Ah, the good old AMC Gremlin X. They were fun cars, but like all AMC cars, eventually died a very slow death. A little screen time for the ladies. We’re leading up to Lorraine getting her dark hair back… she’ll probably get a little help from Robyn at this point!
Elton John rocked on some of his songs, especially on his earlier stuff, and “The Bitch Is Back” is a great example of a fun pop song and a fitting song for today’s comic!
Today’s comic was totally different up until about 9:00pm last night. I had first drawn a comic where an image of the Gremlin was the joke. Not very funny unless you’re really familiar with the death of AMC cars. Then I did this version but with a totally different first three frames. I had Lorraine covering Robyn’s eyes, then Robyn excited by the site of an actual 1969 Mach 1 until Lorraine pointed out the Gremlin X next to it. I like this comic better as it is simple and just as effective without having to go to the bother of drawing the cars. Not that doing the cars is hard, it’s just they were not needed for the comic to deliver the laugh. Taught myself that simple is sometimes better. And here I say I’m lazy…
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Mmmm 69 Mach1 (Droooool)
One of the hottest damn cars out there. Mustangs were a tad bit longer and able to hold those 429ci engines and even NASCAR engines. But the Mach 1 was a cool looking car! And could they move! VROOM! Gone…
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Wait, what? No T-Bird? How will she have fun-fun-fun?
The 1957 era T-bird is one cool car actually. Not a hot rod, but a nice ride for it’s time.
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Years ago, whlie walking down Hudson Street (what 9th Avenue becomes when you’re south of Chambers Street if memory serves) I saw a guy futzing about with a car that looked like a cross between a ’55 T-Bird and Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward’s Rolls Royce (the puppet version, not the one from that stupid film). It was like someone had taken the ’55 T-Bird and chrome plated *everything* not red or white, then put a plexiglass dome over the passenger compartment.
The battery on the thing was flat, a condition it apparently spent most of its life in since it had only a DC genny to power all the luvverly electronics (pre-transistor, remember) rather than an alternator (which would still have had trouble putting ot enough juice in my opinion).
What was thisw odd car? It was one of two prototypes exhibited in the ’54 motor show that gave birth to the T-Bird production vehicle.
Would a 8 year old car then have been better than a brand new Green Gremlin. I think not.
LOL! Those ugly green Gremlins were the worst!
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OMG a 69 Mach1!!! Ok story time… skip ahead if you don’t care… in 1989 I was working at a movie theater and this was way hot girl that worked there too. I was Assistant Manager (aka chief of the losers) and I had to take the matinee deposits to the bank. My car, a 77 Toyota Corona (ugh) wouldn’t start, so I asked Tiffany if she’d take me to the bank. I’m expecting her to have a Suzuki Samurai or some other pink putter, and se points to this gorgeous blue and black Mach 1. My jaw dropped.
We made it to the bank and back in record time. I convinced the main manager to let me take her with me to do deposits from there on out. When the dork wad fired her three weeks later, I keyed his car.
Good times, good times.
Let’s see… a ’77 Corona or a ’69 Mach 1… hmm… tough choice there. Yep, go with the Mustang.
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He fired a girl with a Mach 1? I would have kept her just to have the car in the parking lot!
Key a car today and more than likely you’ll scrape off the top layer of plastic… I know we need fuel efficiency, but there’s nothing like those good old solid steel cars… rust and all.
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‘Round these parts we NEVER say “lazy”. We say “productive and creative time-savers”.
Although “lazy” would be easier.
If you were lazy, then yes, lazy is easier… 🙂
Easy = lazy in my book. I’m all about making things easy!
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Methinks an AMX would’ve been an even more obscure thing!
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I don’t think Lorraine is the AMX type! 🙂
A good friend of mine had an AMC Hornet hatchback and at one point I almost bought the Hornet station wagon (I needed room to haul my amp and stuff to gigs). But, my old 1969 Chevy was my work horse and my amp fit into the trunk (with the hood up) so I stuck with the old girl until she died on the highway one morning. Poor thing…
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I kinda like the blonde look. The most important question, as James Bond once pointed out, is “Do the collar and cuffs match?” 😉
I thought you were refering to a different model of car, what I found out later this morning to be the Pacer.
I was impressed to read how they made Pacers right-hand-drive for the UK market. Delightfully low-tech and highly dangerous too I should think. Judge for yourselves at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Pacer about halfway down the page.
The Pacer was the ugliest little car to come off the Detroit tracks too, until the advent of the excrable PT Cruiser, for a long time my least favourite car to be stuck behind/alongside/in front of since the mere sight of this eyesore-on-wheels could induce anti-peristalsis in me on the best of days. Of course, both of these pale into insignificance next to the Ugliest Damn Thing To Have An Engine Screwed To It – The Hummer and it’s cheaper look-alikes.Why the US public has fallen in love with these virulently painted rolling shoeboxes is beyond me.
I have read that the AMC Pacer is possibly the worst car ever made… period. I’d have to agree. It was heavy, poorly built and hard to handle at highway speeds. I friend of mine had one in high school and nearly killed us as she tried to impress me with the car’s “speed”. Overall a bad car experience. Though it was very roomy for a “compact” car and the backseat was very nice indeed… so in that aspect I was happy.
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Don’t get me started on Hummers or why we Americans cling to these damned monstrosities of vehicles. There’s an energy crisis going on what do we produce? The biggest, most gas guzzling car ever. Oh yeah, the “Terminator” had one… so let’s get one too! Ugh. Even the Army hates them…
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Funny story: When the gas prices in NY first soared I found my self with an empty tank on that first Night of the Crazies and drove around trying to find gas at the old price. Then I thought: “Dumbass – the difference in prices for a tank of gas is about the same as a cup of coffee”, and I pulled in to the next gas station and began to fill my tank. Next to me was a nitwit gassing up a Humvee and bitching in a very loud voice about the cost of filling his tank. I looked at him askance and said “Well, if you don’t want to pay a small fortune for gasoline, you shouldn’t go grocery shopping in a modified armoured personnel carrier, should you?”
I love the interaction between these two ladies.
And the joke worked well even without the car visual.
Thanks! I have to give some “screen” time to the girls… they really rock on their own.
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That’s typically the case with blondes. When they make the switch – they become a bitch 🙂
Probably from all the attention they get just because of their hair… and the dumb blonde jokes. I’ve never met a dumb blonde, so I am not sure how that got started.
Natural blondes are fun folks indeed when not being teased… 🙂
*Sigh* Lorraine…what a tease.
Hey, have I ever mentioned, I love how you post a track of the song that you take the titles of your strips from? Totally cool, both for the young’uns and the rest of us who get nostalgia flashbacks from reading. 😉
I wish I had found that site a lot sooner… it is a great tool for my site. Refreshes everyone’s mind what the song is and introduces the “youngsters” to the some great rock and roll… or at least the “original” versions of songs they know.
Thanks for the compliment!
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