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My first car, a 1962 Chevy Nova.
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I don' drive, the only things i've ever driven were a flat-bed pickup and a tow motor.....and the flat bed i only drove from the parking lot into my old work's bay with about 1 inch of between the mirrors and the sides of the door.I am not delusional! Now if you'll excuse me, i'm gonna go dance with the purple wombat who's playing show-tunes in my coffee cup!
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Thanks, Jr.Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
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back when you were in you 30's, right Slowwy?Originally posted by SlowwHand View Post
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Chevy doesn't go
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-That's a pun on them trying to sell Novas in South America w/o bothering to change the name, right? I bet most of the guys never heard of that, but most surely know enough Spanish to recognize what 'no va' means...Comment
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I've heard that story so many times I've looped around to believing it has to be a myth.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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The Nova/Caribe name thing might be a myth.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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While "No va" is true, I am pretty sure the real reason the car did not sell well is because it was a piece of crap.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
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I've never been to Latin America, have only Sesame Street Spanish, and have taken the story on faith. [shrugs]Comment
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Some people might have joked about the name, but I doubt it's the reason it didn't sell.Comment
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I can't vouch for the rest of Latin America, but the Nova versions manufactured and sold here were named Chevrolet Chevy (and followed the Chevrolet 400, which was what the Chevy II was called here). It was indeed named differently, but it was so from the beginning of the production run. The name 'change' was probably a combination of factors, but the bad marketing related to naming a car '(it) doesn't go' surely was one of them.Indifference is BlissComment
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I wish we still lived in a day when they named cars after space stuff. But I guess with Musk's new vehicle we'll hopefully see more marketing along those lines. Space sells.Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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As for me, a little ford mercury. Learned stick wish I still had mine.Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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