Peter Behrens's Blog, page 419
March 25, 2015
Basha Burwell: Kentucky Pontiac:
©2015 Basha Burwell photograph
March 24, 2015
Netherlands Under Construction & George R. Stewart
from Guido Goluke, Dutch translator and intrepid cyclist:
"These (first) two pictures intend to show that in the Netherlands a landscape (if we can speak of a landscape in my man made country) is never finished. Trees that poke their shoots too enthusiastically into the air are cut back into shape. Ditches are deepened, widened, narrowed, straighened, bent, redirected or filled in.
"The viaduct under construction must carry a six lane highway over this man made canal, right next to a bridge that also carries a six lane highway over this man made canal. Intersections are replaced by roundabouts, roundabouts by intersections. Sometimes a little patch of ‘nature’ is created to satisfy environmentalists and other troublesome folk. This gigantic ever growing network of highways and bridges is being laid over the old network of simple and slow roads down below, that now serves local traffic, and the cyclist. Cars are more and more creatures that one has to look up to.[AL: George R Stewart was one writer with a lot to say about highways dominating landscape: have you read his epic US 40: Cross Section of the United States" ?
"Road in early spring along the Zuiderzee...
"...but what was the designer thinking of, seeing that there...?"--GG
"These (first) two pictures intend to show that in the Netherlands a landscape (if we can speak of a landscape in my man made country) is never finished. Trees that poke their shoots too enthusiastically into the air are cut back into shape. Ditches are deepened, widened, narrowed, straighened, bent, redirected or filled in.
"The viaduct under construction must carry a six lane highway over this man made canal, right next to a bridge that also carries a six lane highway over this man made canal. Intersections are replaced by roundabouts, roundabouts by intersections. Sometimes a little patch of ‘nature’ is created to satisfy environmentalists and other troublesome folk. This gigantic ever growing network of highways and bridges is being laid over the old network of simple and slow roads down below, that now serves local traffic, and the cyclist. Cars are more and more creatures that one has to look up to.[AL: George R Stewart was one writer with a lot to say about highways dominating landscape: have you read his epic US 40: Cross Section of the United States" ?
"Road in early spring along the Zuiderzee...
"...but what was the designer thinking of, seeing that there...?"--GG
1966 Mercury M-100 & Big Beaver
From Alex Emond, in southern Saskatchewan:
"Here is a groovy looking truck, and in passable shape. More comfortable than a horse. This was parked near Val Marie on the road to Orkney. Can you imagine moving from the Orkney Islands to the bald ass prairie of south-west Saskatchewan? A hundred years ago, even...
"Should you ever need a location for a Western, I would recommend the "Big Muddy" in south central Saskatchewan. Wide vistas with minimal anachronisms...
"Big Beaver is, in fact, tiny. Counting horses, I don't think there would be 100 souls. I have to get back there next spring and explore the valley some more ...you've got your buttes and mesas and hoodoos and coulees. You could easily forget what century this is."-AE
March 22, 2015
Angel's Camp: Oldsmobile Rocket 88
from Colin Washburn, in the Sierra foothills:"This cherry Rocket 88 pulled in as I was leaving the Angel's Camp Market. What a beaut, visor and all!"--CRW
There was an earlier edition 88 for sale at Motorland in Biddeford, Maine. One of my favorite AL cars last year was this Dynamic 88 wagon.
March 20, 2015
1959 Volvo PV445, etc.
The Volvo Field of Dreams. All this Swedish iron baking under the southwestern sun, and the whole enchilada is for sale. Check it out at B-A-T.
March 19, 2015
Phil Linhares; OMCA; and the Corvette Sting Ray
from Michael Moore in the East Bay: "A legacy of Phil Linhares' [now emeritus] long tenure as curator, spotted at Oakland Musuen of Contemporary Art which we visited to see a piece of Linda's recently installed. [note: also see Phil Linhares '34 Ford on Autoliterate---AL]
"...and my neighbor's Stingray [different neighbor; not the Porsche guy], which had been under a rotting tarp in his backyard until it disappeared a month or so ago...i guess he got it going..."-MSM
"...and my neighbor's Stingray [different neighbor; not the Porsche guy], which had been under a rotting tarp in his backyard until it disappeared a month or so ago...i guess he got it going..."-MSM
1946 International K-1 pickup
It was for sale. Check it out at B-A-T.
