I love found photos, and this yard-sale score is right up there on my all-time favorites list with the police evidence Polaroids that came with my ex-cop Crown Victoria. The sun-scorched sandy desert yard suggests that the location is somewhere in California's High Desert region, which means that it doesn't take a law-enforcement mastermind to guess the origins of the house fire in the background. The question is: what kind of car is that full-sized Detroit machine? I think it has the look of an early-70s Chrysler product, maybe a Fury… but the GM paint shop was a big fan of that shade of Bilirubin Brown back then, so maybe it's an Olds or Buick? What do you think, dear readers?

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