Ode to the Truck - or America F#*K Yeah!

Trucks are to young Americans what hot-hatches and GTIs are to young Europeans and that is why I've grown to love and respect THE TRUCK.

You can pick up an old beater truck for under two grand and with a few hundred bucks here and there on maintenance you can have yourself a world of motorized independence. Which is after all, what America is all about.

These colors don't run...even in the rain

I love the arrogance of this truck...compacts only F NO!

Life gives you a hatch back...your American ingenuity and a welder gives you a TRUCK

Try doing this with a Gti

Truck, beer, sleeveless shirt with strip club logo...check, check and double check

And where else are you going to put all your stickers?

Rainy Day in Portland - what a surprise!

We got dropped off somewhere on Hawthorne and walked down to Burnside. Lovely walk in the soft rain, reminded me of being at home in Ireland. But the surprise of the day was all the older classic European and Japanese cars sitting in drive ways and parked on side streets.

Here's a small sampling: Ford Fiesta MK 1, Peugeot 505 S, EVO IX (VIII?), VW Bus, Datsun (1500)Sports, Volvo 144, VW Karmann Ghia (two examples) and an Audi Quattro (love the plate).

Two American Classics

I was walking around the Crossroads District in KC back in June for FIRST FRIDAY enjoying the art and live music when I came across these two within a block of each other.

The Chevy El Camino is one of those cars that some people absolutely love, yet others wouldn't touch it with a big stick. A car held in high esteem by NASCAR fans and ridiculed by snotty European sports sedan drivers. Vorsprung durch Technik it ain't.

Whatever side of the fence you happen to be find yourself on you have to appreciate the genius (madness) of putting a flatbed in a sedan and then stuffing it with a big thirsty engine. The stuff of live-rear-axle wet dreams.

And just in case The El Camino didn't live up to it Southern Boy Supercar image check out this sticker

And now for something completely different...

Follow this link to see what another GT40 owner in the KC area did to his car.