The Spirit of 1776

The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum has rolled out their second striking, one-off PCC livery in as many years, this time in honor of the semiquincentennial. As shown above, Port Authority Transit 1799, a 1945 air-electric car, has been painted in a livery seen on the streets of Pittsburgh around the bicentennial in 1976. It's a striking color scheme that built off the then-current "banded" color layout used by PAT. The car was debuted today to much (literal) fanfare.Now, there is an asterisk with this one. Unlike the "Terrible Trolley," this isn't really an accurate livery for this particular car. PAT did field a car with this exact livery, but it was (unsurprisingly) their car 1776, which did not survive into preservation. Car 1799 is identical; built as car 1613, it was overhauled in 1979 and received the number 1799 at that time. The original "Spirit of 1776" car began life as car 1616 and was overhauled in 1974, which is when it received the number 1776 and this livery.But I don't…