Wikipedia: "Big Yellow Taxi" is a song written, composed, and originally recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter?ÿJoni Mitchell?ÿin 1970
High performance Mopars had dual point distributors. ?ÿI had a 70 440 six barrel Road Runner that originally had dual points. ?ÿIt didn??t last long as I converted it to electronic and hid the box to make it look as factory as possible.
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1972 Dodge and Plymouth came out with electronic ignition for 340 cars, maybe a mid year thing and then all engines had it in 1973.?ÿ
@bill93?ÿ
Joni introduced the song this way on November 29, 1969:
"Two weekends ago I went to Hawaii. It was my first time there and I was only there for two days which was kind of a bummer, I wish I could??ve really seen more of the island and I arrived there at 11 o??clock at night and the next morning I ran to the window and threw back the curtains and sure enough, there it was, paradise, you know, green, lush hills, old Sugarloaf Mountain up there, white birds flying low, Myna birds all over the place, and, right in the middle of it all, was a big parking lot [laughing]. So I wrote this little rock and roll song to commemorate the occasion. It??s called ??Big Yellow Taxi,? or, alternately, ??They Paved Paradise and Put in a Parking Lot.?
As archived in Mojo Magazine's March 2019 issue:?ÿ??I wrote Big Yellow Taxi on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart??this blight on paradise. That??s when I sat down and wrote the song. When it first came out, it was a regional hit in Hawaii because people there realised their paradise was being chewed up. It took 20 years for that song to sink in to people most other places. That is a powerful little song because there have been cases in a couple of cities of parking lots being torn up and turned into parks because of it.?
THAT'S A FLUX-CAPACITOR!
Don't get that baby up to 88 miles per hour, else you'll go back in time to when that $#@! was "normal"...
"Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone"
How long has it been since those words were put together in a song??ÿ 73 years? 63 years? 53 years? 43 years?
Perpetual motion via humans
No worries.?ÿ Unless some version of Reverend Jim is present.
The Reverend Jim "Iggy" Ignatowski is a fictional character in the 1970s television series Taxi. He was played by Christopher Lloyd. A gentle soul, Jim, in his own words, was "the living embodiment of the Sixties."
Lloyd is great. Taxi is great show
Taxi Driver with DeNiro is great movie. (But dark.)
Apparently, anything with a taxi is gold?!
Maybe I should get a Survey Taxi???
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(and I can??t type to save my life on an iPhone?!)
I've never seen dual points setup either... My vw's only had one.?ÿ ?ÿSo what vehicle is that actually from??ÿ ?ÿ
I am 62 years old and most of you all are making me feel older.
I just dug out an old, slightly used Accel dual point distributor from my garage shelf.?ÿ It's from back when I was a small-block Ford Mustang guy in the '70s & '80s.?ÿ
I am sure it must be worth lots of money because I looked up this current Mallory dual point unit at https://www.myautovaluestore.com/mallory/dual-point-distributor-mal-2527501.?ÿ $386!!?ÿ I guarantee that I paid nowhere near that back in the early '80s.
I also have a new-in-box Mallory tachometer.?ÿ It must be worth a lot of money, too...?ÿ ????ÿ
74' Ford Station Wagon with a 429 had them.?ÿ I believe my 79' Toyota Hilux Pickup had electronic ignition although it was still carbureted.?ÿ
I have one in each of my FE390's.?ÿ Not too long ago an old gear head offered me $300 for one if I went with electronic ignition.?ÿ They are pretty rare anymore for someone that is an old hot rodder.
