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1961 Chevrolet Apache 10, Colorado Springs

A lot of Apaches turn up on AL. Our friend Sean Wilsey owns a legendary one that commutes regularly between Brooklyn and West Texas. I learned to drive standard on an Apache while I was working on the GH Ranch, Sundre, Alberta in the early Seventies. (Hey. a Sundre rancher, George Bugbee shot and killed a world-record grizzly bear in 1949 when the bear charged a hunting party. The bear weighed 725 kilograms (1,600 pounds)). First time I ever was stopped by the Mounties, eh, I was driving an Apache. Came across this one in the neighborhood east of downtown, the Springs. If you google Autoliterate Apache you'll turn up lots more.

American Houses, High Street, Colorado Springs.

Ford Graveyard, Marfa (Part 1)

all photographs©2014 David Branchfrom David Branch, in far-West Texas:
"I have been wanting to photograph these trucks/wander around this
place for a while. I have met the fellow who owns them in passing
several times but not lingered long enough to request an invite. He traps 
mountain lions for a living. He drives
a 1968 short bed F-100 4wd that has a 390, a top-shift fourspeed, 3/4
ton axles and 16in wheels. I shoulda shot that one too but you'll have
to be content with the "scraps" as it were. More than a lifetime worth
of 68-72 Ford parts and an few from other eras as well. He plans to
swap his '68 frame for a '79 3/4 ton "sometime soon." From the look ofit he has a line on a few."--DB

1957 Ford Fairlane, Colorado Springs

Gas Station to Gallery, 802 N. Nevada, Colorado Springs

This was a gas station, now a Colorado College student gallery. 802 N. Nevada Street. It's looking very Marfa-esque around here.

The Textile Mills, Saco River, Biddeford Maine

1950 Chevrolet 3100, Patty Jewett Neighborhood, Colorado Springs

 I was biking around the Springs on a spring day---bare spring, no leaves, lots of light, dry yellow grass, southern breeze--when I came across this beauty. You have to respect a machine that's @65 years old and still going strong. The tow truck will be another post.






Biking arounb

1978 Mercury Cougar, Colorado Springs

1978 Mercury Cougar, Colorado springs

Ford F-2, Colorado Springs

Taking pictures on the street, you have to take what you can get, so I won't apologize for the shadows. Our friend CM has a robin's egg blue F-2 in Texas, and this survivor looks like it may have been the same color originally...