to the Apocalypse
Hi Grandpa Read More
when you’re an asshole scoutmaster, because:
Nothing says “ooh baby, I am ready to play” like a 1973 Mercury Colony Park. To be historically accurate, it needs a dash compass (to find your way home when you have no idea where you woke up), and a blanket in the wayback to buffer the metal cargo area and the vinyl seats when your getting busy with the swarms of hood rats that are inexorably drawn to this bastion of testosterone fueled manliness.
To be truthfully accurate, the blanket was actually for staying alive if the car broke down in the winter – not completely unheard of, once the grand “gasahol” experiment of 1978 fucked up its whole fuel system.
Read more "Grandpa… bought a rubber"I did not cause this, despite ample time in the “wayback” seats. This (impossibly complex and expensive glass) is why I took a pass on buying a Nissan Cube.
FWIW, this is the Mercury version of the Ford wagon in Goldfinger.
Read more "Glass man. Yeah-ah, I’m the glass man."