1970 Renault 10

 These very very, very popular in Montreal. Maybe the rear engine made for decent winter traction. But a certain genre of Montrealais just needed to drive something French. A social and political statement as much as anything, which I never entirely understood, since France was always even more nasty, patronizing and coloniale in its attitudes to Québec than, say, England was. This car was for sale last June at Motorland in Arundel, Maine.

House and Car. Akron, Alabama

William Christenberry photograph.

1947 Pontiac Streamliner Woody

The car's for sale at Motorland in Arundel Maine.

Organic Power Wagon

  

My favorite truck in Cambridge. Dodge Power Wagon 150. 1972?

Triboro Bridge traffic

Stephen Hendrickson is a bold man, or an accomplished NYC driver, or both, to grab photographs in such gnarly traffic on the Triboro. But I speak as a Mainer, always awed by the hectic intricacies of NYC in motion. Though traffic there does seem less vituperative than Boston's. 

If you want to read about the Triboro, and you should, because therein lies a tale, the place to start-- and end--is Robert Caro's The Power Broker, his epic biography of Robert Moses, who built the Triboro along with much of the infrastructure of mid century New York, city and state, and simultaneously dealt the region a sequence of grievous blows from which it is still struggling to recover.
I suggest the first car is a late-40's Buick. The other car looks 1940-46, but what genre I couldn't say. Is there hope for these babes or, after surviving so long, are they headed for the crusher? But crushers usually get stacked in a load, not rolled aboard and strapped down so neatly, right? These are trailer queens.

1966 Chrysler Town & Country Wagon

 

It's up on Craigslist in the Bay Area.

1950 Chevrolet Panel Truck. Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

from Stephen Hendrickson: "Greenpoint Brooklyn, my professional home lo these past eight years, never fails to surprise! This rainy morning's find...  I'll let you figure out the vintage, I have no idea. 40's-50's though I guess.  I love the multicolored body parts, and the rain."

Another Greenpoint sighting from S.H.up here