c.1971 Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Santa Barbara, California.

We have posted a 1970 Monte Carlo in N.J. And for comparison's sake here a contemporary Ford Torino,

and a 1972 Pontiac Grand Prix.

 

Lobster truck, with drawing

  

“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..."

c.1995 Chevrolet Sport Van. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The sport was chevy's Van with windows.

 

c. 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu. Santa Barbara, California

 

See our post on another '71 Chevelle Malibu and why we prefer these relatively plainjane cars that look like they have been preserved, or renovated, rather than restored.

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.