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Where I live, most driveways are taken up by SUVs, Crossovers and other large vehicles. They all pretty much look alike and most are painted in black, white or gray. So...it's a real pleasure to have a neighbor with an original '64 Chevy. This was the kind of car which was common when I was a kid and its awesome to see one right next door on a daily basis.
This once extremely cool car just rotted away more and more with each passing season. I always wondered why the owner left it sitting there for at least 10 years.
==> The back story: In 2002, I found my original 1972 Kodak Pocket Instamatic 40 buried deep in a box in the basement, which triggered a quick drive to our local Dollar General to buy a cartridge of Ferrania brand 110 film. On the way home, I snapped a couple of photos of this really sad, forgotten Camaro using the same camera which took hundreds of my 1970s images.
For folks using a device which supports Flickr Notes, I've placed a lot of them on this photo. Each one goes into more detail and most have links to other photos of each place. Enjoy!
I've always thought that the woman with a rather ample derrière trying to open her aging Rambler's door was one of the highlights of this moment in time.
One of the first photos I took with the Kodak Instamatic 104 camera which Santa kindly left under the Christmas tree a week earlier. It came in the standard yellow box lined with styrofoam and included one cartridge of 126 Kodachrome slide film and precisely one flashcube.
I found the interior to be a little smaller and more cramped than I hoped, but it's still a pretty cool car! No rust and very low mileage. All numbers matching.
(See the Flickr notes posted on the photo for more info).
Although revered by collectors these days, this Chevy was just another stripped and abandoned 10 year old hulk on the streets of Manhattan.
Bashed, burned, stolen and abandoned cars were a fairly common sight well into the early 1990s. Starting in the mid 1960s, New York had begun its long and unstoppable downward spiral as it entered the "malaise era".
This was the oldest car I've seen around town in quite a while, so naturally had to take a few snapshots with my cellphone. Based on the paint color, the trunk lid probably came from another car. Note the little teddy bear sitting on the rear shelf as well as the steering wheel cover with a Chevy logo.
I spoke with the owner and he mentioned that it had been in the family for years. The engine is the original 305 Chevy small-block V8.
As Summ mentions below, note that none of the road and exit signs had been installed yet. I suppose you just had to know where to get on and off through experience.
The photo could have been made the same day as the one of the "Farmhouse, Edgewater." The house stood just to the right of the driveway in this photo. In the shed (later a new chicken house, left, enclosed garage, center, and woodshed, right) stands an old steel-lug tractor. It was a McCormick, either a 10-20 or a 15-30 model. We had both in the early days on this farm. Also in the shed is what may be the school bus Dad drove for Yarnell School. I think the bus may have been red, white and blue.