Happy 100th GM

[RoadDog]

General Motors turns 100 today. Give the folks a choice and they will buy according to Will Durant. Let's hope they can continue in these hard times.

I wonder how the Civil War veterans felt about this new-fangled invention and how many bought one and got driver's licenses.

Any thoughts?

We Shall Drive Across the River. --RoadDog

[PvtClewell]

Simple arithmetic has always been a major obstacle for me (unless I'm figuring batting averages or earned run averages), but given that Henry Ford began mass producing reasonably priced cars around 1901, I figure the average Civil War vet must have been around 55-60 years old if he was contemplating buying a newfangled horseless carriage. So I figure the horse and buggy must have still looked pretty good to him by that point in his life. Hey, I'm 57 and I hate change. I reckon the CW vet probably hated change, too. Although, I would guess, that he'd still be awed by the technology.

Hey, the Wright Brothers were flying airplanes two years later.