Peter Behrens's Blog, page 571

Talbot 10

From photographer Alison Langley of Camden, Maine: 

"My Dad in his youth, working on his Talbot in England. He loved a pit.Talbot 10 Sports Tourer."--A.L. 

32 Ford?

Our Nevada correspondent, MSM, just sent this. Photo grabbed by a friend of his somewhere between Winnemucca and Paris. No further information available. Looks to me like the original hot rod.

Concordia sloop and Arno Day lobsterboat

This time of year you see a lot of boats nosing out of barns. Brian Larkin's Blue Dolphin is looking good to go.
                            I believe Blue Dolphin was built by Arno Day
Down at Center Harbor it was very high tide, blowing, maybe gusts @ 18 knots, and steady rain. Boats are in but nobody has done much sailing yet. I hope Scout will be in within a week or so.

Wade Dow built this Bridges Point 24 here in Brooklin Concordia sloop  I believe this little sloop was built here at Brooklin.

Clean Maine 1987 Chevrolet K-10

I've been seeing this truck this spring whenever I've been in the Munjoy Hill neighborhood in Portland Maine. When I'm in town I sometimes have lunch at The Front Room up on the Hill. The truck is a 1987 4WD Chevrolet with an eight-foot bed. The grill makes it look like a Texas truck; so does the gun rack, the lack of rust and, perhaps, the Luckenback Sticker in the window, though that might signify a wannabe. 
Clean, nice-looking truck. Don't see many of 'em in salty old Maine.

1954 Ford F100 in the Blue Ridge

She was for sale when I drove through Buena Vista, Virginia last month on the book tour. Rat rod potential, certainly. More on these trucks here. 

Ford Econoline Pickup & Dodge Deora

Last year our southern Saskatchewan correspondent Alex Emond found this nifty little Econoline pickup in downtown Gravelbourg. South Saskatchewan is high and dry, like West Texas, and is excellent terrain for old trucks.

Dan Picasso just sent us some excellent Econoline iconography, including this drawing of a concepted E-line that looks like someone borrowed the little Saskatchewan truck around 1969, and sleeked it out:

Also from DP: these images of the Dodge Deora,  a concept vehicle from 1966-67 that Chrysler put together using a bunch of ideas and spare parts, including a rear window from a Ford station wagon. The Deora, sadly, never made it into production.

Beals Island Lobsterboat

Here in Brooklin, Maine yesterday was the third annual Temple Tiny Regatta, in Center Harbor.


Tradition means wearing as much nautical regalia as you can scavenge and sailing the smallest boat you can find as fast as you can, without smashing into too many other people doing the same thing. I like the lines of this classic Beals Island lobsterboat, which had come across from Rockport for the day.
When I was a kid in Cape Porpoise, Maine in the Sixties this was pretty much the vernacular style of work boat, often powered by a Buick V8. Lobsterboats run diesel now, and like everything else in American life they have been supersized. So it was nice to see the Janette Lamson looking so sleek and nimble. According to her owner, Alec Brainerd of Artisan Boatworks in Rockport,  
"She was built by Vinal Beal along with his son Osmond on Beals Island, Maine in 1963/64. I was told that it was the first boat that Vinal & Osmond built together.  She's skeg-built, cedar on oak, with glass over the house and deck. She's 33' long, 9 1/2 ft wide, and has a V8 455 Olds engine. (The perfect marriage of Maine and Michigan!) The Janette Lamson will be available for bare boat charter by the week once we finish a few interior modifications."--AB

49 Ford Deluxe (& that desert light)

                 Smoke Creek Desert, Washoe County, NV."While drilling a well in 1995 we took advantage of having an articulated loader on site to move this '49 Ford Deluxe coupe onto railroad ties stacked in the remains of the the corral at Parker Ranch so the new owner of the property could get to the house. If only to tear it down and build a new one. The Ford, though elevated, remains oriented exactly as it was when blocking the driveway.

"Like most things in rural Nevada this little monument is shot full of holes - and that IS a woodrat nest up inside.  True ratrod...or woodrat highrise?  You be the judge."--MSM

1939 Ford Truck Santa Barbara County

A sunny day, mid-booktour, at Carpinteria, Calif. back in April. HBB and I had been building sandcastles at the beach, then encountered this 1939 Ford truck a couple blocks back from the ocean.

1968 Ford F-100. Rainbow over Rundle. Banff.

"68 Ford, Banff, Alberta, Canada"                                        JW Burleson ©2012
I seem to remember that this truck, which belonged to the photographer Bill Burleson, had a Saskatchewan Farmers Union  sticker in a corner of the windshield. Those canoes met rocks from time to time in the Bow River. In the Athabaska, too. Never travel anywhere in Canada without a couple rolls of duct tape.