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Elite Veteran Posts: 1159 Location: D-70199 Heslach | LA, Sunset Strip & Larrebee - 1958 (LA Sunset Strip & Larrebee - 1958.jpg) Attachments ---------------- LA Sunset Strip & Larrebee - 1958.jpg (69KB - 187 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Auto Sales (Auto Sales.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Auto Sales.jpg (39KB - 186 downloads) | ||
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Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+ Posts: 13049 Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Not that many actually cares about it, but there's 3 Volvo PV and 2 djungle drums (SAAB two-strokers) in that picture! Why djungle drum? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_bTTUihfx0 Edited by wizard 2013-07-02 7:49 AM | ||
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | Yeah, yeah... six cylinders between the two of them... not only that! Each engine displaces almost as much as one cylinder in a good 413... a good thing they had Eric Carlson on their side... | ||
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Location: Parts Unknown | I can probably thank those Saabs for the eternal taste of sh!t in my mouth when I see 99% of foreign cars. WTF were these people thinking ??? I swear the stylist must have just spun around after dropping a healthy growler, imagined a steering wheel and lights, and the "Backdoor Look" was created. And the people who drove them ! At least here in the U.S., you could pretty much bet that they were the type who would argue to the death that violent criminals are misunderstood and were "awkward" around females. What a gawdfersakin POS ! | ||
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Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+ Posts: 13049 Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Actually, I agree about the "design" Doc, but for your knowledge, the designers had the aircraft wing profile in mind when they designed them. As for the persons that bought and drove them, you're most probably right there - who else would like those turds when they could buy a real car? | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | How does an aircraft wing in any way resemble a turd ? | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | We were luckier here... They didn't start to sell them here until they had the Ford V4 engine in them... and everyone knew that was such a dud that sales were very small. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2312 Location: Arizona | hemidave - 2013-07-02 4:32 AM Auto Sales
Gas price on the Texeco sign is 24.9 a gallon. | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1111 Location: Ocala, Florida | 99% of the foreign crap today is even uglier than that as far as I'm concerned. So Doc, I can empathize with you about that taste in my mouth every time I see a foreign car too! | ||
DIF-RNT |
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Location: NE Ohio | Kids (children) & a DeSoto........ Edited by DIF-RNT 2013-07-02 7:22 PM (Kids & Desoto.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Kids & Desoto.jpg (237KB - 190 downloads) | ||
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Location: Parts Unknown | realgone58 - 2013-07-03 3:27 PM 99% of the foreign crap today is even uglier than that as far as I'm concerned. So Doc, I can empathize with you about that taste in my mouth every time I see a foreign car too! ======================================================================= I hear you, but back then you had a CHOICE ! LOTS of choices ! Do I go for the 57 Olds, the Chrysler, or the Hawk ? ..... nah, ... that Saab looks just like a piece of sh!t with hubcaps ! I'll go for THAT !!! Besides, someone said it had something to do with aircraft design ! Now, they all look like bars of soap with smear marks for headlights, tail lights, and body lines. They're ALL ugly ! | ||
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | Doctor DeSoto - 2013-07-02 7:35 PM realgone58 - 2013-07-03 3:27 PM 99% of the foreign crap today is even uglier than that as far as I'm concerned. So Doc, I can empathize with you about that taste in my mouth every time I see a foreign car too! ======================================================================= I hear you, but back then you had a CHOICE ! LOTS of choices ! Do I go for the 57 Olds, the Chrysler, or the Hawk ? ..... nah, ... that Saab looks just like a piece of sh!t with hubcaps ! I'll go for THAT !!! Besides, someone said it had something to do with aircraft design ! Now, they all look like bars of soap with smear marks for headlights, tail lights, and body lines. They're ALL ugly ! Yes they are, and that's putting it lightly. | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | 1956 Plymouth wagon (56 Plymouth wagon.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 56 Plymouth wagon.jpg (173KB - 249 downloads) | ||
DIF-RNT |
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Location: NE Ohio | Parking...... (Parking.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Parking.jpg (213KB - 194 downloads) | ||
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Location: North Australia | Referring to the photo at the top of this page. That is a 1960 Imperial on the billboard (America's most carefully built car!). That photo is likely from 1959 not 1958. Am I right? Steve. | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | LaFemme Edited by hemidave 2013-07-04 7:27 AM (LaFemme.jpg) Attachments ---------------- LaFemme.jpg (112KB - 180 downloads) | ||
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Veteran Posts: 194 Location: Dorset, England | I don't think I trust the fellow with the 56 Ply wagon three pics up. | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | It looks like the woman beside him made that mistake at some time... | ||
moparsteve |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1155 Location: somerville mass | i live just outside boston in somerville nr the new "shops at assembly row" finished hopefully fall 2014 w new mbta assy row station. formerly assembly square finished 1979 which went to hell with boarded up shops garbage and rusty shopping carts. befor that...... ford assy plant where the new edsel senior cars corsair/citation were built in 1957. along w every ford model incl trucks and prob mercs and lincolns too. the plant closed in 1958. that parking street sign is bostons north station area causeway st we did have a manger hotel and the madison too. torn down many years ago. the elevated orange line went in the early 80s the gree line 1993. boston garden now td garden was taken down the bricks were sold for money. the garden had the beatles once in 64 w/a press confrence in the madison can be found on you tube. james brown 68 on the day or day after mlk assasination april 68 w an intro of a NEW mayor kevin white. i live 2 train stops away from there. the new tip oneill fed bldg there now. have to go thru homeland security to get in. my dad had a 56 ply wagon in 64 or 65. we didnt have much money he worked 2 ft jobs in 1963 300 a week that was good money then gave me a 2 dollar bill a week or 2 kennedy halves more than once old silver dollars from the 30s 40s! i wish i still had those! hed come home open the paper drink half a qt of ballentine and fall asleep. mom used to wake him to go to bed WTF U WAKE ME UP FOR!!! i was a hyper kid that didnt help. super security on esplanade due to what happened in april. happy 4th guys steve | ||
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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 | Flattie45 said: I don't think I trust the fellow with the 56 Ply wagon three pics up. Man, you guys gotta study your history. Was thinking about saying something pithy (not pissie) about the business man, living La Vida Loca 50's style (DIG that wife!), above, but he is the embodiment of the 50's Corporate lifestyle: [After I get done with re-reading Tales from Margaritaville---good summer reading---I'll do this guy, again, for the third time; refresher course]. Edited by d500neil 2013-07-04 2:21 PM (PICT1864.JPG) (PICT1865.JPG) (PICT1866.JPG) (PICT1867.JPG) Attachments ---------------- PICT1864.JPG (59KB - 178 downloads) PICT1865.JPG (56KB - 179 downloads) PICT1866.JPG (106KB - 175 downloads) PICT1867.JPG (57KB - 170 downloads) | ||
DIF-RNT |
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Location: NE Ohio | Saratoga........ (1960 Chrysler Saratoga.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1960 Chrysler Saratoga.jpg (38KB - 176 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 | Still thinking about the iconic young business exec and his iconic family and car. The man's attire is timeless, with his european-cut suit with pleated front, low cuffed pants. What is most interesting (to me) is that he is wearing cowboy boots, in brown (which match his tie and his car). The suit was not made for the wearing of cowboy boots; the pants 'ride' up a little high on them, so, this is a weekend affair for him. The foliage looks tropical, but the trees and grass are seasonal, and the sun is low in the sky; maybe Easter Weekend, but no corsage on Mommie; its chilly out, that morning, but he is apparently also wearing a short sleeved shirt, so, he also apparently does not intend to remove his suit coat (engineers like short sleeved shirts). His son may well be taking 'this' (of several) photos of the scene, which prominently features an apparently BRAND-new family station wagon; no dirt, yet, even on its WWW's. It's probably the family's only car, and it is brand new; the era's SUV; or, it could just be Mommie's new ride, but they are making a big deal out of formally posing in front of it. This family DEFINITELY has style in its clothing and in its car(s). Without a doubt, he is a WWII vet, putting it behind him. His pride in himself, his position in life, his family, and his new car, and her contentedness in same, is quietly very impressive. True life Ozzie & Harriet (she even looks like Harriet Nelson). Edited by d500neil 2013-07-04 5:46 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 2312 Location: Arizona | Interesting that the car appears to have been driven up on the lawn in order to take the photo. That would make me suspect it was perhaps a posed photo, i.e. not just a family photo but taken for some commercial purpose. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | Driven into what appears to be an awkward parking spot, moreover... certainly somewhere you wouldn't normally park. Anyway, they're proud of their new car and we've got the pic here... where did it come from? | ||
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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 | The photo is definitely not commercially produced (everybody would be smiling, deliriously, at the camera, the lighting would be even, he would not look somewhat rumpled, and it wouldn't be taken in a cramped back yard), but it is a purposely set-up happy-family portrait. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | The cramping of the backyard, the lack of attention to the background does show it to be a very amateur pic... Surely out front of the house, under a tree or in a park would have looked better? | ||
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Expert Posts: 3069 Location: Scotland | DIF-RNT - 2013-07-04 2:58 PM Here's the story http://bjretirees.blogspot.co.uk/2010_11_01_archive.html Saratoga........ RIP Calvin Deshong (Calvin Deshong 1960 Chrysler Saratoga_1962.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Calvin Deshong 1960 Chrysler Saratoga_1962.jpg (147KB - 172 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 3069 Location: Scotland | Madison (MadisonWisconsin1960s.jpg) Attachments ---------------- MadisonWisconsin1960s.jpg (166KB - 221 downloads) | ||
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Location: NE Ohio | I always like a story........or both sides of the story | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 802 Location: Norcross (Atlanta area), GA | East Moline, Illinois 1959 (emstatehosp1959.jpg) Attachments ---------------- emstatehosp1959.jpg (289KB - 171 downloads) | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 802 Location: Norcross (Atlanta area), GA | Appleton, Wisconsin 1960 (appleton1960small.jpg) Attachments ---------------- appleton1960small.jpg (228KB - 167 downloads) | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | ARCO (ARCO.jpg) Attachments ---------------- ARCO.jpg (208KB - 181 downloads) | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 716 | Courtesy of Roger from Sweden: www.hasselsvensson.se/Div%20MoPar.htm Click on Foto pa MoPar bilar / Photo on MoPar cars Dozens of pages of old Mopar pics there. | ||
DIF-RNT |
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Location: NE Ohio | Boston.... (Boston.png) Attachments ---------------- Boston.png (220KB - 177 downloads) | ||
CustomRoyal |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 322 | Early 60s (Dodge%20Phoenix(1).jpg) Attachments ---------------- Dodge%20Phoenix(1).jpg (60KB - 174 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1363 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | Hastings Freestanding Patio-carport (Hastings-Freestanding-Patio-carport.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Hastings-Freestanding-Patio-carport.jpg (78KB - 177 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 3069 Location: Scotland | Chicago (Chicago1969.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Chicago1969.jpg (82KB - 167 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | A boatload of FWLKS (Boatload.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Boatload.jpg (106KB - 159 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | August 1956 Edited by hemidave 2013-07-07 8:42 AM (Aug 56.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Aug 56.jpg (168KB - 256 downloads) | ||
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Location: NE Ohio | Knott's Berry Farm....... Edited by DIF-RNT 2013-07-07 9:54 PM (Knotts Berry Farm.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Knotts Berry Farm.jpg (176KB - 228 downloads) | ||
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Location: Bjorneborg, Finland | Many repeats here, go ahead.. This is old man's flashy and sleek '57 Fireflite Sportsman, following a '58 Dome. Edited by spinout 2013-07-08 4:39 AM (desffht57.jpg) (58fdome.jpg) Attachments ---------------- desffht57.jpg (33KB - 163 downloads) 58fdome.jpg (44KB - 161 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2596 Location: Upplands Väsby, Sweden | hemidave - 2013-07-06 8:17 AM A boatload of FWLKS Find this modell when I look after T, J. McCarthy at internet (4412607898_91fab2fdee_z.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 4412607898_91fab2fdee_z.jpg (117KB - 171 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Top down weather (top down weather.jpg) Attachments ---------------- top down weather.jpg (123KB - 174 downloads) | ||
DIF-RNT |
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Location: NE Ohio | Probably a FL in that parking lot? | ||
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Veteran Posts: 161 Location: newton north carolina | DIF-RNT - 2013-07-08 3:26 PM Probably a FL in that parking lot? Look to the far right under the sign "Broadway..." behind the white Buick leaving the lot. There's a white 4 door Chrysler or Desoto sedan hiding there | ||
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Location: NE Ohio | Your correct Dennis I see it hiding now | ||
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Expert Posts: 1497 Location: Fairfax, Minnesota | A friend of mine in the Military (early 70s) had one of these Saabs. When he brought it in the dealer for XXXXX mile service, they replaced the bushings betwwen the body and frame as part of normal service. | ||
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Location: NE Ohio | Auto Dump........ (Auto Dump.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Auto Dump.jpg (287KB - 153 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Surfer Wagon (surfsuburban.jpg) Attachments ---------------- surfsuburban.jpg (120KB - 153 downloads) | ||
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