Lakeview High School Class of 1973

When I was a senior at Lakeview High School (Lakeview, Michigan) I drove a 1965 Mercury Monterey sedan. It was red in color and in the days of 19 cents per gallon gasoline it was expensive to drive. It's one redeeming characteristic was the the rear window would go up and down. I am not talking about the rear passenger window, I mean the REAR WINDOW would go up and down. That was cool.



A friend of mine had a dentist father. For his 16th birthday he was given an almost new 1972 Dodge Challenger Hemi similar to this one below. I remember at the time being envious of him: geeze it had a hemi.


Now it looks like Fiat is going to buy the Chrysler brand and no one know what the *&^% that is going to mean - the details are not yet clear. In 1973 Fiat was famous for it's model 500 which was a very small, very unexciting automobile. In Boolean terms: think "challenger not".



Bottom line: The castration of American automobile manufacturers by foreign ownership sucks. It is better than going out of business, but it still sucks.