Cars & Owners, #2

 

     Chip Lord, Sausalito 1970

From the photo series Cars & Owners copyright Chip Lord and Doug Michels (in the collection of SFMOMA) All rights reserved. 

AL will be posting a series of these photographs. 

Cambridge BMW 2002

 

We've seen this car before, around town. Did you catch the '68 2002 we posted earlier this week?

SWB trucks

 

1986 Chevrolet C-10. Pinto Canyon Road. Presidio County, Texas. More SWBs here.

1963 Lincoln Continental, Cambridge, Mass

 

Those Italianesque Lincoln Continentals of the Sixties...were something else. And the '59 Lincoln had certainly needed a rethink. We caught a Lincoln in hurry in West Texas a while back. And a 1954 Lincoln Capri in Blue Hill, Miane.

Chip Lord and Doug Michels: Cars & Owners.

      Hudson Marquez with Betsy and Terraplane, Russian River area,  1971

From the photo series Cars & Owners copyright Chip Lord and Doug Michels (in the collection of SFMOMA) All rights reserved

1968 BMW 2002, Maine.

A nimble little car compared to American beefcake of the period, but no speed machine, unless you were down for the fuel-injected and tuned tii edition.We posted a 1976 2002 from Cambridge, Mass. a while back.

 

1977 Ford F-150. Marfa, Texas.

 

David Branch photos. That Ford graveyard, east of town.

1962 GMC C-10, Brooklin Boatyard

 

Works for us. Everything about this truck. The era. Learned standard on an Apache 10 working as a hand at the GH Ranch in Alberta. Dodging the Mounties on the section road, eh? Coming home from the beer parlour in Sundre.

1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS

 

Caught the Monte Carlo in Lowell, Mass. We have posted a tuned 1984 Monte Carlo,, and a very sharp 1980 Monte Carlo in NJ. One competitor was Ford's Torino. And you might recall our post on Jack Kerouac and Lowell.

Ford Police Interceptor Utility, Harvard Square.

AL likes the PI's because of the absence of trim and gewgaws; or maybe it's just the dog-dish hubcaps. Ford offers the current-generation Police Interceptor Utility as "the first-ever pursuit-rated hybrid police SUV." Caught this one in Harvard Square. We posted a Crown Vic Interceptor a while back.  And then there was the Renault 10 from the Service de Police de Ville de Montréal.

SWB Ram 1500 Cambridge

 

We like SWB trucks. Don't see many of them. Especially in Cambridge. The Texas C-10 is one. Posted a bunch of others, mostly owned by Devta Doolan.

Last Fast

The four-door sedan with an internal combustion engine is approaching extinction in the US. Rare to catch a Charger in Tesla-infused Cambridge, but this c. 2010 Dodge was lodged on Memorial Drive on a sunny September Sunday. Model year 2023 is Last Call for the Charger.

 

Honda Stepwgn, El Camino, Porsche 911 Targa

 

Photos from Yona Shapiro, on a trip out West: "Honda Stepwgn: this is not just a "slightly" different Canadian Honda. First introduced in 1996, this right-hand-drive Honda must have been imported from Japan recently." 

(AL. See our post earlier this week on the imported 4wd Japan vans we've seen in British Columbia.)

Yonah caught the El Camino SS in Whitefish, Montana...(links to many AL El Camino posts here.) 

Back in Cambridge, Yonah found "a rare Targa model of the Porsche 911". Did you catch the Porsche 1600 we posted earlier this week?

1965 Ford Falcon, Palm Springs.

 

That '62 Falcon Ranchero we posted last spring was a classic wheelbarrow truck. A '61 Falcon has us thinking about Robert McNamara. And then there was the '63 Falcon Futura and the pays d'en haut.

1971 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu

 

From Markus Anstadt: "1971 Chevelle Malibu. Base model, not an SS or other variant. Pillarless 2 door hardtop. Looks like it just rolled out of a Chevrolet dealer showroom."

AL: we love these kinda ordinary vernacular cars-of-the-period that seem to have been preserved rather than restored. Don't know the story on this Chevelle, but someone has been taking care of it. Looks like the wheels are aftermarket, though. Might have been a high school assistant-principal's car. Might also be a sleeper. At one time or another, might have been both. We posted a 1968 Chevelle last spring. And here's a 1972 Chevelle with a 350, from Maine. And a tuned 1976 Chevelle station wagon, one of our favorite cars, spotted in a supermarket parking lot in Colorado Springs.