As in…
For those of you who may have owned one or know someone who did or just is familiar with old cars, how good did they run? Or did they not?
Big YES. Caddy built it back when that meant something. Before Caddy was involved, it wasn’t so great.
The LaSalle marked the start of Harley Earl’s design innovations for GM. Many of them were strikingly beautiful cars, as well as well engineered ones.
If you have $21,500 to spare, you can find out how well this 1929 model runs.
They better run great - midpriced cars from the 1930s are notoriously difficult to source parts for. Hardly anybody bought them new, and they’re neither plentiful nor in any great demand today.
Darn it I just spend my last $21,500 on those “Big Bang Theory” DVDs
The LaSalle was actually more of a luxury brand - think a more stylish and slightly cheaper Cadillac.
Huh. I always thought it was “G.L.O. LaSalle ran great.” In other words, I thought it was some guy named LaSalle who went by his initials, and happened to be a good runner, back in the day.
It sounded to me like “Gee, our old won sour and great”, which made no sense at all. Then my mother told me my grandpa drove a La Salle and Mom says it ran great.
And after a couple seasons they re-recorded teh openng song & enunciated those words so carefully it ruined the meter completely.
No clue on LaSalle’s; they were a bit before my time.
Now that that’s settled, could we use a man like Herbert Hoover again?
Posts 2 through 5 are a great example of why I love this board so much. Ask a silly question, get an earnest answer within minutes.
Didn’t need no welfare state.
I thought they were singing about Joe Gargiola. ‘Garagiola sure ran great’. But then, I thought that in Go-Go Gophers they were singing ‘Colonel’s a doggie too’. 
All in the Broken Family, which will air in a few years, will have these lyrics in the song:
“Gee our old Toyota ran great… those were the days…” Ya know, 'cause with all Toyota’s problems, we’re gonna have to remind everyone there was a time when they ran great.
Sorry, Toyota. Ya wanna play with the big boys, ya gotta take yer lumps like the big boys.
Where was I going with this? Oh yeah… Lasalles ran great. I mentioned it in post 2, but there was a time when it meant something to say it was a Cadillac, or that Cadillac designed it, or built it.
whats equally sad is that a show like AITF would never get greenlighted on network teevee today… i caught it towards the middle end… but those early episodes wow… my fav being when Archie invites his buddy who son died in vietnam… and Mike has his friend who goin to canada…
Archie line at the end was great…
What was even better was Archie’s high school friend(Phil Carey)
aand Meathead’s childhood friend (Anthony Geary) were both at a Bunker family dinner. Archie thinks Tony is gay, because he is effeminate and has liberal views. But, truth be told, Phil is gay, and Tony is hetero.
I’m leaving a whole lot out here because it’s been years, but even back then writers knew shit. Sometimes I think the 70’s were the progressve years and we are , well, anti evolving.
No. Definitely not.
:: shudder ::
I agree. Now, Calvin Coolidge…
So, you don’t want a chicken in every pot?