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"You cannot travel on the path, before you have become the Path itself."autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.comBlogger5302125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122514265607544420.post-91278105621356872532024-03-18T21:03:00.004-04:002024-03-18T21:03:48.850-04:001961 Colorado Comet<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyOOvt_AC3RIH9Zm7ZOkVxAp5J1nJ0N3hfj_y0_vtrDvVr419RE9Rqq6OTplHIKba9vwn2xXv1wzDyLTc9GA8eXRsKtPTZojM4fhxKkjru5O8n67ZQwbxU9nzkj-1Qmk8Soo1hq6WqWUDnQglGNCccJW5O9eMRaAYhdYnS0zANjYDUi5GAuNVdsmQW9DzR/s1600/07AE166E-5710-4789-9829-D9DD88F28088.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyOOvt_AC3RIH9Zm7ZOkVxAp5J1nJ0N3hfj_y0_vtrDvVr419RE9Rqq6OTplHIKba9vwn2xXv1wzDyLTc9GA8eXRsKtPTZojM4fhxKkjru5O8n67ZQwbxU9nzkj-1Qmk8Soo1hq6WqWUDnQglGNCccJW5O9eMRaAYhdYnS0zANjYDUi5GAuNVdsmQW9DzR/w640-h480/07AE166E-5710-4789-9829-D9DD88F28088.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> Mercury Comet. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Spotted in the Springs a while back. One of those that have stood the test of time. Maybe did a long spell as Grandma's car.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8u3IzUCDfWJVL0GAtJroKCTr1OplKGwE89K6chOhNGwVThOU9aQZLOs_QUZTQ9sElpmWMUrb_u6m5fJhKGQGx8E97kY_43mJ1aM5Hitx6vGAt1_o0DC5CAEL9n9N1XlL4TA1iT5GTcQYEg_N0j_ckEyRujU9uDIJrHCptGOGgqSluwDZYcgYwFcu4-ZAz/s1600/90FDFCB1-E626-4625-8530-3144FDCDF290.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8u3IzUCDfWJVL0GAtJroKCTr1OplKGwE89K6chOhNGwVThOU9aQZLOs_QUZTQ9sElpmWMUrb_u6m5fJhKGQGx8E97kY_43mJ1aM5Hitx6vGAt1_o0DC5CAEL9n9N1XlL4TA1iT5GTcQYEg_N0j_ckEyRujU9uDIJrHCptGOGgqSluwDZYcgYwFcu4-ZAz/w640-h480/90FDFCB1-E626-4625-8530-3144FDCDF290.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD5thAe32neAOVTfWdVgkWmVPeLfmnxr-J_heV36FDNyCSbLfFop0SNBBUTq6Culh3hZDAJuPSsbtIddgcITNI1FxpN62rVqwbzC8wVF8x-NlbVSd8N0MYUzlcOMFTSXAyT9hlB7MLNnMwHnTonLrpmG8ZaOlsEqhmMkad0Nw7wff-zI5reNeicjMJ88Ln/s1600/906CB49F-8456-4907-98FC-528B23EA6C50.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD5thAe32neAOVTfWdVgkWmVPeLfmnxr-J_heV36FDNyCSbLfFop0SNBBUTq6Culh3hZDAJuPSsbtIddgcITNI1FxpN62rVqwbzC8wVF8x-NlbVSd8N0MYUzlcOMFTSXAyT9hlB7MLNnMwHnTonLrpmG8ZaOlsEqhmMkad0Nw7wff-zI5reNeicjMJ88Ln/w640-h480/906CB49F-8456-4907-98FC-528B23EA6C50.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfuS_UbbbVS8thnpkoqMctlV2WGxAnCNkM3mI0NIifcipofXLF_0Du3aRNkQ_eUzUhXZzx8EHJpHO4z7QuZQf6q0_wHqCq4Txkx_Lk92GNA5BSSHuWJgIDDxgRfXYhWgIAwRzYelv2YDQkI_X-ZAasRCjQz93C5ggHz1Yt8J4q84v3Ktvba6yHZ7pdJAry/s1600/61866407-BC9F-488E-8D87-F0167BF489EF.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfuS_UbbbVS8thnpkoqMctlV2WGxAnCNkM3mI0NIifcipofXLF_0Du3aRNkQ_eUzUhXZzx8EHJpHO4z7QuZQf6q0_wHqCq4Txkx_Lk92GNA5BSSHuWJgIDDxgRfXYhWgIAwRzYelv2YDQkI_X-ZAasRCjQz93C5ggHz1Yt8J4q84v3Ktvba6yHZ7pdJAry/w640-h480/61866407-BC9F-488E-8D87-F0167BF489EF.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122514265607544420.post-23579732980696867162024-03-17T05:00:00.002-04:002024-03-17T15:09:23.377-04:00The Subaru Outback (and Walt Whitman)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI5rmBaJZzLsHLyYXS9VvuHBup9bgkA8B3g2Gs2qfVNQxPKgGyNquBFPgOo0upWSA_5RwsAIFCmqNpQUt4QgZbHtf72TkPmTRl6AUGjHKJrJ9b39YGG9mflnqf6iANeOOAtmN215GeC4Hwtooo-s9bFz9C0LxcA5wwBmji75hNt4mj6tVLr3bqbja-JY1k/s4032/5EAE7687-8B50-4322-B02E-FF80BD1A1CF1.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI5rmBaJZzLsHLyYXS9VvuHBup9bgkA8B3g2Gs2qfVNQxPKgGyNquBFPgOo0upWSA_5RwsAIFCmqNpQUt4QgZbHtf72TkPmTRl6AUGjHKJrJ9b39YGG9mflnqf6iANeOOAtmN215GeC4Hwtooo-s9bFz9C0LxcA5wwBmji75hNt4mj6tVLr3bqbja-JY1k/w640-h480/5EAE7687-8B50-4322-B02E-FF80BD1A1CF1.heic" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Al has always liked wagons; don't know why we have never given the Outback its due. Maybe because they are so common, at least here in New England. 25 years ago the Subarau Outback was already the unofficial State Car of Maine, and they have only become more ubiquitous. Being common shouldn't be a drag on the market: some of the most beloved and prized vintage cars and trucks were the most common basic transportation--or job tool--of their day. The Chevy 3100 pickup, for example, or pretty much any station wagon from the 1960s. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Outback been around since 1995. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">All the cars in this post were less than a 2-minute walk from our apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When you walk around Cambridge, there is pretty much always at least one Outback in sight.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>We have posted on a </span><a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2015/01/1968-subaru-360.html">1968 Subaru</a><span>. We sounded disapproving when we posted on the <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2022/10/2021-land-cruiser-and-subaru-outback.html">Outback Wilderness edition</a>--of the fantasy being sold, the dream of crashing through wilderness with your family packed aboard a muscular station wagon...what is that about, America? As the land is evermore tamed and built and paved, </span><span> </span><span>those Super Bowl ads showing brawny beefcake trucks forging streams and smashing up and down trails seem</span><span>...wait a minute, what did <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2012/02/larry-levis-whitman.html">Walt Whitman</a> say...</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> </span></span></p><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> “I say we had better look our nation searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease.” -<i>Democratic Vistas</i></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrnEU9Dtl7u3f19qvBAdGpfVSk7DOx4AVpe9-47yqFINJK75A_RslPBCpcHQcV462_Bwtz8tUUmVIkA24L8rCNFn51q7TUKf86TOEi7-kgyRIMrgPRg6-KICkieHAxPO2_E3hr7eJVUypMiOvxTDE565qTmKAsLMaEd12I3ZPrqx0Ldw_0GuEJc_k6ID-f/s4032/24919204-AC47-4C77-B2D3-95517C991377.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-s-mK3BElK3IhhAt_J5MU5IHFfcuCMIEU12gXGwUn1cuAJ8U0SO_BvSYxmR5xyr7hrSvaVQCco-XkYy01ym6S5e05cUlP3DgAHUeP2y74HUfPyegeT6zrUSjhrMfXTM38ECgY6XRsFJZSf7MX0kdLFYqxoz4EM__rjpF2m0629GhFH2UsfOyZfC3Ti5uA/w640-h480/20231129_160314.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Reid Cunningham on drive-in theaters, and youth:<br /><br />When I was in high school, in Connecticut in the early 80's, the golden age of the drive-in movie theater had passed. But my blue-collar hometown still one. <br /><br /><br />The Portland Drive-In was the high school hang out spot. Long before cell phones, it was the place where there was a good chance you would find your friends on a Friday or Saturday night after a game, or after work. There were double features every weekend, running one of the movies first on Friday, the other first on Saturday, so you might go both nights to manage to see both movies in between talking with friends, and teenage comings-and-goings. As long as you were reasonably behaved, you could drink beer underage and hangout without risk of attention from the local police. <br /><br /><br />We all drove rusty hand-me-down cars, or old beaters we bought and kept running on shoestring budgets from minimum wage jobs. I drove a 1942 Ford pickup that was for sale on the side of the road for $450. It was patched together, and very slow, with a flathead 6 and low gearing, but reliable. Started in all but the coldest weather. A Jeep rear seat was bolted in the bed behind the cab facing backwards, perfect for watching movies. And there was the tailgate, for additional friends, and even the roof. <br /><br /><br />Admission was per person, so there was an incentive to occasionally stuff people in the trunk. The trick was to let people out when the owner wasn't patrolling. A few towns over, in Berlin, there was a bigger drive in. They ran triple features and charged per car. We would caravan over, ditching all but one car in the local department store parking lot and cram everyone into someone's mom's station wagon. In the summer with long days the last movie didn't end before 1:00 AM. We would head to the all-night diner for French fries before rolling home at 2 or 3 AM. No restrictions on teenage drivers...and our parents that were too busy, or tired, to worry much where we were. <br /><br /><br />Both drive-ins closed while I was in college.The Berlin drive-in became a strip mall. The Portland Drive-in survived longer than most because it sat in a flood plain of the Connecticut River, surrounded by tobacco fields that were enriched by the annual deluge. It was eventually sold, fill was brought in to raise the grade above average flooding, and it became a boat storage yard for a marina down the road, which it still is, 40 years later. <br /></span><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AL: John Brinckerhoff Jackson had interesting things to say about drive-ins and other neglected (and sometimes forgotten, or barely noticed) pieces of the American landscape. See out post on <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-crapola-sublime.html">The Crapola Sublime.</a></div>autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122514265607544420.post-83295270083765460562024-03-15T15:50:00.004-04:002024-03-15T15:53:31.990-04:001967 Ford COE<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLIOpKBhB_kJPB6EgW3jMAy_8G24qwjHaxq8H5Utshhr0fkXTeLt0KWN5f1P0dLGVl9Pf4a1QpSuBcpTB_OYkLwNw5dnp5XDfv7kFthy6y3qZnzeuHogK8tYxwPCqGKNWL51F7phnE9y-LVs5oZYRZEDvpX5iLouX8n4crQeCop1xT70eWOW5Vazv0y7PA/s4032/DB915A5D-709B-4C75-867C-974DE6837BCF.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLIOpKBhB_kJPB6EgW3jMAy_8G24qwjHaxq8H5Utshhr0fkXTeLt0KWN5f1P0dLGVl9Pf4a1QpSuBcpTB_OYkLwNw5dnp5XDfv7kFthy6y3qZnzeuHogK8tYxwPCqGKNWL51F7phnE9y-LVs5oZYRZEDvpX5iLouX8n4crQeCop1xT70eWOW5Vazv0y7PA/w640-h480/DB915A5D-709B-4C75-867C-974DE6837BCF.heic" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Now, who wouldn't want their own private firetruck? This one retired from the Cape to Cambridge. We posted a '55 Ford COE and thought it <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2021/10/1956-ford-c500-coe-beautiful-kind-of.html">a beautiful kind of ugly.</a></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122514265607544420.post-88296041481157980702024-03-14T21:27:00.003-04:002024-03-14T21:27:35.923-04:001947 Dodge COE<p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFCDsyiRtWHYOvh3YWQ_bESaZeZu-iWQdido5sGxhnJtl3vf9gvqfMSWoxwFjKsJTaZMabtFYrp2Adq108Ik9zkxCBflzAOnJZO5a7x3HnOQVUkKT4rcz6nUfp_XDjvnRT0Vg0vgywQo-cjClnCViVwDGBbAWAf0bap6_SbeCjc1ebsIpWdB2BCxsvXsoJ/s1600/873496AC-6343-4546-9A9F-0F47E3EF151A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFCDsyiRtWHYOvh3YWQ_bESaZeZu-iWQdido5sGxhnJtl3vf9gvqfMSWoxwFjKsJTaZMabtFYrp2Adq108Ik9zkxCBflzAOnJZO5a7x3HnOQVUkKT4rcz6nUfp_XDjvnRT0Vg0vgywQo-cjClnCViVwDGBbAWAf0bap6_SbeCjc1ebsIpWdB2BCxsvXsoJ/w480-h640/873496AC-6343-4546-9A9F-0F47E3EF151A.jpeg" width="480" /></a> </p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I think this model as called the Gnarl.Spotted in Colorado Springs,a while back. </span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAT3XzZAuQalSX5fBmj_WDz95WorxdHxb5HXRH1Z-jHZKCGaI9WC1SNyx9UAfPW6x4zzYN91tm-LTTL8mGwZhyNzDOnnPIWUgSN-vPhetl5daMsFR7LOpUHmcQMMLxE5TzflvQePqRTKe1BW6rPmBPuNV5v7xPtektzfaKFy3YORO5_aXh3U3tlMA3Cnkl/s1600/F2A66E06-66A6-4264-823C-EC198CAC5DD3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAT3XzZAuQalSX5fBmj_WDz95WorxdHxb5HXRH1Z-jHZKCGaI9WC1SNyx9UAfPW6x4zzYN91tm-LTTL8mGwZhyNzDOnnPIWUgSN-vPhetl5daMsFR7LOpUHmcQMMLxE5TzflvQePqRTKe1BW6rPmBPuNV5v7xPtektzfaKFy3YORO5_aXh3U3tlMA3Cnkl/w640-h480/F2A66E06-66A6-4264-823C-EC198CAC5DD3.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8hRTy1k8mMde4NVRUJB-68PWAShyD-KLfnf0j4AnA8t08a6yJePSrbcLZKDYalOeqTK40C7dTpIecoP8WFMdV_c_DVDjRf625HXIC6Q4WaSdxS_ihyTiijFFOcmQMWNuWgQBxlLBkx3AzZ-88UC4Lm4Z9GCyT9nmqljYPRIovowVWSDreReV3Ql71FZxe/s4032/E148ECD0-90A2-465B-A891-6472D2A638F5.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8hRTy1k8mMde4NVRUJB-68PWAShyD-KLfnf0j4AnA8t08a6yJePSrbcLZKDYalOeqTK40C7dTpIecoP8WFMdV_c_DVDjRf625HXIC6Q4WaSdxS_ihyTiijFFOcmQMWNuWgQBxlLBkx3AzZ-88UC4Lm4Z9GCyT9nmqljYPRIovowVWSDreReV3Ql71FZxe/w640-h480/E148ECD0-90A2-465B-A891-6472D2A638F5.heic" width="640" /></a></div>Note <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2020/10/massachusetts-work-trucks.html">that Boston pin-striping thing.</a> which we have seen plenty of, and admire. You can see it in <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2021/04/1966-international-b-180.html">New Hampshire</a> as well. This was on Brattle Street in Cambridge, a couple blocks from <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2017/01/1966-chrysler-newport-harvard-square.html">the Square.</a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi4QGCC6Mhp66tGUWALIZfL4CHMDKtJM2PsETcmy2K0KoyDnE-j54XEdul5MOSmVRwxTomE6HZnN5JcIrWjymMonhkOxcymo6jQeUlmgb-HWscTV5RXQbQ8Aa0jl6yOTU74MygDgeBohmqtd83PktLZ9Oq2xA-PICUeDKG8ULoqod_nlqHfCBFwelSAfI8/s4032/7FDC4667-FD60-49B1-A36B-BCC88156A5DD.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi4QGCC6Mhp66tGUWALIZfL4CHMDKtJM2PsETcmy2K0KoyDnE-j54XEdul5MOSmVRwxTomE6HZnN5JcIrWjymMonhkOxcymo6jQeUlmgb-HWscTV5RXQbQ8Aa0jl6yOTU74MygDgeBohmqtd83PktLZ9Oq2xA-PICUeDKG8ULoqod_nlqHfCBFwelSAfI8/w640-h480/7FDC4667-FD60-49B1-A36B-BCC88156A5DD.heic" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122514265607544420.post-72459078864673427642024-03-10T15:27:00.000-04:002024-03-10T15:27:07.833-04:001967 Ford F-100 SWB; 1956 Ford F-100, Malibu<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXWtxqR6zYlYYtp7ltLZ8MASFYawEtqucxElfRCeiHzcP2oS7UWGNnr0q0Z8-9UkpYvQM-rcv7SCQlKyhFgAEyATqkgzCMNuStyYCPcNjSSK212uAqsMnjpbr4K1Ubf7aP6QeBrOnJkDqStQ3Xwhhvbd9xYy92lkZ4P5K4g0jCMF0dy4stprAWasSxaByS/s1080/2F421593-B0F4-4DBD-B712-DBF9E251B5A8.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="1080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXWtxqR6zYlYYtp7ltLZ8MASFYawEtqucxElfRCeiHzcP2oS7UWGNnr0q0Z8-9UkpYvQM-rcv7SCQlKyhFgAEyATqkgzCMNuStyYCPcNjSSK212uAqsMnjpbr4K1Ubf7aP6QeBrOnJkDqStQ3Xwhhvbd9xYy92lkZ4P5K4g0jCMF0dy4stprAWasSxaByS/w640-h482/2F421593-B0F4-4DBD-B712-DBF9E251B5A8.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Rene Balcer took the photos. Perhaps you have seen his "<a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2024/01/rene-balcer-pangnirtung-photographs.html">Seeing As</a>"? And here's David Branch connecting this <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-west-texas-town-of-el-paso.html">era of F-100s with the history of El Paso, Texas.</a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuLdEW3c3mw26qA2KKoOSoBcIrcYhNzFr9GHfG-SLQXLIzEgYRGUhUUbA3mJcbScgzJ4HKBrRAsHkNFPxpD5aweCl8VQ_Ya0852t3vsyPDwYywPxszMYw9hjukJekss_r9s77W-5tncYofgVWidVmJTD1-EqU4vJe3TFyEA7x2DdHFll6oWD013Yo6b2Iy/s1080/ABF1DB3F-AFF8-4FB5-924C-2FF30FDD7D6F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="1080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuLdEW3c3mw26qA2KKoOSoBcIrcYhNzFr9GHfG-SLQXLIzEgYRGUhUUbA3mJcbScgzJ4HKBrRAsHkNFPxpD5aweCl8VQ_Ya0852t3vsyPDwYywPxszMYw9hjukJekss_r9s77W-5tncYofgVWidVmJTD1-EqU4vJe3TFyEA7x2DdHFll6oWD013Yo6b2Iy/w640-h482/ABF1DB3F-AFF8-4FB5-924C-2FF30FDD7D6F.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPZXNEUxkUHEDF6FkEP1h1qrC4aYTtxjwMvehZ1DkzVk33TAZoc_fGTQj3x-3NM5n9EekKUvEYpuPIUzzlxlRqTnIxFjjYHK8zZWcZoqOtO-Sg-XtWDqzpg_V-M6p8pRn90n4n_RdcC-IUJ1oF1I21jwp9ATeiK5HQHrEJMyKNNscvxq7KQku8ubIitU7G/s1080/9440F43A-B100-48D9-A207-45A969C6DA61.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="1080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPZXNEUxkUHEDF6FkEP1h1qrC4aYTtxjwMvehZ1DkzVk33TAZoc_fGTQj3x-3NM5n9EekKUvEYpuPIUzzlxlRqTnIxFjjYHK8zZWcZoqOtO-Sg-XtWDqzpg_V-M6p8pRn90n4n_RdcC-IUJ1oF1I21jwp9ATeiK5HQHrEJMyKNNscvxq7KQku8ubIitU7G/w640-h482/9440F43A-B100-48D9-A207-45A969C6DA61.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh26HCEjdPjU5MjIzOwyDOUO9n_2aWkCpCis4L1BwiEvtuLhXqlqs8s4RJFcVWeAQhedYz0MtcgLsGSzyvMe0Bp9cwHZvSonj6gQD7y__ugVZhqx-bmsYJhb1Ijqabr53UtQXiM1u5oFn1YOnKovO97qH27sZvc2PZj5vtht6Lr3BdZ0tcIjFrj1hVME7Uy/s1080/5F2346C8-EFE1-4A60-A175-D4EE236B9780.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="1080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh26HCEjdPjU5MjIzOwyDOUO9n_2aWkCpCis4L1BwiEvtuLhXqlqs8s4RJFcVWeAQhedYz0MtcgLsGSzyvMe0Bp9cwHZvSonj6gQD7y__ugVZhqx-bmsYJhb1Ijqabr53UtQXiM1u5oFn1YOnKovO97qH27sZvc2PZj5vtht6Lr3BdZ0tcIjFrj1hVME7Uy/w640-h482/5F2346C8-EFE1-4A60-A175-D4EE236B9780.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122514265607544420.post-19731952865227542912024-03-09T05:00:00.002-05:002024-03-09T18:09:18.528-05:00Ragged glory: 1961 Pontiac Bonneville convertible<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWYFGzAk9KnEaQu7L8PqBn5AFoRzceMQ0yNi4cwx2TScoVPgerJDcvfU_nEprpHfmk83HFqywZ5TkBj6SrxG63Mu_L6ts1D_w_hs1M67xWLOTfcxJSFjX22zF0SCNdY0kOZ5W5aAfC4IBU_qwnF_sTy4Caa0Ws44EkTS27q-_aoYrKP6VREDIvldiOi5sL/s1920/IMG_1408%20(Large).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="1920" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWYFGzAk9KnEaQu7L8PqBn5AFoRzceMQ0yNi4cwx2TScoVPgerJDcvfU_nEprpHfmk83HFqywZ5TkBj6SrxG63Mu_L6ts1D_w_hs1M67xWLOTfcxJSFjX22zF0SCNdY0kOZ5W5aAfC4IBU_qwnF_sTy4Caa0Ws44EkTS27q-_aoYrKP6VREDIvldiOi5sL/w640-h312/IMG_1408%20(Large).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Markus Anstadt caught the wide-track in Denver where seems to be a lot more old iron on the streets than in Cambridge, which hums with nothing but Teslas. We have posted on <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2017/07/1961-annus-mirabilis-automobilia.html">1961 as the wonder year of the American automobile</a>. For comparison, here's a <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2016/12/1964-pontiac-bonneville-4-speed-manual.html">1963 Bonneville </a>(with a four-speed manual trans) in what looks like the same paint code.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjogWP1SdjUtl9FQBvrcMh3Phhuqcq43H9q3ne1yoWG-ZkL2f1hZkMI6SfeIv5GKd2dyGOPfO6V-R2FIu0zWLT9HAhsX2GiSIUFzeTT6jPXR8jKt5OM5CzqxgC1kogtvwlNfLHk4n_kZakuuwaK5EARDGJQqVTD7PKoSebuAtymXn2XS_b-38Oz6D37d8Ed/s1920/IMG_1407%20(Large).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="1920" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjogWP1SdjUtl9FQBvrcMh3Phhuqcq43H9q3ne1yoWG-ZkL2f1hZkMI6SfeIv5GKd2dyGOPfO6V-R2FIu0zWLT9HAhsX2GiSIUFzeTT6jPXR8jKt5OM5CzqxgC1kogtvwlNfLHk4n_kZakuuwaK5EARDGJQqVTD7PKoSebuAtymXn2XS_b-38Oz6D37d8Ed/w640-h258/IMG_1407%20(Large).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Oldie but goodie. Truck's<br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">on the block at <a href="https://www.hemmings.com/auction/1956-ford-f-350-balls-mills-pa-198772?utm_medium=email&utm_source=auctions_newsletter&uemlid=9051755b60db5ad013c332c56198393328b8689e0686197e142583c0e655bfca">Hemmings.</a> We posted a '56 Ford COE a while back, to illustrate <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2021/10/1956-ford-c500-coe-beautiful-kind-of.html">a beautiful kind of ugly</a>. And a <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2020/12/1956-ford-f-100.html">1956 Ford F-100</a> from Manitoba</span></span></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgugsIiZSly3gIglzlHtXJUT4e3N4WsezD2Zps6g3hTTpMfWmDEw7BfphEe4Df3eCAzS_hF3vWdKFRf1Rn4Vv05LTCEtkRJkva7uT4Ia0eyOg9UwqfOzGDmV5mIsXwmJIxKdpgmGymloMZ37d0DrymeCEWLk_DpxJCVxbki3SyIcXwWiRk6eErtlp-m0f-Q/s2048/07dc-assess1-sub-bchk-superJumbo.jpg.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgugsIiZSly3gIglzlHtXJUT4e3N4WsezD2Zps6g3hTTpMfWmDEw7BfphEe4Df3eCAzS_hF3vWdKFRf1Rn4Vv05LTCEtkRJkva7uT4Ia0eyOg9UwqfOzGDmV5mIsXwmJIxKdpgmGymloMZ37d0DrymeCEWLk_DpxJCVxbki3SyIcXwWiRk6eErtlp-m0f-Q/w640-h424/07dc-assess1-sub-bchk-superJumbo.jpg.webp" width="640" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj06OE8hicpJYFXLC2I5V6ApZXsQbR6jB0J5kU76YC_XJF2G3MO6jrg-GjghWMI56Nyd7C81Jee6-lwb2_LdcQcjLEMuRLwhqqQH6U9GqS55Wu-CMtKBMxUIQ8xzI_z-rFmsrdU-XiVTSwCcuWwhAsKl5bFu0I_VVaXAJjwLp9khL4FbOO49ovVWt7iD4w/s4032/facc243b-1c24-4af4-89fb-f0156faea612.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj06OE8hicpJYFXLC2I5V6ApZXsQbR6jB0J5kU76YC_XJF2G3MO6jrg-GjghWMI56Nyd7C81Jee6-lwb2_LdcQcjLEMuRLwhqqQH6U9GqS55Wu-CMtKBMxUIQ8xzI_z-rFmsrdU-XiVTSwCcuWwhAsKl5bFu0I_VVaXAJjwLp9khL4FbOO49ovVWt7iD4w/w640-h480/facc243b-1c24-4af4-89fb-f0156faea612.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122514265607544420.post-62564505706948807182024-03-05T05:00:00.001-05:002024-03-05T05:00:00.163-05:001967 Sunbeam Alpine, Denver.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitTOiAP1ayNJ93vRMjEeKLfb0Yd6iRKyR3R1TtyBkO2dd6IOEAx5qT9asfdIxqRweEgGGiTzY1OSmBYgPCgtXh9JhFMXTQOUJkM8m3rbr3pdAa3J1AflpXcgYlQruYhNjDI_KfzAbiyh-egRk1X6PehwCiDr5gBENGR6Yv1ACUC3x17izMnWct8Jyy1ONW/s1761/IMG_4560%20(Large).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1761" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitTOiAP1ayNJ93vRMjEeKLfb0Yd6iRKyR3R1TtyBkO2dd6IOEAx5qT9asfdIxqRweEgGGiTzY1OSmBYgPCgtXh9JhFMXTQOUJkM8m3rbr3pdAa3J1AflpXcgYlQruYhNjDI_KfzAbiyh-egRk1X6PehwCiDr5gBENGR6Yv1ACUC3x17izMnWct8Jyy1ONW/w640-h392/IMG_4560%20(Large).JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Markus Anstadt found the car: "...an all-original Sunbeam Alpine, parked on a Denver city street. Owner says he is the 2nd and has owned in for 40+ years. Drives it regularly, too." We posted an <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2023/08/vincent-stanley-caught-car-in.html">Alpine in Maine</a> last summer.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjny2GUZsFG2ztnTON4szutMbseEL7ATaJLWjybMiNUAQ2cimG_r42mEoaJXwWTDtFHsITXAj46k0LoeIgCSp6XzOYsIUaTzauv75h18rZqNTObpI0ySNoVDrnxpLNbB7eVxghq4VElQAXEzYc7tkJL2bKvc2LbReHAsQyCOML5iK7Ws6TZ18zORnswG2f6/s1920/IMG_4561%20(Large).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1002" data-original-width="1920" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjny2GUZsFG2ztnTON4szutMbseEL7ATaJLWjybMiNUAQ2cimG_r42mEoaJXwWTDtFHsITXAj46k0LoeIgCSp6XzOYsIUaTzauv75h18rZqNTObpI0ySNoVDrnxpLNbB7eVxghq4VElQAXEzYc7tkJL2bKvc2LbReHAsQyCOML5iK7Ws6TZ18zORnswG2f6/w640-h334/IMG_4561%20(Large).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6nyRKiRcxAhCuPIpDadC2UJq1x2rdKEj4VjJjFzECaxTLL82Kx3BYEcfpiwHsbeHKi3ymIy6Yo_JcRa2oKWNqWthvQTdod4y2U1ZmZk2wHRBOL1pRZux05A3AUCjy0kpn7RClW28QmS0mGb_rR5Y7W073ZHcC6ih5TgrRtfOJEv_FjOW94LoN9EXXA6Qk/s1440/IMG_9307%20(Large).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6nyRKiRcxAhCuPIpDadC2UJq1x2rdKEj4VjJjFzECaxTLL82Kx3BYEcfpiwHsbeHKi3ymIy6Yo_JcRa2oKWNqWthvQTdod4y2U1ZmZk2wHRBOL1pRZux05A3AUCjy0kpn7RClW28QmS0mGb_rR5Y7W073ZHcC6ih5TgrRtfOJEv_FjOW94LoN9EXXA6Qk/w480-h640/IMG_9307%20(Large).JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheYaCgkSQxs0sgIbkhTyCIgOXB9xruzGgM5bqDSEN7sts-5adp0yWbPOvwYYrWwzN-x4tXzplJiiy0DZgsmwfRVUEpdYNH6Q2fHbVNEgwPu01BVOQ5afXxdoqMjgTplyB2gfAgFvRFs3Va0hglEjtOh6_UmCbnCy9DsOpg14dMurZYvsT0hNl_h9QRydfy/s1440/IMG_9306%20(Large).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheYaCgkSQxs0sgIbkhTyCIgOXB9xruzGgM5bqDSEN7sts-5adp0yWbPOvwYYrWwzN-x4tXzplJiiy0DZgsmwfRVUEpdYNH6Q2fHbVNEgwPu01BVOQ5afXxdoqMjgTplyB2gfAgFvRFs3Va0hglEjtOh6_UmCbnCy9DsOpg14dMurZYvsT0hNl_h9QRydfy/w480-h640/IMG_9306%20(Large).JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122514265607544420.post-91685631937047506902024-03-04T05:00:00.001-05:002024-03-04T05:00:00.130-05:00Volvo 240 West Texas<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU0X66ZS4QfTz81wJU-PPEgP4BJYqTADl3xIGAwIwCzlG7Y4zD2z6JwjeX1tqrmjPQBDJ4SVSFXBfU9sqthWshQo2X-6ygMo0NYuGcgN9HROY0_9xCaW8og_kxMhCSfWzgsMKbAMLrQi3_Ru4lcNAV52zBeu1MHCq0gPGw-IjAsdfPiYOg2I4Pd9FXZB4X/s4032/5E89D2C7-F83F-4878-AC5E-661DB5BFFA83.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU0X66ZS4QfTz81wJU-PPEgP4BJYqTADl3xIGAwIwCzlG7Y4zD2z6JwjeX1tqrmjPQBDJ4SVSFXBfU9sqthWshQo2X-6ygMo0NYuGcgN9HROY0_9xCaW8og_kxMhCSfWzgsMKbAMLrQi3_Ru4lcNAV52zBeu1MHCq0gPGw-IjAsdfPiYOg2I4Pd9FXZB4X/w640-h480/5E89D2C7-F83F-4878-AC5E-661DB5BFFA83.heic" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">David Branch's Volvo 240, in dry dock. West. Texas. Would like to post as many 240s 850s and V70s as possible this week....send them if you have them, or can find them..</span><p></p>autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122514265607544420.post-84083570102025613742024-03-03T09:07:00.001-05:002024-03-03T10:37:00.734-05:001991 Volvo 240<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi630PKVWc2L3GFtZtA-5in89xi0sFeOAHj3c7xNYR2N01Jam8gstedzJ9vfeV5T9dUyOpTzy1EB29Jl6FNFPAdONtMpCGfJWTJKechAIVbqcJ1dXZwTnkCORj0iJkFghKqd9GQC7Eopml8Xsem8IBCPXo5uL4lx5GNiXrowQa3t7rFRmYKOa0_OpHnOuo2/s940/1990_volvo_240_dsc_3055-33266.jpeg.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="940" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi630PKVWc2L3GFtZtA-5in89xi0sFeOAHj3c7xNYR2N01Jam8gstedzJ9vfeV5T9dUyOpTzy1EB29Jl6FNFPAdONtMpCGfJWTJKechAIVbqcJ1dXZwTnkCORj0iJkFghKqd9GQC7Eopml8Xsem8IBCPXo5uL4lx5GNiXrowQa3t7rFRmYKOa0_OpHnOuo2/w640-h424/1990_volvo_240_dsc_3055-33266.jpeg.webp" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is in the block at <a href="https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1991-volvo-240-30-2/?utm_source=dm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2024-03-03">BaT</a>, surrounded by a flock of Lamborghini, Ferrari, <i>et al. </i>We have posted plenty on the Cambridge <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2020/12/volvo-240-and-cambridge-240-pack.html">Volvo 240 pac</a>k.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwu1NcjGiWpAYhvm5Ls5NuKh-fmM4n_Pdn-pRwtew93gzd783OIajDwPu5qtx4txZXIaw2mdMOUCFWSR5pwblTcYeNDIRCYzDyRykvSM20PCBGfRf8uqu4ejOYNcfrWa38ZJEL9AwXc7DZRAs6gTWnWPQENywaPuZvHkU2aQC0xZ0-D6C2Lo4qcEVFGZm/s620/1990_volvo_240_dsc_3057-33282.jpeg.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="620" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwu1NcjGiWpAYhvm5Ls5NuKh-fmM4n_Pdn-pRwtew93gzd783OIajDwPu5qtx4txZXIaw2mdMOUCFWSR5pwblTcYeNDIRCYzDyRykvSM20PCBGfRf8uqu4ejOYNcfrWa38ZJEL9AwXc7DZRAs6gTWnWPQENywaPuZvHkU2aQC0xZ0-D6C2Lo4qcEVFGZm/w640-h424/1990_volvo_240_dsc_3057-33282.jpeg.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP4sx9xe0NFDdMZbPkCMII3SisYngiGw5WYJolZ_yf_afE6UvtJMRhslpZ1AUIu8MmlogL_UibRd3aEqm6yzIkgHuUG1wxvb148l0PqMkdXKH6NAvyKaNWmU3jBWNr8DbSDbOe8FGDu10UOZWOxMTA-Bbk7d8T-ou6uiwdxpT18ASkcRSbNwi6u8BmwLnO/s620/1990_volvo_240_dsc_3050-33297.jpeg.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="620" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP4sx9xe0NFDdMZbPkCMII3SisYngiGw5WYJolZ_yf_afE6UvtJMRhslpZ1AUIu8MmlogL_UibRd3aEqm6yzIkgHuUG1wxvb148l0PqMkdXKH6NAvyKaNWmU3jBWNr8DbSDbOe8FGDu10UOZWOxMTA-Bbk7d8T-ou6uiwdxpT18ASkcRSbNwi6u8BmwLnO/w640-h424/1990_volvo_240_dsc_3050-33297.jpeg.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122514265607544420.post-41031200496123942502024-03-01T13:28:00.001-05:002024-03-01T13:28:05.052-05:001965 Valiant convertible<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbfmzoY09jL0T75rW2DS_VKHrsNvnEgCAfnx7dqcxbAWTepUg_xsyo5JTkblvh4qTsOYwyey79aU81mlqW44_I9-wuKvp8KIo6eP_lypT5g2rcqBTmOk_x1YosRkposjNfax2HAo11upvXn0QHIZqb0g0tIwrh_IwNHwIlr2uxiHZBUW7M2JPGgtlVcxhe/s4000/20240229_203850.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbfmzoY09jL0T75rW2DS_VKHrsNvnEgCAfnx7dqcxbAWTepUg_xsyo5JTkblvh4qTsOYwyey79aU81mlqW44_I9-wuKvp8KIo6eP_lypT5g2rcqBTmOk_x1YosRkposjNfax2HAo11upvXn0QHIZqb0g0tIwrh_IwNHwIlr2uxiHZBUW7M2JPGgtlVcxhe/w640-h480/20240229_203850.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">From Reid Cunningham: "I hadn't expected to find anything interesting in the parking lot of the Vince Lombardi rest area off I95 in New Jersey, but life is full of surprises! Worthy of restoration, and I take as a hopeful sign it's getting moved to where it can be returned to its former glory."</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">AL: we posted a V<a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2021/07/1965-plymouth-valiant-bayside-portland.html">aliant of this era</a> from Portland, Maine a while back.<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-OPRf1EsOJ2gQMXUcTImF44qRGyTaGuTYLtY839HBjerINUDJ2NUJrhilHWar4FIzhNZ1-QXB0MEP7YG0u-c_iyF9sP6QTtsLgKIHgRvArOqZThplbnbDKDX7YAc6nDpINypKLT8pyeSAPXsJi-N7SBG7RFPaCWnnCQgBe3Ym1aMxTJo6eiALdC-0Snzs/s4000/20240229_203916.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-OPRf1EsOJ2gQMXUcTImF44qRGyTaGuTYLtY839HBjerINUDJ2NUJrhilHWar4FIzhNZ1-QXB0MEP7YG0u-c_iyF9sP6QTtsLgKIHgRvArOqZThplbnbDKDX7YAc6nDpINypKLT8pyeSAPXsJi-N7SBG7RFPaCWnnCQgBe3Ym1aMxTJo6eiALdC-0Snzs/w640-h480/20240229_203916.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgArJdQp0_K47Kcekx7kNIMMGoQP9Dm7UNjL95GRoZAoVbGBYHw6k79RbxRuc403xJPBUicmU6IOxv8zSsUnvv7i7p-bv0kVoBQVVpbHYtlKQOxo-0cK_TkdzPWssx6UF7FfMrFLP850kVbhCBsGJ3ahnki_zCIwkrFF6215r-GDWkEVGHZ8IXN0yvK-han/s4000/20240229_203903.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgArJdQp0_K47Kcekx7kNIMMGoQP9Dm7UNjL95GRoZAoVbGBYHw6k79RbxRuc403xJPBUicmU6IOxv8zSsUnvv7i7p-bv0kVoBQVVpbHYtlKQOxo-0cK_TkdzPWssx6UF7FfMrFLP850kVbhCBsGJ3ahnki_zCIwkrFF6215r-GDWkEVGHZ8IXN0yvK-han/w640-h480/20240229_203903.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122514265607544420.post-83748365215952096782024-02-27T16:41:00.003-05:002024-02-27T16:41:30.913-05:00"I had My Eye On Your (1959) Imperial (you're too precious)"<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUQifti1nPCcAcNdGm5-XFb6xe3o5LjqYdYdC7V4yssnMiz3yB1stZp3PEhRwHN4G8IIPTQ72yI6pGDdaLwlcvFfM07ILIhcLuk1mW5TS0zxXxHceMiBsS565NiKulLfvNTiY8NlbO2qR99hTWamoq4Ik7ufTTLlW5UAxSMavPLpVMQcolB2_OD0fBPhBk/s3024/IMG_0396.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1843" data-original-width="3024" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUQifti1nPCcAcNdGm5-XFb6xe3o5LjqYdYdC7V4yssnMiz3yB1stZp3PEhRwHN4G8IIPTQ72yI6pGDdaLwlcvFfM07ILIhcLuk1mW5TS0zxXxHceMiBsS565NiKulLfvNTiY8NlbO2qR99hTWamoq4Ik7ufTTLlW5UAxSMavPLpVMQcolB2_OD0fBPhBk/w640-h390/IMG_0396.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Chrissy Hynde and the Pretenders, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAn65_5x1kw">Precious.</a> Markus Anstadt spotted the car. Note to contributors: old metal is thin on the ground in New England in February, most of it's tucked into barns. If you are somewhere sunnier, drier and less salty, keep an eye out for Aultoliterate, and send us jpegs. How about this <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2017/04/i-had-my-eye-on-your-imperial-take-4.html">'55 Imperial</a> from Colorado Springs? And the <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2018/12/i-had-my-eye-on-your-1963-imperial.html">self-conscious weirdness</a> of the '63 Imperial we spotted in Maine.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg06lLDgTTY0rSBEBQOXf1iwMkoAhxpMCvazyX5ricfYJ7FeKqVXxoxERTrZVjgK-BNRHA7FhEspEjna3KMYdE940amQqKJuxHwuPXQZVmRYTMe86xMg8y-sBWNH0Ke3R85OZOj2wV9hMrwWAPsbNg1FlJMjkEWgJhrUP6OmrOHPdeYx9Th2F_C1PwFeIBc/s1306/IMG_0401%20(Large).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1306" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg06lLDgTTY0rSBEBQOXf1iwMkoAhxpMCvazyX5ricfYJ7FeKqVXxoxERTrZVjgK-BNRHA7FhEspEjna3KMYdE940amQqKJuxHwuPXQZVmRYTMe86xMg8y-sBWNH0Ke3R85OZOj2wV9hMrwWAPsbNg1FlJMjkEWgJhrUP6OmrOHPdeYx9Th2F_C1PwFeIBc/w528-h640/IMG_0401%20(Large).JPG" width="528" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Usually with Tennessee plates. Tonight <a href="https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/joe-russo-new-project-selcouth-quartet/">Joe Russo's Selcouth Quartet</a> is playing at The Sinclair.<a href="https://www.busesandmore.com/history-of-prevost-buses/"> Prevost </a>is a Canadian company owned since 1995 by Volvo Bus. Eugene Prevost built his first wooden coach body on a new REO truck chassis. Before this, he was a cabinet maker in Québec, specializing in church pews and school furniture. Russel Coach is <a href="http://russellcoach.com/wp_russell/">an entertainer coach</a> leasing company.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi6IBT-COvDYFi6nxpvWWGpcpwsDPz9GJVjGKc1xgrOPiuEG6K2hulXmJnjqHcEg1F_RAqv9Az5FmexkYEfllRJEavON-eYbuTxF91vB6rDuTfXaWiTYxsiyS554ABapAIBdFR2u1w3hszjqEEVJOnFcY97smotXuR42ITCUFlC9kZsZlgkxznE6OtFWOa/s4032/2CB0F4C7-822D-4A5A-B718-7B91EC9BBF19.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi6IBT-COvDYFi6nxpvWWGpcpwsDPz9GJVjGKc1xgrOPiuEG6K2hulXmJnjqHcEg1F_RAqv9Az5FmexkYEfllRJEavON-eYbuTxF91vB6rDuTfXaWiTYxsiyS554ABapAIBdFR2u1w3hszjqEEVJOnFcY97smotXuR42ITCUFlC9kZsZlgkxznE6OtFWOa/w480-h640/2CB0F4C7-822D-4A5A-B718-7B91EC9BBF19.heic" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihDNy1PawaRkeKPypCZK9jU3s9ryq-9CoiwpE07KDwv62q0tR-K2RLCfAsQPjr_pQVrJ4Tjk_NBqYW_Pk1ACu9kCw6mhn0ykPpUlUinO9kj_FinRA5JcvrPpB_UgtNZL1zvsnswPBJzuKgO3ENR-QCZOFSahZp-f_K5czvk6i5FDu5k0wpr6VkbTmHivPt/s4032/FD8A4D97-08E1-4710-B0BD-EFFF1258F71B.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihDNy1PawaRkeKPypCZK9jU3s9ryq-9CoiwpE07KDwv62q0tR-K2RLCfAsQPjr_pQVrJ4Tjk_NBqYW_Pk1ACu9kCw6mhn0ykPpUlUinO9kj_FinRA5JcvrPpB_UgtNZL1zvsnswPBJzuKgO3ENR-QCZOFSahZp-f_K5czvk6i5FDu5k0wpr6VkbTmHivPt/w480-h640/FD8A4D97-08E1-4710-B0BD-EFFF1258F71B.heic" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf3PXkhUYLG3eiQuopxoCHxuRa47x1RHmXXKFTOMlrTEBR5QJEXiYmXrB7zoO_SVLS1uzTTDqMETBHd3ykeG4hhgT_6e0I4oJPNY8mXyzahUW-tEK44WW6VzMIaWzkPPKswyuPSA6O0SV6mPSMQWtX3mDb5rYFBGbyf2yKxPa1EbPxLkdROE-ZfnukwJTp/s4032/D4F2273C-FD4C-41FE-B7F9-37C11AC0E787.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf3PXkhUYLG3eiQuopxoCHxuRa47x1RHmXXKFTOMlrTEBR5QJEXiYmXrB7zoO_SVLS1uzTTDqMETBHd3ykeG4hhgT_6e0I4oJPNY8mXyzahUW-tEK44WW6VzMIaWzkPPKswyuPSA6O0SV6mPSMQWtX3mDb5rYFBGbyf2yKxPa1EbPxLkdROE-ZfnukwJTp/w480-h640/D4F2273C-FD4C-41FE-B7F9-37C11AC0E787.heic" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUwU2taYiwcGYrXyc6GPyM8oflis1CRmYc5EbVWKltQ6JgdN_9wGB4tFuzYRVP2t_OrvkVPM5bhn5mY8ZRUh2mQplnsyub2A66BzcxuJ3JMjEJSInBe4d_17p_5XO-Rt1-zgbSLkMy0x1Kjui-1U5OPdqqSeLIdfWvUMpMqWvGBP4FqQvA_OOVZNiEkyfw/s4032/38115A27-9451-411D-9489-67B72C5DD9DE.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUwU2taYiwcGYrXyc6GPyM8oflis1CRmYc5EbVWKltQ6JgdN_9wGB4tFuzYRVP2t_OrvkVPM5bhn5mY8ZRUh2mQplnsyub2A66BzcxuJ3JMjEJSInBe4d_17p_5XO-Rt1-zgbSLkMy0x1Kjui-1U5OPdqqSeLIdfWvUMpMqWvGBP4FqQvA_OOVZNiEkyfw/w640-h480/38115A27-9451-411D-9489-67B72C5DD9DE.heic" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122514265607544420.post-51324012650247411842024-02-22T05:00:00.002-05:002024-02-23T13:20:27.424-05:00The Ford Euro Ranger: return to form<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfAs0Z1mUbTuslSN-IfMMXoFXiw7YE4F0CsfHGKlqZ41dxMde1-CB3Z908D9-7fKbJmoVgEETfvUTBLAg1EpyDLhp3Y72Zt0YXF-fKfFIDjmA1QrqTQwWYJ_SdeYo_RMml7UaUyg33eZnUXkAI2n8J85Flzw-jdLpcT_icThiGJsZ_iHip94a2TuC5ko0e/s1315/2c5bbbf345062fa2906564c715f27a3c.jpg.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1315" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfAs0Z1mUbTuslSN-IfMMXoFXiw7YE4F0CsfHGKlqZ41dxMde1-CB3Z908D9-7fKbJmoVgEETfvUTBLAg1EpyDLhp3Y72Zt0YXF-fKfFIDjmA1QrqTQwWYJ_SdeYo_RMml7UaUyg33eZnUXkAI2n8J85Flzw-jdLpcT_icThiGJsZ_iHip94a2TuC5ko0e/w640-h360/2c5bbbf345062fa2906564c715f27a3c.jpg.webp" width="640" /></a></div>If you want a basic pickup, go to France. Or the UK Or anywhere else in Europe that Ford markets the regular cab version of the its 2024 Ford Ranger. AL caught the news on<a href="https://jalopnik.com/2024-ford-ranger-single-cab-a-glorious-return-to-form-1851226278"> Jalopnik.</a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipiAK7he45zrDTBCjDINHK6VRkmbHoZBeRoSNVouNrDwcV_4fTjULvrNG1p0MJ9WJb1MqDzDOkUG-rHbv1zYROzD1Yak57ToppPYpfnSeYpRA53mcvdnbrhbFO5mrbidOZUQJXQRj9aI7i9VAg4fxX4G_H6txnMB12itkZ6cxae0U_I_WTUvd8p8lZvJHV/s1315/e26c942333ec2d1bb28ee299481a4f13.jpg.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1315" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipiAK7he45zrDTBCjDINHK6VRkmbHoZBeRoSNVouNrDwcV_4fTjULvrNG1p0MJ9WJb1MqDzDOkUG-rHbv1zYROzD1Yak57ToppPYpfnSeYpRA53mcvdnbrhbFO5mrbidOZUQJXQRj9aI7i9VAg4fxX4G_H6txnMB12itkZ6cxae0U_I_WTUvd8p8lZvJHV/w640-h360/e26c942333ec2d1bb28ee299481a4f13.jpg.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122514265607544420.post-49642948884602764372024-02-21T19:29:00.001-05:002024-02-21T19:29:00.129-05:00the Volkswagen Scout<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSMNh5TdMPslPQGQPqQDYwOdnAjM4vhS_9Vu3UcmvTr2UWEmcZcs1qM6muugFiCjvEkQ81bZpSnRj1lpZSGw14hrCdQC_wg7lpORB3UrDCbotHQV41zx5BoYZyStPlCbrbLll6ePsDa_qhsM9KXKbtNyayMrbbYsAImF4La6IsVEl1lqlGg4PzqhYPdYFk/s2048/00foreign-evs-gqmj-superJumbo.jpg.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSMNh5TdMPslPQGQPqQDYwOdnAjM4vhS_9Vu3UcmvTr2UWEmcZcs1qM6muugFiCjvEkQ81bZpSnRj1lpZSGw14hrCdQC_wg7lpORB3UrDCbotHQV41zx5BoYZyStPlCbrbLll6ePsDa_qhsM9KXKbtNyayMrbbYsAImF4La6IsVEl1lqlGg4PzqhYPdYFk/w640-h424/00foreign-evs-gqmj-superJumbo.jpg.webp" width="640" /></a></div>Volkswagen will be building Scout vehicles at a plant in Columbia, S.C. says this <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/business/vw-electric-vehicles-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XE0.aktF.AxujaJySTdkD&smid=url-share">piece in the NYT.</a> If you want to track out Scout posts, start with this <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2023/09/i-h-scout-arlington-virginia.html">Scout spotted in Arlington, VA</a><p></p>autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122514265607544420.post-24078417070240590042024-02-20T19:26:00.001-05:002024-02-20T19:26:08.002-05:00Ram Turfside<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMnPTZd51vRvWcUQP9M_eFYgEZTQ3_oJqyfa5l2yJp-vE5FgVZnfkdeTB4nRK6WZn697qJ8EfTqZo0rn1NfIFc5ZQ1GKLWf9Gdr_DmwGvG-iXvqpjFAMO2a91syZ5cNcVfjVs2f3U0r8lBbJmZxDa_WXO86JHun8pkQLnvUGZkLsqflbQfzuwQCzemSvx/s3872/653004B1-9830-4927-B3B5-8AA55C886FF9_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3872" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMnPTZd51vRvWcUQP9M_eFYgEZTQ3_oJqyfa5l2yJp-vE5FgVZnfkdeTB4nRK6WZn697qJ8EfTqZo0rn1NfIFc5ZQ1GKLWf9Gdr_DmwGvG-iXvqpjFAMO2a91syZ5cNcVfjVs2f3U0r8lBbJmZxDa_WXO86JHun8pkQLnvUGZkLsqflbQfzuwQCzemSvx/w640-h428/653004B1-9830-4927-B3B5-8AA55C886FF9_1_201_a.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">From Alex Emond, in Banff, Alberta: "Somebody did a good job here, but I'm not sure why. Maybe he's got a landscape business; maybe he's a golf pro; or maybe he's just nuts. This can't help his coefficient of drag. I'm not saying that I don't like the look.</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEDp2uU3idNs_mQuUCcwTgrH2L9gB8mZAyHYsatLKF1LgGXBDKTghQ38gRdtOiQh4bOq1DwaKME4UazBlY1h4B7oXOCeBCn4eP3nGRf5LOsX5UZpwlL1W0W1Xukgipf3_ZmjtfMylvCv9wSqGzA8ShCL9otg1n-5CEiQlx1la9Ek23BlVS6B1iTObLi_Jd/s3872/AADE93F2-F34B-4130-AECF-C64F1FBC1F39.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3872" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEDp2uU3idNs_mQuUCcwTgrH2L9gB8mZAyHYsatLKF1LgGXBDKTghQ38gRdtOiQh4bOq1DwaKME4UazBlY1h4B7oXOCeBCn4eP3nGRf5LOsX5UZpwlL1W0W1Xukgipf3_ZmjtfMylvCv9wSqGzA8ShCL9otg1n-5CEiQlx1la9Ek23BlVS6B1iTObLi_Jd/w640-h428/AADE93F2-F34B-4130-AECF-C64F1FBC1F39.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1986" data-original-width="2560" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisOhOOzdxpbTC5aM1d4TnlNCB3tdy87rkDJQOkhzoKr68emtx5P5uiQDYUUkZfCQsv_9y2Qo39nFB4jlCz3OQdYD2NHNGVEhDgHFTyUQeJ_KvE8wB2G2Xx-cO_FSZMa0WZ5BAlJTvpMRZqvrxxzoIjhXwRbIjoeKGuNKK20hSB7afbObd7h3ODK9P1Dot1/w640-h496/CoverOnBackground-FlatCropped3000px-scaled.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />We <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2022/01/fitzpatrick-and-kaufman-and-pontiac.html">posted a while back on the artwork Van Kaufman and Art Fitzpatrick</a> did for GM in the 1950s and 1960s. There is a <a href="https://www.fitzandvan.com">book out now, on their kind-of-astonishing work, </a>that speaks of the wide track era, when cars were supposed to be high, wide and handsome. In the ads, anyway. File under American Dreamland.</span><a href="https://www.fitzandvan.com" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="990" data-original-width="2560" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFb5GtP8NqAssnnWdlERCWBvZlKUE7qFQbUxqdbw_vJzc2bkAwTU3RVqjQk9sZHbiVXqYa5pKAwX5oKMXjO_9kcgh0qAMEdlxBgcpjhBR4rHFxme3mcputm3n95I2bCMicP8Ls8nTESuEYItY0ODGYKpoeZ5uYXA4_AwWKyQ1VKwGEbyU2ClzqJ3S6tDF1/w640-h245/52-53Spread-scaled-1.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122514265607544420.post-66506162461651325372024-02-09T14:21:00.005-05:002024-02-09T14:21:33.369-05:00My 1949 Ford F-1<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik1gzJJgUJWE03I-1AxMQUO8QYqLzyAUTMniDYa9pdW5Gmpfc_KaA1_84tYfdC-aPw-tVH0nm9muYY2NmhtN9q23O_mGvA1lOgMaCZIBfvbVTeyvSor5QuhPvi6Xv_cssEYD1YH_9J31I7oBfWSO0e0o8fwawk0Gk33tE-PNPut3dJvwFXIxvCvXKJlXYI/s640/IMG_3357.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik1gzJJgUJWE03I-1AxMQUO8QYqLzyAUTMniDYa9pdW5Gmpfc_KaA1_84tYfdC-aPw-tVH0nm9muYY2NmhtN9q23O_mGvA1lOgMaCZIBfvbVTeyvSor5QuhPvi6Xv_cssEYD1YH_9J31I7oBfWSO0e0o8fwawk0Gk33tE-PNPut3dJvwFXIxvCvXKJlXYI/w640-h480/IMG_3357.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"...and sorely missed." From Larry Nordell, in Montana. We saw a <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2019/10/1950-ford-f1.html">F1 for sale</a> a while back, at Motorland here in Maine. <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2015/10/el-paso-ford-f1.html">Here's another, </a>outside a dentist's office in El Paso. Another <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2023/01/1949-ford-f-1-new-hampshire.html">'49 in New Hampshire,</a> for some reason wearing whitewalls. And then, another <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2020/11/ford-f-1-cambridge.html">F1in Cambridge </a>MA, of all places.</span><p></p>autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122514265607544420.post-27491352605811396302024-02-08T20:32:00.003-05:002024-02-08T20:32:54.230-05:001969 Plymouth Fury I<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgutOQUquQimvnVKhb4-df-Mhz6iPeoB8xcDAihJpda8yW4QZxp1X72-7R4t3kBSjlznQRa_sSpTvRPmpnGzeKpF1DF5qJZBul7J7E2U8kfPpFp5qpF2z3kWsTANkSgvPhraxgg3ykYsDoLtzNjCEMe1_UbvJxaHNNkMXuYkXk1ebBX3upqT6UloC6pIuYb/s1751/IMG_1262%20(Large).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1751" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgutOQUquQimvnVKhb4-df-Mhz6iPeoB8xcDAihJpda8yW4QZxp1X72-7R4t3kBSjlznQRa_sSpTvRPmpnGzeKpF1DF5qJZBul7J7E2U8kfPpFp5qpF2z3kWsTANkSgvPhraxgg3ykYsDoLtzNjCEMe1_UbvJxaHNNkMXuYkXk1ebBX3upqT6UloC6pIuYb/w640-h392/IMG_1262%20(Large).JPG" width="640" /></a>F<span style="font-size: medium;">rom Markus Anstaddt, in San Antonio, TX. "Not sure if this was a real police vehicle or some sort of<i> hommage.</i> Fury I models did not have the most robust power plants..."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Here 's a 1971 <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2014/03/1972-plymouth-fury-i.html">plainjane Plymouth Fury I</a> we saw in California. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCgkQgHPOJhny9Gb_ItO8Qqhb1QeVpWT-Iam37pzTI7TE9E9dca_DoQc4PsZBWUG6aG8wD654G78jpxelv7o-m5aeeNJRS3pOJin8gkgbqE-VFy48Lcf9ODlET8ZCYpDFFadEmOWvyAsZRReUi3AkEdCTo40Q58WjeHf7k2IrE_8huM04bAJdLo_4EBqpP/s4000/20240205_123429.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCgkQgHPOJhny9Gb_ItO8Qqhb1QeVpWT-Iam37pzTI7TE9E9dca_DoQc4PsZBWUG6aG8wD654G78jpxelv7o-m5aeeNJRS3pOJin8gkgbqE-VFy48Lcf9ODlET8ZCYpDFFadEmOWvyAsZRReUi3AkEdCTo40Q58WjeHf7k2IrE_8huM04bAJdLo_4EBqpP/w640-h480/20240205_123429.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />From Reid Cunningham: " I was hurrying through a lot in Manchester NH when I spotted this Dakota. I'm not used to seeing 30ish-year-old vehicles in Salt Season up here. I had a similar 1993 Dakota with the longer bed. The Dakota was a midsized truck, at the time. The main benefit versus the mini pickups was that a third person could reasonably be squeezed into the middle postion of the bench seat. Ford has brought the <a href="https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2022/09/3rd-gen-ford-ranger.html">Ranger</a> back to the US; it looks about the size of the Dakota. No regular cab version will be available in the US (<a href="https://jalopnik.com/2024-ford-ranger-single-cab-a-glorious-return-to-form-1851226278">available in Europe</a> though–see photos below) and I doubt the manual transmission will be an option either. Sigh."<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieUW8kqkYgqZOBfoiMiEmurCA3eW5zdswM2Hmb0euovN5104UqZfO5U_-A7SykELFQ9mEk4TkOVJ5Jd0VnRqj0EVbkIDf4AGTTGtys3hvtOHFVw3wcDjMlZNdMNBiI9jMsjyorPz3aXj_DJXT9pcVqYYmUMaEoJpwl82y-ec_NFm6qmzzfm9l9Mexe_Tmg/s1315/2c5bbbf345062fa2906564c715f27a3c.jpg.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1315" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieUW8kqkYgqZOBfoiMiEmurCA3eW5zdswM2Hmb0euovN5104UqZfO5U_-A7SykELFQ9mEk4TkOVJ5Jd0VnRqj0EVbkIDf4AGTTGtys3hvtOHFVw3wcDjMlZNdMNBiI9jMsjyorPz3aXj_DJXT9pcVqYYmUMaEoJpwl82y-ec_NFm6qmzzfm9l9Mexe_Tmg/w640-h360/2c5bbbf345062fa2906564c715f27a3c.jpg.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ix6-a86F-OTZhSo8RB_fDz9R_Yq57PaPeuFZB6WYWFjEF73S-nXQmPGnZ-PJktbKqLjI62kSRCMaiqF7oSJdtOHQlVWvfkkIrapNH_LsgWbkrPnQXn_tuzyB_uP06JDaJece6HYczVR-x88Y4IRoug3QEdSWtCfCu8Wpjt3QNXTISYOMGsAaXebZ-jMp/s1315/e26c942333ec2d1bb28ee299481a4f13.jpg.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1315" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ix6-a86F-OTZhSo8RB_fDz9R_Yq57PaPeuFZB6WYWFjEF73S-nXQmPGnZ-PJktbKqLjI62kSRCMaiqF7oSJdtOHQlVWvfkkIrapNH_LsgWbkrPnQXn_tuzyB_uP06JDaJece6HYczVR-x88Y4IRoug3QEdSWtCfCu8Wpjt3QNXTISYOMGsAaXebZ-jMp/w640-h360/e26c942333ec2d1bb28ee299481a4f13.jpg.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>autoliteratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11709410030980994983noreply@blogger.com0