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Jul. 16 2010 - 6:00 am | 25 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

Ford F-series pickup – An American classic

1977 Ford F100 picup truck

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.

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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

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    I was born in Detroit, so perhaps there's some gasoline in my veins.

    My attraction to cars - as objects of visual design, machines of human transportation, cultural inspiration and the dominant shaping force of our infrastructure - is only exceeded by my fascination with the personal relationship between a vehicle and it's owner.

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