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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Since I've always owned small cars (and I mean really small, like the Austin-Healey Sprite), it's very tempting to believe that, but I don't quite. It's part of the story, but not all of it. There's been a lot of creative marketing, selling not just the size but false suggestions of safety and adventure, like your nine-to-five sitting in the cubicle cowboys.
But there were a lot of individualists back in the '60s and early '70s :-) ...
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The '60's and '70's had the rise of the "counterculture" so yes there was a popular backlash against "the way things were".
Then it died.
I've almost always owned small cars too. I am acutely aware that we are not the majority. So there ya are.
I do enjoy cruising in the '59 on occasion though. In '59 it was the biggest Chevrolet ever offered. Today it is dwarfed by all the pickups and SUVs.
