Peter Behrens's Blog, page 441

1938 Cadillac

From Michaal Moore: "Discovered at Valley Spring and Powder Coating, Dixon, Ca., while awaiting remedial work on rear springs to Tundra; a '38 [?] with La Salle grille, or, I dunno...looked original, but the internet doesn't come up with much in the way of an exact match.  The mounts for the road lights are exquisite castings, no?"-MSM

Jaguar XKE: Ready to Go

Sean has been working on the Jag for a while at Affordable Performance out on Naskeag Road. Just about done. Joan Baez drove one of these in the Sixties. Did you see the XK150 we caught in Santa Barbara last winter?

1975 Was A Big Year

Hard to park. From Daily Drive, a piece on the 5 biggest land yachts of a livin' large era.
Photographers (and DPs on location) used to love to hose those driveways to a gleam. Always one of the grip's most important tasks. I think we called them hosers, eh?

Lubbock Architecture, Llano Estacado, and the L-A 1972 Plymouth Fury

We're interested in anything connected to Llano Estacado, & we've been following the Lubbock Architecture car.

1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15, into the barn.

December 1 2014 : truck went into the barn for the winter. Steel wool in the exhaust pipes and air filter intake. Minimal gas in the tanks treated with (Marine) Stabil. Battery in the basement. Looking forward to April.

Jeep. And Billy the Kid. Lincoln County, New Mexico

Lee Saloutos saw it last month in Lincoln County, NM. 

1964 Comet Caliente

From Alex Emond: "Muy,muy caliente ! Again, in Redcliff, Alberta outside some guy's garage we have this nimble car. It looks quick, has a nice stance. May I have this stance? I was not aware of this model of Mercury until I saw this unit. Cheers"--AE
FYI, Autoliterate posted a Comet that Chip Lord found on the streets of San Francisco. And we spotted one in Colorado Springs.

KARIN: The world of the novel

HHB born in this house, Isle of Wight, 1910The world of a novel. My novel Karin, which will be published in the US (Pantheon) & Canada (Anansi) in March 2016, happens over the years 1914-38 in England, Ireland, Germany, Rotterdam, New York, and on the Llano Estacado in Texas and New Mexico.


Frankfurt


Hiking party, Taunus hills, 1925 Llano Estacado, New Mexico Klinger School, Frankfurt
PHB brought HHB's 1938 passport back to Rotterdam, 75 years later

Rotterdam                                                                              Lllano estacado, New Mexico

The Römer, Frankfurt  IG Farben Headquarters, now Goethe University-Frankfurt
HBB, Geisebrechtstrasse, Berlin

Llano Estacado, New Mexico Llano Estacado, New Mexico

1969 Chevrolet Brookwood, Santa Barbara

Should never have sold that Chevy, but--no novel advance, no money, gas was expensive, it would have been a long drive from Calif. to Maine, car needed winter storage, no room in the barn. But never never never sell a good car. Hell, I like long drives. There would've been another barn.

Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Cadillac, Chrysler, Pontiac, Nash Rambler, Ambassador, Fairlane

Or possibly just across the Colorado state line. Dry early spring of 2013.