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No, they won't. The Marching-On-Washington crowd, while showing up at marches to do away with modern society in Daddy's Volvo, are riding bicycles now. $800 sixteen speed mountain bikes, mind you - but bicycles.
Oh, I admit nostalgia has its place - I went into a shop last night and asked about an Italian doll baby that was like one I'd bought myself in Italy years ago and then given away to a child in Brazil (it looks eerily like a real infant and costs over $100) - but I hate the idea of corporate types pushing 70 million hot buttons in hopes that we'll snap up their recycled ideas.
However, if anyone brings out a new version of the Henry J, all bets are off. Especially if it is the Virginian. In its original aspect (and it was made only briefly in the 1950s) it could and still can outrun anything touted by the pinch-faced granola-heads of today.
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