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[title] => Es CAR-GO
[time] => 2015-12-19 18:57:49
[hometext] => A quick salute to our wheels
[bodytext] => The story of America’s the history of our cars; Of Henry Ford and Standard Oil, and famous wall-street czars! Back then they called them motor cars; Mercedes built the first one; It zipped along at 55; a breakneck speed in ’01! Ford made cars affordable with interchanging parts; Built 100 cars a day and won a nation’s heart! P. Durant bought Buick out, just before the war; David Buick died so poor he couldn’t buy a car! Durant named Buick “GM"-- short for General Motors; He hired a Swiss born car racer to help inspire his voters! But racer Lewis missed the track and soon went on his way; He left his name on GM’s car; (the Lewis Chevrolet)! By 1927 Chevy sales had outpaced Ford! Stakeholders lost money; and Henry faced the board! Henry Ford was fired from the company he started; They changed the name to keep their fame as soon as he departed! They named it for a Frenchman to win their buyers back; (The man who founded Detroit); Antoine CADILLAC! What goes around will come around and Ford would have his day; The man who took his company would finally have to pay! When this aircraft factory went bankrupt on the block; Ford bought every single bit of Lincoln Motors stock! And fired Henry Leland (the chairman of the board) ‘Cause Leland was the man who’d fired Henry from FORD! Many famous car names have had their glory day; Models named for animals, or famous men they say! Pontiac for instance was a famous Indian chief; The Army’s “General Purpose” (GP) car we nicknamed “JEEP” The Mercury name was Ford’s idea: “Messenger to the Gods”; And Swedish Airplane Limited changed its’ name to Saab. The worst named car in history was Henry Ford’s, bar none; You might recall the Edsel, named after Henry’s son. If you remember Bronco, Cobra, Cougar, Pinto, Marlin; Cheetah, Mustang, Ram, Lynx, and Impala dar’lin; Then you recall the golden age of family road vacations; When everyone packed in the car for school’s out destinations. We stopped to fill at Conoco, and Clark, and Union Oil; Esso, Getty, Marathon, the Flying Horse and Coyles; We ate at Howard Johnson’s, Stuckey’s, Sambo’s, and at Tops! The highway diners big and small, our drive-in eat/rest stops! When freedom was an open road; vacations were to roam; When gas was cheap and cars were big; and motels were our homes! All because a man named Ford believed in industry; A nation met its neighbors on wheels that set it free. [comments] => 4 [counter] => 218 [topic] => 44 [informant] => softerware [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Nostalgic )
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