Jul. 12
2010 — 1:14 pm |
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By JEFFERY BLACKWELL
Like a slowly rising tide, the season’s corn crop has begun to swallow the human-sized features of the Illinois landscape, leaving the tops of trees and buildings bobbing in the waves of sparkling green leaves. It’s been a rainy Spring, and the dead straight roads that slice the flat fields are already becoming walled in by King Corn.
The freshly sprayed number on the wagon’s front door caught my eye as I passed through the intersection, catching a glimpse down the side road.
I am writing about and photographing interesting vehicles and their drivers over at my original blog “Rubber@Road”. These ongoing photo essays are my attempt to document the final days of the fossil-fueled individually-driven machines that have dominated the American economy and permeated our culture for the last hundred years. – Jeff
Jul. 22
2010 — 4:54 pm |
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By JEFFERY BLACKWELL
To those of us old enough to recognize a carburetor, there’s a powerful attraction to cars that possess these old mixing pots for fuel and air. The cars of the post WWII era through the mid-seventies hold a spell on gearheads, especially racing cars.
I am writing about and photographing interesting vehicles and their drivers over at my original blog “Rubber@Road”. These ongoing photo essays are my attempt to document the final days of the fossil-fueled individually-driven machines that have dominated the American economy and permeated our culture for the last hundred years. – Jeff
Jul. 16
2010 — 6:00 am |
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By JEFFERY BLACKWELL
This particular red pickup truck may be the quintessential internal-combustion powered American vehicle of all time.
It is a 1977 vintage Ford F100 owned by Ray, the gentleman in the picture. I loved this truck so much when I saw Ray driving it that I followed him for almost 10 miles so I could make these photos.
I was a couple hundred yards behind Ray in traffic when I spotted the white painted bumper and the really skinny tires on Ray’s truck.
I am writing about and photographing interesting vehicles and their drivers over at my original blog “Rubber@Road”. These ongoing photo essays are my attempt to document the final days of the fossil-fueled individually-driven machines that have dominated the American economy and permeated our culture for the last hundred years. – Jeff
Jul. 15
2010 — 4:44 pm |
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Jul. 15
2010 — 9:31 am |
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By JEFFERY BLACKWELL
This car is a warning from God.
I was baking in the heat, (got to see what it would cost to get the AC fixed) and praying for the light to change so that some air would begin moving through the windows, when I saw Jesus. Actually, I saw His car.
This didn’t appear to be a storefront church, really. More of a shrine. The front window, facing the corner of the intersection, was dominated by a soft Shroud-of-Turin kind of image of Jesus, mounted on some kind of gold metallic foil.
Parked on the side street was a “warning from God” in the form of a 1993 Nissan Altima.
I am writing about and photographing interesting vehicles and their drivers over at my original blog “Rubber@Road”. These ongoing photo essays are my attempt to document the final days of the fossil-fueled individually-driven machines that have dominated the American economy and permeated our culture for the last hundred years. – Jeff
Jul. 14
2010 — 12:22 pm |
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By JEFFERY BLACKWELL
Let’s face it, if you just drove your car at high speed through the garage and into your living room and were only stopped by an accumulation of furniture and major kitchen appliances, what would you say?
“Unintended acceleration”.
Toyota says data show drivers stepped on the wrong pedal. – Autoweek
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