Comments on: Andrew Bush's "66 Drives" photographs

By: Mark Frauenfelder

Mark Frauenfelder — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lady in pink Corevtte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelyne

By: daku

daku — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

These pictures are great! Thanks for posting; and yes, Svenski: it could very well be Oscar Goldman, I also recognized that face. I’m getting the book on this series as soon as I can!

By: dbarak

dbarak — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

>>Lady in pink Corevtte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelyne

You think it’s the same person? Looks like it could be.

By: Kieran O'Neill

Kieran O'Neill — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I notice none of these were taken post-2001…

Also, are those bullet holes on the side of that guys car ? (!)

By: Takuan

Takuan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

shitty dent puller work

By: Takuan

Takuan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

good for popping ignition locks too
http://www.buildingabeetle.com/images/tools26.jpg

By: Maddy

Maddy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

proof positive that California preserves autos — so many of those autos were vintage and still running at the time of his more current photo essay — I miss my 73 Super Beetle!

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/91/carlicarcultureis7.jpg

By: GlenBlank

GlenBlank — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh, yeah, the pink Corvette is definitely Angelyne. She’s the purest form of celebrity – someone who’s famous for being famous.

The pink Corvette has vanity plates reading ANGLYNE (because seven letters is the max).

She’s hard to miss.

By: Enochrewt

Enochrewt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Photo of Angelyne's Corvette 1 Photo of Angelyne's Corvette 2 Photo of Angelyne Angelyne lookin' rough Photo of Angelyne present day I think It is her, It's gotta be. Look at the shape of the nose. These photos are the only ones I can find of here "in the wild" without her nose being covered with sunglasses, her hiding her face (silly hand posing) or a whole bunch of airbrushing going on. And I'm focusing on the bridge nose because that's what bouncers/ID people do to match IDs to faces. Not because I can spot specific plastic surgery jobs ;)

By: Svenski

Svenski — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The man in the Porsche is a dead-ringer for Hunter Thompson. A couple of pictures later is definitely Oscar Goldman of The Six Million Dollar Man.

By: subterrene

subterrene — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@svenski: I thought I recognized Oscar Goldman (“possibly in character”) but I couldn’t remember his name. He’s a ringer, thats for sure.

I just love the captions, and I’m wondering if they aren’t some kind of a spoof: “Person driving somewhere in the last decade of the previous millennium (whereabouts unknown)” or the one that says it could possibly be “Phoenix or St. Louis”, that’s a pretty big margin of error.

Also, some people obviously enjoyed having their picture taken – the guy w/speakers in the convertible, the girl with her eyes closed blowing a kiss.

By: MT_Head

MT_Head — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Not to pick nits, but Las Vegas isn’t quite in Southern California. Close, but not quite.

By: Jupiter12

Jupiter12 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The old lady in the Barbie Corvette is freakish!

By: Enochrewt

Enochrewt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah the Barbie corvet is freakish, it’s worth the trip to the gallery just to see that.

These are cool photos, even if they’re a bit creepy. Some of the people really didn’t seem like they wanted to be photographed. The guy was using some sort of flash too (I’m not a photographer at all) because every single picture has a highlight on the car door.

Oh, yeah, take that UK!!

By: dbarak

dbarak — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

WOW!!! What are the odds of finding MYSELF in the photos??? Zero in this case, I’m not there. : )

>>The old lady in the Barbie Corvette is freakish!

I Dream of Jeannie, Nightmare Edition.