Peter Behrens's Blog, page 411
May 27, 2015
Another Studebaker Champ
Saw this one in Arundel, Maine. Looks like a Datsun pickup circa 1974. Better quality steel, maybe. Caught another Champ out on the Llano Estacado in West Texas.
Jesse Thompson: Downeast Vernacular
Where does Downeast start? For me it's crossing the Penobscot Narrows Bridge. For some people it starts wherever the grocery store clerk calls you "Dee-ah". Three images of contemporary Downeast vernacular from architect Jesse Thompson:
1. Barn, Sedgwick.
2. Blueberry Barrens House
3. Shed #1, Brooklin Boatyard
1. Barn, Sedgwick.
2. Blueberry Barrens House
3. Shed #1, Brooklin Boatyard
May 26, 2015
Snow Nova. Wiscasset Maine
That was early April, heading downeast. It's green May now. Blackfly season. Finches feeding frenzy in the backyard. Kale coming up in the garden. Boat going in ASAP.
May 25, 2015
Craig Manning's Coffee Run, Cote d'Azur; and the ghost Ford of the Old Woman Mountains
from Craig Manning, the traveling geochemist. "Summer is coming, yellow is the color."-CEM
1. Scanlon Gulch, Old Woman Mountains, Mojave desert, CA
2. coffee run, Cote d’Azur. Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France
3. Swim ride. St Jean Cap Ferrat, France
4. At the pierogi stand. West LA
5. Mar Vista, CA
6. funmobile. Mar Vista, CA
1. Scanlon Gulch, Old Woman Mountains, Mojave desert, CA
2. coffee run, Cote d’Azur. Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France
3. Swim ride. St Jean Cap Ferrat, France
4. At the pierogi stand. West LA
5. Mar Vista, CA
6. funmobile. Mar Vista, CA
May 24, 2015
"Glide" at the Brooklin Boatyard
Built in Massachusetts; I think in the late 1940's. Good cruising sailboat. Not fast. She was painted and tuned up at BBY.
May 22, 2015
Two T-Birds, Wiscasset Maine
And they were both for sale at Twisted Iron Customs, in Wiscasset.
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May 21, 2015
Louis DeSoto and the GMC Cahuilla
from Michael Moore, in California: "We were doing a sculpture install in Santa Rosa on Tuesday when Lewis DeSoto turned up in his 4x4 3/4 ton [nominally GMC] Cahuilla, an immaculate piece of conceptual art which also serves as his work truck.
Neither pictures, nor my words, can begin to do it [or his practice] justice. As an aside, he is of Cahuilla ancestry, and a couple his uncles ran an auto body shop in San Bernadino, where he grew up;http://desotodesign.net/…anyway, I think the link will lead you to the website showing his automotive works [he does a lot more, and varied, stuff]; check it out. The truck was immaculate, and a trip."--MSM
May 20, 2015
1939 Cadillac LaSalle
from Colin Washburn, in the Sierra foothills: "I kept going back to this beautiful car at the annual Copperopolis Car Show. Pure class. THE car of the show in my book. Clean, customized details all over it, like the "suicide doors" that aren't stock ! Easily one of the finest rides I've ever seen."-CRW
We posted a 1942 Cadillac in Alpine, Texas.
May 19, 2015
1951 FORD F1 Arundel, Maine
Saw the Ford down at Motorland in Arundel. It was early April but felt like the first day of Spring. That bold, bare season--between snow and leafing-out--passes so quickly here in Maine. We're in deep green now, though still cool with fog along the coast. But Maine fog is more interesting than the gloomy old Marine Layer that presses down on Santa Barbara around this time of year. June (sometimes May) Gloom? Not in Maine. February gloom? That's another story. We're very fond of an F2 of this era that lives down in Marfa.
