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“… are all going to meet down at the Cadillac Ranch!”
Bruce Springsteen sang about it in 1980, a few years after it was made famous in Smokey and the Bandit. The NY Times printed the picture above in a fascinating yet heartbreaking blog response to GM shuttering the Pontiac brand among others.
“They are not Just Cars” is a fascinating article featuring four branding/car experts commenting on Detroit’s problems and GM’s impending cutbacks. I happen to know one of the commentators, former Warner Brothers Records publicist Bob Merlis, and the fact that he is a car collector shows how fat the music business used to be. He’s a pretty snotty guy (except when someone powerful is around) but on the topic of cars, I’m sure he lives up to his own hype. And he doesn’t spare GM for a second in his commentary.
The article also features a great picture of an old GTO that reminds me of the one legendary dj and club promoter Rodney Binghenheimer drives. So there are your music connections to this sad article.
