SamBlob

Of late I've only been passing by once or twice a week.  Something happened last week that might make me a more frequent visitor. I broke my right leg in a motorcycle accident. Despite the incapacitation, the expense, the burden on my family, and the burden on my employers, I am thankful for the outcome. I could have been killed, or in a coma, or otherwise unable to move at all. Until I'm able to use my computer (I can't even get to the room with the computer right now, I'm typing this from a tablet) I can't submit any drawings, but all this time on my hands might cause me to draw some.

Taking a break from ugly cars (the next one will probably be a Citroën... but which one? :plotting: ) to celebrate the British automobile... actually the English automobile because all of these were designed and built in England. This is a list of ten great British cars. It is not called the "Ten Greatest British Cars" because there are people who would find it a sacrilege that such a list would not have the "Blower Bentley" (more correctly the Bentley 4 1/2-Litre Supercharged), the Bentley 3-litre, Lotus Elite, Lotus Elan, Morgan Plus 4, Morgan Plus 8, or the Standard Vanguard.  Or any Aston Martins, Lagondas, Daimlers, MGs, or Austin-

SUDDENLY IT'S HIDEOUS! The Chrysler Corporation speeded up development of their 1960 models and released them in 1957 with the tagline "Suddenly it's 1960!"  These designs were the work of Virgil Exner, an automotive designer who is widely admired for reasons completely beyond my comprehension. To my thinking, Exner's greatest contribution to automotive style was to make terrible stuff suitable mostly for scaring small children. He designed the most abominably screw-faced cars the world had ever seen, and most of these were done for the "Suddenly it's 1960!" Mopars. Just look at the car at the top of this journal. Doesn't it look like a mon