It was hot and muggy like the inside of a sauna in Broad Ripple today, but the top had to go down on the Zed Drei while I was running errands, because I think it might actually be a criminal offense to have the top up on a roadster while Debbie Harry sings "Atomic"...
Indeed.
ReplyDeleteFor people that have never owned a drop top they think running around with the top down in the dead of summer is cool. They get over it as they roast under a full sun at stop lights.
Even I agree that I would have made the same choice today for that flashback song, even with my decidedly NOT roadster convertible. It harkens more to the B-52's Love Shack: "..it's as big as a whale and it's about to set sail..". I would have dropped the top on the 1967 Cadillac De Ville as well. Then I would have course raised the top and fired up the planet killing Frigidaire compressor that is about the same size as the primary motive power plant in a Prius to complete my journey!
Testing the limits of both 25-year-old invincibility and the original Z-car, a brand new black over red '79 280ZX...
ReplyDeleteNot a roadster, but with windows down and nudging triple digits with Blondie blaring, pretty close.
Ah, youth, where did you go?
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Oddly enough, I was listening to the same song driving home. In a truck, though.
ReplyDelete2011 GT/CS Mustang convertible. It was a good top-down day in NC today.
ReplyDeleteIts actually a federal felony to drop the top and NOT play it at least at 60% volume. You've been warned citizen.
ReplyDeletePer your previous "Blame Game" post.
ReplyDeleteYour posting of a video which features an atomic explosion means that you are complicit in any future use of atomic weapons - by people who drive convertibles.
Long ago and far away Lauren Hutton had a Late Night one-on-one interview show. Once her guest was Deborah Harry''
ReplyDelete"How would you describe your hair?" LH
"Damaged" DH
A little later one of the most realistic discussions about drugs i ever heard from anyone, anywhere ensued.
"What about junk" LH
"Tell your kids that their body will love it. And your body will need it long after it quits loving it." DH
A masterly dissection of drug use and abuse followed. All told, the whole interview was one of the best 'celebrity' discussions I ever watched. Harry and Hutton had been thru it all, pretty much, and didn't pull any punches. Always thought it should be include in the school curriculum: "The Real Life Class."