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Stabbed You definitely won’t want an Encore of this.

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Espace T-top SM with louvred rear was so ’70s. Improved on the lines of the original, too.

Citroën SM Espace Concept, Heuliez, 1971

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GM of the early 1970s There’s something very uncomfortable (to me) about the mid-Atlantic styling of GM products of this era, noticeable here but also in the Vauxhall Victor FE, the Chevrolet Vega, even the Colonnade intermediates. Normally I would say thin pillars and smooth panels are laudable goals but maybe it’s the curvature of the glasshouse (see the bottom of the A-pillar in the first and third photographs). The Holden HQ was probably the most elegant of this styling theme. The F-bodies were notorious for letting water in because of the fuselage design—a friend had a Camaro of this generation and faced that very problem. What I will say here is that GM didn’t lose its experimental edge despite going very corporate in this era, so good on them for at least considering this variant. We did, after all, have the Reliant Scimitar GTE, the Volvo 1800 ES, and the Lancia Beta HPE, so something was in the Zeitgeist.

Chevrolet Camaro K, 1970. For the second generation Camaro, the Chevrolet III Studio took a serious look at a sport wagon variant (K for Kammback) experimenting with different rear/side window treatments and also various tail light options. The project got as far as a fibreglass mock-up but when no further. Pontiac presented a similar Type K concept in 1977 but that didn't make it either

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Siebener Kombi Beautifully done. Not so sure about the 2002 taillights but, otherwise, it looks very high-quality.

BMW 735i Touring, 1981. A E23 7-series station wagon converted by German coachbuilder Euler GmbH is for sale in Switzerland. Euler did only a few of these conversions, using BMW 2002 taillights and a custom-made tailgate. The example offered has travelled just 15,400km

sales listing

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Ferrari for the ’70s Such a tidy design—a perfect successor to the Dino 246 GTB. More at Autocade.

Ferrari 308 GTB Vetroresina, 1975, by Pininfarina. The replacement for the original Dino 246 was designed by Leonardo Fioravanti and built by Carrozzeria Scaglietti. Introduced at the Paris Motor Show, early cars were made from fibreglass allowing a very light weight of 1,050 kg (2,315 lb). In June 1977 the bodywork converted to steel (the styling remained the same) but the cars weighed 150 kg (331 lb) more. They were powered by the same 90º 2.9 litre V8 as the Dino GT4

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Revolutionnaire! Wonderful cars, even if the accelerator and brake pedal were offset on RHD models and I could only drive them when in sneakers and not dress shoes … owned an AX14 TRS for years!

Citroën AX GTi, 1990. A high performance version of the AX using a fuel injected version of the 1360cc TU3 4 cylinder engine that made 100PS. Thanks to the car's lightweight (800KG) and good aerodynamics it was remarkably quick but it was only in production for a short time before EU emission regulations killed it

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Autocade Year of Cars 2025

Since I was last here regularly, I launched the Autocade yearbooks. Autocade began life as an online car encyclopædia, and last year we looked at ways to extend the brand. The yearbook, now called Autocade Year of Cars, was launched. The 2025 number is available in hardcover. You can see more on our online bookshop, Libriz.

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What’s in a name Impressive collection.

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Worth returning?

Automattic owns this now, right, not Verizon? Not that Automattic has had great press lately. But better being part of Automattic than kowtowing to Verizon’s corporate interests.

   I take it the adult posts are back, too, judging from the suggestions in my feed.

   I de-camped to NewTumbl for a while, left well before that imploded, had an image plug-in for my own blog, stopped that when copyright trolls started emailing us about legit stuff we had licensed, and just post the odd thing on Mastodon now. Still behind on emails so maybe not Tumblring is a good thing?

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alicia-mb:

Furthering my exploration of Ashes to Ashes/Life on Mars adapted into classic children’s books.

Today comes Dr Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham, as told by Gene and Sam.

Life on Seuss Is it worth returning here to Tumblr after all these years, or has the world moved on?

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This is where I am instead of Tumblr Visit me at jackyan.newtumbl.com. I can’t tag NewTumbl here since Tumblr blocks searches for it.

Let’s get the word out! newTumbl is really taking off and the more community members we have, the better we become! Thanks for all your support and feedback.

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After seeing that Tumblr now censors because of Verizon’s corporate interests, I’m off. Maybe I will eat my words but right now there’s a better platform, mentioned in the link (since any mention here will be censored!). Hope to see you there!

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Verizon hates ’net neutrality and they own Tumblr Think about it. Corporate interests now rule here. Time to go.

Tumblr doesn’t care about Net Neutrality anymore.

Let’s take a look at some screenshots of an article I was reading earlier today…

Keyword: was. They don’t support net neutrality anymore. Why you ask? well…

Tumblr is owned by Yahoo. Now that Verizon (a company that hates net neutrality) bought Yahoo, they have demanded that Tumblr must stop supporting net neutrality too. The Tumblr staff has stopped posting about net neutrality.

This site is being forced to hate net neutrality. (article link)

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Running scared Wow, this is how scared Tumblr is of a competing site. They won’t even let me see my own post with this tag. I can comprehend, even if I don’t fully agree with (since it knocked out safe communities here where people were expressing themselves), Verizon’s clamp-down on pornographic content, because it feels there were some moral grounds. But to censor based on corporate agenda because you don’t like a competitor? That’s Google territory. All this does is encourage people to check it out—and I totally encourage you all to.

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GT-37 Always thought this was a nice package. Kind of a cut-price Goat (at least visually). And this was always the nicest shape for the intermediates. The Colonnade theme—which, when you think about it, also infected the Vauxhall Viva (HC) and Victor (FE)—was characterless in my eyes.

Pontiac Tempest GT-37 Sport Coupé, 1970. An appearance and handling package available for a short time on two different intermediate A-body Pontiacs. For an extra $198 Pontiac offered Rally II wheels with white letter tires, heavy-duty suspension, dual exhausts, a floor-mounted 3-speed manual with a Hurst shifter and striping from ’69 GTO The Judge. When the Tempest was discontinued during 1970 the pack was carried over to the Pontiac LeMans Coupé but was then replaced in 1972 by the LeMans Sport 

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Rog I recognize The Saint, The Persuaders, Bond, ffolkes, and The Sea Wolves. Props to the artist!

Roger Moore “A touch of class”

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The Persuaders Great Persuaders series of pics here.

The Persuaders! Remembering Roger Moore (1927-2017)