I missed the Teres TT era. Yours makes me want to rewind to those days and pick one up. It’s an attractive statement.
Regarding The Cars, and Ric O, for several years after it opened, it was not uncommon to run into well known musicians at Carter Vintage in Nashville. But one day one of them nearly ran into me. I was crossing the driveway between Arnold’s and Carter (pedestrian mode), and had to step lively to avoid being “bumped” by a car. The driver rolled down the window and apologized. It was RO, and then wife Paulina. He smile. I smiled back .., “If I can’t trust you with a car, who could I trust?” They went out into the then less than terrible 8th Avenue traffic. I went in and considered some “new arrivals and unsold (overpriced) favorites”.