Peter Behrens's Blog, page 182

Chevy's Electrifying 1977 K5 Blazer

"It was only a matter of when, not if. Not even COVID-19 and the annual SEMA Show moving to a virtual event could delay the inevitable dawn of the electric crate motor. While the 1977 K5 Blazer-E is a one-off concept build, it previews some form of future package that GM Performance Parts will sell to convert any project vehicle to electric propulsion...."from Mike Austin's piece, posted  on Hemmings.

1966 Toyota Land Cruiser fj45

 

This truck is up for auction on BaT. AL has posted a bunch of Land Cruisers, in different configurations. Here's another fj pickup, this one in Ecuador.

Boom Truck. Atlantic Boat, Brooklin Maine

1990 GMC TopKick
  It's all in the sheer. Swoop of the rail. Curve off the decline. 

Kitchen Dumptruck (and Lancia Flaminia 2.3))

 

from Guido Golüke, in Amsterdam:
"Here's the truck I craved as a boy, the dinky toy model, that is. My mother wouldn't let me have it, not even if I paid for it out of my pocket money. And then some years aco I found this discarded beauty on my door step. It keeps me in onions without fail.
And now for lighter times ahead!"                                                                                                           Guido caught this Lancia Flaminia 2.3 ("maybe the most stylish Italian sportscar ever")  in Amsterdam a while back.

Two Toyota Tacoma

From Michael Moore, in the Bay Area. These trucks, that era, were clean machines. 

 

That Massachusetts Pinstriping Thing: e.g., a Ford F-350

 

We have posted on Boston truck language before. Further examples here.  Maybe not an Irish-American thing, as AL has suggested in the past. Perhaps it's really a Boston/Eastern Mass. thing. We think it's cool. Note: cultural zone of eastern Mass. has extended deep into southeast New Hampshire--Hillsborough and Rockingham counties--over last twenty-five years.  SE NH is the new Southie.

Ford F-150 Railyard truck.

 

Railyard Truck, New Mexico. JW Burleson photograph.

Lobsterboat, Blue Hill Bay.

She's on a mooring. Those are the mountains of Mount Desert Island (Acadia National Park) in the b.g., with Swan's Island to the right.
 

1959 De Soto Firedome Wagon

Not sure what a firesweep is. The brush I use to clean around our woodstove? There's also a DeSoto Firedome and we featured one--a '57 DeSoto Firedome wagon--a while back. This here glam-wagon--the 'Sweep---in on the block at BaT.   for significantly less than a brand-new Hyundai SUV.


 

F/V Relentless Blue Hill, Maine

 

It's all about sheer.