Peter Behrens's Blog, page 169

1975 GMC Sierra Grande, liberated.

Extracted from the boat shed over in Sedgwick, Maine. It's a long way from West Texas where I found the truck 11 years ago.
 

1972 Lancia Fulvia. Montclair, N.J.

 

From Jonathan Welsh: "I love the slender roof pillars and lovely overhangs on this model.
Not many Lancias made it to the U.S., where sports-car fans seem to consider Alfa Romeos exotic enough. Fulvias had front-wheel drive and narrow-angle V4 engines ranging from 1.1 to 1.6 liters. Tiny! Sufficiently strong to win the world rally championship in '72, though.
The owner of this restored coupe said he found it in Idaho a few years ago. He said the only other one for sale at the time was in the Netherlands. Buy local."

Outlier at BBY

It's that time of year. Boats are getting wet. Outlier is a 55-foot cold-molded sloop built at Brooklin Boatyard and designed by Botin Partners of Spain. Fixed bulb keel, plumb bow, fast--and she'd probably pick up some lobster traps in Eggemoggin Reach. A Bluewater boat. Home port, Nantucket.



 

AMC Eagle and AMC Hornet, Mar Vista

 

from Craig Manning: Here is some rare old metal from Mar Vista (LA). Two AMCs, same home. A 72 Hornet Sportabout, and an 84? Eagle which is 4x4 and looking pretty beefy though it is clear she is not running any more. Stock hubcaps too, I think. AMC’s were pretty much falling apart as they rolled off the assembly line, so these entries testify to the congeniality of Mar Vista winters.

1967 Ford C-600 COE

From Reid Cunningham:"I have no idea the year, but it caught my eye.  It looks like this will be the final resting place for the truck, but interestingly, the engine for the well rig  (photos below) looked to be good operable condition.  I am reasonably sure it's an International Farmall motor, from the A, B, C series.  You can see the bolsters on the front: the engine is a structural member of the tractor."

AL: How about this handsome hunk of a '55 Ford COE we caught in Kansas a while back? A same era Ford COE, rethought, that Alex Emond caught in Banff. And a '66 C-600 we noticed in Colorado Springs.

(AL: This truck (below) was for sale a while back at Autoland in Arundel Maine.

1966 International B-180

 from Reid Cunningham: "New Boston, New Hampshire (or best I could tell, on back roads it's not always clear where you are. A lot like life). I like the extra pin striping, a sign someone thought of it as more than just a tool. It had a 2020 inspection sticker, a recent runner."

AL: we posted an International B-110 in Saskatchewan a while back. And how about a 1940 Model D?This R-110 in Colorado Springs is one of our all time favorite trucks.

RH Drive Series Land Rover, Portland Maine

 

From the photographer Scott Dorrance. Speaking of 4WD, Scott caught this Kaiser Jeep M715 a while back. Here's a nifty Cambridge L-R Autoliterate posted a while back. And the legendary, L-R, Grizzly Torque on its odyssey.

Father's Day

 

Henry Street, Toronto. From the poet Eva H.D. 

Toyota FJ40, etc.

From Michael Moore in the East Bay:

"Obviously it sees some use and love, given those new knobby tires…just California springtime...


"Down around West Fifth is a guy who’s definitely into older Toyotas such as this 4Runner:
"Our 80 year old friend Patsy has one of these, pretty stock, with 400K on it that she uses to go back and forth to her off grid cabin at 11,000’ in the upper Huerfano all summer, living mostly alone with her two aging Gordon Setters…but the guy down the street here has even more interesting iron than this;
"So I dunno why this photo (below) didn’t focus and I don’t know why everybody loves BFGs [I’ve had nothing but bad luck with them] but the semi-gloss OD was getting coffee across the street when I walked the dogs this morning so maybe Cosmos jerked the camera or somethin’…

William Gedney in The Haight

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