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2025 03 08

(Hidden) Busted Car. Chicago, Illinois. October, 2024. © Clayton Hauck

While out celebrating my birthday yesterday, I realized that my driver’s license had expired that day. Needing to drive to St Louis for a photo assignment in a few days, I was worried that getting this renewed in time would not be possible (also considering the state had determined I needed to pass a written test to do so). Fortunately, I spent Saturday afternoon at the DMV and made it happen after an hour or so of sitting in the waiting room listening to numbers being called.

Afterwards, we celebrated with pizza at Barnaby’s up in Northbrook, which has been on our list of spots to check out. The pizza was great and the place was wildly crowded with families enjoying an early Saturday night pizza dinner. As we ate, numbers were called out continuously as orders were ready, which made the whole experience feel appropriate post DMV.

-Clayton

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2025 02 26

Another Busted Car. Chicago, Illinois. January, 2025. © Clayton Hauck

I know y’all are here for the gripping Busted Car Content so I will keep it coming.

-Clayton

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2025 02 23

Another busted car. Chicago, Illinois. January, 2025. © Clayton Hauck

This car hasn’t moved once as long as I’ve had my photo studio across the alley, so approx. three years. It’s a dumb observation that makes urbanist me go a bit crazy, in that we give away so much of our environment in support of parking underutilized and decaying automobiles.

-Clayton

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2025 02 07

Another Busted Car. Chicago, Illinois. December, 2024. © Clayton Hauck

Have I posted a Busted Car yet this year? I don’t think so!

I still need to find the time to do a test run of zines. I’ll probably use some Busted Car photos to fill the pages. They continue to call to me for reasons I don’t fully understand. A sign of the times, perhaps.

Also, I think it’s only a matter of time before minivans are cool again. Sure, nobody is having kids anymore but everyone loves their big fucking cars. Plus, they are more comfortable to live inside of!

-Clayton

Update: I did already post one, and it was the same car! See: 2025 01 13

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2025 01 13

I’m going to print some zines this year. I’d been planning to do a zine of my Busted Car photos, but since Nathan Pearce just put one out, I’ll probably skip that idea.

Creativity is hard!

-Clayton

Another busted car. Chicago, Illinois. December 2025. © Clayton Hauck

I’m going to print some zines this year. I’d been planning to do a zine of my Busted Car photos, but since Nathan Pearce just put one out, I’ll probably skip that idea.

Creativity is hard!

-Clayton

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