Comments on: Keep your eye on the D-500 . . . IT’S A REAL BOMB! (Sep, 1956) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/01/21/keep-your-eye-on-the-d-500-its-a-real-bomb/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:07:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Arglebarglefarglegleep http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/01/21/keep-your-eye-on-the-d-500-its-a-real-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-1080109 Arglebarglefarglegleep Sat, 07 Aug 2010 07:55:46 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8847#comment-1080109 I keep hearing things/people called 'da bomb' to this day. I don't suppose the Ford people like the term after making Pintos though. I keep hearing things/people called ‘da bomb’ to this day.

I don’t suppose the Ford people like the term after making Pintos though.

]]> By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/01/21/keep-your-eye-on-the-d-500-its-a-real-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-1075028 Firebrand38 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:35:39 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8847#comment-1075028 KD5ZS: Nope, sorry. <a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq76-1.htm" rel="nofollow">Operation Crossroads</a> at the atoll (which inspired the bikini name) took place in 1946 but thanks for playing. KD5ZS: Nope, sorry. Operation Crossroads at the atoll (which inspired the bikini name) took place in 1946 but thanks for playing.

]]> By: KD5ZS http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/01/21/keep-your-eye-on-the-d-500-its-a-real-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-1075027 KD5ZS Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:14:07 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8847#comment-1075027 Then they detonated the real mccoy at bikini atoll providing inspiration for that bathing suit.... Then they detonated the real mccoy at bikini atoll providing inspiration for that bathing suit….

]]> By: Jari http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/01/21/keep-your-eye-on-the-d-500-its-a-real-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-1075000 Jari Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:45:47 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8847#comment-1075000 Okay, so that's the origin of the expression. Thanks. Hmm... I think I need to swith to Firefox, as Googlebooks doesn't seem to work properly with Opera... Okay, so that’s the origin of the expression. Thanks.

Hmm… I think I need to swith to Firefox, as Googlebooks doesn’t seem to work properly with Opera…

]]> By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/01/21/keep-your-eye-on-the-d-500-its-a-real-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-1074998 Firebrand38 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:50:11 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8847#comment-1074998 Anyway, it seems that when this ad was made it was a common enough term that evolved over time. Hot Rod Model A's in the fifties picked up the moniker of "A-bomb" and the rest is history. <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=mSEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA85&dq=%22hot+rod%22++bomb&as_brr=1&ei=eXtbS7yyA56szgS-qMDFBQ&cd=4#v=onepage&q=%22hot%20rod%22%20%20bomb&f=false" rel="nofollow">1952 Popular Science</a> <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=PEkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA140&dq=%22hot+rod%22++bomb&as_brr=1&ei=eXtbS7yyA56szgS-qMDFBQ&cd=3#v=onepage&q=%22hot%20rod%22%20%20bomb&f=false" rel="nofollow">1957 Life magazine</a> <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=3PgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA3&dq=%22hot+rod%22++bomb&lr=&as_brr=1&ei=lX1bS47DNJPiygTR1YirBg&cd=19#v=onepage&q=%22hot%20rod%22%20%20bomb&f=false" rel="nofollow">1963 American Motorcyclist (yeah, motorcycles)</a> <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=OtKWmLLiuTgC&pg=PA30&dq=hot+rod+terms+bomb&ei=_XpbS5WaCZ7ozATz0qSTAw&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false" rel="nofollow">2004 Ultimate Hot Rod Dictionary</a> Anyway, it seems that when this ad was made it was a common enough term that evolved over time.
Hot Rod Model A’s in the fifties picked up the moniker of “A-bomb” and the rest is history.

1952 Popular Science
1957 Life magazine
1963 American Motorcyclist (yeah, motorcycles)
2004 Ultimate Hot Rod Dictionary

]]> By: Jari http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/01/21/keep-your-eye-on-the-d-500-its-a-real-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-1074995 Jari Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:24:19 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8847#comment-1074995 Don: Exactly. I can't imagine anyone saying "My GTLX-Turbo-VSOP gets out of the chute like a jackrabbit" in these days :) Don: Exactly. I can’t imagine anyone saying “My GTLX-Turbo-VSOP gets out of the chute like a jackrabbit” in these days :)

]]> By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/01/21/keep-your-eye-on-the-d-500-its-a-real-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-1074993 Firebrand38 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:31:11 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8847#comment-1074993 KD5ZS: Only if you try to drive it through the checkpoint? KD5ZS: Only if you try to drive it through the checkpoint?

]]> By: KD5ZS http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/01/21/keep-your-eye-on-the-d-500-its-a-real-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-1074992 KD5ZS Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:49:36 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8847#comment-1074992 Or drive such a car to an airport-- tsa would have a fit! Or drive such a car to an airport– tsa would have a fit!

]]> By: Don http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/01/21/keep-your-eye-on-the-d-500-its-a-real-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-1074973 Don Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:56:11 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8847#comment-1074973 Jari, How about "bad" or "sick"? Tha's one BAD car you got there; the speed it goes is SICK! (It took me a while to figure out "sick" was a compliment on the Scion xB list I hang out on once in a while . . . . ) Jari, How about “bad” or “sick”? Tha’s one BAD car you got there; the speed it goes is SICK! (It took me a while to figure out “sick” was a compliment on the Scion xB list I hang out on once in a while . . . . )

]]> By: Jari http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/01/21/keep-your-eye-on-the-d-500-its-a-real-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-1074967 Jari Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:11:59 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8847#comment-1074967 That bomb word is a fine example, how the meaning of the words changes during the ages. I mean I wouldn't buy a car described as a bomb. That bomb word is a fine example, how the meaning of the words changes during the ages. I mean I wouldn’t buy a car described as a bomb.

]]> By: KD5ZS http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/01/21/keep-your-eye-on-the-d-500-its-a-real-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-1074936 KD5ZS Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:24:20 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8847#comment-1074936 No wonder for years the CHP used Chrysler cars during the '50's and 60's as patrol vehicles. Now it is the Dodge Viper. No wonder for years the CHP used Chrysler cars during the ’50′s and 60′s as patrol vehicles.

Now it is the Dodge Viper.

]]>