Word: dashboards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believes the industry has failed to develop products that would make technology easier to use. Says he: "The industry is shooting at the wrong target. It continues to emphasize power at the expense of usability. It's paying too much attention to the engine and not enough to the dashboard...
That leads to a lovely shot of dingbat Peters wheeling down a dirt road, radio blasting, with funny money blowing out of the back of the car. She has one foot on the dashboard, and bubble-gum bubbles are popping out of her funny little rosebud mouth, right there in the middle of her funny big custard-pie face...
...hitches around to look back at his companion, Jeanette, who sits on the bed doing something with stacks of tiny Ziploc bags. "Wasn't that '81, hon?" Taking a mumble for confirmation, Big John peers beyond the cat stretched out in the sunlight on the dashboard. "There are 150 narcs running around out there, and everybody is in a stampede to roll over. Everybody and his brother is distributing Product, and it's getting to be a dog-eat-dog world." His face assumes a mournful set: "I've been ripped off by my friends big time; they get down...
...Preston Tucker proclaimed it "The car of tomorrow -- today!" The Tucker seated six adults and could cruise at 100 m.p.h. with its air-cooled rear engine. It boasted innovations that later became Detroit standards: disk brakes, a padded dashboard and curiosities such as a pop-out windshield and a crash compartment. (Preston's idea for seat belts was nixed by his company's board.) Sticker price...
...ultra-violent street gang, the Crips. And he brags that he has used his drug money to rent a Nissan Z on weekends. He has not yet learned how to use a stick shift, however, and at 4 ft. 10 in., he sometimes has trouble seeing over the dashboard. Frog is 13 years...