2008 Street Names: American Cars

Barbie · Post by **Barbie** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:31 pm

Hey Thirt33n you forgot Dart the COolest of them ALL ...

I've had 3 wait maybe 4 Dodge Demons on their titles they say Dart. I don't know why maybe they don't want to put Demon on a title. DODGE DEMONS ARE THE COOLEST !!! We also use to cruise in a Gremlin when I was a teenager (showing my age) I learned to drive in a 67 (i think it was 67 may have been a 66) Impala in Wrangell Alaska.

thirt33n · Post by **thirt33n** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:39 pm

Timezone LaFontaine wrote:
thirt33n wrote:

edsel, infamously one of the "worst" cars ever made.
...
K-car, dumbest model name generic flop

The Edsel was actually way ahead of its time in a lot of ways... I think it was the first car to have a lot of controls on the steering wheel itself. I saw one driving down the street about a month ago, too.

The K-Car is an interesting choice because it was Chrysler's first successful model after being bailed out by the federal government! Lee Iacocca rode that boxy little number to executive stardom.

the edsel i love. not so much the k-car. good points though.

http://www.rusted.0nyx.com/rustedEdsel. ... dEdsel.jpg[/img]

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:57 am

Who would admit they drove a Hummer?
The Hummvee is a shadow of the LM002, the only Lamborghini with a gun deck.
Tina Turner drives a black one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_LM002
http://www.lamborghiniregistry.com/LM002/index.html

chickenfish · Post by **chickenfish** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:27 am

first the theme, and now they are naming the streets after corporate brands. Wow. Burning Scam has really sunk to new levels of depravity. I am sickened by this. Excuse me while I lose my lunch.

Ron · Post by **Ron** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:30 am

I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm sick but I am sorely disappointed that an event who's core values include a near ban on above board consumerism is naming the streets after commercial products/brands...

Ron

chickenfish · Post by **chickenfish** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:38 am

"though shall have no other logos before me"

-book of larry
chapter 23 verse 1

thirt33n · Post by **thirt33n** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:50 am

..you should try and burn the man on wednesday. maybe then you'll feel better.

barbie, let's do a demon roll sometime in late august.

ZaphodBurner · Post by **ZaphodBurner** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:58 am

Well, I'm sorry to say, I got a wee bit of a stiffy when I heard I might be camping on Jeep Street. The First words I learned to spell were Jeep and Buick...it was on the glove box of my grandfather's Jeep and my grandmother's Skylark, back in the day when the grandkids got to stand up in the passenger seat so they could see out the window. I still have the license plate off of the old man's Jeep--way back I promised him I'd buy him a new one when I was old enough-- and I have the same number on the plates of my own. Last time, I wrote his name in the Temple so if he's up there, he'll appreciate this year.

Having indulged myself by saying that, eh, the street names have yet to grow on me.

-c

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:23 pm

*waves at chickenfish*

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:27 pm

The original Jeep Jeep.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_the_Jeep

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:25 pm

Hummvee ground clearance

fciron · Post by **fciron** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:05 pm

gyre wrote:Hummvee ground clearance

Is that how you're coming to the playa this year?

You're taking the theme a bit too seriously.

Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:30 pm

Hell, almost everyone is taking the theme and the street names way too seriously. I'll admit K-Car street is an awful lame choice, but most of you have never heard of a Kaiser... or "Kustom-with-a-K"... I suppose Kenworth would have been good.

fciron · Post by **fciron** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:39 pm

No, silly I was asking if gyre was gonna have his humvee airlifted in by VTOL.

It's the internet, we're supposed to take everything to seriously. The street names are an offensive affront designed especially by Larry to upset me personally.

...and it worked!

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:26 am

If I could pull it off, I wonder if I would need a dmv permit or just runway clearance?

fciron · Post by **fciron** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:42 am

VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDING!!!!!

Runway clearance my ass!

Barbie · Post by **Barbie** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:40 pm

I lived in a house on the beach In Hawaii with a small airport right behind it, where the ( Hawaii IS a MIlitary BASE) Military plays- trains -War Games once a year. During that 2 week time frame those double helicopter with hummers would come over our house a make it shake they were sooooo fricking close to the ground -talk about 500 feet. Freaky I was always frighten they would drop one or come in too close and get a electric wire or something. These are people training

Teo del Fuego · Post by **Teo del Fuego** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:25 pm

Ron wrote:I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm sick but I am sorely disappointed that an event who's core values include a near ban on above board consumerism is naming the streets after commercial products/brands...Ron

cant believe I actually disagree with Ron about sumpin.....but, America is the ultimate car culture and I think naming the streets after makes of cars was a wee little stroke of ironic genius...

ZaphodBurner · Post by **ZaphodBurner** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:02 pm

Teo del Fuego wrote: cant believe I actually disagree with Ron about sumpin.....but, America is the ultimate car culture and I think naming the streets after makes of cars was a wee little stroke of ironic genius...

I noticed that they didn't actually use company names like Chevrolet, Ford, GMC, AMC, etc, but iconic model names. (jeeps are an American institution, and were originally made by Willys, Ford, Kaiser, anybody who could produce them fast enough, literally to replace the military workhorses.)

A music teacher I dated in high school bought an old '63 Impala when she was 16, and slowly restored it as she could. Her first job out of college was in the Las Vegas projects, and she was the newbie; a token white, blonde woman which was rough... ...until she rumbled into school in her old Impala with the ass-end jacked up, skull and crossbones on the window... When they heard she'd rebuilt it herself, suddenly she was a hero. It was like one of those hokey school movies. Those kids adored her.

There's a whole lot of American mojo in some of those street names.

-c

capjbadger · Post by **capjbadger** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:17 pm

Ron wrote:I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm sick but I am sorely disappointed that an event who's core values include a near ban on above board consumerism is naming the streets after commercial products/brands...

Ron

My theory is the street names are supposed to be an in-your-face ironic commentary on america's addiction to cars.

Badger

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:19 pm

Without cars, there would be no burning man.

landry · Post by **landry** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:44 pm

if i have my BM history right, a lot of the early days were quite a bit about cars and guns :P
i learned how to drive (among some sketchy other things) in an Impala.
it is an important point that was made that they were named after *models* of cars and not the companies that made them.
and hi.
im landry.
this is my second burn but, luckily for me, i was lured in and hazed by crusty old burners who wouldnt tell me a god damned thing about it but made me read all the rules a thousand times.
ill be volunteering at the DMV this year and handing out some bad advice with a bunch of texans. come find me if you want the advice you want to hear rather than advice thats practical :)
xxx

010111 · Post by **010111** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:06 am

AllantÃ© - unlike most of the rest this one isn't even all that iconic or from the olden days... 1987-1993. not only that but it was a joint Pinanfarina / Cadillac venture. the body was design and built in Italy then shipped to the US for manufacture. it was a pretty lame car in all honesty. if you wanted a classic car with a classic futuristic design that begins with an A i would've picked the Studebaker Avanti. a design so awesome it lived on well after Studebaker was long since dead.

Bonneville - this is okay i guess... but pretty much one of the quintessential "American" cars begins with a B. did know one think of the '57 Chevy... as in the '57 Chevrolet Bel Air?

Corvair - Corvette probably makes more sense... but the Corvair is iconic in it's own right... if only for purportedly being "unsafe at any speed!" dun dun dunnnn!

Dart - fine. Demon might have been cooler though.

Edsel - that's a good one.

Fairlane - also good.

Gremlin - ha!

Hummer - this (like Jeep) are known as multi-product marques now days... but certainly both started as single Grade A 100% American vehicles.

Impala - that's a good one too. besides Hummer and Jeep (brands) this is the only nameplate still in existence. a lame existence. but around nonetheless.

Jeep - see Hummer.

K-car - seems silly. but certainly an important group of cars in the US auto industry.

Gietzen · Post by **Gietzen** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:54 am

As a Detroit native I would actually be really pleased with these names, as they among other models kept the rust belt area booming, like the K-cars, not an actual car but a platform that a series of cars were built on and saved allot of jobs by getting back to producing cheap cars for the masses. don't get me wrong k-cars were all pieces of shit, but they were affordable.

as far as jeep and hummer go well those are both brand names, well jeep was actually slang used in the WWII era for untested equipment, and the name stuck, never was there a jeep called the jeep.

And Hummer not to be confused with the Humvee produced by AM general, while in any civilian use is still just a H1 mocked up to look like the Humvee, also with the infamous H2 which unlike the H1 sucks ass off road because it's too top heavy. In fact the H3 is better off road and uses only a 5 cylinder engine and I believe is built on the same frame as the Colorado.

oh and the folks talking about the Demon and the Dart newsflash they are the SAME CAR just a different package, like the Plymouth Satellite, and the Roadrunner and so on.

Oh and for all the folks deciding that cars destroy our planet know that actually for sale in the U.S. the American automakers have more models of gas/electric hybrid cars available for purchase than their Asian and Euro counterparts.

Teo del Fuego · Post by **Teo del Fuego** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:12 am

Gietzen wrote:well jeep was actually slang used in the WWII era for untested equipment, and the name stuck

Not exactly, Jeep was slang for "GP" which meant General Purpose....

010111 · Post by **010111** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:49 pm

Gietzen wrote: as far as jeep and hummer go well those are both brand names, well jeep was actually slang used in the WWII era for untested equipment, and the name stuck, never was there a jeep called the jeep.

well... CJ does stand for Civilian Jeep you know... and were sold as a model before the Jeep *brand* existed. i guess i was a bit too liberal in saying there was a definitive original single model called Jeep or Hummer. my bad.

Gietzen wrote:oh and the folks talking about the Demon and the Dart newsflash they are the SAME CAR just a different package, like the Plymouth Satellite, and the Roadrunner and so on.

i know the Dart and Demon are the same car. though whether used as a road name or when someone is giving me my choice for free... i'd pick Demon in both instances over the Dart. i don't think people are as confused as you are implying... at least i wasn't anyway. (newsflash.)

Gietzen · Post by **Gietzen** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:12 pm

[quote]
Not exactly, Jeep was slang for "GP" which meant General Purpose....[/quote]

I do stand corrected, but the term pronounced as we say it today. Either way I'm happy with the choice, besides all are usually referred to as jeeps whether it's Willys Ford or AMC.

I kinda feel the names pay a bit of respect to all the people who built those cars, and came from all over the country and the world to do it.

capjbadger · Post by **capjbadger** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:40 pm

Funny bit of trivia:

There is a "Esplanade Car Rental" on the Isle of Wight int he UK.

Badger

skibear · Post by **skibear** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:19 pm

My 67 Dart car was the most indistructable piece of rusty Detroit iron
I ever owned. The engine was a puny 170ci wimp but would never
die though I drove it with the pedal floored much of the time.. Engine accessories (alternator etc) were crap and died twice a year.

After 250,000 mi in MD I gave the DART to sis who drove it another 150,000 mi around Logan UT then sold it. Several years later it was seen alive with 450,000 miles. Oil pan & valve cover were never touched.

I swear you could shoot at it and not kill it !!

Barbie · Post by **Barbie** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:44 pm

oh and the folks talking about the Demon and the Dart newsflash they are the SAME CAR just a different package, like the Plymouth Satellite, and the Roadrunner and so on.

I Know what Demon and Darts Are I Have owned a couple Demons.
I use to be kinda a motor head type person...

WHO LOVES MOPARS!!!!!!

I have rode In a Couple of Satellites and Roadrunners and - Let me tell ya they are 2 different CARS. Its like saying the SUper super fuckin' HOTT GIRL is the same a the really plain overweight girls 'cause there both girls. I'm not buying IT.

Demons have up and down lights rear tail lights and a front end that smiles at YOU not to mention the ccccooooooolllll DeMon emblems... 1 of mine had a 340 with a four speed in it

CraZyyyy Fast

2008 Street Names: American Cars

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