Peter Behrens's Blog, page 74

1953 Ford F-100. Searsport, Maine

                    

Ernest Cole, "Chevrolet Impala"

 

Chevrolet Impala, photo c. 1970 The South African photographer Ernest Cole did a lot of work in apartheid SA. Check the link to see more of his work. (the Impala is of course a '59!)

c. 1980 Grand Wagoneer. Maine.

  Caught the GW in Maine one summer morning. Just read Dan Neil's piece in WSJ on the 2023 Grand Wagoneer, "How Big Is Too Big?"  Here's a 1974 Grand Wagoneer posted from NJ a while back. And another Wagoneer we posted from LA

Beauty. Day sailor. Brooklin Boatyard.

 

Very fast day sailor. Stephen, Waring & White design. Built here at Brooklin Boatyard. For sale, I hear.
Fin keel. Goes fast. Likes lobster gear, but probably loses most of what it catches.

c. 1970 Ford F-100. Canmore, Alberta.

 

from Alex Emond, in The Canadian Rockies (we call them The Rockies): "This showroom-perfect stock Ford was at a Canmore Show and Shine event a couple of weekends back. Hard to beat , for a practical half ton pick me up. The Folk Festival was in this park on the following weekend..."

AL: we posted very  clean Ford F-100 from Long Beach earlier this week.

Speaking of the(Canadian) Rockies, we posted Bill Burleson's Banff 1978 Series a while back.

Sunbeam Alpine, Maine.

 

Vincent Stanley caught the car in Brooksville, Me. We posted a beauty from NJ a while back. And then, a  Sunbeam Tiger, which is an Alpine stuffed with Ford V8. Another Sunbeam Alpine in Berkeley

(Another) 1990 Volvo 240 Wagon

  There's just something about these boxy, clunkster Volvo 240 wagons we admire. See our posts on the Cambridge 240 pack. Hardy souls. This hardy, high-mileage unit is on the block at Hemmings...Then there was this tuned 1978  244 DL sedan we posted from Maine a while back.

1969 Pontiac LeMans. The Maine House. Summer.

 

Basha Burwell photo. Her book The Maine House is out from Vendôme. We have seen this car before. And we posted the Thomas Bolt poem, 1971 Pontiac LeMans last year. Maybe our favo(u)rite Pontiac convertible is this 1963 Bonneville.

Jeepster Commando, New Mexico

Michael Moore caught the Jeepster in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where AL had found and posted the same unit three years ago ...when its NM license plate was a little less sunburnt. We posted a 1948 Jeepster here in Maine last summer.

 

1939 Chevrolet Sedan Delivery

  From Michael Moore, in New Mexico:  "...on I-25 in the Pecos, hey, what are the odds of overtaking not one but two hotrod 1939 Chevy Sedan Deliverys?MM found a 1950 Chevrolet Sedan Delivery in northern NM. And we posted a '55 Chevrolet Sedan Delivery from antelope country. And a 1962 Ford Falcon Sedan Delivery in Brooklyn.Hey, and speaking of New Mexico, and Chevys, or should we say Tchevys...