1970 Chevrolet C-10. Marfa, Texas

 

Basha Burwell photos. We posted a dolled-up GMC Sierra edition  of this truck from Echo Park in LA a while back. And another 1970 C-10 in Colorado Springs. And a 1967 C-10 4x4 Suburban in Maine. and a SWB C-10 stepside, also in Marfa.

Late 1980s Peugeot 309: streets of Paris

 

From Don Green Culbertson, à Paris. "A embodiment on wheels of the French late-80s. In its day, the classic sedan, an emblem of middle-class mobility.."

Don has an eye for Peugeots. Our favorite is this 1970 504

1954 Plymouth Suburban

This wagon is on the block this week at Hemmings. One of our favorite cars is a modified 1953 Plymouth Suburban wagon from Deer Isle, Maine. And here's the same car, post-primer. And then there's the Suburban woody...

Studebaker Marfa

Basha Burwell photo ©2023

Plenty of Texas Studebakers in this AL post from Canyon, TX.

Volvo 1800-ES Rally-ready

"The Volvo 1800ES...was built on the foundation of the Volvo P1800 and the original design sketches had been labelled the “Beach Car” by designer Jan Wilsgaard...Its two-door configuration coupled with the long “estate” rear means it’s classed as a shooting brake in Britain ...(aka stationwagon). 8,077 examples of the model would be made and surviving examples are now popular with collectors..." -from Ben Branch's piece on a rally-ready 1800ES in Silodrome

AL has posted several 1800ES, in green...and yellow. But perhaps our favorite Volvo is the P-210.

He Made the Beetle Huge

"When he came to the United States as a young  Volkswagen executive, Carl Hahn inherited an undesirable office and a job that seemed impossible: make the Beetle huge.
He was an outsider with fresh eyes who saw that he couldn’t beat American companies with much bigger head counts and budgets. The only way to win was for the German car maker to play another game altogether.
It needed to be different. It needed to think small..." 
See Ben Cohen's piece in WSJ on Carl Hahn, the man who led Volkswagen America from 1959 to 1964 and figured out how to market a weird, noisy air-cooled German car in the US.

Here at AL we posted this 1972 bus a while back; a VW repair shop in Belfast, Maine; a 1961 Transporter in Harvard Square; an oval window in Cambridge MA...and plenty others.

 

Guests of the Nation

Hogan's flying column, Third Tipperary Brigade 1919

AL presents: an astonishing reading of Frank O'Connor's story, Guests of the Nation, by the Irish actor, Terry McMahon.