Studebaker pickup

the old homestead 5

 

Most farms have an accumulation of old equipment, broken-down pickups and parts around the place and the old homestead is no exception.  It has the usual old cotton trailer axles, assorted pickups from various decades, a cotton-stripper, a pile of bent irrigation tubes, one refrigerator, a blue Volkswagen bug, and -- inexplicably, what is probably a 1949 Studebaker pickup.  A Studebaker is an unusual model for a farm vehicle in these parts, but what's odder is that in a former life it was a "New-Mex Construction Company" vehicle from Hobbs (dimly says so on the door). The 1957 Texas license tag is semi-attached to the front grill and the key is still in the ignition. But don't think about driving it off --the pickup is hemmed in by at least half a century of elm trees and knee-high brush!

 

Lubbock County, Texas