[Steve DeRosa]

Originally Posted by PorkPieGuy

An auto giant is gone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/o...occa-dead.html

One of the last living links to the 1960's first "Golden Era" of the American musclecar, when skunkworks prototypes were real-world tested at 2AM on Woodward Avenue, "win on Sunday, sell on Monday" was the mantra, and dealerships like Mr. Norm, Tasca Ford, Royal Pontiac, Yenko, Baldwin/Motion, et al. would set you up with machinery whose pavement-melting performance is only now being surpassed...

RIP and - quite literally - Godspeed...