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It’s that time of year when loads of street construction gets done before the academic year starts. At least, I hope it’s done before the academic year starts. 3rd Street is a bit of a mess, ...

https://petescully.com/2023/09/12/the-poking-machine/

Here are a couple of turquoise/teal Cadillacs seen in Davis last month. One of them (the one above) is usually parked in a carport across the street from me, and not super easy for me to get a lo...

https://petescully.com/2023/08/21/couple-of-cadillacs/

I saw this old beauty parked opposite my building at work, and raced downstairs one lunchtime to check it out. It’s an old Plymouth, rusty in places and decorated with stickers, one of which wa...

https://petescully.com/2023/05/31/life-gives-you-lemons/

This old car has been parked in old north Davis for years, I’ve passed it many times thinking, I must draw that some day. That is definitely a thing to sketch. And then days pass into weeks, we...

https://petescully.com/2021/12/09/in-rust-we-trust/

This behemoth of a machine was parked at the corner of our street last month during the seemingly endless roadwork project going on in our part of north Davis. There was no question, I had to ske...

https://petescully.com/2021/11/17/mechanical-monsters/

This old BMW was parked on a street near us, and that means it needed to be drawn. What a beauty. My parents had a white BMW for a while when I was a kid, not the sort of car we’d usually have ...

https://petescully.com/2021/04/25/old-beemer/

I like these types of truck. There’s something very ‘Pa Kent’ about them. I’m not a fan of modern American trucks which are more along the line of macho monster truck take up as much room...

https://petescully.com/2021/03/30/chevy-on-oak/

Recently we decided to finally get out of Davis for a bit and took a pre-birthday trip to Southern California, pre-birthday for my wife that is, post-birthday for me. Roughly equidistant between ...

https://petescully.com/2021/03/16/two-jags-in-laguna-beach/

Time to draw some classic cars. I went to the California Automobile Museum in Sacramento last week (can I just point out, I cycled, then took the bus, then walked for a long time to get there, ir...

https://petescully.com/2016/09/05/cal-auto-museum-aug2016/

If you had to come back as a monster machine, this one is about as badass as you can get. I can’t believe I just used the word ‘badass’ because I’m not twelve, but really there aren’t m...

https://petescully.com/2013/11/12/machine-oct2013/