1972 Triumph TR6

Triumph sold a lot of cars in the US back in the day - between 20 and 30 thousand TR6's and Spitfires per year in the mid-1970s. As a British sports car, was it unreliable? No, no more than anything else built in those days. It appears to belong to the same owner as the Land Rover featured in my last post, and you can see another Land Rover in the garage.

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Suddenly it's Sweden 1987! 1972 Volvo 1800ES and 1986 Volvo 240GL

Only 8,077 copies of the Volvo 1800ES were ever built, and most of them seem to have been sold in Seattle. I've spotted five to date, the four pictured below and a white one in Ballard I'm still hoping to photograph.

Breaking Bad fans will note this '86 Volvo 240GL is the same car Walter White stole for his drive from New England to New Mexico.

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1972 Chevrolet C10 Pickup Truck

Considered the most collectable series among Chevy truck enthusiasts, the 1967-72 C/K trucks are sometimes call the Glamour Pickups. The year after this good-looking truck was made, Chevy introduced the "rounded-line generation" which continued largely unchanged all the way through 1987.

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1972 Chevrolet El Camino

The classic car-truck is a common site in Seattle, including the El Camino, Ford's Ranchero and the VW Rabbit pickup. I'll also be covering the Subaru BRAT when I spot a good one.

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1972 Volvo 1800ES

I'd never heard of this car, much less seen one before moving to Seattle. Yet I've seen more than one of these in the city. The final edition of Volvo's classic P1800 series, only 8,077 Volvo 1800ES models were built between 1972-3.

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