Re: There are rumors in circulation...
Posted by Guscha On 2015/6/20 17:34:12
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Yes Howard, it is. More than three decades after taking pic #1 the time had come to leap onto the driver's seat of a ZIL-114. It was a disapointment to me to see the cheap liquid level indicators, made from plastic. The car seemed to suffer from anticipating the rising 1980s. The astethic value of the central mounted mass-production clock in the dash visualized its manufacturing costs of less than three dollar. As they say, you shouldn't meet your heroes.
To discover Chinese-plastic in a handmade car has been somewhat disillusioning but some design mistakes are repetitive. In trying to sugarcoat the first impression I bore in mind that in 1940 the dashboard of one of the most luxuriant Packard's of all times, the One-Eighty, was chock-full of cheap synthetic material.
In 1967 it was probably the hight of fashion to come up with acrylic resin.
To find the push-buttons of the 1967 ZIL-114 superseded by a plastic handle of the later version was almost consecutive. Packard faded.
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...Is that a pushbutton transmission selector down there...
Yes Howard, it is. More than three decades after taking pic #1 the time had come to leap onto the driver's seat of a ZIL-114. It was a disapointment to me to see the cheap liquid level indicators, made from plastic. The car seemed to suffer from anticipating the rising 1980s. The astethic value of the central mounted mass-production clock in the dash visualized its manufacturing costs of less than three dollar. As they say, you shouldn't meet your heroes.
To discover Chinese-plastic in a handmade car has been somewhat disillusioning but some design mistakes are repetitive. In trying to sugarcoat the first impression I bore in mind that in 1940 the dashboard of one of the most luxuriant Packard's of all times, the One-Eighty, was chock-full of cheap synthetic material.
In 1967 it was probably the hight of fashion to come up with acrylic resin.
To find the push-buttons of the 1967 ZIL-114 superseded by a plastic handle of the later version was almost consecutive. Packard faded.
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