Vintage cars

fiver

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With canvas roof over chicken wire. Black iron body work hard to stick weld on. Now the fords are glued together.

the corvettes copied the glue together construction when they built their new vette only factory.
you have to tear the metal apart around the glue seams because the glued part is stronger than the metal.
 

oscarflytyer

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If I could have one bucket list automobile, it would be a 1936 2 door Lincoln Zephyr! Black, flathead v12, saddle cream leather interior. Don't want to be greedy but IF it were a rag top.... be still, my heart!
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
The heck with cars, I always wanted to own an old firetruck. Almost bought one about 20 years ago, it was on a Diamond Reo frame. No idea about the vintage or even what was under the hood, I saw it parked with a for sale sign on it and stopped and gave the owner a business card with a price on it. He called me later, said he had a higher offer and did I want to raise my offer and I said no. Sorry I lost it but that outcome probably kept peace in our house for a while.


I'm right there with you Keith. Dodge made Power Wagons, or rather outside entities did, into fire trucks. Jeep CJ's too. I don't want one just for looks, a working 1950's/60's fire truck would give me a lot of piece of mind out her in the sticks! I grew up around a 1953 IHC and a 1964 American LaFrance fire truck. Nothing wrong with them at all!
 

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
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My favorite. GM employee owned. Picture taken at the GM Technical Center Car Show, where I was employed. Yearly show would generate 600 - 700 entries.
 

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
IMHO that year 'Vette is the prettiest one they've ever made. The only model I would ever want to own.
 

fiver

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I have driven past a red Mercedes just like the one pictured earlier that is for sale twice now, and both times I have rubbernecked it pretty hard.
if I was still working I'd have probably bought it by now, don't know where I'd put it is the problem.
 

Pistolero

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Nice looking Z-car, Micheal. Seems way to cheap a price......but we forget how cheap those cars used to be.
I love everybody's pix - and even Bret's Power Wagon, a sort of beautiful beast, but definitely a cool machine.

I will post a few pix of various people's favorites (INCLUDING a Hudson Hornet) on the track at Goodwood last
weekend. And a guy actually racing a Ferrari 250 GTO....which is probably worth something north of $25 million bucks. :oops: :eek::D:D

Cobras, Corvettes, E-types, D-types, C-types, and more. And does anyone remember who Rowan Atkinson is?
Mr. Bean? Amazingly, he is a really serious vintage car racer, too. He was racing a 1926 Bentley 4 1/2 liter Parkwood
Saloon car .....what we would call a Parkwood Sedan. To see an ancient monster luxo-sedan like that being flung hard
around the race track is pretty amazing, a bit frightening at times, looked like it might tip over a few times as he would
slide it through high speed corners. Somehow Mr. Bean didn't seem the type....but I found that he has a bachelor's and
master's in electrical engineering, so not your typical comic actor by any means. Here is a net pic, will get a better one
of mine, soon.

https://flic.kr/p/dM6TLW
And Keith, I agree that those are pretty Corvettes. I had the mixed fortune to drive a VERY early Corvette, owned by
a friend of my father. It was a very valuable 1954 model, ultra rare, and I was really honored that he just handed me the keys
to run down to the hotel and check in - we had flown in to the local airport and didn't have a car. I was all grins and so was
my wife, until I started driving it. 150 hp inline six, 2 speed auto tranny, super slow steering, very heavy, unboosted drum
brakes made for poor stopping by today's standards, ox cart ride. Beautiful to look at,
but a horrible car to drive. I was surprised. "Don't ever meet your heroes" is an old saying. It may apply to cars, too.
 
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popper

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That 58 would look a lot better if they'd dumped the quad headlights. Yea, 54 was a dog, you drove the 'souped' version. Standard had a single carb vs the dual (55?). Friend's uncle had one, but wrecked it as the handling was meh. I was also always particular to the jag 150 drop head coupe. Jag eventually figured out how to make an aluminum motor that didn't leak. Inverted bucket valve adjustments on that E made tune up real expensive. Another buddy had a 39(?) Packard touring car - 2 row back seat with jump seat. No syncro, straight 8 FH, valve adj. under the exhaust manifold, behind a plate, IIRC starter button on the floor. Had to be adjusted HOT. Hudson hornet was a hot rod, as was the Crosly/(willis?) with the oven brazed steel block. Never did see the Aluminum OHV V8 GM made in 1917. Not a whole lot new in the world of auto. Vette with first disk brakes in a raining race had fun. Had another buddy with the golden hawk, spupecharged with the big motor. Never could floor it in first without needing a new rear axle. Then the Stud. 'box' with the BIG motor in it.
 

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
I happen to like the quad headlights on the early vettes..............which started in 58 and ended in 62. The picture of the red one I posted is definitely not a 58.....................58 had hideous louvers in the hood. What were the designers thinking. Prior to 58 that body style had dual headlights. I prefer the 62, the rear end was transitioning to the 63 Stingray rear end. An electrician, I worked with owned a 63 Split window, which is the most desirable of the next body style.
 

Pistolero

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OK, some pix from Goodwood Revival. It is called Revival because they encourage spectators to dress appropriately
for the cars of the 30s, 40s, 50s and early 60s. I dressed as an English country gentleman of the 50s, and thought this
was an appropriate prop car for a photo
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And some vintage cars.... How about Jeff Gordon's Hudson Hornet leading the parade lap for the
"saloon cars" .....what the Brits call sedans.
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And yep, that is a race preped Studebaker Silver Hawk. After a few laps the Stude's brakes were going away, and he was sliding
it on the corners to scrub off speed. Lots of power, though. The little Alfa Romeo Gulietta was really wailing and FAST. The big
Jag Mk 1 Saloon won it, but the little Austin A40 (never brought to the US) #77 pushed the Jag HARD all the way.

Jag Mk1 to the lead.jpg
 
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JWFilips

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My Son just sold his 1972 Buick Electra ( He bought it as a HS Graduation present for himself!) This year!
It never was out in the weather and seldom driven!
The person he sold it to did not quibble at $5000 ( he was working for a Buyer overseas) and it was shipped to Sweden within one week for an antique car museum! He was delighted because he said now that car will now outlive him!

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Pistolero

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Ah, the old Electra, IIRC, the Electra 225....for the 225 inch length overall, which converts to 18 ft and 9 inches. Yahoo, you could
about play handball in the back seat. Truly a luxury car of it's time.

Glad to hear it will go to a museum.

Bill
 
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popper

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Naw, this is the boat! 430 cu. Special deal (yes, I know, says it was just for lincoln. I had a 250cu falcon they said the never made also). Mom passed it to me when the Mazda 1600 bit the dust. Traded it for a Rabbit. Dealer just had to have it, like he was not going to let me NOT trade it. Idle ~ 40 mph. Had most every option you could think of, side turn lights, power back window, powder antenna, etc.
Nice TD bill. French, Brits and Itally were busy from 29 having fun racing for glory while the Germans were (under massive weapons restrictions) developing avation war equipment, by auto racing. Diamler and Benz (one thought many cylinders and the other Benz (AU 6L 4 banger) were competitors for contracts that were determined by racing outcome.
 
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Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Bill, on "Mr Bean" not being what you'd expect of a comedian- I've always been a fan of a C+W Retro group called "Riders in the Sky". I was watching an interview of them one time and it turns out one of them, I believe the fiddle player, has a degree in "Molten Plasma Physics" or something like that. After that was stated one of the the other guys says, "Yup, all your best Cowboy Fiddlers have degrees in Molten Plasma Physics..." :D
 

Ian

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Here ya go, Bret. We built six of these a number of years ago and they have since been decomissioned and replaced by less capable but FAR faster machines. Various ranches have bought most of the old M34s frombthe fire department, this is the last one:

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fiver

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decommissioned?
I believe one of them is the new truck Grace just got and retrofitted a pump and water tanks to.
they just rolled it out for the parade at the county fair a couple of weeks back.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Looks like a 5 ton, I forget the designation. Yeah, they weren't fast, but they got there. The system is rigged against little towns like mine now to ever have their own fire truck. It costs millions of $$$ to do these days, not because the equipment is that expensive, but because of the regs and mandates!