Sunday in Jo’burg. The weather unsettled. Breezy, cool, the sky laden with clouds. In another ten days, Rob arrives from Toronto. The house has been found, the movers booked, tomorrow I will go look at a car. Piece by piece, the architecture of this new-old phase of our lives is constructed.
To brighten the weekend, here are some more images of Havana’s old cars, this time in colour.
4 responses to “Cars in colour – images from Havana”
Stunning cars! They go well with the mood that is coming together for this next phase of both your lives in South Africa! πΏπ¦
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There is a bright mood coming, I agree – some African sunshine π
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The paint jobs of American cars of the 1950s representated three breaks with the past, from a near continuation of Henry Ford;’s dictum: any color as long as it is black; from monchrome to two-tone (the PR term that Madison Avenue coined); and the first appearance of “candy apple” – metallic flecked – options.
Thanks for the reminder!
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It’s the post-war boom, right – American optimism, before Nixon, and Bush, and Trump; before Vietnam and Iraq…
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