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New Life for Cars of the Past

Last updated: Nov 25, 2019 at 4:18PM
Published on: Jul 3, 2013 by tgriffith

If you watch Breaking Bad, you know that Walter White drives an old Pontiac Aztec everywhere he goes. The car gets driven hard, has been through countless ordeals, and yet it soldiers on.

Of course, none of it is real on the show, but it’s still interesting that producers chose a car that is universally hated and chided as one of the world’s ugliest vehicles of all time.

Maybe, though, the show has given a second life to Aztecs everywhere. No longer are they weird afterthoughts from a forgettable era, they are now, somehow… cool. Especially ones with a perpetually broken windshield and one steel wheel.

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Filed Under: Car Shopping, Domestic Cars, Foreign Cars, General Chat, Trucks & SUVs, United States Tagged With: breaking bad, ford five hundred, pontiac aztek, used cars, vw phaeton

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