1964 Dodge Dart (+ push-button transmission)

Slow, bare green spring seems a long way off but it will happen. We found the Dart in--I think–Bath, Maine a couple Aprils ago. And here's a Dodge Dart Pioneer from only a few years earlier but a different era  when Chrysler was still deep in Exner/Batmobile style.

This time of year in downeast Maine the days have their own sharp and plangent beauty...

Saab story

 

Saab 900s At one time these were a common sight in New England, even in downcast Maine. Cranky but smart cars. Remember that ignition switch on the floor? We posted a newer Saab convertible last summer. And this Saab Viggen post has links to other Saab sighting.

Truck

 

AL likes SWB 2-axle dump trucks; also that Boston vernacular pin-striping.

Ford Lightning

 

First one we have seen in Cambridge. Kinda same old, same old, though. Big black overblown regular Super-Duty Fords and mega-Chevys, also usually black, are always chasing me up and down the Maine Turnpike. Lone males in massive trucks. Coming up fast, 'outta my way!"--you know the ride. Okay, yeah, truck size...the crisis in masculinity...the election...it's all connected, somehow.

c. 1966 Ford F-250, Marfa, Texas

 

"1st pass with pressure washer!" Another from David Branch's rehab ranch for old West Texas trucks.  The antelope grill is a local essential.

Ford F-250 Tremor Moonlander

Michael Moore spotted it in Ely, Nevada. The Tremor is the beefed-up, off-road-packaged F-250. Not exactly a wheelbarrow. Kind of the opposite. It seems to us a truck like this wants to declare war on something. Like, nature. Going where no man (in a massive truck) has gone before. Probably hear him coming, though. Tremors, indeed. With the Moonland on a shortbed, you sleep sideways. Sounds massively uncomfortable. 

 

1972 International Harvester 1110

 

David Branch is creating a refuge for old ranch trucks in Marfa, Texas.