Parker Point Summer Car: 1989 Caprice Estate

An All-American car for the 4th.The last of the type--big Chevys went bulbous in 1990 and soon after GM started selling minivans instead.

34 Ford 5-window coupe

Wednesday night is cruise-in at the frozen custard shop in So. Freeport, Maine. There were some nice cars, but this was my favorite. The custard was great--like ice cream, with eggs. But why do they set up speakers and blast boring old rock & roll from the 50s and 60s at every car show and cruise in Maine? 

Oh, that June green. Still hard to believe it after the winter we had.

Grizzly Torque: The Land Rover & Robert Bateman

RMB painting the LR in Nigeria

Maybe you remember our encounter with the internationally recognized wildlife artist Robert Bateman on a ferry landing in British Columbia last fall. RB celebrated his 85th birthday with his boyhood friend Bristol Foster in late May by opening the Rover Boys exhibit at the Robert Bateman Centre in Victoria, BC. It features a film, photographs, sketches and letters from a driving trip around the world they took nearly 60 years ago. The special order 1957 Land Rover they piloted 60,000 kilometres from England through west and equatorial Africa, India, Southeast Asia and Australia over 14 months will also be there.The story of that Land Rover’s discovery in the bush outside Williams Lake BC after the pair of ardent Land Rover enthusiasts looked in vain for it for decades would make a book in itself. Bateman and Foster have been friends since they were teenage members of a naturalist club at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum...

Thanks to my cousin, Aimee Ippersiel, Director of the RB Centre for the heads-up on this exhibit.

Lost & Found

The Ur-SUV

Picking up the L-R in England

Day of the Iguana

Spurwink Congregational Church, Cape Elizabeth

 Cape Elizabeth, Maine. 1802, rebuilt 1834. Winslow Homer's down the road, at Prouts Neck.

DAF & Scania trucks at Rolling Kitchens, Amsterdam

from Guido Goluke, the translator, in Amsterdam: "In the park where Henry saw one the Sinterklazen of that year, there is an annual eat and amaze festival called Rolling Kitchens. I have never before seen any truck connection, but in my new capacity of truck scout for Europe I came across some beauties. The DAF and Scania Trucks speak for themselves. The matt black ‘el camino style cutaway with the elaborate  exhaust/muffler system is a mystery to me. Maybe the machine runs on solid fuels, for when the oil finally runs out? [ AL--It's a Cadillac, must have been a funeral flower car]

My retirement, not even started for real, has already ended: early stories by Truman Capote (I translated Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms years ago) to be ready by october. And then perhaps more next year. A nice offer, not too much work, good writer. Possibly a stepping stone to make the crossing to Yaddo again?? Or MacDowell..".-GG

Ford C-series

Something about C-series Fords. No messing around. This one was up on Curbside Classics. We found another in Colorado Springs a while back.

1958 GMC APACHE

Matt Dallett caught the Jimmy in Andover MA