Pete Turner - car wash sign
(Click the image for a larger view - large file)I could publish a photograph every day. But I like to write about what I see and I hope that’s one reason folks come back to my blog. It’s about “cars” but it’s also about photography and the esthetics of the craft (art). Sometimes.I took this picture at a BP gas station (but you knew that) where I stopped along Rte. 2 in Wes

Pink Packard
I took the side roads to Doc’s place the other day, jumping off the freeway and onto Illinois Route 2 that runs along the bank of the Rock River.Between Oregon and Castle Rock State Park, I came across a cluster of small abandoned buildings surrounded by a field of decaying cars. I almost drove right past, as most of the cars had become pretty well absorbed into the landscape.But this pink Packard was pretty hard to miss.

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The PACURA - Dan the Packer Man
I met Dan (“The Packer Man”) from Oconomowoc in a parking lot yesterday. It made my day. Sunday, the day before we met, the Green Bay Packers had managed to present the 7-0 Tampa Bay Buccaneers with their first win of the season in a spectacular display of self-destruction. In spite of this, the sun was shining up in its heaven, which always surprises Packer fans on the morning after a loss. It’s not terribly unusual to see cars (or even houses)

Snakeskin Faux - 1975 Mustang II Cobra
It is well-established to readers that I am a Ford guy. I won’t repeat the details, but folks from southeastern Michigan (and lots of other people) are born into families that pass along strong loyalties to one of the (former) “Big Three” U.S. car companies. My family is Ford.This Mustang II Cobra (it might be 1975, ’76 or ’77 – I can’t tell) was warming itself on the pavement in front of an auto parts store in Waukesha, WI when I p