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Zimmer Quicksilver

“… the Zimmer Quicksilver stands for everything I’m against. And I badly want one.”

emember the song “I Hate Myself for Loving You” by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts? That’s how I feel sometimes about the Zimmer Quicksilver. I don’t want to love it, but I do. After all, it’s sort of a ridiculous automobile, gaudy and of questionable engineering. It’s ostentatious and most people bought them simply

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