Heinke Electrical is one of those time-warp businesses you so dread losing. Step in the door, and you’ve stepped back thirty years or more. The experienced guy(s) behind the counter offer old-fashioned advice and just about anything one might need in the realm of energized electrons. Step outside, and the cars parked in front of it have you checking your cell phone for the right date…wait; where is my cell phone?
Walk across the street, and you encounter this in traffic. Welcome to the future, or?
That last photo with the converted bicycle was oddly similar to a moped I saw at the local small grocery store. They had an old Honda 50cc moped with a homemade cart attached to a small hitch on the rear fender. The cart had two bicycle wheels on a common axle topped with a 2′ by 2′ box with a yoke in front. That may be the ideal grocery getter when the weather cooperates, ’cause mopeds get over 100 mpg. Take that, greedy oil robber barons! I’d be tempted to do the same, but with a 250cc bike with a rack on the rear for better performance and utility, plus they get 70 mpg.
We need a CC on that absolutley beautiful automobile on the left up there…The Toyota Cressida. ( In some markets and early in the U.S.,the Toyota Crown). Quite possibly the best Japanese car of all time.
Inevitable! There are at least four generations to cover; all at one or in installments?
Just my preference:
1976-80 – The most beautiful,elegant of them all.
1981-84- Blah.Acceptable,but bland.An expensive Corona.
1985-88- Japans Great Leap Forward. A milestone car.
1988-92 Twilight of a line of royalty. A RWD classic.
Installments! Start with the 76-80.Please ! Please !
I always thought the first Generation Cressida looked like a Japanese 1973-75 Oldsmobile Cutlass to me. Probably why they’re my favorite Japanese cars of the 1970s…
How’s that Ciera working out for ya?
Cut the crap Jerry, blood has spilled
What the heck ya mean?
It’s “Burnt Umber”.