Part of the muscle car experience, particularly in the bad old days of the 60s & 70s , was tuning and modifying the car to make it perform and handle better. Thus, a lot of hot rodders could relate to Frazz’s efforts to increase the performance (“efficiency”) of his bike.
You don’t buy a muscle car to go fast. My Toyota Camry, definitrly not a muscle car, can go much faster than any law allows. You buy a muscle car so you can brag about it and show off.
Chain lube? Try Boeshield T-9. Nothing better, and as a bent rider, I have a LOT of chain.Muscle cars used to be fun, back in the day. Now they are just compensation.
Sometimes I worry that I’m going to be outed as not one who gets terribly excited about cars and be banished from the heartland of the American auto industry to someplace like Fairfax, California. And by “worry” I kind of mean “hope.” But I don’t think that’s going to happen. Because I live kind of midway up Woodward Avenue, where a lot of people from the auto industry also live, and as you go farther north on Woodward, so ramps up the auto-executive quotient, and when you get way north, up in Bloomfield Hills, there are a lot of people who make a ton of money off the American auto industry and … well, don’t seem to drive a ton of American cars.
Maybe they’re like me in that I don’t wear a lot of Frazz-themed merchandise, or any other Jef-art-themed merchandise. It just seems a little ostentatious. Then again, no. Not that I’ve met a lot of Bloomfield Hills-level auto executives, but I read about a lot of them, and if anything, they seem to behave like brandishing their own product isn’t nearly ostentatious enough.
Maybe they know something I don’t, about how a car, any car, domestic or foreign, is truly in an international mishmash to the extent that it really doesn’t matter, and so you make all that money, you might as well drive the most impressive car you can get your hands on. In which case, maybe I know something they don’t about just how much the rest of us are impressed by other people’s cars.
nosirrom over 6 years ago
Frazz, Your too young to understand Muscle Cars. There hasn’t been a good muscle car since the Clean Air Act.
Elmer Gantry Fudd over 6 years ago
Why cyclists are morally superior, part 1000.
Ignatz Premium Member over 6 years ago
People buy things for the purpose of showing off every day, not just cars.
whiteheron over 6 years ago
To me, it is not that new cars are not in most aspects better, it is that they have no personality. They all look the same.
Darwinskeeper over 6 years ago
Part of the muscle car experience, particularly in the bad old days of the 60s & 70s , was tuning and modifying the car to make it perform and handle better. Thus, a lot of hot rodders could relate to Frazz’s efforts to increase the performance (“efficiency”) of his bike.
GaryCooper over 6 years ago
You don’t buy a muscle car to go fast. My Toyota Camry, definitrly not a muscle car, can go much faster than any law allows. You buy a muscle car so you can brag about it and show off.
scaeva Premium Member over 6 years ago
Chain lube? Try Boeshield T-9. Nothing better, and as a bent rider, I have a LOT of chain.Muscle cars used to be fun, back in the day. Now they are just compensation.
Seed_drill over 6 years ago
I drove my Dodge Charger to the bike ride today. Yesterday I did some business with a guy with a bike rack on top of his early 40s Buick hotrod.
Lizard Lass Premium Member over 6 years ago
I would find this a funnier strip if Frazz didn’t get the last word to explain how he’s actually right… again…
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 6 years ago
Frazz
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Sometimes I worry that I’m going to be outed as not one who gets terribly excited about cars and be banished from the heartland of the American auto industry to someplace like Fairfax, California. And by “worry” I kind of mean “hope.” But I don’t think that’s going to happen. Because I live kind of midway up Woodward Avenue, where a lot of people from the auto industry also live, and as you go farther north on Woodward, so ramps up the auto-executive quotient, and when you get way north, up in Bloomfield Hills, there are a lot of people who make a ton of money off the American auto industry and … well, don’t seem to drive a ton of American cars.
Maybe they’re like me in that I don’t wear a lot of Frazz-themed merchandise, or any other Jef-art-themed merchandise. It just seems a little ostentatious. Then again, no. Not that I’ve met a lot of Bloomfield Hills-level auto executives, but I read about a lot of them, and if anything, they seem to behave like brandishing their own product isn’t nearly ostentatious enough.
Maybe they know something I don’t, about how a car, any car, domestic or foreign, is truly in an international mishmash to the extent that it really doesn’t matter, and so you make all that money, you might as well drive the most impressive car you can get your hands on. In which case, maybe I know something they don’t about just how much the rest of us are impressed by other people’s cars.
mridenour over 6 years ago
“Like the sign says, speed’s just a question of money.”