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"Valve In Head." David Buick produced cars powered by horizontal engines with "valve in head" construction, a departure from the side valve, intake valves of most early car manufacturers. Under General Motors, Buicks were built with valve in head engines from the beginning, first going to vertical fours, then sixes and eights, first inline and then the famous "nail head" V-8 of the early 1950s.
A transmission repair shop in Bakersfield, CA. Not sure if it's still in business. Superheadz Ultra Wide and Slim. Fuji 400 print film.
The Golden Holy Grail for car collectors is a barn find. To come upon a antique car which was stored for decades undisturbed in a barn or garage is the ultimate experience for a true car lover.
In 1970 my father told me of a 1956 Jaguar XK 140MC that he saw in a garage. The elderly woman told him that it was her sons and he left it there 10 years prior and no longer wanted it. The next day it was mine. A day later it was up and running as new.
1932 Ford 1:24 scale Franklin Mint diecast.
Park View Garage
Back Lane, Hellifield,
North Yorkshire.
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Shooting dead-on from the far side of Divisadero, camera plane parallel to the wall, turns this garage into something closer to an elevation drawing than a street scene. That was the point. Overcast light does the rest — no shadows to model the brick, no sun to blow out the white, just flat even illumination that lets the blue sit at full saturation across the whole facade.
Under all that paint the bones are plain: a one-story brick shed with a stepped parapet, a raised central block for emphasis, and three round-arched openings marching across the front in near-symmetry. It's the working grammar of early automotive commercial building — wide arches sized for cars, glazing above for daylight, a parapet tall enough to carry a sign. And carry it does, in white block letters outlined for shadow, the kind of hand-lettering that's disappearing from American commercial streets.
Divisadero's median plantings put agaves and bunchgrass between the camera and the building, a bit of streetscape softening that arrived long after the garage did. Precision has been on this block since 1962. The graffiti piece on the roll-up door isn't damage here — it's the neighborhood signing its own storefront.
Adolph Hoepfl Garage opened in 1946 and is still open in 2020. N. Shepherd Dr.,Houston,TX. 5.12.2012
Auto repair place in Daly City, CA. The ground around it is torn up. I'm not sure if being torn down or what.
Ansco Pix. Fuji 400 film.
1960 Chevrolet Impala | 1952 Ford Sunliner Convertible
Hartmans Wheel Alignment
Williamstown, Massachusetts
B&C Auto Service in Osage County, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/5.6 with a 1/640-second exposure at ISO 50. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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