Vintage shots from days gone by!

1946 - Tyrone Power? Raleigh window display

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For a brief recap of Strib's life and career, please see Post #22,481. (Note: Sorry for misspelling
Max Schmeling's name in the previous post, folks!)

 

Blue Valley Creamery fleet, Louisville area, ca 1946

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1948 Packard contest winner

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1956 contest winner

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Some '56 American Iron

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1957 Foreign Car dealership, Louisville KY area

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One of my very best favorites:

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1953 Chevies - rear deck/spare tire trim examples

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photo - LIFE online archives​

 

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Ron, sure was a WILD Loewy style, wasn't it? And people called the Edsel ugly??? This looks like a '50 Champion to me. The Studebaker name was very robust on the bezel surrounding the grille bullet, and this has a split windshield -- which I don't think the Commander had.

 

Well I'm typically a Ford person but given my 'druthers I'd take this model Stude over any ox-yoke collared Edsel. IMO, the '60 Edsels were least homely of all. . . But we all know what opinions are like, eh?

 

Put on clean undies when you go to the carnival, or be sure you have some undies on at least.

 

Sweet Judy. Yum.....

 

Woody Guthrie's junior picture in his Creekehoma yearbook. From This Land Press.

 

Ron, you sort of raised an issue HAMBers might enjoy. I THINK EVERY CAR GUY OR GAL HAS
A FAVORITE "UGLY DUCKING" ORPHAN CAR HE/SHE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE IN THEIR GARAGE.
AM I RIGHT???

Though I actually LOVE the first-year '58 senior Edsels (and the still-odd '60s are the better investment,
not to mention the Tucker!), MY FAVE ORPHAN (even ahead of the Tucker, even ahead of the Packard
Pregnant Elephant ) would have to the post-war Stude Starlight Coupes! With their bullet nose and
wraparound rear glasses, they just flat-ass looked like something that dropped out of a flying saucer! LOL.
They always looked to me as though they could sprout wing, tail fins and take flight! They looked like they were
COMING when they were GOING (or way it the other way around?

ANYBODY ELSE HAVE A FAVORITE ('64 or earlier) UGLING DUCKLING CAR with a vintage pic to show it?



And one of our THEN-&-NOW contrasts! Above, a dusty memory. Below, a RUSTY memory!
Above, thanks to Reservatory6. Below, thanks to hawkeye car guy, FlickR member Rusty59!
Shot near Saugerties in far-eastern NY state.

 

I had a ride in a '50 Stude taxicab
....and it was only about 3 months
ago, too...in Havana Cuba! The
condition of it - like most private
taxis in Cuba, to say the least -
wasn't quite as "pristine" as the
one in your vintage pic, but
unlike a lot of '40's & 50's-vintage
American cars still in daily - and
even commercial useeek there,
it still had it's original flathead-6
.....albeit, now with a 12-volt
electrical system and an alternator
from a Toyota - and a homebrew
carb adapter carved from a scrap
piece of iron and mounting a 2-bbl
carb from an '80's-something
Moskovich.

Mart3406
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1954 Kansas City MO

 

St. Louis, MO

 

1958 Long Beach CA

 

1942 Employees of North American Aircraft with B25

 

More Loewy stuff...

A Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive

A Coke machine


A pencil sharpener


And the Avanti


All from Wordpress

 

Great picture of the Beyer Motors Desoto Plymouth dealership that was located at 3435 S KINGSHIGHWAY BLVD in St Louis. The building is still there and still used as a car dealership but looks different with modern awnings and windows. The shot of the 58 Desoto Firemite must have been taken at the same time? you can see the street numbers in the window and even the other signs in the window match. I wonder how many more shots there were in the series?

 

1948 Raymond Loewy

 

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