Modernity!
The Wifey has always been nutty for cool new cars. The smaller, the cuter, the more fuel-miserly, the better. This is the latest discovery. It's electric, it'll tell you where the nearest coffee shop is, and the wheels pivot so you can drive it sideways into a parking spot. Of course, there have been prototypes with pivoting wheels for the last half century, and they never catch on, mainly because they're not cars. They don't feel like a car, drive like a car, they're just not cars.
This specimen lead to the following dialogue between 'imself and the Wifey:
The Wifey: hee hee
'imself: Cute!
'imself: But the problem is, it isn't a car.
TW: well, no
TW: it's a moped in bubble
'imself: With directional casters
TW: the sideways parking is cool, though
'imself: It's a La-Z-Boy-In-A-Bubble!
Which prompted TW to send me that little animated laughing emoticon that never fails to remind me of that scene in Independence Day when they fire off the nuclear warhead into the heart of the alien mothership.
All that prompts me to dig out and post a picture of what my pal Doc Nagel described as possibly the last, best use of a Truimph TR6.
Although I'm not at all sure this is (was) a Trimph. In fact, I'm not sure what the hell it is (was).
posted by Bobo the Wandering Pallbearer at 8:16 AM
4 Comments:
Lately, the Triumph in question has been sporting a hat. It's one of those little picnic tents, but the stakes aren't tall enough to lift the tarp over the car, so it sits on top of it. It also doesn't cover it.
Someone seems to be working on it, too, where "working on it" here means that there's a sort of jack contraption under the middle of the car, which isn't lifting it.
Uh oh - your post labels almost make sense.
The Triumph thing is marvelous...
Looks like a Fiat to me.
Or maybe a Fiero . . .
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