1971 Volvo 164 & The State of Maine

As you can tell from recent posts, it is getting harder and harder to get 'live' shots of old iron out on the roads, here in the State of Maine. By mid-November most of the good stuff, from Kittery to Fort Kent, has been put up in barns for the winter. But I met this 1971 Volvo while I was walking the backstreets of Bath this morning. The car is a completely original, one-owner machine. And, yes, it was going into winter hibernation this afternoon.
BTW, I've just had my Volvo 850 Wagon renovated at Alan's Auto in Portland, a local legend. An interesting experience. Not inexpensive, mind you, but interesting. They seemed unusually committed to doing excellent work on Volvos. More later.
You hear it less often than in the past, but some people (Mainers, mostly) still use "State of Maine"
 instead of just "Maine" in ordinary speech, and even more commonly, in prose. For example, our weatherman will sometimes say "up here in the State of Maine". The training ship for Maine Military Academy is The State of Maine. (Maybe because calling any ship the Maine  summons ghosts of Havana harbor and  the Spanish-American War, as in "Remember The Maine!")
But Vermonters (for example) don't speak of the "State of Vermont" whereas "State of Maine" is still a very common phrase. I suspect it goes back to Maine's unhappy history as a 'province' of Massachusetts. After statehood in 1820 (admitted to the Union as a Free state, part of the Missouri Compromise) impatient Mainers were probably eager and proud to speak of State of--and not Province of, or District of--Maine.