• By Murilee Martin
    Apr 19, 2009 8:00 AM 4,053
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    What's The American Equivalent Of A Brown 1971 Triumph 2000 MkII?

    Last month, James May bought his Significant Other a brown 1971 Triumph 2000 Saloon, because he appreciates "a proper girl in a terrible old car" and felt that she'd "see the cultural relevance of brown."


    As Davey Johnson has made very clear, there's something special about brown cars, and as for a brown British Leyland product... well, it's very much of its time. For reasons we have a hard time understanding, May's woman
    lacked enthusiasm for the gift, so now the Triumph is part of his own fleet.
    That brings up the question: What Detroit vehicle is the counterpart to the brown Triumph 2000 MkII? The vehicle the well-intentioned American or Canadian car geek would buy his or her S.O. in order to share not-quite-ironic-enough appreciation for such things? Perhaps a two-tone 1975 Mercury Cougar XR7?
    Telegraph.co.uk


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