Peter Behrens's Blog, page 408
June 13, 2015
1972 Chevrolet K20
Ok, that's a truck. Looks clean. It's for sale in Tacoma. Find out more on B-A-T where it's listed as a c20 but the 4x4s are actually k20. I'd like to breed these.
June 12, 2015
Banff Avenue, 1964
thanks to Alex Emond, who saw it in Hemmings Motor News. Alex took the photograph below."Banff Ave. just never stops morphing. The changes are so incremental that you don't notice...when you look back decades later it is amazing. Kind of like old yearbook photos" --AE
2 Firetrucks: Mecklenburg & Maine
Guido Goluke sent this one from Mecklenburg, which is German lake country north of Berlin.
Note the supply of emergency soda, driver's side rear. Below is 4th of July, last year.
Note the supply of emergency soda, driver's side rear. Below is 4th of July, last year.
June 11, 2015
The Aspen 1966 GMC, and Texas Steel Bumpers
from Jody Rhone in Aspen, CO "May be just the thing for Marfa to go with the 71 Scout! It is for sale. Have not inquired $$ yet, but it is in ASPEN so expecting a high price tag. Patina is stunning though…."--JR
Dealer-installed steel bumpers in TX always had the dealer name engraved. Stopped happening in the early 80s. See our Marfa/Maine truck, below.
June 10, 2015
Shut-down Strangers & Hot Rod Angels
The Nova started as a trim level on the humble Chevy II, Chevrolet's 1962 response to the Ford Falcon. Not sure when Novas became Novas, but they always seems about the right size for racing in the street.
1953 Ford Victoria
Imagine naming a car a "Victoria" these days. In the 19th c. a Victoria was a light, low, four-wheeled one-horse carriage, with no doors and continuous front and rear mudguards. Basha Burwell caught the Ford heading into Portland Maine. I might be off a year or two on the date. Ford people will correct me. We posted a Ford of this era from the Bay Area; also a 1954 Crestline Victoria that was a barn find, and another 1954 Crestline that was asleep in a backyard in Roy, New Mexico. 
Fast & Furious
1972 Plymouth Fury IIISpotted the Fury--1972?--- on US 1 on a sunny day in June. Maybe headed for the beach. Ain't that America. Hey, the link will take you to a music video from 1983, John Mellencamp's Little Pink Houses. It's a good song, and one of the worst videos ever made. No that's not fair. I've hardly seen any music videos. Maybe it's one of the best. The genre always seemed impossible--musicians lip synching songs while ludicrous imagery unspooled? Oh well, it is a good song. I was driving a dump truck in Banff when I first heard it. An International. The Eighties look pretty bad right now. I think the 00's & 20-teens will look very lame in a couple years too, style-wise. Mid century modern obsession? Tiresome. DWELL magazine is done. No more beards please, patchy or full. Especially if you live in Brooklyn. In fact, leave Brooklyn, now.
June 9, 2015
No Glass: Henry Steel, OEM so they say
A modern build. We rarely see roadsters like this in Maine. and this one isn't. In Maine. Everything here is kandy-colored and---you know. Fiberglas. Well, not everything. Not that 5-window coupe we saw last week. And not that Plymouth wagon from down the Island (Deer Isle, that is) that was our favorite car for '14.Those customizer guys of the California early- and mid-Sixties---Ed Roth, et al---they kinda knocked hotrodding off its stripped-down rails and into some kandy-colored tangerine-flaked...aw, you know the story. Most of the street rods around here derive from that heresy and are pretty boring. Velour aesthetics.
Anyway this car's for sale in California. Find out more on B-A-T.
Peter Coyote & Zen Wolf
From Peter Coyote, re that Power Wagon--aka Zen Wolf--we posted on a few days back. "First photo is how it looked coming out of 25 years in a vegas garage. 2nd is down to the frame. 3rd is the engine going in. 4th. 1-ton Chevy disc brakes. 5th 45 gallon gas-tank. All done."
