Sunday, March 17, 2013

Corona: it's not just for breakfast anymore--a little treat for my Husqvarna audience.

Diaristwoman was cleaning the other day and found this folio sized post card featuring a Husqvarna Corona moped.  I love the swinging 60s motif--especially the woman in the background with a beer!  How many motor manufacturers today would so closely feature their product with alcohol?  A stick in the eye of political correctness! The postcard shows both of the available color schemes of "cherry with cream"  and "sun with black".  The little scooter featured the 49cc "Egg" motor and could achieve a lusty 25 km/h (on level ground).  The Corona was produced for a relatively short period of time--from 1958 to 1960.  Put up your hand if you'd like to turn back the hands of time.

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  1. BaydogMarch 17, 2013 at 3:54 PM

    Hand is up.

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  2. TillermanMarch 17, 2013 at 4:30 PM

    The 60s were the peak of global human civilization. It's all been downhill since "one small step" and "It's just a shot away."

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    1. George AMarch 17, 2013 at 5:29 PM

      Ah yes, the early 60s--Moth Boats and Penguins ruled the starting line while lasers were something that clean cut men in white lab coats were putzing around with (the "death rays" featured in science fiction movies). Bridgette Bardot was still in her prime. Frog eye Sprites were all the rage, the Super Bowl had yet to be thought of and McDonald's restaurants with their 15 cent hamburgers and 12 cent packets of small (only size then) fries were still a curiosity which hadn't yet made us obese. The fact that tail fins on large American cars were by then in decline was an early indicator that humanity indeed had peaked. Good times! I remember them fondly.

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  3. TillermanMarch 17, 2013 at 7:46 PM

    They didn't have the Superb Owl in the 60s? America must have been like heaven then.

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    1. BaydogMarch 17, 2013 at 9:09 PM

      Please.

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    2. George AMarch 18, 2013 at 5:12 AM

      Sorry Tillerman, no Superb Owl until 1967. No cell phones, no internet, no blog spots. In the early 60s few, if any boys, of my age could point to Vietnam on a map.

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    3. TillermanMarch 18, 2013 at 5:54 AM

      I think I would have liked America in the early 1960s.

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    4. TillermanMarch 18, 2013 at 5:54 AM

      Not that I don't like it now, of course.

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  4. George AMarch 18, 2013 at 5:40 AM

    PS, Tillerman: Congrats for getting "syndicated" in today's Scuttlebutt!

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    1. TillermanMarch 18, 2013 at 5:53 AM

      I know. I may never be able to show my face at NYYC now.

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