Peter Behrens's Blog, page 100

Road Trip: the mountain haul to Russia

"Each day, a caravan of trucks stretches for miles along a mountain highway in Georgia, near the border with Russia. Each day, the line seems to get longer...Situated in the Caucasus at the southeastern extreme of Europe, Georgia offers the quickest overland route to Turkey, which has become one of Russia’s main trade links to the West. Over the first six months of 2022, cargo transit between Turkey and Russia tripled in volume and much of it traveled on Georgian roads, according to research conducted by TBC Capital, Georgia’s leading investment bank..." 

Above, and photos, are from Ivan Nechepurenko's piece in the NYT 01/13/22 on truckers hauling Western goods to Russia from Georgia through the Caucasas Mountains.

1949 Ford F-1. New Hampshire.

  From Reid Cunningham: "An early F-1 that I came across this fall in Milford NH.  I would call it a very nice driver, looking stock other than the later wheels."AL: Nice truck. Love the terse NH license plate. Too bad about the whitewalls.  How about this F-1 in Arundel, Maine? Another specimen in New Hampshire. A clean California F-1; and that M-3 in Nova Scotia.

1964 Pontiac Parisienne

  From Alex Emond, in the Canadian Rockies (or the Rockies, as we call them). "I was surprised to see this Pontiac sitting in a Canmore, Alberta driveway, especially at this time of year. It is in excellent shape, a V8, two-door beauty. From a Calgary dealership . Canadian Ponchos had their own names and the Parisienne was up from the Strato Chief and the Laurentian but not quite a Bonneville. Beautiful car. No idea what those numbers on the headlight signify..."

Tesla in Trouble

 

                         ....in Santa Barbara. 

1957 Jeep truck

 

We have previously posted on Brooks Stevens, who designed this era of Willys trucks and station wagons. This unit, a 1957 Jeep flatbed (with a flathead Super Hurricane 6) is a New Hampshire truck, now in on the block at Hemmings.

                                          

1930 Ford Model A roadster

A.J. Baime's piece on Stacie Depner and her 1930 Ford Model A was in Saturdays's WSJ.

 

 

1966 Oldsmobile Toronado

 

The Toronado was posted on RockAuto's January newsletter. I like the car and love the setting, which looks to be the Laurentian hills in AL's  native Québec, in early October. Or possibly les Appalaches. This is, weirdly, the very first Toronado AL has ever posted. We have hosted many a Riviera, though, like this 1970 Buick Riviera for sale (cheap) spotted a few years back, in Maine. And a 1973 Buick Riviera that was once for sale in California, at several multiples of the Maine car's price.

Another Ford Ranger wheelbarrow. Somerville MA

A creampuff. Could this really be a 12-year old truck? On the salty streets of Somerville? There it was, a totally functional, clean-living, utilitarian truck. A wheelbarrow, in other words.  This truck perhaps grew up somewhere like West Texas or Arizona. 




 

3 for the road.

 ...at Motorland.

1957 Dodge Custom Royal, Harvard Square.

This taxi was waiting patiently for its moment on a film shoot in Harvard Square a couple years back.We have posted several other Dodges of this ferocious era.