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Being able to drive a vehicle with a manual transmission is a basic life skill like reading, swimming, riding a bicycle, graduating high school, etc. You can get through life without it... but you're basically choosing to be handicapped.
If you drive a giant diesel pickup in a non-commercial application, odds are you're 'compensating' for something. Maybe you're lacking in personality... maybe elsewhere.
However if you have 'truck nuts' on that giant diesel pickup, I can't help but respect that. You may be a giant douche... but at least you're owning it
Move up to the 50s and you no longer had separate fenders and the single envelope body became the norm, with similar roofs and windows. Only grilles and side trim differentiated models. in the late '50s, you added fins and more trim, but the basic body was the same. Move to the '80s and everything was squared off. In the '90s you got rounded jellybeans. Basically no matter the era, you can instantly tell WHAT era a car is from because it looks similar to every other car of it's era and category.
Interesting you mention roofs and windows.
The 1960 Cadillac was available with 4 roof types (see photo).
BS. Bring whatever crappy full-sized pickup you have and I will out park/out corner you all day long. Pickups are just stupid for most owners. Period. If your ego requires you to present some weird hill-billy image, great - do us all a favor and be man enough to admit it.
You do realize that your big, dumb ego-machine aggravates the rest of us, right? Pickups are slow, handle poorly and generally suck compared to cars. End of story.
And yet, pickups serve a purpose and many people simply LIKE them. Like my kid and his LS swapped '79 stepside Chevy pickup. Slow it is definitely not, though we all know it's no Corvette in the handling department (yet), And it doesn't have to be! That's the part YOU just can't figure out. They don't HAVE to be sports cars to be viable transportation devices. My Suburban is definitely no sports car, but it tows my 9500 lb travel trailer just fine. Something no Corvette can do. (and talk about ego machines, most sports cars are driven slowly on the street, not rapidly on the track... my 330ci convertible, as fun as it is, is much more of an ego machine than my trucks are).
The 1960 Cadillac was available with 4 roof types (see photo).
BTW, thanks for spelling "grille" correctly.
Yes, and the styling of every one of those rooflines is period specific. The details of the trim and forms are not going to be found in other eras.
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