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Chevy vs Ford

 

1984 Chevrolet Monte Carlo

The photos here ran with A.J. Baime's piece, "A Muscle Car So Sweet, It Couldn't Stay Stolen"  in the WSJ, on Garrett Reed’s 1984 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS which was stolen at its first car show. Driver and car had a surprise reunion. Never thought of Monte Carlo as a muscle car, but if you stuff in a  new Chevrolet LS crate 6.2-liter V-8 engine, righteous muscle is what you get.
See our post on a 1970 Chevrolet Monte Carlo. And another, featuring a William Eggleston photograph of a 1974 Monte Carlo.

 

Old Orchard Beach

 

Tristan Spinski photo for The New York Times

Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Was always a vacation Mecca for Québec. Kinda honytonk. Kinda like Blackpool in the UK. There's even a pier. The Québec construction trades traditionally shut down for the last two weeks of July, and a significant portion of people still head for Old Orchard, la. It is also close by the mill town of Biddeford, Maine which was a big Franco town from 1860s-1960s when the textile mills were in full gear. There was a lot of French spoken on the beach at Old Orchard. And before it was Québéc-sur-la-mer, it was an Irish-American destination: Joe Kennedy met Rose Fitzgerald at Old Orchard, hostie. See our posts on Biddeford:

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1963 Pontiac Bonneville convertible. South Blue Hill, Maine

we've posted other 1963 Ponchos, like this Catalina in West Texas, a Safari wagon in Blue Hill, and a Parisienne in Saskatchewan.
 

1967 Triumph TR4 A

Derek Van Bever caught the car in Blue Hill, Maine. I'll take one in any color as long as it's British Racing Green. This was one of the more dependable (sort of) British cars of the era. I think that was a tractor engine. Rugged. Probably "period" driving. C'est fun.

1961 Chevrolet Bel Air bubbletop

 

Nothing says 'sleek' like a '61. See our post on that annus mirabilis automobilia. The Bel Air is outfitted as a sleeper of the era. Minimalism, going fast. On the block at Hemmings.

1968 Dodge A100 3-speed

 

Porsches seem to predominate at BaT these days, but we liked this little 3-speed van on the block today 

1970 Chevrolet El Camino SS

Henry Behrens caught the Camino in Blue Hill, Maine. Maybe our favorite El Camino is the cat's eye '59.





 

1970 Chevrolet El Camin SS

Henry Behrens caught the Camino in Blue Hill, Maine. Maybe our favorite El Camino is the cat's eye '59.





 

Arundel, Maine. Chevrolet 3100

About as truck as it gets. We saw it at Motorland in Arundel, Maine. Further 3100s we have posted: a '57 from Apalachicola, FL  A rugged survivor in Colorado Springs. A 3100 lowrider in Santa Fe; a 1952 3100 in Saskatchewan.