To whomever it may concern.... Time for change due to professional reasons. Officially I declare that from herewith on the RadArt entity shall be known as Peter_T on the "forums". As for my art, it may come in "various" forms, but any newer things "should" also have the intitials PT somewhere. Over and out....take care ;-)

Will you be driving a "PT Cruiser"?

Gladly, you got one for me to drive? ;-)

Hey Pete...Thanks for the update. BTW - I'm getting my wife a 2002 PT Cruiser. I cant wait. ;) Clint

Cool, she's one lucky lady ;-)

Seems I still may use my RadArt personification from time to time. Like some aromas, it tends to linger no matter how hard the wind may blow at times....

PT Losers suck. I am sorry, but I have 2 '39 Plymouths (the car it was supposedly based on) and it looks nothing like my car. The original sketches and prototypes did, but as normal a good idea got molested by a bunch of morons. I hate the fact they put it on the neon frame and used a measly 4 banger in it. The stock '39 has a 6cylinder and also has about the same amount of power as the PT (and my stock '50 chevy has even more). The only PT Cruiser I am interested in is this one about 30 miles from me that the guy dropped a 426 Hemi into.

Hellmark, that's because it wasn't actually based on a '39 Plymouth. It was "inspired" (to use the auto industry term) by the 39 Ford sedan.

Ok, A: It looks even more not like a '39 Ford B: Why model something after a product your competitor made. C: I have seen magazine articles, Chrysler Press Releases, and several things from Chrysler claiming it was off the Plymouth. If you look at some of the early prototypes you can tell it looks like the Plymouth as well.

CCS had a nice exhibit about it, a couple of years ago. Very definitly the Ford, which was parked next to the PT. a) I think it looks a lot like the "milk truck" configuration of the 39 Ford. b) That's the way of the auto industry. Always has been. Ford "borrowed" heavily from Mercedes in the 80's, Buick was "inspired" by Jaguar in the 90's. Although the similarity" between the 87 Chrysler LeBaron and the 83 T-bird was a particularly ballsy example. Then again Ford was rather influenced by late 70's Audi on that design. c) I've seen them claiming it was the Ford, in automotive design amgazines. I'm sure that press releases (and articles based on press releases) originate from DCX marketing folk. Automotive marketing often puts an interesting "spin" on events. My opinions, not those of Visteon.

Well, I have seen alot of stupid stuff in some of the magazines nowadays. Some of these like Car and Driver, Road & Track, and now Hot Rod have nothing to do with old cars and didnt know what something obvious was (when I saw Hot Rod not pick out a few common cars I stopped getting it). I have and work on several classic cars, stock and rods. I eat, sleep, and breath this stuff, hell I got tranny fluid for blood.

I don't have much patience with magazines like Car & Driver. Usually, I stick with things like the SAE's Automotive Engineering International, Ward's Auto World, Automotive News, and Automotive Design. Side effect of working in the industry, I guess. Or of being born in Motown.