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But What’s Really Important…

The green one, obviously, is a VW microbus. I believe Big Red right next to the VW is a Pontiac Firebird made between 1973 and 1978–the rear end only looked like that for those five years–but I can’t see whether or not it’s a Trans Am. (All Trans Ams are Firebirds, but not all Firebirds are Trans Ams.) Brown Betty is maybe a Buick? Could be an Oldsmobile. Possibly a Chrysler.

But what’s the white one? Is it a Volvo? Sucker’s got weird lines to her.

(Oh, yeah, for the newcomers: that fellow is named Harry Mendoza. He played guitar and died.)

16 Comments

  1. Dawn

    and where? it looks so familiar.

    • Thoughts On The Dead

      It looks like literally every single overpass in the entire world, Dawn.

      • Dawn

        but see what morning deuce says? i think that is right, meanie!

    • Morning Deuce

      Looks like San Rafael, next to present day taqueria San Jose on 4th st.

      White car might be a 1977-ish civic hatchback?

  2. Tor Haxson

    1974 VW rabbit.

    Aren’t Caifornia underpass pillars bigger than that for siesmic reasons?

    Aren’t we a silly bunch of people for doing this thing we do about images?

  3. Tor Haxson

    Could you buy an Opel Cadet City in the USA?
    Those cars had a funny rear end.

  4. Tor Haxson

    AMC hornet sportabout ?

    Don’t I have something else I should be doing?

    • Thoughts On The Dead

      We all do.

  5. somebloke

    Little Orange to the far right is likely a Datsun.

    I’m gonna guess this is Morning light, as opposed to Afternoon. Coldish time of day, cool time of year. Say, Feb-March. 1980 or so.

    Thus I imagine the Contents of Garcia’s Pockets would include guitar picks, the keys to the BMW, uncashed checks, unchecked cash, various white powders and brown ditto, Pall Malls, an apple, the wrapper from a Snickers bar, and the Time Sheath in order to have an Apple iphone

  6. 21st Century Dead

    That’s clearly the 2012 VW Passat Hatchback, Jerry stopped driving in cars without an AUX cable in 1958.

  7. Mark

    Yugo?

    • Thoughts On The Dead

      Not unless there were Time Sheath-related shenanigans going on. America didn’t get Yugos ’til 1985.

  8. Mike

    So what’s the probability that he’s got a Pall Mall between the index finger and nub of his unphotographed right hand?

    Sure, it looks like it could be in the coat pocket like the left hand… but we know better….

  9. Dead_drift

    definitely central san rafael garage. lookup vw fastback, circa 1973.

    • Luther Von Baconson

      seems about right. type 3 fastback. or an austin countryman station wagon like Spencer’s uncle’s

      • Luther Von Baconson

        doesn’t seem to be an angle to the hatch if it is indeed a hatch. could be some Philadelphia Experiment chicanery with the hatch.

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