Photograph by Antonin Kratochvil on the 1991 U.S. Fall tour, some say near Madison, Wisconsin, some think near Erie, Pennsylvania. (Page 19: Los Angeles Times Magazine, 9 February 1992, Robert Hilburn interview).
http://www.punkhart.com/dylan/interviews/latimes.2-9-92.html
[above link is to text without published images]The car appears to be a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air. The ’55-’57 Bel Air body is considered one of the classics in American design. As an interesting aside, a similar model car, a ’55 Buick Roadmaster, was made famous in the Tom Waits song “Old 55”, covered by the Eagles.
The photograph is often attributed to Glasgow, Scotland in February 1991 on that European tour. This seems mistaken. The car is left-hand drive. Assuming the picture is not reversed because the buttons on the jacket are on the correct side for a male, that makes the UK unlikely. The sign in the background is not at all British in style. The car would be foreign for the UK. A car enthusiast’s import? American military? Nothing rules out Glasgow absolutely, but everything suggests it is not.
This photograph and others appeared in The Telegraph #42 (Summer ’92) and they were given the nebulous identification – pages 43 to 47: “Madison, Wisconsin, November 5, 1991 or is it Eastern Europe?” Eastern Europe seems most unlikely. It is probably after Madison.
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