Ashton purchases a pristine (28K miles) '70 Buick Riviera from an author friend (worried.. for his writing 'backpacking books' - at the Excess, already ;-) for $1200 ~ midway between Audi dealer's trade-in and some other metric.

Ashton declares (and means) .. Well, C - what I *hope* is: by 1975 I can only park this and periodically.. run the AC for a cool-off on the rare August day in Bay Area.. .. finally, use it for a greenhouse with-leather-seats -- y'know?

Turned out to be an eye-opener for moi; this 5000# sucker actually Handled; stops, corners like ary old GranTurismo. IF.. 10-13 mpg is No Big deal. (Down to ~7.2 mpg on one tankfull, climbing the Berkeley Hills regularly.)

I figured.. WTF - Swan Song; maybe I can flog it for 600 in a year or two.




Naah - this Be Murica. ~'75 or 6 I advertised the sucker; gas was sorta back. People in Tears [no lie] when I told them I had sold it to first caller at 2550 (IIRC), having spent 300 for new tires and nothing else. Except gas.



All we learn from history is that never do we learn from history.
-- some recent wag.

1-2 year? attention span back then.
Now -??- 3 weeks Max?