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Whale Penis Leather Interiors Get Nixed

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:08 am
by Jabberwonky
And you can thank Pamela Anderson for it...

This article at Wired Autopia details how the Greenies have gotten Dartz to recend the whale penis leather interior option for their armored monstrosities.
I'm not sure why, but I'm a little disappointed.

Re: Whale Penis Leather Interiors Get Nixed

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:03 pm
by Fairportfan
I would assume that the objection is to the harvesting process.

Now, if perhaps they could contract a cetacean mohel as supplier...

Re: Whale Penis Leather Interiors Get Nixed

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:04 pm
by Fairportfan
(I'm probably going to Hell for that one.)

Re: Whale Penis Leather Interiors Get Nixed

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:19 pm
by scantrontb
i doubt that that was the ONLY reason for it... i'm not sure if i'm correct (prolly not, but...) aren't whale penis's shaped like a corkscrew or some weird shape?? the car company played along with the greenies only because they couldn't get the right fit from the final tanned shape of the leather or maybe they could, but there would be zillions of seams all over the place and it wouldn't "look good"... so the company saves "face" by telling prospective buyers, that they "had to remove that option due to GreenPeace... sorry... but you can have it in exotic baby Kangaroo leather instead."

Re: Whale Penis Leather Interiors Get Nixed

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:50 pm
by Fairportfan
Unborn zebra hide (As a PR release once claimed the side panel inserts on a Barris custom Mustang that Maxwell Smart drove on TV at one point.)

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Re: Whale Penis Leather Interiors Get Nixed

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 2:45 pm
by DinkyInky
All fake fur according to "Mustang, the original Pony Car."

Was also in a Frankie Movie..."Marriage on the Rocks", I think.

Re: Whale Penis Leather Interiors Get Nixed

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 3:57 pm
by Fairportfan
DinkyInky wrote:All fake fur according to "Mustang, the original Pony Car."

Was also in a Frankie Movie..."Marriage on the Rocks", I think.
Yeah - that was the one it was built for.

But i never saw that one; i watched Get Smart.

The first season or so, Smart drove Don Adams' actual Sunbeam Tiger.

Re: Whale Penis Leather Interiors Get Nixed

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:12 pm
by Mark N
Fairportfan wrote: But i never saw that one; i watched Get Smart.

The first season or so, Smart drove Don Adams' actual Sunbeam Tiger.
Might have been from one of the movies made after the series was cancelled.

Re: Whale Penis Leather Interiors Get Nixed

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:54 pm
by Fairportfan
Mark N wrote:
Fairportfan wrote: But i never saw that one; i watched Get Smart.

The first season or so, Smart drove Don Adams' actual Sunbeam Tiger.
Might have been from one of the movies made after the series was cancelled.
I meant i never saw the Sinatra movie; i remember the Mustang on a regular episode of Get Smart.

It had front machine guns, activated by the horn button.

It was parked behind the Chief's car.

I forget why Max tried to blow the horn...

Re: Whale Penis Leather Interiors Get Nixed

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 11:42 pm
by Typeminer
scantrontb wrote:i doubt that that was the ONLY reason for it... i'm not sure if i'm correct (prolly not, but...) aren't whale penis's shaped like a corkscrew or some weird shape?? the car company played along with the greenies only because they couldn't get the right fit from the final tanned shape of the leather or maybe they could, but there would be zillions of seams all over the place and it wouldn't "look good"... so the company saves "face" by telling prospective buyers, that they "had to remove that option due to GreenPeace... sorry... but you can have it in exotic baby Kangaroo leather instead."
There's also that problem of the seats busting through the roof if you stroke the armrests. . . .

Re: Whale Penis Leather Interiors Get Nixed

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 2:03 am
by Fairportfan
No, it's the gallons of gooey white stuff...

Re: Whale Penis Leather Interiors Get Nixed

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 2:33 am
by Jabberwonky
Marshmallow fluff? That can be a booger to get out of fabric and carpet. (trust me on that one)

Re: Whale Penis Leather Interiors Get Nixed

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 4:33 pm
by bmonk
DinkyInky wrote:All fake fur according to "Mustang, the original Pony Car."

Was also in a Frankie Movie..."Marriage on the Rocks", I think.
Is this absolutely real genuine fake fur?

(Sorry, just channeling a very long ago Flintstones movie, where Fred wondered if this was the absolutely real genuine fake diamond necklace...)

Re: Whale Penis Leather Interiors Get Nixed

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 8:22 am
by DinkyInky
bmonk wrote:
DinkyInky wrote:All fake fur according to "Mustang, the original Pony Car."

Was also in a Frankie Movie..."Marriage on the Rocks", I think.
Is this absolutely real genuine fake fur?

(Sorry, just channeling a very long ago Flintstones movie, where Fred wondered if this was the absolutely real genuine fake diamond necklace...)
*giggles* That's silly!