{"id":474712,"date":"2010-03-17T18:32:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T22:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=15970"},"modified":"2010-03-17T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T22:32:59","slug":"david-e-davis-jr-if-the-original-henry-ford-was-still-alive-he%e2%80%99d-be-building-subarus-%e2%80%93-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474712","title":{"rendered":"David E. Davis, Jr.: If the Original Henry Ford Was Still Alive, He\u2019d be Building Subarus \u2013 Column"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Malcolm Bricklin made a lot of mistakes, but his infatuation with Subaru wasn’t one of them.<\/em><\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t unusual for me to fall hopelessly in love with one of my own cars, and I\u2019ve owned dozens. I loved my first car, the 1935 Mercedes custom-bodied roadster that I bought for a thousand dollars from an Air Force colonel in the very early Fifties. I loved my MG TD, my Peugeot 403, my Triumph TR3, my Chevelle SS396 with the Hurst ratchet shifter, my \u201965 Land Rover 109 with the tropical roof, my Volvo \u201cBoss Wagon<\/a>\u201d (a C\/D<\/em> project car), my Lincoln Mark VII modified by Jack Roush, my \u201939 Chevy raced by Fangio, my purple Porsche 968, and every Chevrolet or GMC Suburban I\u2019ve ever owned.<\/p>\n

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Cars that I could not bring myself to love included a 1952 Ford Consul, a Rambler station wagon, a Mercedes pagoda-roof 230SL, a Ferrari 328GTS, an early Viper, and a deeply troubled Range Rover from the BMW era. There was also a Jeep CJ7 that refused to shift into four-wheel drive one morning because its driveline had fallen out.<\/p>\n

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    Malcolm Bricklin made a lot of mistakes, but his infatuation with Subaru wasn’t one of them. It isn\u2019t unusual for me to fall hopelessly in love with one of my own cars, and I\u2019ve owned dozens. I loved my first car, the 1935 Mercedes custom-bodied roadster that I bought for a thousand dollars from an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}