Feb 02
Click for larger imageMark Quark Comments: Needz Moar Horsepower
Published 1985
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Mark Quark Comments: Needz Moar Horsepower
Published 1985
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February 2nd, 2022 at 9:44 am
Conspicuous consumption, guzzling hay and oats instead of gas. A lot of hay and oats.
February 2nd, 2022 at 10:15 am
Did you hear about the wooden car? Wooden wheels, wooden engine, wooden’ go.
February 2nd, 2022 at 12:33 pm
Car Wars has really gone downhill in the latest edition…
February 2nd, 2022 at 12:54 pm
This completely deserves a “no idea how anything works” tag.
February 2nd, 2022 at 1:31 pm
Check it out: two horsepower.
February 2nd, 2022 at 1:34 pm
I’m pondering the significance of the fact that the book “Bread & Wine” is followed by “Dinner at Deviant’s Palace.”
February 2nd, 2022 at 2:31 pm
Lowrider is a little higher…
February 2nd, 2022 at 2:35 pm
I just noticed that my first comment steps on Mark Quark’s comment.
I shouldn’t post before the first cup of coffee.
February 2nd, 2022 at 2:36 pm
@THX GSS!
I think I may have mentioned it a couple of years ago, but I’ll say it again. This site needs thumbs up/down buttons. The winner with the most thumbs-ups at the end of the year gets to be named the “Greatest GSSer Of The Year”. There would be some stiff competition.
February 2nd, 2022 at 4:39 pm
GSS, @Tag Wizard, @THX.
As @Francis Boyle said, this is actually rather worse – heavier, less maneuverable, less secure seating for the guy at the reins – than a regular wooden carriage. [1]
Is that building behind the driver with orange (boarded up?) windows supposed to have a sagging roof, or is the artist just bad with straight lines?
[1] I mean, it looks like the Scavenger World trope ( https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScavengerWorld ) at first glance, but upon closer inspection the car part has no functionality whatsoever, aside from keeping the rain off.
February 2nd, 2022 at 5:03 pm
Thanks, A-S and Bruce, but that’s a very old joke!
Now let’s talk about that chap’s top hat. I say, jolly D!
February 2nd, 2022 at 5:17 pm
I think I’ve worked out this week’s theme:
1. a book called ‘War of the Wing-Men’
2. a cover where old men gaze adoringly at each other
3. people who care more about a car’s appearance than its functionality
It’s Jeremy Clarkson Week at GSS.
Obviously, ‘Farnham’s Freehold’ last week was a teaser for the thread of reactionary old farts being endlessly forgiven…
February 2nd, 2022 at 7:43 pm
Car chase in a realistic MAD MAX movie (when all the gasoline ran out).
February 3rd, 2022 at 1:59 am
Ha! I recognized it from the title block before I even got to the art, because this is the copy I have.
The cover is fairly accurate to the book, although approximately 90% less weird. It’s a good book, this copy has survived moving and periodic book weeding here.
It’s post-apocalyptic, so that’s why the car’s being pulled by horses, because even in post-apoc LA, cars remain important status symbols.
@Tat: GSS!
February 3rd, 2022 at 3:21 am
@GSS ex-noob: “ostentatiously impractical?”
February 3rd, 2022 at 4:34 am
This cover would be more enigmatic if there were speed lines streaking off the car, but not the horses.
February 3rd, 2022 at 1:39 pm
The pre-spoke era.
February 4th, 2022 at 5:12 am
If the car body’s fiberglass, and they took out everything but the seats and dash, and plunked that on a regular wooden wagon body, it wouldn’t be too much weight for the horses.
February 5th, 2022 at 1:12 am
The edition I have is pretty much that, but from a different perspective.
June 23rd, 2022 at 3:29 am
I can’t help thinking of the beginning of “Repo Man” with Harry Dean Stanton calling out to Emilio Estevez — “Hey kid! Help me get my car out of this…. bad area….”