(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/July1951weirdcar.jpg)I'm not sure what model car that is, but car makers used to make 'business/salesman' specials... they were two-door coupes with an extra-large trunk in the place of a second pair of doors. Chrysler, Ford, and Chevrolet all had their versions.
Notation says "July 1951;" I'm guessing the Black Hills of South Dakota.
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/oddcar.jpg)
I'm guessing 1952, known for sure to be in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/js1951.jpg)Easy enough... a 1949 Studebaker Champion.
Notation says "August 1951," and it's in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
American Motors has a very long and convoluted history, from the Nash and Studebaker mergers, Kaiser-Frazer, and Willys, to finally being bought by Chrysler. It's an interesting story.
The airplane is a Douglas DC-3
(http://www.modelairplanefactory.com/images/medium/KDC3UAT_m.jpg)
You know, I've always wanted to ride in one of those, a prop-job.I rode in one. God Almighty, it was loud. My head was numb by the time I got off the plane.
1936 Chrysler C-7 TouringClassy.
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/1939.jpg)
(http://auto.ocregister.com/files/2010/01/1936-chrysler-airstream.jpg)
Classy.
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/1927.jpg)Got to be a Model T. Nothing else looks like it.
From 1927, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.
Whoa.Early Chryslers were considered very plush and upper-class at the time, on par with Buick.
Would that have been an expensive vehicle for its time?
That part of the family wasn't really prosperous. They did okay--raised some great Republicans and conservatives--but they weren't all that affluent.
Got to be a Model T. Nothing else looks like it.
Got to be a Model T. Nothing else looks like it.
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/IMG_0167.jpg)
Whoa.
Would that have been an expensive vehicle for its time?
That part of the family wasn't really prosperous. They did okay--raised some great Republicans and conservatives--but they weren't all that affluent.
I knew some concours weenie was going to come along and point out the spare tire was pointing in the wrong direction. :-)
You know, I've always wanted to ride in one of those, a prop-job.Franksolich would love a flight in a light aircraft. You are absolutely right about the jet airliners. It's the difference between riding in an open top two seat British sports coupe and schlepping along on a city bus, no comparison.
Alas, all I've ever ridden in were jets. One doesn't even know one's up in the air.
<<has never even been through an air-pocket, not even once.
I've always dreamed about riding over the Atlantic in a Constellation (I think that's the right name) from the early 1950s, or one of those Pan Am "clippers" from just before the second world war. Either one would be a trip.
Probably in the neighborhood of $1100 back in the day, or roughly double the cost of a typical Ford or Chevrolet.
1936 Chrysler C-7 TouringMany years ago, Cadillac had a sister division at General Motors called LaSalle, similar to the way the Japanese have set up Nissan/Infiniti and Toyota/Lexus. The LaSalle was intended to compete down-market from Cadillac (this was at the same time Lincoln was created and run by Edsel Ford).
(http://auto.ocregister.com/files/2010/01/1936-chrysler-airstream.jpg)
The father was an engineer--civil engineer, not locomotive engineer--for a coal-mining company, and I suppose he made good money as compared with what the miners made, but he had an enormous family.....but admittedly, 1938-1939 was when the older ones had grown and moved on.
I bet if you dig up a picture of a contemporary Lincoln Zephyr,
Fender skirts are removable. They look nice, but they're probably more trouble than they're worth.
The white car with the red top... I have it on the tip of my tongue, but I just can't place it. I'll have to track it down.
Looks like a 1954 Mercury.
But Mercury was Ford, sir, and the family only ever owned cars made by companies that ultimately formed American Motors (as far as I know). In fact, I know my father and the local Ford dealer didn't get along too well when I was growing up.
Looks like a 1954 Mercury.
I believe the commercial airplane is a DC-3.
The 2nd photo looks like a late 1930s 4-Holer Buick.
Yeah, it was George Romney's company, I guess, American Motors.
It always ran fourth in the Big Three.
George Romney ran American Motors until he was elected governor of Michigan. The guy that replaced him at AMC didn't do such a good job. Romney had carved out a niche for AMC by focusing on small, economical cars and did a good job of it. Roy Abernathy tried to compete with the Big Three on their own ground and failed.
Didn't AMC have a car that used an engine that was comprised of welded together sheet metal? I'm too lazy to look.
Not to my knowledge. Maybe you're thinking of a Trabant or something from Hindustan Motors?
George Romney ran American Motors until he was elected governor of Michigan. The guy that replaced him at AMC didn't do such a good job. Romney had carved out a niche for AMC by focusing on small, economical cars and did a good job of it. Roy Abernathy tried to compete with the Big Three on their own ground and failed.
I'm hoping to find (tomorrow) photographs of the vehicles the family owned during the 1960s, all of them American Motors.I imagine there may have been some horse-trading going on if your parents ran the hospital. Maybe the car dealer had some outstanding medical expenses or a large family.
I don't think it was so much the brand, but more so business associations, that made my parents always choose American Motors. In small towns where everybody knows everybody else, and a car being the second-largest purchase one could make (after a house), that was an important distinction, where one purchased a car.
I'm hoping to find (tomorrow) photographs of the vehicles the family owned during the 1960s, all of them American Motors.Now those should be interesting. I'm looking forward to it.
You know, some of these photographs show cars where the tires are half or two-thirds covered.On some of these economical-car enthusiast sites, I've seen people create their own body and fender skirts to make their cars more aerodynamic. Granted most of them look like crap, but fender skirts could make a comeback for the penny pinching crowd.
Didn't that make tire-changing a pain?
I imagine there may have been some horse-trading going on if your parents ran the hospital. Maybe the car dealer had some outstanding medical expenses or a large family.
My insurance agent will give me $50 of free gas for every person I recommended to him. Money talks.
That's almost enough gas to fire up a moped, and rev it a few times, before it sputters and wheezes to a halt.It's enough to fill the 12-gallon tank on my Beigemobile and drive for a week and a half.
I'm tempted to post what pictures I have. I have a couple, I just haven't posted them online.
Pictures of what? Old cars back in the day? That would be a fun thread.I have fambly pictures with cars in them. My aunt is a giveaway, though... she always bought Buicks.
I have fambly pictures with cars in them. My aunt is a giveaway, though... she always bought Buicks.
So I only have one picture with a car in it. It's a 1958 Chevrolet Impala.
I'd scan and post it, but my scanner is covered under a mountain of papers and I don't want to cause an avalanche.
From 1949, North Platte, Nebraska; anybody know what kind of airplane that was?
You might want to hop back up the thread. I think the only thing we don't have nailed down is the exact model of the Farmall, and the year of the Model T.(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/10019.jpg)
I'm guessing the tractor is a Farmall Cub, but I could be wrong.
P.S. Franksolich has some awesome Kodachromes! Drool bib req'd.
The U.S. Army soldier in the picture has one stripe on his sleeve, a Private E-2, if there was such a thing as an E-2 before the reorganization of enlisted ranks in the 50's but a Private nonetheless. Franksolich is right, that's a sharp looking uniform. Might be tailor made which would be unheard of among privates getting $49.00 per month in those days unless his family sprung for it. Judging by the Rollieflex camera in his hands (top of the line) I would say this kid's family had some money.
My Dad's mom went to France in 1919 and we have literally shoe boxes full of prints from that trip.
Hmmm... Don't know too much about tractors. I know the Cub had that offset body though, set to the right and the driver's seat set to the left of the body. All of them that I have seen in person had the wide front end but I found a pic on the innerwebz of a cub with a narrow front end and it has two seats!
(http://gwill.net/Album/Tractors/Farmall/Cubs/Tricycle_Cub/0047.jpg)
I would be interested to see an old photo thread get going here because I have lots of old family photos and a gazillion more at my folk's. My Dad's mom went to France in 1919 and we have literally shoe boxes full of prints from that trip. I need to spend a little time getting acquainted with my copier/ scanner/ fax/ printer/ omelette maker so I can put those old prints on my 'puter.
A few years back at the fair when I was hanging around the ancient-gentlemen-with-their-tractors section (my favorite area), there was an old man with a 1919 Fordson. My brother-in-law and myself stayed and chatted with him for well over an hour about that tractor, and many other that he had used, restored, or owned just to have, during his lifetime. At some point in time during the tales of his tractors, a two-seater was mentioned. I don't remember if he bought it that way, or if he made the addition himself.
I'll have to ask my brother-in-law, and see if he remembers what the explanation was. I want to say it was to have someone operate a piece of equipment while the driver operated the tractor.
In the mid 50's the Army had 3 levels of privates. E-1, E-2 and PFC. A stripe was not earned until you made PFC. My top pay as a PFC was $120 per month in 1957. Beer and a good cheeseburger was two bits on post and cigs were 2 dollars a carton.
1968 Buick 225. What a hog. A small engine that couldn't power the car to get out of its own way.
I like that Electra. There was a white 1967 around here that I would own if I had the room, and wanted to feed it the gas. To my knowledge, they had nothing smaller than a 401, all the way up to a 455 available. I wouldn't call that a small engine. :-)
I dunno much about it, but the engine was really underpowered. I tried to take my mom up into the foothills south of Tucson and it barely made it.
The interwebs puts the weight of that car north of 4200 pounds. I don't know if you could get one with a 2-barrel, but I would say one with that configuration in that weight of car would have an adverse effect on acceleration.
Or, maybe it was because you simply forgot to pull in the anchor before driving off each time. :popcorn:
That 56 Chrysler- now that I could have. :naughty:
He met Howard Hughes when he was flying a Connie.I didn't realize you were that far along in years, Iassaftots. :-)
I didn't realize you were that far along in years, Iassaftots. :-)My Pappaw was. Not me. :-)
:old:
Just as with airplanes, I feel the same way with automobiles.
If the road's rough, I want to know the road's rough.
It makes one more aware of the real conditions of the road, and because one then handles the vehicle differently (knowing the road is rough), it saves wear-and-tear on the automobile itself.
If the road's rough, I don't mind a rough ride; it's reality.
Ditto for flying.
I assume that even though I've been on rough stormy seas (the North Sea in winter a few times), I've never been sea-sick, and so I think riding in a bouncing airplane wouldn't upset the gastric juices either.
My first car was a 1961 Fiat 1200 Roadster. You DROVE that car. I still miss the damn thing.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts8qZqOmNNY[/youtube]Lee Iacocca scored a bullseye with that one!
I knew I had already scanned a copy of this picture.
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/Picture002.jpg)
Going from memory, I thought it was a '57 Impala. I'll have to look again, because the Chevrolet doesn't look quite right.
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/Chevy-1958-impala-2.png)
The photo is marked "1957" and nothing else.
My bad. I thought you guys were talking Chevies, Namvet is dead on. Definitely a Ford.
My neighbor has one of these in the prettiest light yellow.
(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTHyDgQlGsOarugF9raWylbxW81BzQLnJE__aTsHY2eEyST0oQeHg)
Anybody care to venture a guess on make and year?
(http://oi51.tinypic.com/6gzd5u.jpg)
65 GTO. better N sex
Almost, but not quite.
This one may be a little more difficult.It helps if you change the name of the file before you link to it. :thatsright:
It helps if you change the name of the file before you link to it. :thatsright:
Did your parents have one of those?
This one may be a little more difficult.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/lowfreeboard/16-Owen-Magnetic-0-36_DV-10-GG_01.jpg)
I'd say 1920 vintage
I thought about that....................
An old friend (now deceased, and a WWII veteran), did have one.
What's this one?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/lowfreeboard/CarNo1.jpg)
Concept car. Only 6 built.
What's this one?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/lowfreeboard/CarNo1.jpg)
Concept car. Only 6 built.
1938 Ford Business Coupe?
That's the Obama pimp mobile! :rotf:
wonder how many whores it holds ???
How many do you need? :rotf:
I need none. but the mack daddy has a min amount required :-)