"I had My Eye On Your (1959) Imperial (you're too precious)"

 

Chrissy Hynde and the Pretenders, Precious.  Markus Anstadt spotted the car. Note to contributors: old metal is thin on the ground in New England in February, most of it's tucked into barns. If you are somewhere sunnier, drier and less salty, keep an eye out for Aultoliterate, and send us jpegs.  How about this '55 Imperial from Colorado Springs? And the self-conscious weirdness of the '63 Imperial we spotted in Maine.

Tennessee Traveler

 

Often see these tour buses parked on Church Street, Cambridge. Usually with Tennessee plates. Tonight  Joe Russo's Selcouth Quartet is playing at The Sinclair. Prevost is a Canadian company owned since 1995 by Volvo Bus. Eugene Prevost built his first wooden coach body on a new REO truck chassis. Before this, he was a cabinet maker in Québec, specializing in church pews and school furniture. Russel Coach is an entertainer coach leasing company.

The Ford Euro Ranger: return to form

If you want a basic pickup, go to France. Or the UK Or anywhere else in Europe that Ford markets the regular cab version of the its 2024 Ford Ranger.  AL caught the news on Jalopnik.

the Volkswagen Scout

 

Volkswagen will be building Scout vehicles at a plant in Columbia, S.C. says this piece in the NYT.  If you want to track out Scout posts, start with this Scout spotted in Arlington, VA

Ram Turfside

 

From Alex Emond, in Banff, Alberta: "Somebody did a good job here, but I'm not sure why. Maybe he's got a landscape business; maybe he's a golf pro; or maybe he's just nuts. This can't help his coefficient of drag. I'm not saying that I don't like the look.

Valiant Plymouth: the Food Shark Fleet

 

Adam Bork, artist and Marfa's Legendary Food Shark, has been collecting aged cars for years, and every now and then gets them out for exercise in the wide-open of Far-West Texas.

1969 Corvair Monza, Denver

 

From Markus Anstadt in Denver: Unfortunately, this might be a parts only car. 1965-1969 Corvair Monza, featuring the 140 hp air-cooled engine.

AL: we posted a Fitch-modified Corvair up in Maine a while ago. Here's another Corvair of this era, from the Bay Area.

Fitz & Van

 

We posted a while back on the artwork Van Kaufman and Art Fitzpatrick did for GM in the 1950s and 1960s. There is a book out now, on their kind-of-astonishing work, that speaks of the wide track era, when cars were supposed to be high, wide and handsome. In the ads, anyway. File under American Dreamland.

My 1949 Ford F-1

 

"...and sorely missed." From Larry Nordell, in Montana.  We saw a F1 for sale a while back, at Motorland here in Maine. Here's another, outside a dentist's office in El Paso. Another '49 in New Hampshire, for some reason wearing whitewalls. And then, another F1in Cambridge MA, of all places.

1969 Plymouth Fury I

 From Markus Anstaddt, in San Antonio, TX. "Not sure if this was a real police vehicle or some sort of hommage. Fury I models did not have the most robust power plants..."

Here 's a 1971 plainjane Plymouth Fury I we saw in California. The stripper Fury I was a standard issue NYPD patrol car; probably with a large engine though.

Couple Jeep trucks, California.

 

 Brooks Stevens designed the 1947-55 Jeep pickup and utility wagon.

We posted another J10, from Vermont, a while back.

Plainjane Dodge Dakota (and Ford's Euro-Ranger)

 

From Reid Cunningham: " I was hurrying through a lot in Manchester NH when I spotted this Dakota. I'm not used to seeing 30ish-year-old vehicles in Salt Season up here. I had a similar 1993 Dakota with the longer bed. The Dakota was a midsized truck, at the time. The main benefit versus the mini pickups was that a third person could reasonably be squeezed into the middle postion of the bench seat. Ford has brought the Ranger back to the US; it looks about the size of the Dakota. No regular cab version will be available in the US (available in Europe though–see photos below) and I doubt the manual transmission will be an option either. Sigh."