Lewis deSoto and the GMC Cahuilla

from Michael Moore, in California: "We were doing a sculpture install in Santa Rosa on Tuesday when Lewis DeSoto turned up in his 4x4 3/4 ton [nominally GMC] Cahuilla, an immaculate piece of conceptual art which also serves as his work truck.

Neither pictures, nor my words, can begin to do it [or his practice] justice.  As an aside, he is of Cahuilla ancestry, and a couple his uncles ran an auto body shop in San Bernadino, where he grew up;http://desotodesign.net/

…anyway, I think the link will lead you to the website showing his automotive works [he does a lot more, and varied, stuff]; check it out.  The truck was immaculate, and a trip."--MSM

1939 Cadillac LaSalle

from Colin Washburn, in the Sierra foothills: "I kept going back to this beautiful car at the annual Copperopolis Car Show. Pure class. THE car of the show in my book. Clean, customized details all over it, like the "suicide doors" that aren't stock ! Easily one of the finest rides I've ever seen."-CRW

 We posted a 1942 Cadillac in Alpine, Texas.

1951 FORD F1 Arundel, Maine

Saw the Ford down at Motorland in Arundel. It was early April but felt like the first day of Spring. That bold, bare season--between snow and leafing-out--passes so quickly here in Maine. We're in deep green now, though still cool with fog along the coast. But Maine fog is more interesting than the gloomy old Marine Layer that presses down on Santa Barbara around this time of year. June (sometimes May) Gloom? Not in Maine. February gloom? That's another story. We're very fond of an F2 of this era that lives down in Marfa.

1957 Packard Clipper Station Wagon

For sale in Chattanooga. Five grand. Find out more on B-A-T. The 1957 Packard Clipper Wagon is claimed by the seller to be one of 836 built and a factory McCulloch supercharged 289 V8 car. 

1955 Ford, 1945 Chevy. Benicia, California

from Michael Moore on San Francisco Bay: " ....in the artists’ ghetto of the Arsenal yesterday, spotted this thing, a terrible fate for a fifties Ford, maybe, but Burningman Ready..

"I like this one better, of course…

"...with its support vehicle, just in case"--MSM 

Wallace Stegner's Eastend & The Wide Open West

from Alex Emond, in southern Saskatchewan: "When I drove back to Banff yesterday I went through Eastend and then took a gravel road that passes through Ravenscrag in the Frenchman River Valley . 

This truck in Eastend has a license plate from Cuba. There has to be a logical explanation for that"--   AE

1941 Ford 4x4

From Colin Washburn, at the Copperopolis (Calif.) Car Show. "The candy-apple red paint job on this rig was exquisite ! ( Photo doesn't do it justice.)"--CRW