Peter Behrens's Blog, page 117

1964 Chevrolet C20. Brandon, Manitoba

 

David Inglis caught the project truck in Brandon, Manitoba. We have posted a bunch of C10s and C20 of this era lately, like this one in the other Portland, last week. 

Chevy II Humewood & Vaughan

 

That's in Toronto. Borough of York. Eva H.D. photograph. Caught one of these in Carpinteria, Calif. a while back. Another in Banff. And a quick one in Western Maine this summer.

Advanced Design GMC, Brandon Manitoba

 

Thanks to Dave Inglis for the photos. Here's an A-D truck we caught in Santa Barbara a while back. Another in southern Colorado. And this specimen in Colorado Springs. And, yeah, Saskatchewan

1970 Chevrolet Chevelle, the other Portland.

 

Amanda Gersh caught the car way over there on the West Coast, a few blocks from Powell's. Here's a 1972 Chevelle we caught in Blue Hill, Maine. And a cool 1976 Chevelle wagon in Colorado Springs. Then there is this plainjane 4-door 1967 Chevelle, in the rain, in...Maine.

1949 Ford F2, Brooklin Maine

 

Caught this truck in Brooklin, Maine. First saw it in the July 4th parade a few years back. There is another F2 we are fond of in Marfa, Texas, an M2 in Nova Scotia and an F1 in Marfa–all those trucks are up here. And then there's the F2 in Colorado Springs

1968 Ford F100. Brandon, Manitoba.

David Inglis photographs.

 

1959 Vauxhall Victor Super

 

I've asked my old compañero Dave Inglis to get out there and shoot more of that Vauxhall in Brandon, Manitoba. There were plenty of British imports in Montreal when we were kids, before Japanese quality said sayonara in the British motor industry. 

1966 Chevrolet C20. Portland, Oregon

 

Amanda Gersh photograph. We've posted another C20 this era of these from the Le Plateau neighbourhood in Montreal. Spotted another C20 in Arundel, Maine. And a week or so ago there was that C-20 in New Mexico.

International Harvester

Retired ranch truck, Colorado Springs. R-something. Been around.





 

The Comanche Truck; the Comanche Empire

 

From Reid Cunningham: Manchester NH.  I thought this an interesting contrast to the blue Comanche Pickup I sent earlier this year and you posted.  That one was a stripped base model.  A base model two wheel drive, stick shift, 4 cylinder (my guess since no badge for the 4.0 six), steel wheels and zero frills.  This the other end of the scale.  4WD, higher grade trim, automatic, dressed up body and more.  I am imagining them on the same lot, but at opposite ends of the line of pickups.  (A sign of my madness is I like the blue one more).

AL posted a 1990 Comache pickup from Virginia a while back.And we've previously noted  Pekka Hamalainen's wonderful book, Comanche Empire and learned how the llano estaduco--and 1000's of sq. miles of shortgrass plains east of the Rio Grande Valley and Spanish New Mexico--was dominated from the mid-18th to mid-19th century by the Comanche, a powerful empire of their own once they got horses and iron and good guns. 

H and I found ourselves watching John Wayne in The Comancheros the other night.