{"id":611,"date":"2008-05-18T22:54:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T05:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2008-05-19T23:06:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T06:06:24","slug":"a94-lesney-station-wagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"#a94 :: Lesney station wagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051908.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051908-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" title=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-612\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"3\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051908-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051908-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051908.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>My wife found this excellent machine at a garage sale, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagra-professional.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">and<\/a>  and garaged it in our bedroom alongside the others in her collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-price.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">physician<\/a>  which includes a purple travel trailer, <a href=\"http:\/\/cialisdiscount.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">stuff<\/a>  a hot-orange Stude custom and a thrashed yellow <a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=83\">fuel tanker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a collector not of brands (Lesney, Dinky, Matchbox are all the same in her eyes) nor of mint-ness (most of her two-dozen little cars are chipped and beaten escapees from probably more than on e toybox). She collects something deeper: The inherent, undefinable coolness of body design, paint color, fit and finish &#8211; which is one of the myriad reasons I love her so.<\/p>\n<p>The pot-metal chassis of this old Lesney declares it to be an &#8220;American Ford Station Wagon.&#8221; Looking at the beetled brows over its headlights, the slightly-sinking fins sprouting from its flanks, I&#8217;d put it at 1959 or 1960, the era in which America was detoxing from its sick jones for baroque styling &#8211; and stepping away, perhaps forever, from the height of automotive art.<\/p>\n<p>Dig the tinted window plastic, two-tone paint and trailer hitch. If gas weren&#8217;t $4 a gallon, I&#8217;d be out hunting down the real thing on eBay Motors right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife found this excellent machine at a garage sale, and and garaged it in our bedroom alongside the others in her collection, physician which includes a purple travel trailer, stuff a hot-orange Stude custom and a thrashed yellow fuel tanker. She&#8217;s a collector not of brands (Lesney, Dinky, Matchbox are all the same in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,22,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifact","category-miniature","category-model","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}