[Ads-l] What Is a Restomod?

George Thompson george.thompson at NYU.EDU
Sat Apr 20 20:41:16 UTC 2019


A portmanteau of "restore" and "modify"?

But I don't know one car from another.  Birds, yes, to a degree, but cars,
not at all.

GAT

George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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