Peter Behrens's Blog, page 153

1976 CHEVROLET C10 SCOTTSDALE

 

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Becky Smith caught the truck in northwest Iowa, land o'corn. 

1964 Mercury Montclair Breezeway

 

Could be a '63. Jill Goldman photographs, from Capitola, Calif. AL family had a '65 Mercury Montclair with the Breeezeway rear window. No surfboards in Montreal though.

1972 Chevrolet C10 Cheyenne

 Photographer Scott Dorrance caught the truck in Mystic, CT

Wayne Sorce & the Lincoln Mark IV

 

Thanks to Craig Manning for the heads-up on photographer Wayne Sorces' photographs of New York in the Seventies. See Dana Schulz's piece in 6sqft.  Another photographer working those streets twenty years earlier: Saul Leiter. And of course Langdon Clay was there in the Seventies with his night cars. And Alfred Bohns' Montreal 1950s.

Chevrolet K5 Blazer

Photographed by Jill Goldman in...where else...California.


 

Campers, Maine and Mr Magee

 

from Jonathan Welsh: I love these old trailers. You would be under pressure to find the right tow vehicle, though. Perhaps a 1970 Vista Cruiser or Country Squire. Two trends in personal transport--camping and patina--are coming together. Older travel trailers like these 1960s and '70s examples can be bargains compared with new models. Worn-in looks also give the impression that you have owned the thing forever. Authenticity. The pink Layton is my favorite by far. I think the drive to get outside and go somewhere stretches beyond the pandemic and has been gaining steam for a while. These are in Alfred, Maine.
The Ultimate Road-Trip Accommodation: A Tiny RV   is a piece I wrote for the WSJ a few years back.
AL: speaking of campers and Maine, how about Camping Spree With Mr Magee? Chris Van Dusen is a wonderful children's author and illustrator.

c 1990 Jeep Comanche

From Reid Cunningham: I saw this one in Amherst, NH over a month ago but my timing has been off trying to get a picture. Either it was too dark, I didn't have time to stop, or it wasn't there. Yesterday the stars aligned. This looks like the 6 foot bed, so 87-92 but I can't get any closer on model year. No 4x4 insignia and no upgrade on trim. Guessing this was a base version. It's a truck earning it's keep, every time I have seen it there was something in the bed. Humble, utilitarian, handsome. 

c. 1950 GMC

 

From Alex Emond in eastern Alberta: "Here's a patina'd truck, bound for Quebec Not exactly a trailer queen, but. I talked to the guy who bought it, near Medicine Hat. He wasn't planning on buying a truck, but it happened, and he rented a trailer and it's going home with him. He and his wife were on holiday and went to the auction at a farm near his wife's relatives place. I suspect that there will continue to be auctions after such a poor year, and more old trucks will surface and find new owners. So it goes."

AMC Eagle

from Jonathan Welsh: All of my car-crazed friends in middle school wanted their parents to buy the American Motors Eagle when it arrived for the 1980 model year. And why not? There was nothing else quite like it on the market. It also made competing family cars like the Ford Fairmont and Chevy Citation look hopelessly scrawny. Who would have thought almost everyone would be driving similar-looking "crossovers" a few decades later? The Eagle lasted until 1988. This one looks like an '86 or '87.AL: another Eagle, a while back, in Mar Vista (LA). And another in Manchester NH.
 

 

Fix It Again Tony

 

from Don Culbertson, in France: "There is a dealer in classic Fiats in Bedoin, France. Voitures Tres Mignon."  Plus Fiats de Culbertson. 

South Park, Colorado Fiat. And a 1972 Fiat 600 in Paris a while back.