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vedette |
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | Tampa 1957 (SearsTampaFlorida1957.jpg) Attachments ---------------- SearsTampaFlorida1957.jpg (128KB - 194 downloads) | ||
vedette |
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | In Door Drive In (NewYorkInDoorDriveIn.jpg) Attachments ---------------- NewYorkInDoorDriveIn.jpg (105KB - 193 downloads) | ||
DIF-RNT |
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Location: NE Ohio | Greyhound Bus Terminal, Cleveland, OH......... (Greyhound Terminal Cleveland.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Greyhound Terminal Cleveland.jpg (28KB - 190 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | 1957 Plymouth Belvedere (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (243KB - 189 downloads) | ||
christine-lover |
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | 1958 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer Convertible Spring Special. Wow! Doesn't get any better than this! Edited by christine-lover 2013-06-16 10:40 PM (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (230KB - 183 downloads) | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Wow ! Now that's a rare one ! | ||
christine-lover |
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | I wish I could step into that picture and walk around that car. That is just beautiful. | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | That Porsche in front of the red Belvedere is pretty sweet too ! | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | That Spring Special also has the rarely seen color coordinated headlight doors on it. You can confirm that it is a Custom Royal vert (and not a Coronet) by its grille emblem (and, if you look closely, by its gold anodized hood letters; Coros have chromed pot metal letters). | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 802 Location: Norcross (Atlanta area), GA | Vega$, Baby! (jeepvegas.jpg) (vegasvogue.jpg) (saharadodge.jpg) Attachments ---------------- jeepvegas.jpg (83KB - 190 downloads) vegasvogue.jpg (83KB - 181 downloads) saharadodge.jpg (22KB - 179 downloads) | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Car Wash (car wash.jpg) Attachments ---------------- car wash.jpg (176KB - 244 downloads) | ||
DIF-RNT |
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Location: NE Ohio | Car washes back then should of cost more? Look at all that labor! | ||
christine-lover |
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | . (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (170KB - 230 downloads) | ||
christine-lover |
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | . (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (242KB - 160 downloads) | ||
christine-lover |
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | What color is this car? Poppi? (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (230KB - 172 downloads) | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Looks like copper / emberglow .... whatever they called that copper color. I know it's rare, but I could not take that SS stuff off fast enough. No likey ! | ||
christine-lover |
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | Thanks Doc. I was thinking it was a Spring only color. But it looked more orange. That side trim looks more proper with the saddle style paint scheme. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | . (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (80KB - 158 downloads) | ||
christine-lover |
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | . (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (220KB - 168 downloads) | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Funeral/flower wagon (funeral wagon.jpg) Attachments ---------------- funeral wagon.jpg (36KB - 169 downloads) | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | christine-lover - 2013-06-19 3:00 AM Thanks Doc. I was thinking it was a Spring only color. But it looked more orange. That side trim looks more proper with the saddle style paint scheme. ==================================================== You could be right. Been a long time since a was a study of 58 Dodges. My car was a fully decked SS coupe. While I like the lower side trim dying out into the model scripts as a design idea, I don't like the way it forces you out of the b!tchin'-cool 57 style two-toning. Since it was an option, and the scripts were already placed on the fender, I just took a set of 57 trims off one of my yard cars and ditched the fat SS trim (along with the grille emblem, decklid escutcheon, and those hideous "anti-fins" ! ) Anymore, I would leave the car together as the rare beast it is and sell it to someone who would preserve it as a Spring Special and find a car more to my liking that does not destroy such a unique car. I feel guilty for doing what I did, although the parts were all sold with the car, so maybe the subsequent owner undid my "mistake" ? | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 440 Location: Vermont | 59 Plymouths (2abf8b5e-810d-4c9c-a95a-1acf2367fd08.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 2abf8b5e-810d-4c9c-a95a-1acf2367fd08.jpg (162KB - 172 downloads) | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | That Spring Special's OEM color was almost certainly "Poppy'. Here's a screen shot of a paint chart showing it, alongside Paris Rose. (PICT1651.JPG) Attachments ---------------- PICT1651.JPG (100KB - 166 downloads) | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 802 Location: Norcross (Atlanta area), GA | The Orbit Inn in Las Vegas (1015627_10151516102434426_207607728_o.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1015627_10151516102434426_207607728_o.jpg (158KB - 179 downloads) | ||
christine-lover |
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | d500neil - 2013-06-18 3:16 PM That Spring Special's OEM color was almost certainly "Poppy'. Here's a screen shot of a paint chart showing it, alongside Paris Rose. Maybe the Kodachrome makes the color off? Like the 58 Adventurer photo that makes it look green but it's gotta be gold. Are these SS colors very close to other Mopar colors? Poppy looks like Toreador Red, Frosted Turquoise looks like Vincent's 58 Plymouth, Paris Rose like Vic's 58 Plymouth Convertible. | ||
vedette |
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | Big Town Drive In (BigTownDriveInMichigan.jpg) Attachments ---------------- BigTownDriveInMichigan.jpg (77KB - 178 downloads) | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | The color of that SS 58 Dodge looks much more like a coral or "rust" (58 DeSoto "Autumn Rust" ... ... or was it "Mandarin Rust" ? comes to mind). Poppy sure looks over-the-top bright to me. But then again, those old color photos tend to warp-out for color too ..... I can say with reasonable certainty that it was none of the blue or green colors offered that year ! | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Traffic jam (Traffic Jam.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Traffic Jam.jpg (108KB - 172 downloads) | ||
soiouz |
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Expert Posts: 3480 Location: Montreal, Canada | vedette - 2013-06-18 10:17 PM Big Town Drive In Wow, these guys sure have some problems folding that top down! No wonder they didn't put the top boot cover! | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | Here's a part of a pic that's turned up on an Aussie forum... It's the Chadstone shopping centre carpark in Melbourne and seems to have been taken in mid-1962. There would seep to be just the one Forward Look car in frame, though I think there's a Simca there to pretend to be a second one. Another reason I have for posting this here is because I'd like to get an ID on the black car towards the lower right side of the pic... can anyone pick that for me? (0613frh6pchadstonecarpark.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 0613frh6pchadstonecarpark.jpg (118KB - 161 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2788 Location: USA - KY | Early 1950's Cadillac? (061820131791.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 061820131791.jpg (82KB - 175 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2312 Location: Arizona | Interesting how in the old days there was a vast amount of COLOR in the cars. If you took a similar parking lot photo today it would be mostly a sea of BLAH. | ||
christine-lover |
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | Ad that touches on the subject of how these cars were seen as old and out dated after 11 years. (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (106KB - 169 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2312 Location: Arizona | There's a heck of a lot less of those Volvo's tugging at anyone's memories than any of the exciting cars (then AND now) pictured in the ad. | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | jimntempe - 2013-06-20 12:05 PM Interesting how in the old days there was a vast amount of COLOR in the cars. If you took a similar parking lot photo today it would be mostly a sea of BLAH. =========================================================== I have never really looked into it, but this is a long-sliding trend that involves everything from commercial signage to house paint. Everything seems to have been injected with a heavy dose of sedatives. Most uppity types aspire to live in a McMansion, shunning a house with real character, and the ocean of news homes all painted "Suicide Grey" ? Wassup with that ? Not only do people seem "happy" with it, but park a shapeless grey/tan/blah Lexus or Hyundaillac out front and it's Nirvana time ! Sorry, I'd rather chew my arm off. | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | christine-lover - 2013-06-20 6:31 PM Ad that touches on the subject of how these cars were seen as old and out dated after 11 years. =================================================== It actually worked the other way around. It was BECAUSE of ads like this that the public came to see the 50's styling as old and icky. America largely got "played" by the advertising firms hired to open the U.S. market to foreign cars (and other products). We swallowed it hook, line, AND sinker ! | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | So did you identify the Forward Look car in my pic, Doc? And what about the old black thing? | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Ray Bell - 2013-06-20 8:27 PM So did you identify the Forward Look car in my pic, Doc? And what about the old black thing? ============================================= I see no Forward Look car in that photo, at least not in an American market FL kind of way. I think the old black thing has too squared fenders to be a GM product. Looks more like a 49-50-ish Chrysler or Dodge to me. The roof also has Keller written all over it. 50 Chrysler ? | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | Would it possibly be a late forties De Soto... The Forward Looker is a Chrysler Royal AP2. The rear extremities have what look like '56 Plymouth tail lights, but there's a '58/'59 Dodge-like fin wrapped over the top of them. | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | The horizontal bars in the grille rule out DeSoto from 42-55. And let me apologize again for the goofy cars our automakers foisted off on you non-U.S. buyers and still had the nerve to tell you were the "genuine article". | ||
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Veteran Posts: 124 | Aww! I like the strange mash-up that are Australian cars. They are bizarre in a fun way, much like their animals. I grew up calling them Plymouths and never thought for a moment to try grafting a fin to another fin, or imagined they could be called by any other name. What a remarkable vehicle. How about those weird creations in which they fitted a 55/56 clip to a 53 body? Could you even imagine such a thing? They are like the re-imagined vehicles of the Grand Theft Auto video game world, made in real life. I remember when I first found out that Australia had strange cars like that. I spent about a week combing Aussie Flikr streams, marveling at these wondrous vehicles. They are like some kind of alternate universe to me, where things are kind of the way they are in reality, yet different. Australia occupies a special place in my heart for another reason. That fortunate country is home to the largest Valiant collectors club in the world. They have some dooozies in that line as well, but since most of them are not forward look, I will constrain myself from commenting except to note that I believe with all of my heart that the coolest vehicle on earth has to be the Valiant Ute. This Australian only vehicle was, quite simply, a Valiant station wagon with no back, much like an American Falcon Ranchero. My favorites, of course, are the early "Road Toad" versions, but the later ones are great as well. (australian_valiant_ute_sized.jpg) Attachments ---------------- australian_valiant_ute_sized.jpg (202KB - 175 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | Sorry... any 'toad' Valiant utes are purely home made... The first production Valiant utes came in either the AP5 or AP6, after the toad had hopped away. | ||
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Location: Parts Unknown | Valiant_200 - 2013-06-21 1:00 AM Aww! I like the strange mash-up that are Australian cars. They are bizarre in a fun way, much like their animals. ============================================== In that light, it is hard to disagree. For a culture and people not too different than in the U.S., they sure do some quirky stuff, talk funny, and harbor the strangest critters still moving about the planet ! .... and all in one place ! | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Desoto and Plymouth (Desoto and Plymouth.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Desoto and Plymouth.jpg (32KB - 171 downloads) | ||
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Veteran Posts: 124 | Ray Bell - 2013-06-20 3:10 AM Sorry... any 'toad' Valiant utes are purely home made... The first production Valiant utes came in either the AP5 or AP6, after the toad had hopped away. I am surprised to hear that. They look production to me. They all have the same fill panel behind the door, with a Valiant logo stamped into it. Please tell me more. Where did these panels come from? Was there some sort of conversion kit that was provided after-market, or donors from a newer ute? In any case, I love them. A Valiant truck. Now *that* is a durable and useful vehicle! Edited by Valiant_200 2013-06-20 4:23 PM | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 781 Location: Montreal, Canada | When was the last time you had a U.S. CHOICE STEAK FOR $2.45 !!!!!!! (1015627_10151516102434426_207607728_o.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1015627_10151516102434426_207607728_o.jpg (158KB - 170 downloads) | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | Back when fins were plentiful? That's an excellent pic... | ||
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Expert Posts: 2312 Location: Arizona | Disneyland Parking lot (disneyland parking lot 1960.jpg) Attachments ---------------- disneyland parking lot 1960.jpg (108KB - 172 downloads) | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Valiant_200 - 2013-06-21 1:12 PM Ray Bell - 2013-06-20 3:10 AM Sorry... any 'toad' Valiant utes are purely home made... The first production Valiant utes came in either the AP5 or AP6, after the toad had hopped away. I am surprised to hear that. They look production to me. They all have the same fill panel behind the door, with a Valiant logo stamped into it. Please tell me more. Where did these panels come from? Was there some sort of conversion kit that was provided after-market, or donors from a newer ute? In any case, I love them. A Valiant truck. Now *that* is a durable and useful vehicle! =========================================== Yeah, I am kinda digging that groovy little critter too. | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Wheaties (Wheaties.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Wheaties.jpg (75KB - 170 downloads) | ||
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