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I was just watching Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis's final film together, Hollywood or Bust, and in the back projection footage shot in Chicago I...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I kinda like the proportions - maybe chop the windshield frame a bit? I'm guessing '59 Buick front fenders, a Corvette grille...
Turned up today on the FB group "Mid-Century in Color - Amateur photographic slides and prints, 1935-1962". Quoting poster Ronald Wenger, "Some of...
Over 20 years ago, a photo collector friend of mine sent me a batch of old Polaroids showing a '58 Corvette progressing from mild to wild custom....
Someone in one of my Facebook groups passed this along; it's at the San Bernardino, CA Pick-Your-Part - '55 Stude Commander with a later Hawk...
I was watching the 1943 movie Reveille with Beverly last night, and in a scene set at an Army camp entrance, this rolled by: [ATTACH] Obviously...
Modified old build or recent build gone to seed? It's on Craigslist in Woodland Hills. [IMG] [IMG]...
Hi again! I was checking out a short film from 1946 titled Traffic with the Devil; while grabbing stills from it I spotted this little gem:...
Hi again! This was posted on the Model Car Magazine forum by member Kurt Womack; it's his father Lester Womack and his aunt sometime before WWII...
"Permanently moved to Elgin Park.":( Sorry to hear this; didn't know he had such a sad backstory:...
While digging through the high school yearbooks of Pendleton, OR for photos to post in the Vintage Shots thread, I found this little gem in the...
The other lost T-bucket thread reminded me: My friend is trying to find his uncle's T that was sold to someone in San Diego (I think early '80s?)....
Hi gang, Got an email a couple days ago from a friend of mine in Palm Springs: I am getting ready to pick up a 1946 Ford Woody Wagon in...
Did a pretty good amount of Googling on this thing's body but came up empty. It's a pedal car now but the width makes me think ex-amusement park...
Hi again. Back in about 1964-65 my uncle had a '57 Fairlane 500 into which he installed a junkyard 406 4-barrel; he said it also had what he...
I spotted this car a block from my house in San Gabriel, CA sometime in the 1990s; it was parked across from O'Donnell Chevrolet-Buick on Las...
One of my fellow modelers on the MCM forum spotted this thing in Tampa a few days ago - I'm seeing Ford wide-fives underneath; anyone know more...
OK, hope I don't get in trouble for this one. I check out estate sales around here a lot, and once in a great while a HAMB-friendly car shows up....
A friend of mine just got one of his dream cars, a '60 Impala sedan with a factory 348. Some of the work done by the previous owner (amateurishly,...
Found this image on lileks.com: [IMG] Looks familiar for some reason but I can't quite place it - anyone here know? Thanks!
Several years ago I put this thing together from some discarded parts. Can anyone ID the cowl and rear body? They're definitely from two different...
The Feb. '58 issue of Car Speed and Style featured a really sharp customized '49 Dodge convertible from back east called the Patterson Hurricane...
This may get lively, but here goes: In one of my old Petersen Complete Ford Books from the early seventies, there is a production list of Fords...
Found this while looking for something else:...
Anyone have info on Roth/Barris employee Skip Barrett? Was he from Maryland? About ten years ago a friend who collected antique photos gave me...
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