Furthermore, I believe the pink and green and white abomination is what used to be referred to as ‘preppie’. The only thing I have against that color scheme is that it’s too busy and makes my eyes hurt.
You just never know when it’ll be TIME TO DEFEND FREEDOM, BITCHES!!!
YEEEEAH!
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You had the last 240. Funny enough, I had a '77 280z 2+2 (I called it the Porsche back seat - as in, no full size human will fit back there), black, but not until the 90’s.
I still miss that car. If ever I win the lottery, I’m commissioning a ground-up Z build. It will be a replica of my '77, but the electronics will be updated, the skin will be modern so as to not rust the following year, and there won’t be a drain cover over the fucking electrical relays.
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I learned to drive in something remarkably like this:
I remember it being more-gold, and no recollection of the top. But gosh, was it roomy.
Pixar made the plot of an entire move revolve around British cars leaking oil.
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The Aspen had 3-on-the-floor, which is really odd. Was this beast at least 4-speed?
It’s like… once a century or two the pendulum of style swings eccentrically far in a direction. Like Rococo.
A 1972 Dodge Polara with automatic transmission. At one point it had been a driver’s ed car with an extra brake; the hole from the removed brake always leaked condensation during AC season, so my parents rigged up a tinfoil-wrapped cardboard-trough leading to a bucket that we’d empty several times a day on long road-trips.
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These were the family cars in 70: my father had a Riviera (don’t recall the year), and my mother a '68 Barracuda. (In green, but no pink trim.)
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My biggest problem is with the third photo, with the linoleum on the shelves. Those people have glassware for a party situation, but a tiny galley stove & sink. One of those things is wrong.
A working Triumph is a brief triumph, though, since next week you’ll have a broken Triumph again. They are glorious in those in-between times when they run, though.
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Have you found a support group?
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The 70’s, the decade Western Civilization almost completely took a break from taste (even more than usual that is).
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You got me. i think the term I wanted was Inversely Proportional
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Yeah and even a few American cars. I have a soft spot for the “Bandit” Trans Am and I had a 72 Monte Carlo that I still think was a really beautiful car. A friend had a 71 Boat Tail Riviera that I also thought was gorgeous but there was sooo much awful.
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I’m impressed that it seemed to be actually set up and warped properly. That isn’t easy!
Just make a note when it is working.
Huge success 
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Why wait? What are we THINKING?
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