28 Oct 2016 – Driven To Write

Micropost: Swedish Pick-Ups

These two pick-ups were parked in Fristad, Sweden.

Skoda based the pick-up on the 1994 Felicia, itself a development of the 1986 Favorit. Continue reading “Micropost: Swedish Pick-Ups”

Theme: Film – National Lampoon’s Vacation

Usually cars in films are a background detail. Occasionally they have a more important role.

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For the 1983 cinematographic production “National Lampoon’s Vacation”, a Ford LTD Country Squire was transformed into a Wagon Queen Family Truckster. The production designers could almost have taken a stock car as it was, so grotesque had some American vehicles become by the time the film was in production. Continue reading “Theme: Film – National Lampoon’s Vacation”

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