24. Ode to a '68 Sports Coupe

A car parked near my house four months ago and has not moved.

After a few weeks of walking past it, I wondered if it had been dumped there and if should call it in under the 72-hour maximum parking rule. But, it was parked in a carefully chosen spot that was not in front of anyone’s house and not bothering anyone. So I left it.

And then the more I walked by it the more I realized it was a great photo subject —especially because I had been trying (unsuccessfully) to take car pictures over the past few years.

Once the community college photo course I am taking got to its documentary photography module, I realized this was the perfect subject. Over three months I shot about 300 photos of it and also did some digging to figure out what car it was.

Here are my results:

For the best experience watch the video (below) with Bruce Springsteen’s Thunder Road playing (Spotify link below). The first 12 seconds of the video are black to let the music get going. The video is just under five minutes.

Sorry, I could not embed the song in the video but I wanted to stay in compliance with Substack/copyright rules.

Alternatively, check out the photos below.

Thanks to r/whatisthiscar for helping me figure out if this was a ‘68 or a ‘69 which are very similar