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1946 Ford Woody Super Deluxe

                                                                                                                                         all photos©Anne Lennox 2015
Anne Lennox saw the woody in Bellingham, WA, on a walk down to the Alaska ferry terminal.
Three bench seats.

Schooner Malabar, Jericho Bay

That's the schooner Malabar II, John Alden design, (1922) on 18 knots of SE breeze, out in Jericho Bay yesterday.

1979 Dodge Power Wagon Club Cab

Saw the truck in the Maine woods on a warm summer morning. Looks entirely original. Probably spent most of its life somewhere else because the Pine Tree State is tough on trucks.

Suite 50, Banff

                                                                                                                                        ©JW Burleson 2015further notes, from Colin Washburn:
"Ahh, memory lane .... Toby dubbed the blue Chevy "Suite 50 ", probably around the time he and I (and, of course, Tripod ) were living in it one Fall. The back seat was taken out, and a piece of plywood fitted in. We must have had an old mattress in there, but it could have been just Insulite pads. Tripod would sleep in the front seat, covered in our wool and down clothes to keep him from freezing. Tob and I would bed down, elbowing and kicking each other, while enduring one another's snoring and farting (and Tripod's, which were absolutely gagging !! ) throughout the long nights. We actually set an alarm clock, uncovered the miserable, shivering Goon ( one of Tripod's many names!), pray the car would start so we could warm up and defrost the iced-over windows, and then head down to the Park's public rest rooms for our morning toilette. Breakfast was usually bran muffins from Pop's Bakery. And this all happened on the streets of Banff, NOT up at Tunnel Mt. campground. (probably because we'd have had to PAY ! ). I remember hanging-out in "Rollie the Goalies" house until it was time to say good night and retire to Suite 50, parked just outside. Yep, we were tough, young, crazy, modern-day mountain-men back then! (Thinking back, I'm amazed the RCMP never busted us. We were stealthy, but the old iced-up Chevy surely must have looked suspicious!) All of the above is true, honest . Ask Toby if you don't believe me !
One other Suite 50 story ..... One Fall ( maybe the same one ) we drove it to Hornby Island to visit Ross Muirhead and Jeanette. It ran flawlessly. That was indeed a legendary, faithful rig. If memory serves, Toby paid a mere $300 for it !!" CRW

1964 Dodge Town Wagon

Dodge's version of the Suburban. It's rear wheel drive, so not a Power Wagon. Looks very clean;  restored, with many upgrades. A slant six. For sale in San Jose. Find out more on BAT

1952 Chevrolet 3600

That's the 3/4 ton edition. Hard to beat these Advanced Design trucks for je ne sais quoi. It's for sale. Looks pretty clean. "Driver plus" condition. The truck is up for auction on B-A-T, check details here. Auction closes Wednesday PM, that's August 5th.

1945 Chevrolet 1 ton flatbed

                                                                                                                    ©JW Burleson  2015 JW Burleson caught the beautiful flatbed in New Mexico on the Glorious Fourth. I wish there was another word for patina, but there isn't. Or maybe it's character.

The Softer Side of Bonneville

                                                                                                          Michael Taylor photo©2015..."And every year, they get stuck, really stuck, sometimes mired up to the axles in salt that hasn’t quite dried out from the millions of gallons of water that have been sitting on the flats during the rainy season. In fact, the Bonneville speed trials are held in August, September and October. Those are the dry months..."
              Michael Taylor stopped at the legendary (and soggy) Bonneville salt flats while driving to Maine from SF. The piece he wrote is up at Hemmings.

1950 Chevrolet, the Log House, Banff.

Thanks to JW Burleson for the photograph, c. 1977. BTW, have you looked at Thomas Burleson's drawings?
The log house on Buffalo Street was a legend. So was Toby Clark's Chevy, which made it up the Stewart-Cassiar Highway one year. More JWB photos from Banff era, here.

1956 Chevrolet 150

You know the tri-5 Chevys really aren't my thing. Too many of them around, and usually overdone. The whole fuzzy dice thing.  Kinda boring. But this one stopped me on the road from Augusta to Belfast. It's a 150, not the ubiquitous Bel Air, and not even a 210. So a plainjane. I like the clean way its been done, not overdone. Just plain handsome. For sale, too.