Those were the days when big, chrome bumpers could still take a bump. They must have projected a good 8" beyond any other part of the car.
Yeah, the opposite is said in Texas.
Q: Why doesn’t Texas drift off into the Gulf of Mexico?
A: Because Oklahoma sucks.
And they’re not wrong either.
And that sucks, too. I used to be a state inspector, and you did not want the cars that would fail the safety inspection on the road. I failed about 10% of the cars I saw, mostly for the safety inspection.
During my sentence* to OK it was:
Kansas sucks and Texas blows.
Due to the blast furnace south wind in the summer.
*I would volunteer to go to Afghanistan and Iraq from McAlester, OK area.