And then from there I skip straight on to JCPenney, pretty much skipping the last mall entrance (which is behind the tree on the right side of this picture). I'm really not sure what I was doing there! You're not missing anything that's particularly interesting, but considering how many pictures I took here, it's weird that I skipped over so much of this side of the mall.
I suppose I forgot about this since Jaguars from that era, or any era really, are so rare, but I forgot that they had the fuel door on the trunk decklid area of the car! That must have been one of the last cars to have the fuel door in a strange part of the car. Fuel doors in unexpected places, like behind the rear license plate, used to be common, but that stopped being the case in the 1980s-1990s. Also, the Chrysler and Mercedes in front of the Jaguar seem to be without front license plates! You'd think you were in Florida or something with the lack of front license plates!
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of license plates, I was driving around town yesterday when I got behind an early 2000s Subaru Legacy wagon (or maybe an Outback, the wagons and Outbacks didn't look very different back then). It had Texas plates, but the frame around the plate said Renton on it so I assume it came from your part of the world. I'm not surprised about that, those things sold about as badly as Jaguars did around here back then!
JCPenney is based in North Texas and I saw in a recent Texas WARN Act report that JCPenney was laying off ~250 people at a distribution center in North Texas. I hope that isn't a sign of things to come for the chain as a whole, but I wouldn't be surprised if any future news about the chain is bad news.
Huh, I never would have guessed that was the fuel door! There is at least one car (of sorts) still being made with weird gas doors -- the Ford Transit has it cut into the driver's door, designed so you have to have the door open when you're filling the tank. Or at least that's how it was when my dad ended up with one as a rental car when they were first selling them in the US, but I don't think they've changed that since then!
DeleteI'm not sure what the deal is with front license plates around here. They're definitely required, but it does seem like lots of people drive around without them. Seattle used to be a very rule-following place, but that's no longer the case, especially for traffic rules!