1957 Chevrolet Bel Air wagon. Los Angeles (Mar Vista)

 

We posted a '57 plainjane 210 wagon from Moose Jaw. Here's  a poston Earl Swift's Auto Biography of a '57 Chevy wagon.

Lobster Trucks

 

“Back in the day, the family car was often born again as a hybrid truck,” a Stonington fisherman says. Illustration by Brian Robbins.

You know how much we dislike massive chrome-festooned pickup-trucks-glistening-on-steroids. And you know our thing for wheelbarrow trucks. This from Brian Robbins' wonderful piece in The Rising Tide–and thanks to Matt Dallet for the heads-up. "When I was a kid, you didn’t see a lot of new trucks on the Island. There were trucks, of course, but it was a big deal for a fisherman to have a brand-new right-off-the-lot pickup to lug lobster gear to the shore with. I have a dim memory of the truck my father had when I was little: a hulking black Dodge with a wooden flatbed body on the back..."

Porsche 356. Santa Barbara, California.

Mitsubishi Monteros. Los Angeles (Mar Vista)

First Montero we have seen in a while. and then we caught a second. These were all over California in the 1980s. Caught one in Massachusetts a while back. 

1982 Mercedes Benz 300D Turbo. Los Angeles (Mar Vista)

Saw a 300D in Maine last year.

c.1972 Ford Econoline 100. Los Angeles (Mar Vista)

  

c.1971 Chevrolet C20. Los Angeles. (Mar Vista)

And here's a 1969 C10 we found in the same neighbo(u)rhood.