population 23 (2023) (Patreon)

Sorry about no pic yesterday - I flew to Los Angeles very early, landed, and literally immediately changed clothes and dug into a '69 Ford Thunderbird project with my friend Cora, who you might know from some other builds. I ended up being awake for about twenty hours straight, lmao. 

If this project goes well—and it's a big if, the Ford hasn't run in somewhere around 40 years; we have already found a rusted-off hose mount on the header and copious sludge in the coolant channels, and we have three days to finish replacing every part that goes bad when a car sits for 40 years—Cora is letting me have the car, and I'll be driving it home to Idaho. I was already motivated just to help out someone whose project cars I've admired from afar for a while; I am *extra* motivated now. 

If we can pull it off, the road trip—the photos, the story—is going to be incredible. I have two routes planned already, plus some artistic photo stops and people to work with on the way home. 

Since I've got a limited selection of photos on my laptop (like 10,000 vs. the 80,000+ my archives actually have), I decided I'd edit a shot I'd never used from my last roadtrip, with the Peugeot and the Oldsmobile. This is off U.S. Route 12. This shot alone is good reason to never take an interstate, and I won't be if I get this Thunderbird, lemme assure you.