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  1. Hodad
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    I obviously have some time on my hands this morning. I pass this sad little Renault Daulpine made into a sign every summer on the way to Grand Lake Stream Maine and finally got the wife to stop for a minute to snap a few pictures. Any one else got pictures of old iron skewered on a signpost?.. I fear these landmarks are going away.. so I am taking pictures of the old reliable landmarks I know and love. There is another one on route 9.. a Studebaker truck on a post.. will try to get a picture of that one next time. On a side note.. one of the reasons I always look for this sign is that my dad's parent's chipped in and "helped" him buy a Daulphine when he went off to college. My uncle Ronnie had just got one and raved about it. Grandpa thought it would be a good car for my dad to own.. His older brother got a 56 Chevy.. but dad got the Daulphine. On the plus side the front trunk was a good beer cooler that dad rigged so you could grab a beer through the dash.. it had a plug on the bottom to drain off the water when the ice melted. On the bad side.. dad said there must have been a timer that went off at 30,000 miles.. he said even the door latches failed.. It gave my dad the reputation as a car killer.. Uncle Ronnie's met the same fate.. but his mileage accumilated slower .. so dad was never cleared from his car killer fate. That's the story. If you have some pics .. please post them. Hodad
     

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  2. Asphalt Outlaw Hero
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    from Dixie

    I was going through Wyoming on a motorcycle a few weeks ago and saw this:
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  3. Hodad
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    Thank you .. keep em coming
     
  4. younggun13
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    those are really cool lets see some more!!!
     

  5. If any of you have ever heard of Nemacolin Woodlands resort in western PA, they use a Model A roadster to advertise their ice cream shop. The owner of the 5-star resort (Joe Hardy - founder of 84 Lumber) has money to burn and could careless about the car. Its a "real" roadster too. I will say that they do bring the car inside for the harsh PA winters, but it is still outside about 9 months of the year and is not taken care of very well at all. When I worked there, I tried my damndest to get it, but they weren't budging...
     
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  7. SWIGJ
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    Heres one
     

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  8. str8axle55
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    I think there is another one in Louden NH, on 106, near the track. Cool thread, I agree this stuff is going away, no more unique cool stuff, all cookie cutter.
     
  9. SWIGJ
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    Another
     

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    Two more
     

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  11. rkw1969
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    i-40 goin through Midwest City in Oklahoma there is a car dealer with a convertible 57 chevy been on the roof for decades with the top down.
     
  12. MikeRose
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    In Mexico, a guy sells old cars from his house and had this on the roof.[​IMG]
     
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  13. Where is the car actually located? I drive RT 40 past Nemacolin all the time to see my parents in Pittsburgh and haven't noticed it...??? Is it actually at the resort or on RT 40?
     
  14. Hodad
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    Thank you for all the additions..
     
  15. rixrex
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    Any of you Austin guys remember that slice of a red and white Metropolitan that used to hang on the Bldg. at 51st. and Duval? I made that, had a buddy in S.A. paint it...
     
  16. Fordguy78
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    Over here in Rogers there used to be a little Alfa Romeo (crappy little car though) mounted on a pole that was about 30 feet in the air. They finally took it down. It was originally red but birds always landed on it and pretty much used it as their crapper. (Hence the crappy little car part)
     
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  17. It's off of Rt 40 on the resort grounds by the main hotel.

     
  18. here's a couple
     

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  19. one more

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    Ellingson's car museum. Rogers, MN
     
  21. six pack to go
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    Dont have A pic but there is one on 287N in Boonton NJ.
     
  22. henry29
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    Found on google.

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  23. FiddyFour
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    that one is up here in wisconsin, i believe off of interstate 43 just north of beloit on the north side of the highway.
     
  24. jonzcustomshop
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    I would love to find the pic again, there was/is a 64-66 chevy truck that has been narrowed to about 3 feet wide and is a sign ,somewhere in west texas I think...
    I might have even seen the pic here on the hamb a few years back..
     
  25. Slonaker
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    In the days before digital cameras, I collected photos like these. It started as a project for a folklore class in grad school, and just developed from there. My professor really liked the project, and even suggested a few that he knew of. :)

    I have gotten out of the habit lately, and have no idea where all of the photos are. :(

    Slonaker
     
  26. fuzzface
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    You are correct Fiddyfour. That truck in the tree is Mark Madson.
     
  27. FiddyFour
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    thought so, thanks!
     
  28. lowrodderDon
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    In Chicago there was a pole with about seven cars all stacked on it, there has to be some pics somewhere, I'll look
     
  29. Locally there used to be a '58-ish Isetta or some other tiny little car on a roof, was painted yellow, but I haven't been by there in a while - and at the Nats this year someone had a yellow Isetta in about the same shape, for sale, stuffed in the bed of an 80's Chevy crewcab dually.

    I know of others but they're late model stuff - a Chevette, like a '79 Eldorado... and Fulton Speedway always used to have a '30-'31 A coupe on their sign. Wasn't much more than a body and frame... I think someone said in another thread here that it got taken down and sold.
     

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