Peter Behrens's Blog, page 526
May 31, 2013
1961 International Harvester 110. Fort Davis, Texas
David Branch, our man in far-West Texas, found the IH in Fort Davis. (Autoliterate discovered an original of the 1960 edition of this truck for sale in Vancouver last year.) This truck looks original-- maybe even original paint?--and if it has spent most of its life in Jeff Davis County there's probably very little rust. Drop in a new engine (or maybe just a tune-up) and she might go another 50 years.
all images ©2013 David Branch
all images ©2013 David Branch
May 30, 2013
May 29, 2013
1971 Land Rover
New England field notes from Jarrod McCabe
"Here’s a man who drives his truck.
’71 Land Rover found in Littleton NH.
Owner, Chris Komar.has a 98 drivetrain in it.
The power is diesel and gets damn good mileage compared what I’ve heard these things normally get.
We talked quite a bit about how he keeps the rust off while driving it year round in New Hampshire.
He keeps notes on his windshield and you’ll see the names scratched into the hood of people he’s met out four-wheeling."--JM
(More Land Rover AL posts:
http://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2012...
http://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2012...
http://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2012...
http://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2013...
"Couple" Bruce Willard poem
iamge ©2013 Basha BurwellYou said I was the gasand someone needed to be the brake. We never talkedof steering, choosingthe road. I guesswe always knewwhich road we were on.
You said I was the gasAnd someone needed to be the brake. But we brokeso memorably,broke with a flair that kept us intact
barely aware of the winding rush of air through our hair.We were road-bound, driven,Between the shoulders, our hearts
Moved by something we knewnot to name. "Couple" from HOLDING GROUND (c) 2013 by Bruce Willard. With permission of Four Way Books. All rights reserved.
www.fourwaybooks.com
May 27, 2013
May 26, 2013
Gertrude Stein, Andrew Cross, and ALONG SOME AMERICAN HIGHWAYS
"Think of anything, of cowboys, of movies, of detective stories, of anybody who goes anywhere or stays at home and is an American and you will realize it is something strictly American to conceive a space that is filled with moving, a space of time that is filled, always filled, with moving."--Gertrude Stein"Roads no longer merely lead to places; they are places. And as always they serve two important roles: as promoters of growth and dispersion, and as magnets around which new kinds of development can cluster. In a modern landscape no other space has been so versatile."--John Brinckerhoff Jackson
Both quotes found in Andrew Cross' book, Along Some American Highways, a collection of the British photographer's cold-eyed images of our speedy, troubled landscape. You probably know about Stein..who was not always as articulate as she sounds above. Should you want to find out more about Jackson, founder of Landscape magazine, you might start with an Autoliterate post from last year. And should you want to buy Cross' book..I found my copy in The Hague last winter, but you can get it on Amazon. For 99 cents, last time I checked.
1966 Kaiser Willys Jeep, cont.
from David Branch, re. his jeep which Autoliterate first featured in a post a couple days back:
"I bought the jeep three years after first spotting it lying dormant on a ranch in the Davis Mts. (in West Texas). It had some pretty cool associates, a 1964 Power Wagon in particular. I thought the jeep would be a good candidate for some light bodywork and a driveline I had rebuilt years ago (another story). After knocking on many nearby doors and following a number of stale leads, I found a relative of its owner who told me the guy lived in Antarctica and was "never home.".
I pretty much gave up on it, picking up parts here and there for my project but one day sitting in front of the grocery in Fort Davis a fellow in a Dodge flatbed pulled up. He was sporting an Antarctica T-shirt. Took me a moment while he was inside shopping to compute it, but indeed he was the jeep's owner. A few days later it was in my driveway, along with a sister jeep for parts.
Within a day, though she sat for almost fifteen years unused, she was motoring around the neighborhood. I've done a few things here and there, mostly fuel delivery related, swapped a ruined radiator and a seized front axle but otherwise she purrs. I intend to keep her as-is. Just to good to go and clean up.
I am in the middle of building up a second jeep from the parts jeep off the ranch along with the pile of parts I have collected over the years."--DB
