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Old fire engine I came across in West Yellowstone, Montana. Image sharpened and gradient map used for partial desat of truck. Image property of BTSphotos.com. All rights reserved.
road-trip 2018. 3 guys, 2 British cars (both Chevy V6 power'd), 5600Kms (round trip) to Triumph National car-show in LaCrosse Wisconsin.
The Great Figure
by William Carlos Williams
Among the rain
and lights
I saw a figure 5
in gold
on a red
fireturck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city.
Export Gold certainly wouldn't be my first choice of beer but I'd maybe rethink if I had 1800 Litres!
Customised Fire Engine photographed at the Viaduct in Auckland, New Zealand.
Well Pandoras Box has well and truly been opened since I bought my first Zuru Metal Machines generic back in August! I have for years vowed never to touch such generic dross but here I am now on my sixth example!
Where once the likes of Realtoy, Maisto, Motormax, Welly and Summer etc... once dominated the budget end of the market here in the UK they have all given way to these and the equally generic HTI Teamsterz line up.
My nearest Tesco stores no longer stock any Matchbox and have instead replaced them with Zuru and for some reason I do feel compelled to pick up the ones which are at least faintly believable in style. Their Inferno Fire Engine reminds of the generic designs Matchbox used to put out up until only a few years ago when mercifully they ditched the majority of their generics and replaced them with proper licensed models.
Plastic bodied and pseudo futuristic in styling it is at least solidly built and nicely painted.
Mint and boxed.