Not once in my childhood did I appreciate that our family car was an orange shortie with yellow accents all throughout. If I’d had any sense I would’ve begged our pop to store it for me when the engine started to give out instead of selling it off for pennies.
Photographer Christopher Hall
Not sure what was going on in the 70s to make everyone latch onto oranges and browns, but our family car for a chunk of the 90s was this exact model and color of shorty. Our pop tricked it out with wood paneling and brown carpet, a bench seat in the back, and big windows on both sides.
It’s always fun to come across these in scrapyards and investigate how someone else decided to mod theirs. It’s super rare to see a working one in the wild!