And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Wow, classic station wagon, perhaps the epitome of the genre.
Yeah baby…my good friend, now deceased, took his parents 69 vista cruiser and retooled the existing Oldsmobile 400, balanced and blue printed, weight removed, into one of the fastest cars in CoCoCounty in the late 70’s. Got bless you Bill
We had one, early 70s. Awesome wagon in every single way, down to that particular lovely turbine-like whine from the 350 Rocket V-8 and Turbo-Hydramatic. What a machine.
The license plate appears to be an Arizona issue, one that was used 1980-96, white characters over a maroon colored background. They featured a saguaro cactus graphic placed between the three letters and the three numerals.
As Red (That 70's Show) said about the wagon after he accidentally got high, "You can cruise the vista."
ReplyDeleteYeah baby…my good friend, now deceased, took his parents 69 vista cruiser and retooled the existing Oldsmobile 400, balanced and blue printed, weight removed, into one of the fastest cars in CoCoCounty in the late 70’s. Got bless you Bill
ReplyDeleteShake roofed house. Don’t see many of those anymore.
ReplyDeleteLove the eyebrow window on the wagon.
Building covenants in Charlotte's Eastover Neighborhood required a permanent, 50-year roof. No shingles. Only slate, cedar shakes or metal.
DeleteThe average house there is $3-4MM.
We had one, early 70s. Awesome wagon in every single way, down to that particular lovely turbine-like whine from the 350 Rocket V-8 and Turbo-Hydramatic. What a machine.
ReplyDeleteOddly enough, we had a shake-roofed house too.
DeleteI saw an old station wagon today, they really standout when you don't see them often anymore.
ReplyDeleteMissouri had that color combo also.
DeleteThe license plate appears to be an Arizona issue, one that was used 1980-96, white characters over a maroon colored background. They featured a saguaro cactus graphic placed between the three letters and the three numerals.
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