Old Cars Thread

[Doc Sharptail]

Regurgitating a thread here that was popular on the old Y/W page.
Feel free to comment and contribute. Pix of old cars are always welcome here.



Olds nicely done. Rear doors treatment suggest '56-'57. It drove off before I could do any more pix- rain threatening as usual. There seems to be a lot of 5-6-7 sedans in the city, and few hard tops.



Grail car. GTO convertible. Not sure on the year as I know little about these.



Rear deck.



'56 Nomad delivery wagon.



'56 Bel-Air hard-top. Small block 8 in there wears a rochester quadra-jet 4 bbl.



'56 Bel-Air Sedan, with custom corvette motor. License plate blares pro-stock.



Dual turbo chargers mean serious business.



'56 Bel-Air sedan with big blue six.

-D.S.

[5thDragoons]

Neat Olds! Local gro lets people put cars for sale in a corner of their parking lot. During the fathers day car show, there was a 56 Pont. Star Chief 4-door. Very straight and rust free... but I felt $8500 was a bit much - especially for a 4 door. Beside it was a 4-door 57 chev recently restored and painted. 18 large for that one. I'm afraid to ask what a 2 door costs anymore.

A current fad seems to be station wagons - possibly since coupes are getting so pricey. SW

[Allen]

Two tone paint jobs became popular back in the mid 50's partially due to all the chrome trim that invited a contrasting or color variance. Mostly the colors were sickening though like turquoise, pink, sky blue, mist green, salmon, etc. with white. Metallic paints were just coming about.

A color combo like that red and black '56 would have caused quite a stir back then. I feel bold paint jobs like that (though not accepted by the majority) would have caused the auto industry to make faster advancements and create more proto-types.

Henry Ford once commented about his model "T's": "You can get any color you want as long as it is black."

[Doc Sharptail]

That black on red color scheme was popular with quite a few of the '57 Bel-Air hardtops done in similar fashion.
Mopar was not to be out-done on this, and offered their own black on red hardtop in the Plymouth/Chrysler 300 series eg: Christine.
I have a '60 300 somewhere in my files with the same look.

-D.S.

[Allen]

I was thinking mostly about Ford and GM which was the bulk of what I saw back then. I do recall a very few Chrysler product auto's during that era, they simply weren't popular here. Rust was one of the problems. My Dad caught a ride every morning with a co-worker who had a beautiful solid black Dodge (might have been a Chrysler), about a 57 model, very long and with the tail fins. The owner filled it up with paying riders every day to pay for the gas. He said it got VERY bad fuel mileage.

[Robert Scott]

My 1950s Packard.

[Robert Scott]

Why is so hard to upload a picture on this site????

[Doc Sharptail]

Why is so hard to upload a picture on this site????

Nice Packard!! I is partial to the '46 Super Eight, but that's just me.

Why flartz around with bandwidth limited forum software???
Use a hosting site, instead. It's a bit more secure as well.



Chevelle based SS 396. I think this ('67) was the last year for them- the badging and motor moved to the Camaro body.



Rear deck view.



I'll have to dig through the files and re-host some of the older stuff to Imgur.

-D.S.

[lyman]

I do believe that is a 67, vent windows stopped in 68 (or at least did on the CAmaro)
however, here in the States, the SS trim was still used on several models