Robert Bechtle: 1963 Chevrolet Bel Air

 Robert Bechtle is the painter.

1964 World's Fair, NYC.

1965 Dodge Polara Wagon.

Robert Bechtle 1964 Chevrolet Impala

Robert Bechtle 1964 Impala

Redbrick 1951 Chevrolet 3100

Tim Dewart saw the truck in Boston. Here's another 3100 we saw in  Colorado Springs last year.

1972 Gran Torino. Marathon, Texas.

HBB photo

Aston-Martin V12 & Range Rover Velar

Cambridge (Mass.) used to be a Volvo village, back in the days of sturdy Swedish boxmobiles. (See Stanley Fish's essay,  "The Unbearable Ugliness of Volvos") But then the city cut loose its rent-control chains and went on a shopping spree. And college professors are so...over. These days, many AI guys and Start-up Princelings need an Aston Martin. Didn't Cmdr. Bond drive one, in the Sixties films?

In the books, it was a supercharged Bentley.

These days the Aston-Martin looks best with a matching Range Rover, a Velar--one species of L-R that will likely never see service on the veldt. Born Free? I don't think so. This babe was born for the better zip codes.

 

Ford F-350 SuperDuty "We are the boys with the money in the bank!"

AL has been posting  rust and dust from West Texas recently, so today we thought to expand our coverage of the American vehicle vernacular.
Seeing the Polo wagon reminded me of a ditty my father sang to me, decades ago, as we walked across the McGill University campus, where some undergraduates were tossing a football around. HHB would have remembered it from the 1930s, though the reference to a swimming "tank" possibly dates it even further back.
"Football, baseball,
 Swimming in the tank
 We are the boys with the money in the bank!"