Peter Behrens's Blog, page 493
December 15, 2013
WWII Dodge & The Black Rock Desert & Blue Sky
"As an antidote [to Maine winter] here are a couple of shots from outside the salt belt...
...this one being the cab which was all that remained of a WW ii Dodge [right hand drive] documented by a friend of mine in 1970 on a trip north of Pyramid Lake and semi-immortalized by me as an Abandoned Car print in 1973 ["Xenobia Dodge"; http://www.mikesmooreptgs.com/abandoned%20cars/index.html] and the fenders, which I thought I'd use on the '45 Chev but didn't coming from Brian's in American Canyon a couple of years ago...anyway, awhile back, having remembered the Dodge, I discovered the cab was at least still there on the desert so we went down with my flatbed trailer and a comealong one early summer morn and brought it up [as I may have mentioned to you earlier] to the Abandoned Carlife Refuge here on the Smoke Creek...no salt, little rust, but most likely not what you're looking for as the days grow short down east...Hey; weren't you going to Marfa for the holidays?"--from Michael Moore, out in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
...this one being the cab which was all that remained of a WW ii Dodge [right hand drive] documented by a friend of mine in 1970 on a trip north of Pyramid Lake and semi-immortalized by me as an Abandoned Car print in 1973 ["Xenobia Dodge"; http://www.mikesmooreptgs.com/abandoned%20cars/index.html] and the fenders, which I thought I'd use on the '45 Chev but didn't coming from Brian's in American Canyon a couple of years ago...anyway, awhile back, having remembered the Dodge, I discovered the cab was at least still there on the desert so we went down with my flatbed trailer and a comealong one early summer morn and brought it up [as I may have mentioned to you earlier] to the Abandoned Carlife Refuge here on the Smoke Creek...no salt, little rust, but most likely not what you're looking for as the days grow short down east...Hey; weren't you going to Marfa for the holidays?"--from Michael Moore, out in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
December 14, 2013
Marfa Mopar
http://adamfedderly.blogspot.com/2010/10/marfa-texas-mopar.htmlAdam Fedderly shot this is Marfa, Texas. I recognize the truck, a swb Dodge...I'd say from the late Seventies. I like how the colors work in this photograph. Reminds me of the way street colors start to pop after crossing the border into, say, Ojinaga. For some reason I spent a lot of time this winter taking photographs of pretty much every 1973-87 Chevrolet/GMC truck in Marfa. I'm not used to taking pictures. A sort of mania took hold: taking a photograph is a lot like asserting ownership, isn't it? An appetite that grows the more you feed it. I started feeling manic hunger to document--devour?-- every last truck. Definitely a possessive, not to say aggressive, instinct. Just one isn't enough;
have to get them ALL.
Autoliterate Truck of the Year candidate: The Ford Model T Depot Hack
Check posts for other candidates. More coming. Or feel free to choose your own candidate from AL posts in 2013. Vote in Comments.
Abilene to Maine: the Ford F-100
from photographer Scott Dorrance:
"Shot this truck last Spring here in Portland. Looks like it might be a Texas truck as all the rust in on the top of the truck and NOT caused by salt on the roads. Also has a dealer logo from Abilene, TX ! Anyway I found it again while I was making photo books for the boys for Christmas. Happy Holidays"--SD
(AL found a beautiful 1966 turquoise F-250 in Colorado Springs. And another turquoise mid-Sixties F-100 up here. And a very clean Colorado F100 here.
Voting for Autoliterate Truck of the Year: 32 Ford Woody; 64 Jeep; 72 Suburban; 67 El Camino
Cast your ballot in Comments. I'll keep tabs and report on or about Jan 1st which machines received the most votes. Then we'll have shortlist, and vote on that. For the long list, there have been 2 posts this week featuring the 2013 beauties---some more go up here (below) and there will be a few more posts before we're done as I cull through the dozens of trucks featured in 2013 to present what in my judgement are the prime candidates; i.e, the long list. Of course if there's a truck on AL in the last year you're free to vote for it whether or not it makes my long list. Is that clear? Sort of?
Here's a few more on the long list:
Here's a few more on the long list:
December 13, 2013
December 12, 2013
John Lennox, the 1951 Merc, the 1958 Fairlane, and American Dreams
from Anne Lennox, about her father:
"John Lennox was a blacksmith's hammerman for Colville in Glengarnock, Scotland, before emigrating with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1953. He worked as an inventory manager at the newly opened Ford Motor Company Engine Plant 1 in the suburb of Brookpark. At the age of 42, he bought his very first car, a metallic seafoam green 1951 Mercury. In the photo he's standing next to the Mercury with his older daughter--me."--A.L.
And Mr Lennox's second car was a 1958 Fairlane:
