The FT-270 was my first radio and it served me well, both at home and in the car. My very first home station consisted of the 270, feeding, at first, a Comet dual-band mag mount on a baking sheet in my office, then an Arrow 2m/440 antenna on the outside of the house. In the car, it went directly into the Comet mag mount.
I eventually bought a Henry 2m 30 watt amplifier for it. Since I needed 13.8 VDC to power the amp, I picked up a Pyramid power supply on Amazon. (The amp is the blue item behind the radio in the below picture.)