Cars have become iconic in the US culture. We not only depend upon them for business and pleasure travel but consider them to be functional sculpture, an art form that reflects our changing tastes, politics and family values. We celebrate them in music, film and art. Cars are marketed to our dreams and imagination, to our identities. Although it’s hard to admit, it matters to many of us how we are seen as fellow road warriors pass us (or we pass them!) on the highway. Soccer mom in an SUV? Silver haired gentleman in a hot Corvette? Cool single in a Maserati? Raconteur in a well-restored Cobra? Good Old Boy in a 1950s restored Georgia police car? Ranger in a pickup with a Retriever perched on the passenger seat?
We have a love affair with our cars, past and present. The history of our purchases is a visual record of how we have lived our lives, important events that shaped them, and nostalgia for what we had or wanted to have.
Nostalgic Rides is another journal in a series by photographer Michael Morrissey. These art photos were taken at the 2010 Novato Nostalgia Days Car Show.
