1964 Triumph Sports 6

 

A more sedate version of the TR4. Nice little car, seen at Motorland in Arundel, Maine. I was surprised to be reminded of how many Triumph we have posted over the years, for example this 1963 TR3A and last week's TR4A. You'll find many others if you try our search widget. 

1995 Ford F-150

from Reid Cunningham in Franklin, N.H.  "I think the perfect combo: the big straight 6 and a 5 speed manual.  Nicely optioned with power windows, AC and the upgraded trim."  

1976 Eldorado, Eggemoggin Reach, Maine.

The car is a kinda beautiful, over-several-tops steel boat, in the land of wooden boats.

 

1979 Ford Courier Chinook Camper

 

From Jonathan Welsh:" I spotted this rolling time capsule at India Point Park in Providence, R.I. Current trends in camping and other VanLife pursuits seem to have made these cooler than they were the first time around. The Chinook company built the campers using chassis from a number of automakers. I understand the Ford Courier version is especially rare. This one looks almost new except for a couple of faded decals."

(from Blue Oval Trucks) The first generation Ford Courier was introduced for the 1972 model year and sold for a little over $3,000 USD (equivalent to $17,969 in 2018) when introduced. The Courier was manufactured by Mazda (Toyo Kogyo), and imported and sold by Ford Motor Company as a response to the unforeseen popularity of the small Toyota and Nissan (Datsun) pickups.

AL: Too bad Ford didn't take that size truck and run with it; they might have developed into something like the Tacoma today. Maybe not in Texas, but certainly here in Maine, Toyota, not Ford or Chevrolet, seems increasingly the truck of choice, while the others look like bloated and chrome-festooned giants, the 1958 Buicks of our era, vaster and sillier every season. BYW we spotted a 1978 Toyota Chinook in Blue Hill Maine last year.

1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass

 

I think maybe the '68 Cutlass was the biggest selling car in America. This here car is not claiming to be a 4-4-2, which was the hot Olds, but it is nice specimen of what's known around here as a 'summer car', in its natural habitat, the Blue Hill (Maine) Country Club.

There was a 1971 4-4-2 for sale in Searsport a while back. Close relative would be the 1972 Buick GS.  Here at AL, perhaps our favorite Olds is the '59 Dynamic 88. We caught a 1970 442 in the parking lot at LL Bean in Freeport.

And how about this 1958 Oldsmobile Fiesta swag wagon? 1958 was an atrocious year for GM but they followed it with the '59 sheet metal which was, somehow, a whole 'nother story. 

Chevy vs Ford

 

Old Orchard Beach

 

Tristan Spinski photo for The New York Times

Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Was always a vacation Mecca for Québec. Kinda honytonk. Kinda like Blackpool in the UK. There's even a pier. The Québec construction trades traditionally shut down for the last two weeks of July, and a significant portion of people still head for Old Orchard, la. It is also close by the mill town of Biddeford, Maine which was a big Franco town from 1860s-1960s when the textile mills were in full gear. There was a lot of French spoken on the beach at Old Orchard. And before it was Québéc-sur-la-mer, it was an Irish-American destination: Joe Kennedy met Rose Fitzgerald at Old Orchard, hostie. See our posts on Biddeford:

https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2014/05/textile-town-biddeford-maine-part-1.html

https://autoliterate.blogspot.com/2014/05/textile-town-biddeford-part-2-houses.html