Doctor DeSoto - 2014-03-24 11:43 PM
I find it amazing that some guy from the other side of the planet, who cites reading car magazines as
research, is going to tell me how it was in the world I lived and grew up in !


Don't tell me what my world was like. I was here, I lived it, Elvis was considered risque and R&R
was considered "greasy kid's stuff".

DIF-RNT - 2014-03-24 10:48 PM

Nope didn't notice till you mentioned it..

So what you doing in Sweden? (other than probably being your home country)

Doctor DeSoto - 2014-03-25 11:56 AM

Fantasy Boy,

Your clinging to the exception (instead of the rule) makes your argument absurd.

Joe was not the norm. He was the exception. And asking a kid from 1958 what the world looked
like is only going to provide a kid's perspective. Ask his parents what 1958 was like if you want a
realistic viewpoint. They were the ones who had a career, a mortgage to pay, and were concerned
with civics, politics, and things besides teeny-bopper stuff.

You go on with your fantasy that the 10% was actually 100% and have a good time with it.

sidesho_bob1961 - 2014-03-26 10:07 AM

I thought this thread was about old photos with forward look cars in them not a bitch-fest about what the fifties were like????? :laugh:

Doctor DeSoto - 2014-03-25 5:26 PM

Alas, it is about a guy who has likely never set foot in the U.S. telling us what life was like for those
who DID live here, whose parents, neighbors, and grandparents lived here. Good to have an expert on
the team.

Doctor DeSoto - 2014-03-25 9:50 PM

OK Mr. Fantasy, .... you win. America was nothing but Elvis, rockabilly, fender skirts, and teenagers
in the 50's. You are the expert. Congratulations. Deutschland Uber Alles.

Rodger - 2014-03-26 7:41 PM

Hola Yo'll

This photo was taken "in the wood's of Europe". The Trailer is a 3600 pound "Maisen Blahce". The car is a De Soto and the man is
Henri Henon

hemidave - 2014-03-26 10:38 AM

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hemidave - 2014-03-26 10:38 AM

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Gidman - 2014-03-27 6:11 PM OK, one quick note and then I'll be quiet again: As a kid, 10 years old in 1958, I could turn on the radio in our Firedome and listen to Von Sculley announce the Dodger baseball games. Today, in fact, today, I can turn on the same radio in the same Firedome and listen to the same Vin Sculley announce on the same speaker the Dodger game. How's that for ironic history?

vedette - 2014-03-25 10:12 AM

Steve Miles Over Here Volume 4 is out now focusing on the 1960-1964 cars as Volume 3 focused on the '50s cars on the streets of London,get your copies here
http://www.sgmpublishing.co.uk/htmfiles/book_details/over_here_both...

Managed to find all four volumes and they're on the way.

kmccabe56 - 2014-03-28 8:19 AM



Well done,I'm surprised you got Volume 1 so easy as it was first published in 2004 in hardback and has been out of print for a wee while.





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Gidman - 2014-03-27 1:11 PM

OK, one quick note and then I'll be quiet again: As a kid, 10 years old in 1958, I could turn on the radio in our Firedome and listen to Von Sculley announce the Dodger baseball games. Today, in fact, today, I can turn on the same radio in the same Firedome and listen to the same Vin Sculley announce on the same speaker the Dodger game. How's that for ironic history?