Chrome at the Edge under the Palms

A chromed exhaust stack rises the full height of the left side, a run of reflected orange sliding down its dented flank below the welded collar and the cut mouth at the top. The maker's script loses its first letters to the stack and carries on in white across the bonnet, and under it a white pinstripe runs the width of the paint and passes over the face of a vivid azure oval, continuous from one edge of the badge to the other except where the black 1 and R sit on top of it. Behind the orange the palm trunks stand in soft grey ranks above low green fronds, and past them a thin band of sand and…