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When History is So Much More Awesome Than the Memory of It

Posted December 11, 2018 9:00 AM by dstrohl
Pathfinder Tags: car culture classic auto memories

Like, it really ties the room together, man

Now, here’s something you don’t see every day: David Bowie and Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in a side-piped and black panthered, hood-scooped Pontiac. But seriously, folks…

What’s amazing about this – we’re gonna guess wedding-day – photo isn’t so much the white tux or the painted drums or the panther leaping through the field of Acapulco Gold or the modified seaweed flames or even that oh-so-Seventies stance with the short sidewall and the gaping wheel well, but the sum of the parts.

Was this your wedding day ride? Or, do you wish it was?

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12/11/2018 5:34 PM

I’m just glad the 70’s fashion history is .... history.

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12/12/2018 6:10 AM

"Was this your wedding day ride? Or, do you wish it was?"

'99 black on black Z28 convertible, with tan leather interior, was mine.

Sadly, the car is long gone. The ex, not so much :-P

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