This is what happens when the sun is shining from the back side, and one is too lazy to walk across the street and shoot these couple of old timers from their sunny sides. Fall is so fleeting; seems like this warm and sunny day was was just yesterday, rather than a month ago. And tonight it’s supposed to get down to around 20 degrees; that’s unusually cold for here. But it’s sunny, so it beats the usual dull and dreary.
What a great looking car that Trooper was/is. Perfect example of form following function, and it’s all the better for it.
A profound, melancholic acquiescence to the “autumn” of our years.
I’m with ya buddy…
Those 2 CC’s are rather unremarkable btw.
Ha!
Photography rule no. 1: Photograph your subject with the sun/light source BEHIND you.
However, in film noir, contrast is king. Chrome door handles also rule…
Troopers were such great vehicles. So simple, yet so unique.
I love both those cars. The Legacy, with its famous engine note, frameless glass, AWD, low cowl and Gallic suspension tuning (magnifique) and the Trooper, rare and tough as nails.
As bad as the silhouette in this picture is, it’s still preferable to the ugliness of an overcast, midwest winter day. Those make any car ugly.
Keep on the sunny side, Paul. (c:
Cool. Two more CCs you just don’t see anymore, in most regions of North America.
I wondered at the time, why Izuzu chose such a high roof line on the Trooper.
Do people really use that extra height? It’s like a brick in the wind!
You can see how it’s design was heavily influenced by the Jeep Cherokee.
Meanwhile, the Jeep Commander looks quite reminiscent of this Trooper.
The Trooper was a blatant knock-off of the very tall and glassy Range Rover. And since the Trooper came out several years before the Cherokee, it would be more accurate to say that the Cherokee was influenced by the Trooper.
Thank you Paul, for the clarification!
You’re completely right, the Trooper came out way back in ’81.
Now, I’m thinking the Cherokee’s styling takes a lot from the Trooper…
AMC/Renault weren’t quite as groundbreaking with their styling as I thought.
They refined and popularized aspects of the Trooper’s look I’d say…
The Cherokee isn’t nearly as tall and glassy as the RR and Trooper. Undoubtedly it was influenced by them.
But don’t forget two things: the Cherokee was a unibody, unlike those other two, as well as having four doors from the start. Those two things were significant firsts in that class.
Thank you again, Paul. I was thinking more in the body styling and fender lines/creases/wheelwells, the Cherokee looks very similar to the Trooper. Beyond the lower roof line and greenhouse. Unibody structure and packaging aside, the Cherokee gets so much praise for it’s clean, squared up, purposeful styling. When it does owe a lot to the Trooper.
Always like seeing 91-94 Legacy’s, I’ve owned a few and they are pretty much bulletproof, although they do rust. There was a rare turbo version of the sedan called the sport sedan which you almost never see, the turbo wagon was called the touring wagon and seem more common, each had subtle upgrades and the ej22t turbo engine that you can have a lot of fun with.
Oh ya, it was cold here too, it was I think 28 in Bellevue this morning, but felt more like 22, and frosty to boot. Seattle was around 32 Degrees, so not quite as frosty.
However, yesterday (Thurs), I had to scrape frost from the driver’s side, front and back windows of my car due to it being 32 degrees then. It was then that I discovered I had no decent scraper in my car as the little one went AWOL, and the larger one has a terrible scraper, but a decent enough brush for snow.
So I rectified that tonight with buying one that will do ice, and frost.
However, we only hit the mid 40’s today and it WAS sunny as well.
Were these both made in the same factory in Indiana(?)
It is interesting that as constrasting as these might seem they shared dealerships in Japan, where the Legacy was sold by Isuzu as the Aska.