Happy New Year! I’m back after taking an extended break over the holidays, although my head is still in the clouds after that outstanding visit to the Auto e Moto d’Epoca in Italy in October.

I almost never post items found on other websites, but in this case, I couldn’t resist. This morning, while performing my daily scroll through the offerings on Bring A Trailer, I was struck by the juxtaposition of these two cars. By complete coincidence, they were placed side-by-side. Gaze if you will at all the similarities between this 1961 Plymouth Fury and this 2021 Lexus LS500: the headlight location, the front fender sweeps, the pinched grille, the horizontal brightwork along the bottom edge. The black paint only adds to the resemblance.

Sixty years separate these two automobiles, and while it’s fair to conjecture that the designers of the Lexus were not born when the ’61 Plymouth debuted, they might have stumbled across reviews of that Plymouth which referred to its front-end styling as “the grille that ate Tokyo”, or some variation thereof. Maybe something got lost in the translation….