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Expert Posts: 2996     Location: Sept. 1958 | G.W. Bridge. (image.jpg) Attachments ----------------  image.jpg (195KB - 222 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | 58 Dodge CR (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (260KB - 221 downloads) | ||
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| Doctor DeSoto |
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 Location: Parts Unknown | Here is a good example of a fin era car that looks perfectly fine with a continental kit. The overall lines of the 59 Ford are upright and "formal" enough, that the kit actually looks pretty good.  (59 Ford cont kit cheyenne.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 59 Ford cont kit cheyenne.jpg (276KB - 228 downloads) | ||
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| firedome |
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Expert Posts: 3155  Location: NY & VT | |||
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| Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Yes, the funky "elf ear" backup lights and "V" of the rear deck trim also play well with the overall kit design too. I bought a nice, original one-owner 58 Buick coupe with a kit. It wore it well too. The less "swoopy", more bulky (one might call that "more formal" ?) cars were more naturally inclined to work with the formal look of a continental kit, skirts, etc. I saw quite a few 59 Fords with kits over the years. Always liked the way the block letters F - O - R - D were arc'd over the cover center. | ||
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| DIF-RNT |
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Location: NE Ohio | Battleship......... (Battleship.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Battleship.jpg (64KB - 216 downloads) | ||
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| DVjohn |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 416 Location: North Central Alberta Canada | Kelowna BC Canada (Kelowna BC.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Kelowna BC.jpg (120KB - 220 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | '55 Plymouth (969622_219574458197993_585936224_n.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 969622_219574458197993_585936224_n.jpg (30KB - 201 downloads) | ||
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| Rodger |
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Expert Posts: 1506 Location: Colo Spgs | |||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1049 Location: PL / EU | from ebay. dealership shop? (67654686878a7.JPG) Attachments ---------------- 67654686878a7.JPG (71KB - 201 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 3070 Location: Scotland | Rodger - 2014-03-03 12:56 PM Hola Yo'll As you that have been adding to or watching this interesting "thread" know it was started 2 May 2007 from Scotland. I too looked at the photos and such. After a while I stopped and turned my attention in another Forward Look direction. Then last week again "looked" at this thread. On the third page and about half the way down I saw a photo which was posted on 30 December 2008 that "caught my eye" of a car that was taken in Banning-California. I copied it and sent it to a brother of mine who now lives in the same town. This is what he just said, " ... It was taken probably before the '80's because of the housing that is not in the photo around The Base Ball Park. The "turn out" on Hwy 243 was paved last year after The Fire's in Banning. He also stated the photo location is about a 1,000 feet below their home ( he can not go to the store with out passing this location )". Interesting,Couple more from Banning CA Rodger & Gabby Colo Spgs (BanningDodgePlymouth56CA.jpg) (BanningCA.jpg) Attachments ---------------- BanningDodgePlymouth56CA.jpg (56KB - 219 downloads) BanningCA.jpg (150KB - 217 downloads) | ||
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| vedette |
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Expert Posts: 3070 Location: Scotland | |||
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| jimntempe |
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Expert Posts: 2312 Location: Arizona | ,,, (Dana_Brothers_Chrysler_Dodge_Mill_Ave_Tempe_1960s.jpg) (Phoenix_Jaycees_4133_Blue_Print_4141_N_7th_St_1960s.jpg) (Grand_Ave_McDowell_looking_southeast_Six_Points_Hardware_station_wagon_1960s.jpg) (Valley_National_Bank_branch_northwest_corner_Rural_Apache_Tempe_1960s.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Dana_Brothers_Chrysler_Dodge_Mill_Ave_Tempe_1960s.jpg (122KB - 211 downloads) Phoenix_Jaycees_4133_Blue_Print_4141_N_7th_St_1960s.jpg (71KB - 208 downloads) Grand_Ave_McDowell_looking_southeast_Six_Points_Hardware_station_wagon_1960s.jpg (143KB - 216 downloads) Valley_National_Bank_branch_northwest_corner_Rural_Apache_Tempe_1960s.jpg (180KB - 280 downloads) | ||
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| christine-lover |
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | . (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (164KB - 197 downloads) | ||
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| hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | 1958 Dodge (415.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 415.jpg (54KB - 206 downloads) | ||
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| Rodger |
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Expert Posts: 1506 Location: Colo Spgs | |||
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| DIF-RNT |
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Location: NE Ohio | Rodger - 2014-03-04 12:08 PM Hola Yo'll Not to long ago I saw a Forward Look Photo here that was of a Holiday Inn taken in Gainesville-Florida. Is it possible one of you could "re-fresh" my memory of this photo's posting date ( or location ). Rodger & Gabby Colo Spgs This One? (Holiday Inn Gainesville FL.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Holiday Inn Gainesville FL.jpg (47KB - 197 downloads) | ||
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| Rodger |
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Expert Posts: 1506 Location: Colo Spgs | |||
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Expert Posts: 1506 Location: Colo Spgs | |||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 416 Location: North Central Alberta Canada | Kimbrook Motor Hotel (Cranbrook_ Between Kimberley & Cranbrook BC.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Cranbrook_ Between Kimberley & Cranbrook BC.jpg (158KB - 193 downloads) | ||
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| SavoyPlaza |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1172 Location: Georgia | |||
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| hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Chrysler wagon (i025459.jpg) Attachments ---------------- i025459.jpg (53KB - 187 downloads) | ||
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| Valiant_200 |
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| ToMopar |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1160 Location: D-70199 Heslach | |||
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| Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Valiant_200 - 2014-03-06 9:26 AM I had a real WTF moment at 6:30 when I saw "Pinky The Rollerskating Donkey." Now THAT is something you don't see every day. Who got the crazy idea to put roller skates on a donkey?! ================================================ I am guessing you've never been to Tijuana ?   | ||
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| realgone58 |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1111 Location: Ocala, Florida | 59 plymouth (fwd 59 plym cvt.jpg) Attachments ---------------- fwd 59 plym cvt.jpg (45KB - 185 downloads) | ||
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Veteran Posts: 161 Location: newton north carolina | chapel hill, nc high school 1962 (chapel hill nc high school 1962.jpg) (chapel hill nc 1962.jpg) (chapel hill nc winter 62.jpg) Attachments ---------------- chapel hill nc high school 1962.jpg (44KB - 180 downloads) chapel hill nc 1962.jpg (26KB - 191 downloads) chapel hill nc winter 62.jpg (57KB - 184 downloads) | ||
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| The Chrysler Kid |
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Expert Posts: 1384 Location: Ocala, Florida | . (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (90KB - 179 downloads) | ||
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| imopar380 |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7207 Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | That photo in B&W above of the 57 Chrysler wagon looks like a scene from "The Misfits" 1960, Gable and Monroe. Edited by imopar380 2014-03-05 9:37 PM (4544.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 4544.jpg (53KB - 182 downloads) | ||
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| christine-lover |
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | . (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (117KB - 180 downloads) | ||
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| Valiant_200 |
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Veteran Posts: 124 | Doctor DeSoto - 2014-03-05 3:00 PM Valiant_200 - 2014-03-06 9:26 AM I had a real WTF moment at 6:30 when I saw "Pinky The Rollerskating Donkey." Now THAT is something you don't see every day. Who got the crazy idea to put roller skates on a donkey?! ================================================ I am guessing you've never been to Tijuana ? Haha. Since you were alive back then Doc, please explain the fascination with creepy clowns that the good people of 1961 seemed to share? Good Lord there sure were a lot of them in that parade. Clowns, cowboys and indians, Soupy freakin' Sales. It's like the 1961 Pop Culture Hell demo reel. I am surprised Mitch Miller isn't in there somewhere so we could all sing along. I never laughed so much at an old parade. On the other hand, did you see those gorgeous cars?! I love those Imperials and plucked chicken 300's, but the brand spankin' new 62 Dodge convertible is the one that really stole my heart. I saw Lawrence Welk in a Chevy? I thought he was a MoPar man? I liked the early 60's Studebaker Lark convertible. Not many of those left. I love the cars, the music and the architectural designs of the era, but oh gawd you can keep those TV shows! That was a very interesting time capsule. Thanks Vedette for sharing. Edited by Valiant_200 2014-03-06 7:06 AM | ||
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| hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | FWLK wagon Edited by hemidave 2014-03-06 9:30 AM (IskyPoweredBlownHemiFEDInThePits.jpg) Attachments ---------------- IskyPoweredBlownHemiFEDInThePits.jpg (73KB - 187 downloads) | ||
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| Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Valiant_200 - 2014-03-07 4:04 AM Haha. Since you were alive back then Doc, please explain the fascination with creepy clowns that the good people of 1961 seemed to share? Good Lord there sure were a lot of them in that parade. Clowns, cowboys and indians, Soupy freakin' Sales. It's like the 1961 Pop Culture Hell demo reel. I am surprised Mitch Miller isn't in there somewhere so we could all sing along. I never laughed so much at an old parade. On the other hand, did you see those gorgeous cars?! I love those Imperials and plucked chicken 300's, but the brand spankin' new 62 Dodge convertible is the one that really stole my heart. I saw Lawrence Welk in a Chevy? I thought he was a MoPar man? I liked the early 60's Studebaker Lark convertible. Not many of those left. I love the cars, the music and the architectural designs of the era, but oh gawd you can keep those TV shows! ======================================================= Can I explain it ? It just WAS ! We were all a whole bunch naive and corny and easily amused by stuff that seems unbelievably unbelievable, or just plain creepy. On one hand, I love certain aspects of it. As an example, I really dislike modern action movies. The over-done "reality" of constant explosions and cars cartwheeling down the road is just too plain stupid, and the non-stop movement that won't allow my eyes to focus on anything gives me a head- ache ! Conversely, as silly as 50's sci-fi movies were (just watched The Brain That Wouldn't Die), they incorporated a lot of personal imagination to make them seem "scary". Something modern movie makers seem hell bent to fill the void on to a point where no imagination is needed. The experience is 100% "provided". Does that make sense ? On the other hand, the themes of various MCM movements are often creepy and nauseating. And I say that in terms of having been there then, and being a fan now. The wifeperson discovered my collection of 50's household do-dads and pushed me to do our house up in it. Odd, as previous wives have BANNED it from the house ! ... but that's another story. So, she co-erces me to bring down the furniture hoisted to the rafters, and gather up the lamps and other accoutrements and this gets her into hunting down more. The jones is, MCM is not ONE style. There is good, and there is bad, and there is a whole lot of rather boring, milquetoast stuff in between. She had stars in her eyes and was dragging home all sorts of kitsch. We had to have "the talk". My spin on good 50's style is the playful, "Atomic" sort of style that came into vogue with the rockets and space-think of the 56-60 period. The Calder mobiles, the Perry Mason clothing, the boomerangs and darts, pinks and turquoises, inexplicably set against organic grasscloth and light colored woods. But in her/our search, it is hard to believe how much of that clowns and bad gravel art, cheap wire furniture and overall "junk" one must go past to find the real gems of the era. Part of it was the difference between what lawyers and airline pilots bought for their upscale homes, versus what the average schmuck bought at K-Mart. In a post Googie era world, nearly everyone saw the entire period as one big disaster in bad taste. But like anything, it is not that simple. 1964 era MCM is quite different than 1956 MCM. 1976 MCM is a whole different ball of beans. They are nothing the same, yet maintain a constant of Danish modern and certain linear aspects to keep them *kinda* related. For me/us, the downer, like with old cars, is that the public at large, took to disdaining an out-of-style look, and the more outrageous examples were the first targets to get updated or removed. By the time public opinion turned, what was left was the more mundane examples, or the later stuff, so finding a top shelf early example of either is much more difficult than finding a top shelf example of a later one. What I mean by that is a really awesome George Jetson 1957 house is exponentially harder to find than say, a more mainstream Brady Bunch house of the mid-60's, which is harder to find than a mid-70's rancher, just as finding a 56 Custom Royal convertible is exponentially harder to find than a fancy 1966 Dodge and so on. I will never understand how some schlubs have made MILLIONS selling "Precious Moments" figurines to Americans for the past 40 years, but it says a lot about Americans and kitsch and clowns and creepy stuff. I just choose to acknowledge it as part of the scene and make mine a different scene.  Edited by Doctor DeSoto 2014-03-06 2:04 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 3070 Location: Scotland | The Chrysler Kid - 2014-03-05 9:30 PM . interesting Desoto in the South of France (1956DeSotoFirefliteconvertibleSouthofFrance.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1956DeSotoFirefliteconvertibleSouthofFrance.jpg (90KB - 192 downloads) | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1111 Location: Ocala, Florida | '60 Dodge with Travel-Eze trailer (t traveleze with 60 dodge wagon.jpg) Attachments ---------------- t traveleze with 60 dodge wagon.jpg (48KB - 189 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Imperial (1459687_10152206457107457_1957682471_n.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1459687_10152206457107457_1957682471_n.jpg (85KB - 178 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2308 Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | Reference the Hollywood Santa Parade from 1961, I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that Barbara Billingsley, Tony Dow, and Jerry Mathers were in the parade - seated in a 1961 Ford convertible, no less.
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Location: NE Ohio | Taxi's.......... (taxi.jpg) (Town Taxi.jpg) Attachments ---------------- taxi.jpg (151KB - 183 downloads) Town Taxi.jpg (113KB - 191 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | '57 DeSoto (Tib018SpectatorEliminatorGoleta760.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Tib018SpectatorEliminatorGoleta760.jpg (199KB - 210 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1384 Location: Ocala, Florida | |||
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Expert Posts: 3480 Location: Montreal, Canada | |||
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Expert Posts: 3480 Location: Montreal, Canada | |||
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Expert Posts: 2996 Location: Sept. 1958 | 300E, loaded, though no radio. (image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- image.jpg (148KB - 186 downloads) | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1111 Location: Ocala, Florida | vedette - 2014-03-06 5:03 PM realgone58 - 2014-03-06 5:01 PM '60 Dodge with Travel-Eze trailer there's also a '57 Dodge 2 door hardtop in the background. I thought so, but my eyes just weren't good enough to tell for sure. (fwd 55 chrys with airstream.JPG) Attachments ---------------- fwd 55 chrys with airstream.JPG (76KB - 194 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Smoking (smoking.jpg) Attachments ---------------- smoking.jpg (63KB - 205 downloads) | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 416 Location: North Central Alberta Canada | Kamloops BC Canada (Kamloops BC.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Kamloops BC.jpg (177KB - 245 downloads) | ||
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