@DannyP posted:Umm, yeah. It's not an X-19, it's an X1/9. They weren't made until 1972, and my brother-in-law had a 1974 X1/9 in 1980 or so that I helped him with when I was a teenager.
1974 was the last year of the good-looking bumperettes. In 1975, they had federally-mandated UGLY bumpers. The word was that you could hit a wall at 50 mph, and open the doors and step out, such was the crash structure. I wouldn't want to test it out.
Another friend of mine had a Lancia Scorpion in the mid-80s. Those two cars probably sparked my mid-engine leanings.
A friend of my older brother’s is a Covid long hauler. His wife convinced him to sell his “projects” and get out from under the $350/mo rent on his building. My younger brother bought an X1/9 and another Chenowith buggy from him.