Wednesday, April 10, 2013

The man, the legend, the car

Some blog entries have no excuse. This is one of 'em. Dick Clark's 1966 Cord Sportsman is for sale on eBay.

I'm a little tapped out right now, so I don't have the fifty-six grand asking price. But this isn't a car blog, so I don't really care about the automobile, though it is one badass-looking machine. What draws my attention to the linked article is that Clark's career in game shows doesn't even get a mention.

Okay, Dick Clark was big in early (and middle-aged) rock 'n' roll. But he also had this little thing called Pyramid. The show didn't last quite as long as American Bandstand, but it hung around for a while. Would a tiny nod to it have been so out of place?

Game shows really are the Rodney Dangerfield genre. No respect, I tell ya. Oh well, congrats to whoever comes up with the cash for the car. And by the way, the guy who once owned it hosted one of the greatest game shows ever.

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