[larrybuck]

I don't know about you, but during a show, or movie in which there are car scenes, it REALLY bugs me when suddenly they will switch entirely to a completely other car in a different scene.

I could understand the economics when they want to show a car going off a cliff, rolling over, and over as it explodes into flames, but common switches
pains my intellect like fingernails on a chaukboard. (along w my spelling)

Last night I was watching an old Adam 12 show current for '71 with that year
Plymouth Sattelite's when they cut to a night scene clearly showing them in
the same but a '68 model which is much boxier. I know most non car people who watch are clueless in this, but it really bugs me.

I have some step nieces that several years ago, when they were early
teenagers, couldn't on the fly tell the difference in the movie Bullit between
the '68 Charger, and the '68 Mustang.

I realize these were average people who could get fooled easily by a switch.

Are/were you enough of a car freak to memorize cars well enough, that you could bet your life on telling someone EXACTLY what year, and make a car is at a glance???

I admit to being old school. My main memory lock is from about '53 to the early '80's. When I saw a '64 Chevy, I KNEW it was so!!!

When we got into the '80's with black rubber log crash bumpers, and more plastic everything; my interest level severely dropped off.

Nowadays my non car ( in their heads ) immediate family will remark on some cool older car they saw, that they thought I would have enjoyed seeing, and they they try vainly to describe same to me, so I can try to translate in my mind to what it was.

Never enough adequate input! Really funny, and sad at the same time.

Usually, I'll try to ask something like are the headlights mounted separate
from the front fenders; questions like that, or what is the basic shape of the taillights?