A very interesting collection of postcards indeed! I wish I could go back into that era and buy a couple of loaded MoPars. I wouldn’t want many – just a 1958 DeSoto Adventurer, a 1960 Chrysler New Yorker, a 1960 Dodge Polara wagon, and a 1961 Plymouth Fury. I’m not greedy!

There were a couple of interesting odd sightings too. In the picture Michigan300B, there’s a 1950-51 Shoebox Ford parked in the front rank. It appears to have a custom grille bar as I never saw a stock one that looked like that. Maybe it came from a 1953 Plymouth?

In the picture STL02 the 1959 Plymouth wagon is wearing a US Government license tag. I wonder which government agency thought it needed a wagon, the Post Office maybe?

These were never officially imported into the United States by VW so it's unlikely it would be one of those. We had a Karmann-Ghia body parts book at our dealership with section devoted to the Type III varient, but we never saw one. The Squareback and the fastback models were the only ones sold officially here and they were only here from 1965 to 1973.

As for the postcard, I can't blow it up enough to tell what kind of car that is facing the camera. My best guess is it might have been a 1960 Pontiac, but there isn't enough resolution in the picture.

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