Missing Amsterdam

Advanced Design 1953 Chevrolet 3100 half-ton pickup, WoodenBoat, and "Aphrodite"

Sean McKay is working on this truck at his shop, Affordable Performance, on the Naskeag Road in Brooklin, Maine--a couple miles past The WoodenBoat School and the other end of town from Brooklin Boatyard. Speaking of BBY, I went down to Center Harbor yesterday, a good blue day, steady cold 15 knot breeze from NW. There are maybe a dozen boats out on their moorings so far. The season begins.

Here's Aphrodite at the BBY last year. A North Shore cruiser. Long Island to Wall Street. She was rebuilt and restored at Brooklin and comes back every year for a tune-up. There are a lot of very talented craftsmen in this little Maine town.

1951 MG TD on the Naskeag Road

Time to get an inspection sticker. Drove out to Sean McKay's shop, Affordable Performance, on the Naskeag Road. One of the great things is the drive out there, on the Naskeag Road, especially on a blue  sky day in early May. Great view of Blue Hill Bay from the Amen Farm.

Affordable Performance is across the street from the cemetery...

and next door to a church...

The shop has been a car shop probably since the Model T era

Sean was working on a 1951 MG TD

1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15: Marfa & Maine

The big story of the week here is the release of the truck from its winter storage in a barn--actually, it has been locked up since we left for The Netherlands last August. A 1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15, with a Chevrolet tailgate. Charged the battery yesterday. Today she fired up with a snort and rumble. Maybe I'll post some photographs tomorrow. Here are a few from Texas, where we found the truck  sitting in Bee Pierce's lot one morning, a few years back. She was originally sold by Casner Motors in Marfa, Texas in 1975 and spent most of her life in Presidio County...

but now she lives in Maine.

Canadian houses, etc. St George and St Andrew's, New Brunswick

This part of New Brunswick, the Bay of Fundy shore, was largely settled by Loyalists--aka Tories--coming up from New England during and after the American Revolution. The architectural bloodlines are obvious. There's a Canadian Victorian thing going on, too. 

First two are in St George; the rest in St Andrew's. Thjis part of N.B. looks very different than the north shore, along Northumberland Strait, like Shediac and  Caissie Cape, which I blogged last week, and which is vraiment Acadien.