The Parties


Excuse me. Don’t see the Allard in front anywhere in this clip.  

The funniest road test I ever read was in Automobile Quarterly. You could call it a balls to the wall conservative car publication. For example, they were the ones who revealed that a 427 Cobra could do zero to sixty in 3.9 seconds. (And so could a Pontiac Bonneville of the same year. Had one of those. Awesome.) Then they ran a road test of the J2 Cadillac Allard. Funniest piece of automotive writing in my recollection.

Guy takes delivery of his Cad-Allard. Takes it for a spin. Acceleration exactly as described. Then he tries to change direction for a corner. Meets instead every weed, bramble, mud hole, flotsam, jetsam, and other detritus encountered by a car that is totally incapable of changing direction at speed ever.

I give you both political parties. Hideously exotic and expensive, overpowered, impossible to control, and doomed to self destruction no matter how expensive the bodywork.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. I give you the U.S. Congress, and the horse they rode in on.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. I give you the U.S. Congress, and the horse they rode in on.

As compared to Trump.

Something wrong with the lighter? Can get it fixed. For cheap.

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  1. Frank’s avatar

    1956 Pontiac Super Chief?

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