Yona Shapiro has been revising, rebuilding and, piece by piece, reawakening this original. He says the brakes are the strangest system on the car, maybe invented and engineered by Norse trolls. Wonderful car. We posted a later 144 from Denver a while back. And a 1971 Volvo 144, up in Maine.
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- We own a 1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15 in Maine and a 1986 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe 10 in West Texas. Also a pair of 1997 Volvo 850 wagons. Average age in the fleet is 28 years--we're recycling. I've published 3 novels: THE LAW OF DREAMS (2006), THE O'BRIENS (2012), and CARRY ME (2016). Also 2 short story collections: NIGHT DRIVING(1987) and TRAVELLING LIGHT (2013). More of my literary life is at www.peterbehrens.org I was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-13. I'm an adjunct professor at Colorado College and in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. In 2015-16 I was a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Autoliterate office is in Car Talk Plaza in Harvard Square, 2 floors above Dewey Cheatem & Howe. SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUTOLITERATE DAILY EMAIL by hitting the button to the right.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Friday, April 26, 2024
Toyota Tacoma
Wheelbarrow or no? Probably not. However, the contemporary 4x4 Tacoma, when delivered in its basic version, is not unpleasing. Reasonably clean and organized. No hyper machismo. Here's more Tacoma. In the last week we've noted a Hyundai Santa Cruz (that is truly a weird name for an SUV!); a Santa Fe, a Telluride, a something Sedona...I guess Asian brands feel they have to try harder, for the American market. There was the Chrysler New Yorker. Mercury Monterey. Chevrolet Biscayne. Also the Cadillac Seville and the Pontiac Parisienne. My favorite was our 1962 Pontiac Laurentian.
How come New England towns don't have trucks or SUVs named after them? Where's the Toyota Nashua? The Kia Eastport? The Hyundai Merrimack? The Chevrolet Truro? The Acura Kennebunk?
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Mercedes Benz 240 D, Cambridge, Mass.
We have posted before on the hardy Mercedes Benz 240D. Used to be every taxi is Lisbon was a 240D, probably other cities too. This specimen was in Cambridge on one of those April days you dream of in February.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Alfa Romeo 2000 Tipo 102 Sprint
Not sure what the Alfa was doing in Rome Airport, but that is where Henry Behrens found it. We have posted a 1986 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce from Manitoba, and this 2020 Alfa rocket in–of all places-Cambridge, Mass. And, now that we are talking Italians, we do believe the 1967 Lancia Flaminia is perhaps the most beautiful car, ever.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
GMC Vandura 4x4
AL: For comparison, a 1980 GMC Rally STX van, in Banff.. and here's another 4x4 van from New Hampshire, set up as a shooting brake.
Monday, April 22, 2024
1951 Chevrolet Sedan Delivery, etc., vicinity Grasslands N.P.
"Some drive-bys...the Chevrolet Sedan Delivery is a rare beast. (AL: Here's another s-d, from N.California) Most of them were worked hard, and used up, but this one, in Bassano , Alberta. still has a future .
"The I.H. truck , circa mid 40's, was in Lafleche, SK (And a while back, Alex found this original 1940 International Model D tucked away in a barn in (Unrevealed) Saskatchewan.
Speaking of grasslands...here's John Newlove's poem, Ride Off Any Horizon...
...then there was that buffalo Alex painted. We posted the model a while back.
...Alberta plates on the '58 Chevrolet Biscayne, which happens to be AL's preferred 50s Chevy vintage. (Seen this '58 Chevrolet Del Ray sleeper?)
Sunday, April 21, 2024
1973 Triumph TR6
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