fischertechnik

Lower case red and grey fun from "the Fischer Factories in Western Germany which also make the world-famous Nylon Fixing Devices [aka wall plugs]."

1969

Gleo Mor, goblin of

Sadly not ghosts specific to roads, or road-related things (imagine ghosts embedded in the tarmac, nesting in exhaust pipes etc), but there is a phantom lorry in Scotland:

This Wheat

"That Agrifax copter sure caught me a cropper"

I know the above is for the harvest period, but it - and the following - all fit the present times (in *my* brane anyway).  The unrelenting heat, the green turned yellow and brown etc etc.  Grass verges in my suburban locale now look like miniature fields of golden crops.

I love the story that This Heat tried to record the sound of a baking pavement (during the drought of '76, iirc).  The start of Horizontal Hold could be that recording.

Also suggestive of heat haze and shimmer:

My new house, you should see my new house

Young Designs in Living.  Barbara Plumb, Studio Vista, 1969.