c.1991 Ford F-250. Arlington, Virginia.

 

From Matthew Sheehey:  This must be the best looking F-250 in all of Arlington, VA.The liftgate is especially cool...I enjoyed your posts from Nantucket, by the way. Excellent photos and commentary. Thank you! 

c.1990 Ford F250 Los Angeles (Mar Vista)

c.1970 Chevrolet Chevelle. Brooksville, Maine

Early 1970s Ford F-150. Portland, Connecticut.

From Reid Cunningham: "It was a very rainy Memorial Day parade in Portland CT, most of the expected marchers and collector cars, especially the convertibles, stayed home.  But this minty green Ford short bed (with likely a modified engine given the sounds of the dual exhaust exiting before the rear wheels) still came to tow the American flag for the damp parade watchers.

c.1955 MG-TD. Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.

 

Thanks to Henry Behrens for excellent photos. Here's TD we posted from Maine a while back. More links in that post.

Nissan Patrol. Blue Hill, Maine.

 
We've posted only one other Nissan Patrol and that was up on Prince Edward Island. They were sold around the world starting in 1951 but I don't think they ever made it to the US market. They look lightweight and agile, far better off-roaders that the current Land Rover and other slugmobiles. We suspect they're a lot more dependable than any Land Rover.

c. 1995 Ford F-150 wheelbarrow.

This is our idea of a perfect full-size plainjane pickup. Best example of the genre we've seen lately. There aren't many F-150s these days that we'd call a wheelbarrow, but this is one. Here's an International wheelbarrow we posted a while back.

 

1959 Ford Panel Truck. Penobscot, Maine.

 

The day we were there, Mr Berzini, 81, and his grandson were hoisting a rebuilt motor into a 1965 Ford Galaxy convertible.

  

At the boat shed, Sedgwick, Maine.

Getting set to go in. Boats like birds.

 

Elvis Bought a (1956?) Continental

 

Thanks to Stephen Hendrickson for the photo. Then Lincolns got breathtakingly ugly, before they became handsome again, as with this 1963 Continental, kind of an anti-Cadillac...and then again went over-several-tops with this 1976 Mark IV Givenchy edition.

1953 Chevrolet. Brooklin, Maine.

We believe the Chevy is from Deer Isle,  and likely done by the same talented person who did this Plymouth Suburban wagon a while back. We admire a wildly restrained aesthetic.

 

1995 Ford F600, Ellsworth, Maine/c.2025 Ford F650. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2027 Ram Rumble Bee

   We like big trucks that are about being trucks, not testosterone machines. And here's an even  older F600 in Brooklin, Maine we posted a while back.

And then, there are the big trucks we don't like. The ones that blow by us on the turnpike, lonesome ball-capped bearded sociopath behind the wheel. Like the 2027 Ram 1500 Rumble Bee, which is overloaded with 777HP. According to NYT, Tim Kuniskis, Ram's CEO said premium Ram models would cost north of $100k, with gas mileage "that will be terrible". Rumble Bee? Why not call it the Hegseth Edition? Overpriced, out of date, wasteful, muscular between the ears, and packing all kinds of frightened and fearful masculinity. A Patriot Missile of a truck.