Archive for category: Photos

Treaded paving behemoth (2006.09.13)

Memory Lane Rolls (2006.09.12)

It may well appear that a Silver Spirit is parked outside the truck-parts shop on a back alley.

The only way in which looks deceive is that the “alley” is a full-fledged street improbably called Memory Lane. It is now demonstrably possible to go down Memory Lane in one’s Rolls.

(“Do you drive it in the winter?” “My wife does,” said the old man in the hat with the too-broad brim. “Got to use them,” I said. “They can’t be just ornamental.”)

Knox Swindon (2006.09.11)

For a while there, the easiest path to a British car was to buy a Honda.

Silver corrugated metal A-frame building has red-and-white-striped fence along the front, with red two-door car parked at the left

They aren’t bringing them into the country anymore (first it was due to exchange rates, then because they stopped making them). That was to my chagrin, as I adore these brutalist slabs.