Ben Wilhelmi

route 66, cars and wrecks

wrecks but never really left alone. These are parts of the decoration, atmosphere…the famous route 66, the various traders alongside the road to be precise, needs some cash from tourists to bring life back on that historic road.

these efforts are sometimes quite well thought, and the mood is fine, though perfectly fake.

Aerial photography, South Sudan

 

A flooded village. The rains have been stronger and dragging longer than usual. That didn’t help the current humanitarian crisis.

 

 

In some areas, those wrecks litter the roads, like one every few km!. This Cruiser seems to have been blown up. Whatever was salvageable has been removed.

 

Bad news for those travellers. A break down in the middle of nowhere…

 

Stormy weather, minimal art.

 

 

Meet the White Nile.

wrecks and old cars, Route 66

Route 66…great sceneries especially in the western part. Is it worth doing? Yes but the touristy touch is a bit too heavy to my liking. It’s so “authentic” you’d think… no mostly just cheap but still funny. And then as I said, the landscapes, and the people.

 

 

see the thing that was mostly cheap? The number “66” is everywhere, just everywhere. Sickening in the end, that spoils a lot. We fucking know we’re on the 66, there are road signs, notices, ads…every 50m. No need for extra double paintings on wreckages. I bet some owners have  their underwear and condoms labelled with something 66.

 

 

and 66 again! Or historic 66 just in case you’re really dumb…

see this lovely blue shop would be better off that bunch of yellow signs or the ‘66’ tyre.

 

finally you see more of authentic America where no one advertise for it. But I’d go again.

wrecks and cool cars, USA

 

Taos, New Mexico, one my favorite vintage cars: a Chevrolet Bel Air ‘56.

 

Some wrecks in Seligman, Arizona, on Route 66

There were dozens of them alongside that main street crossing Seligman.

 

A beautiful Corvette Sting Ray. Hackberry, Arizona, Route 66, another area littered with wrecks, except this Corvette, and in the middle lies an old derelict fuel station transformed in a shop selling  memorabilia about the Route 66.

 

Santa Fe, New Mexico, another dream place for vintage cars.

Even a German VW.

Route 66, cars, wrecks, colors