Posts Tagged ‘photos’

Pictures from France

9Sep

I’ve done several posts about the 2009 Red Power Parade (perhaps because I got to be grand marshal of a parade consisting of nothing but International Harvesters…surely a Top Ten country boy moment) (as a result of this book), and here’s another one inspired by an email I just received from Jean Cointe, an International Harvester dealer and aficionado from France. Seems Jean was clearing out his digital camera and found these two photos:

Fearless leader “Other Mike” reviews the parade route.

You may be the Grand Marshal, but when the Scout runs dry halfway through the parade, you will bail out and push just like everybody else!

I Make Them Sleepy

8Feb

Cats are totally into my books…as sleep aids.

This is Thistle:

This is Boggs:

Thanks to their owners for sending these photos.

Truck Before and After

24Jun

Every now and then (just happened again today) someone who has just finished reading Truck: A Love Story requests that I post Before and After photos of my ’51 ‘Binder (that is to say, my 1951 International Harvester L-120 Model, 3/4-ton, long bed pickup truck). We never did an official shoot but if you click on the photos below you’ll get the idea:

The Most Powerful Man in America

12May

I have lost track if the number of emails I have received from readers who have gone in search of Truck: A Love Story at their local bookstore or library and eventually found it filed in the Automotive section between (as one reader put it) “the Chilton manuals and Peterson catalogs and coffee table books with pictures of great muscle cars of the 60s.” This is a teeth-grinding problem*, and both my publisher and I are painfully aware of it. The problem arose way back before the book came out, when the Library of Congress assigned it a primary classification of “Automotive Repair.”

Now then. Anyone who has actually read Truck knows that when it comes to automotive matters I am a one-man Three Stooges act. (more…)