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Cool Cars, Van edition

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Tuesday

– photo by Mitch Waxman

Longtime readers will recall that the ‘cool cars’ designation for a post used to be fairly common here at Newtown Pentacle, but that was in Western Queens. The tag on post signifies that I wandered past an unexpectedly charismatic vehicle, during a walk, and felt compelled to photograph it. Hence…

Check out this crazy van.

– photo by Mitch Waxman

The bonnet, as the British born ‘Our Lady of the Pentacle’ might call it, was festooned with skulls. Wouldn’t want to clear snow off of this one.

I’m guessing that the owner must be in a band. The cargo racks on top… gotta be a vehicle which a band tours out of. Metal band, I’ll wager.

It’s also possible that the devil had simply parked in the South Side Flats area and this is its ride.

– photo by Mitch Waxman

Front shot of the thing, and then your humble narrator moved on.

It was still too early in the day for a beer, so despite my proximity to the Sly Fox Brewery and it’s non stop parade of CSX trains, your humble narrator instead ‘leaned into it’ and continued on with his scuttle.

I was determined to use mass transit to get back to HQ, but that’s another story for another day. Back tomorrow.


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September 16, 2025 at 11:00 am