngster. We went through a bunch of them in the 50s and early 60s. All of them old, bought cheap and well past their use by dates but oh sigh I did love them. Mid 30s Ford Coupes were pretty cool and one glorious V12 Lincoln Zepyhr that unbeknownst to us at the time was used by Gen Douglas McCarthur as his staff car when based in Oz during WWII. Always wanted a mid 60s Mustang ..... till I drove one. Bloody horrible things. Look good though. U-Totem without much enthusiasm. no way! I had bought a '67 fastback some years later and I loved that thing... I didn't crash that one though. The spawn of Satan made me trade it in for ...yes... a mini van.

As I said we had no idea about the Lincoln until a few years back I saw an identical one in a MacArthur doco pulling up outside Sydney Town Hall. That set me off on a search re that model in Australia and found out that there were only ever two of them imported into Australia, both for MacArthur's use. The second one went to Queensland so the one in Sydney had to be ours. It was actually the second one we owned. The other was an earlier model (36 I think) but at some stage it had been fitted with a V8 instead of the original V12.

I simply found the 'stang hideously uncomfortable even when compared to the (oh lawd, the shame the shame) Volvo that I had at the time. All my post mid 70s cars have been European. Very hard to go anywhere else after that. Currently a Lexus. Yeah umm, kind of maybe OK. At least it's a V8. Australian roads are not American highways. We have these things called 'corners'. They leap out and entrap you when you least expect it. To cope with these devious bustards Australian cars are fitted with something known as 'brakes'.


Edited by t d wombat - July 22 2015 at 17:02

I don't know if it's OK to vote based on the youtube samples only.

But U Totem sounds really great, while I must admit I got bored by the repetitions in the Battles song. Maybe they have better material.

t d wombat wrote: Oh lordy ... American autos. Jaysus. Must admit I loved them when I was a youngster. We went through a bunch of them in the 50s and early 60s. All of them old, bought cheap and well past their use by dates but oh sigh I did love them. Mid 30s Ford Coupes were pretty cool and one glorious V12 Lincoln Zepyhr that unbeknownst to us at the time was used by Gen Douglas McCarthur as his staff car when based in Oz during WWII. Always wanted a mid 60s Mustang ..... till I drove one. Bloody horrible things. Look good though. U-Totem without much enthusiasm.

no way!

I had bought a '67 fastback some years later and I loved that thing... I didn't crash that one though. The spawn of Satan made me trade it in for ...yes... a mini van.

Oh lordy ... American autos. Jaysus. Must admit I loved them when I was a youngster. We went through a bunch of them in the 50s and early 60s. All of them old, bought cheap and well past their use by dates but oh sigh I did love them. Mid 30s Ford Coupes were pretty cool and one glorious V12 Lincoln Zepyhr that unbeknownst to us at the time was used by Gen Douglas McCarthur as his staff car when based in Oz during WWII. Always wanted a mid 60s Mustang ..... till I drove one. Bloody horrible things. Look good though.

U-Totem without much enthusiasm.

micky wrote:

Man, that's really cool!

Totem

that is a fate I will never allow myself to endure.  Just like driving a damned mini-van.  Urggg... nothing says emasculated male like a mini-van hahaha

yeah...I had a chance to buy one of those when in high school and passed on it.

A good thing I suppose since my college roomate and I later discovered the joys of drag-racing instead of studying... and within 6 months I crashed 3 cars.. the last HIS '78 Transam.. took a 15mph curve at 85 and .well...  there was a tree in my way as I obviously didn't hold the turn and completely totaled it.
bye bye Trans-Am... bye bye friend and roommate Good times...

Moogtron III wrote: I was a good boy as a kid. Never caused any trouble with my family. Only at age 50 I chase my family away    Is that what they call a midlife crisis? Well, not dressing up in leather, riding a red car, or asking my wife to dye her hair blond

oh god. I was hell on my mother...  I was a wild child.

Mid-life crisis.  I have 50 coming up on me quickly and Raff will discover just what a mid-life crisis is.
No young women.. no motorcycle.. and I've already done the long hair thing (which she does NOT like)

I have mine already planned actually.


on July 26th 2019...  I come to work in this baby...  it is mine. A black 1969 Pontiac Firebird.. my dream car.

I (will) RULE!!!

now that is PROG..

then again... whenever my mother was yelling at me to do this or do that..  I ran her out of the house by blasting Janis at full volume. Prog?  yeah baby.. let's proto-prog her sweet ass...