History Painful to look at..

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Unfortunately a picture is worth a thousand words here.

 

Looks like he's just starting to do a chop....

 

The goggles are just a fashion statement.

 

Just a old car. HRP

 

wow, what a great picture, really good quality on the image. That's a desktop background for sure!

 

OK, what make is the car? I'm think 33 ish GM. Notice the cut down "yard" truck with acetylene tanks in the background. The pin on his hat says "To hell with Japan" .

 

Goggles? We don't need no stinking goggles.

 

GRIT. GET SOME.

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looks like one of these...

 

i was thinking plymouth. it looks like a flat head motor.

 

1935 Plymouth .. check out this roadster I found in my search for a picture. too cool.

36 looks the same body wise. see below

 

Cool pict either way.

 

so folks can see what we're all talking about...

 

Recycled his pinstriped slacks.

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thanks squirrel. it was so big i couldn't make heads or tales out of it.

 

When I look at that picture the phrase “ that’s just wrong “ pops to mind.


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That is a nice shade of red!

 

Looks like how I do it but usually without a shirt on.
Looks very dry around there, Goggles will be the least of his worries when he lights his world on fire............................

 

The guys who worked at the dump that used to be up on the hill about 4 miles from my house burned cars clear up into the late 60's. People would drag hulks up there to get rid of the as junk yards didn't pay anything and those guys burned them so they could pull the copper out. One guy would sell me parts dirt cheap if he was there and the guy he worked with wasn't the other guy ran me off. They usually pulled the frame out and cut it up for scrap and rolled the body over the hill into the dump.
In the mid 70's I walked out behind the machine shop in Waco that did my machine work and a big red haired guy was chopping up a body with an axe. Asked him why he didn't use a torch and he said torches cost money to run and he didn't have the money to spend. Since then I cut up several cars with an axe and met one of my best friends one day when he walked over to see what the hell I was doing.

 

Looks earlier, 1930, square back, rear window is square in comparison to the Plymouths, overlapping door like a Model A.

 

It was going to be a bit of metal for the war effort.

 

^^^^^^^^^^ Scrap today, bombs and warships tomorrow!

In another 40 years someone will post a picture to this thread of the "buy back" effort a few years ago. The one where the requirement was to make the vehicles engine un-useable.

 

Cars on the way to be crushed and sent to China/ Japan taken with my phone on the Columbia River the other day.

 

Seems like an unfitting end for a car; I have been seeing flattened cars headed South on the interstate lately, the price of scrap must be up.


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It looks like the car had been cooked already.

 

Exactly! My grandfather owned a scrap/wrecking yard for 50+ years. He and my dad supported the family by "recycling" these old (NOT classic at the time) cars. They initially cut the drive lines out as the cast iron was the most valuable. As the price of scrap in general started to rise, they went back and got the frames. Sheet metal was not worth the expense or effort. During WWII, the sheet metal that was easily accessible was sold. My dad always said that he was almost a millionaire but had cut it all up for scrap before it was worth anything.

 

I still have the 12 gauge LeFever shotgun my granddad traded his running & driving Model A for,the gentleman approached me almost 20 years ago and ask me did I still have the shotgun he had traded my granddad for the shotgun.

My reply was,"Yes sirI stll have the shotgun and if you still have the Model A I will trade with you". He said the Model A was sold many years ago.

It just proves there was no real value in the old cars 60 years ago. HRP

 

@clem Here's a side-view (1935 Plymouth). The top is more squared off than it looks in the other photos posted. Also you can see the drip rail that just tapers off down the quarter window.

 

HRP depending on the model and condition of the Lefever that model A may have been worth more than you think.

 

Hard to imagine, sixty years from now, some ol codger might be looking at pics of Hondas and Subarus getting crushed thinking: "what a waste"!

Naaaah...