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D500Jim
Posted 2010-02-03 3:02 PM (#207916 - in reply to #81647)
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The latest addition to the mapped Forward Look postcard collection

1957 DeSoto Sportsman at 23rd Avenue in Meridian, Mississippi

1957 DeSoto Sportsman at 23rd Avenue in Meridian, Mississippi

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d500neil
Posted 2010-02-03 5:47 PM (#207933 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: bishop, ca		Doc, there's a large DENT, in that right/front door.

And, it looks more like Air Force gray, than Navy Haze Gray.










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vedette
Posted 2010-02-03 7:53 PM (#207942 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Scotland		does anyone know where this first one is?as well as the DeSoto there are 3 Plymouths in the background,here's another with 3 Plymouths and a Chrysler/DeSoto wagon in it.




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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2010-02-03 9:15 PM (#207948 - in reply to #207942)
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Location: Parts Unknown		You are right ... I missed that dent. Thought it was just the shadows from the trees and/or was too busy focusing on the dog dishies ! If it was a fleet car, it would not have been long before the dent was repaired. If we knew the location it might give clue to who owned it if it was a fleet car. I just found the pix I have of the el strippo 57 Firedome convertible with a stick ! If I had a scanner I'd post them.
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G-force
Posted 2010-02-03 9:31 PM (#207951 - in reply to #207900)
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sparky7 - 2010-02-03 11:42 AM Geez I could look at these all day . . . that NYC Kodachrome, second from the top, is a real time warp. I can almost taste that cold 20 cent Rheingold draft at the RED ROSE BAR. Hey, CABBIE! Sparky

 

That photo is from the Charles W. Cushman collection at Indiana University.  The collection consists of 14,500 Kodachrome color slides taken by Cushman, an amateur photographer, from 1938 to 1969.  The color and clarity of these photos is amazing!  
 
Here are links to some of Cushman's photos that contain Forward Look cars.  I'm sure there are many more that I've missed.  These links will take you to the page with information about the photo.  Click on the photo for an enlarged view.
  


'55 Plymouth - San Rafael, CA
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P08505

'55 Dodge - Calistoga, Ca
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P08780

'57 Chrysler - Ft. Bragg, CA
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P09362

'57 Dodge - San Francisco, CA
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P09676

'56 Dodge, '56 Chrysler - Sioux Falls, SD
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P10228

'58 Plymouth - Des Moines, IA
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P10232

'56 DeSoto - Chicago, IL
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P10312

'56 DeSoto - Chicago, IL
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P10313

'56 DeSoto - Chicago, IL
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P10347

'57 Plymouth - Vicksburg, MS
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P10383

'57 Plymouth - New Orleans, LA
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P10406

'57 Plymouth - New Orleans, LA
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P10407

'57 & '58 Plymouth - Austin, TX
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P10473

'56 Plymouth - Ciudad Acuna, Coahuila, Mexico
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P10487

'57 Dodge - Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P10528

'56 Plymouth - Heroica Nogales, Sonora, Mexico
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P10602

'56 Dodge, '58 Plymouth wagon - Tucson, AZ
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P10710

'55 DeSoto - San Francisco, CA
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P10891

'59 Chrysler - New York, NY
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P11573

'60 Plymouth wagon - San Francisco, CA
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P12692

'59 Chrysler, '59? Plymouth - Lincoln NE
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P12848

'56 Chrysler, '60 Dodge, '58? Plymouth - Indianapolis, IN
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P12904

'56 Plymouth, '56 Dodge - Istanbul, Turkey
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P14044

'57 Plymouth, '59? Plymouth - Istanbul, Turkey
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P14046

'56 Dodge, '55 Plymouth - Istanbul, Turkey
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P14063

'57 Plymouth - Athens, Greece
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P14191

'57 Plymouth - Beirut, Lebanon
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P14389

'58 Plymouth - Beirut, Lebanon
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P14393

'57 Plymouth - Beirut, Lebanon
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P14394

'55 Plymouth - Istanbul, Turkey
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P14568

'56 Plymouth - Istanbul, Turkey
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P14573

'56 Plymouth - Istanbul, Turkey
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P14574

'56 Dodge - Istanbul, Turkey
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P14673

'55 Plymouth - Princeton, IN
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P15331

'58 Plymouth - New York, NY
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/detail.do?pnum=P15824

 



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Ray Bell
Posted 2010-02-03 9:51 PM (#207952 - in reply to #207948)
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.....I just found the pix I have of the el strippo 57 Firedome convertible with a stick ! If I had a scanner I'd post them.


You don't need a scanner!

Sit the pic down in good light, but not in the sun. Hold your digital camera about 2'6" away from it, use the mid-range of your zoom, not wide angle, not telephoto. Shoot the pic and crop around it.

The trick is to get the pic square in your viewfinder, but that's not real hard. Square, that is, so it's not tapered one way or the other.

A lot easier and quicker than scanning.
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sparky7
Posted 2010-02-04 11:49 AM (#208010 - in reply to #207951)
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That photo is from the Charles W. Cushman collection at Indiana University. 


Brian, that is a great resource. Did you do all the indexing of FL cars? Thanks for sharing!

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Windsor59
Posted 2010-02-04 1:28 PM (#208016 - in reply to #207948)
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Doctor DeSoto - 2010-02-03 9:15 PM

You are right ... I missed that dent. Thought it was just the shadows from the trees and/or was too busy focusing on the dog dishies ! If it was a fleet car, it would not have been long before the dent was repaired. If we knew the location it might give clue to who owned it if it was a fleet car. I just found the pix I have of the el strippo 57 Firedome convertible with a stick ! If I had a scanner I'd post them.


Hi
location : Oxford Academy,New York-Vintage Cars,1950s Postcard and I found the pic here

http://cgi.ebay.com/Oxford-Academy-New-York-Vintage-Cars-1950s-Post...
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Windsor59
Posted 2010-02-04 1:40 PM (#208017 - in reply to #208016)
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Location: Upplands Väsby, Sweden		Some more pics, like the Red Dodge 60 conv



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D500Jim
Posted 2010-02-04 1:51 PM (#208018 - in reply to #208017)
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Windsor59 - 2010-02-04 7:40 PM

Some more pics, like the Red Dodge 60 conv

Thanks for IDying the 1960 Dodge, just what I needed to know! 'bought-it-now'

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D500Jim
Posted 2010-02-04 2:30 PM (#208021 - in reply to #81647)
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vedette
Posted 2010-02-04 6:54 PM (#208042 - in reply to #81647)
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vedette
Posted 2010-02-04 7:40 PM (#208054 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Scotland		Oxford Academy,NY



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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2010-02-04 9:47 PM (#208068 - in reply to #208054)
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Location: Parts Unknown		Boys school. Hmmm .... I did a Google search. No mention of military academy, but it may have been so in 1958 ???

The DeSoto looks quite dirty .... the tires, wheels, and hubcaps are monotone.

Make me wonder if that "grey" isn't actually a blue ?

Very unusual car all the same.
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Windsor59
Posted 2010-02-05 4:46 AM (#208090 - in reply to #208068)
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Doctor DeSoto - 2010-02-04 9:47 PM


The DeSoto looks quite dirty .... the tires, wheels, and hubcaps are monotone.

Make me wonder if that "grey" isn't actually a blue ?

Very unusual car all the same.


I think you have right what you say the DeSoto is maby blue.
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hemidenis
Posted 2010-02-05 1:40 PM (#208129 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Northen Virginia		vedette, thanks for the old and new picture, if you can't see how the place look today it takes half of the fun. Guys at least post the darn address so i can look for it

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d500neil
Posted 2010-02-05 4:08 PM (#208151 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: bishop, ca		...Look at the overall color rendition in that DeSoto photo, and the cars, themselves.

That Soto is (all-)gray colored.





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D500Jim
Posted 2010-02-06 1:06 PM (#208234 - in reply to #81647)
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I think this is a 1960 Chrysler, but kinda hoped it would be a 1960 DeSoto.

Anybody here know for sure?

1960 Chrysler or DeSoto? at Clovis Memorial Hospital in Clovis, New Mexico

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wizard
Posted 2010-02-06 1:25 PM (#208237 - in reply to #81647)
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hemidenis
Posted 2010-02-06 8:21 PM (#208309 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Northen Virginia		same building?



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hemidenis
Posted 2010-02-06 8:37 PM (#208313 - in reply to #81647)
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D500Jim
Posted 2010-02-07 1:29 PM (#208396 - in reply to #208237)
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wizard - 2010-02-06 7:25 PM

It's a Chrysler '60 4DHT for sure, but I'm unsure of whether it's a Windsor or A Saratoga - difficult to say without seeing the front fender. She has the standard side stainless trim, but the optional wheel well trim

Thanks Sven!

Here's another Chrysler. It's not a 300C but looks like it..., probably a Windsor?





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Posted 2010-02-08 8:37 AM (#208515 - in reply to #208129)
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hemidenis - 2010-02-05 1:40 PM

vedette, thanks for the old and new picture, if you can't see how the place look today it takes half of the fun. Guys at least post the darn address so i can look for it

OK,I'll try a couple Capitola Calif before and after,the after is a classic car show but mostly GMs and Cafe duMonde New Orleans late 1950s and current Japanese America.



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Posted 2010-02-08 9:50 AM (#208518 - in reply to #208396)
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wizard - 2010-02-06 7:25 PM

It's a Chrysler '60 4DHT for sure, but I'm unsure of whether it's a Windsor or A Saratoga - difficult to say without seeing the front fender. She has the standard side stainless trim, but the optional wheel well trim

Thanks Sven!

Here's another Chrysler. It's not a 300C but looks like it..., probably a Windsor?



It's kind of hard to see, but for me it looks like a '57 Saratoga - the front bumper guards and the long side trim indicates this. I do believe that she has dual headlight set-up as well.
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hemidenis
Posted 2010-02-08 2:38 PM (#208549 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2010-02-09 2:20 AM (#208647 - in reply to #208549)
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First is the weed-spraying train. The photographer's car is visible in the first photo, next to the road.

The third photo, like the first two, was taken near Racine, Wisconsin.

The fourth photo was taken in Chicago. The line used the Chicago's elevated system between the north limits of the city and the terminal at Roosevelt Road.







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D500Jim
Posted 2010-02-09 3:09 PM (#208714 - in reply to #81647)
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Oakdale, CA. on Hwy. 120 – the gateway to Yosemite Park, east of Modesto.

 





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Posted 2010-02-09 3:14 PM (#208716 - in reply to #81647)
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FL, Orlando - Northgate Home Builders

 





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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2010-02-09 3:21 PM (#208717 - in reply to #208716)
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D500Jim
Posted 2010-02-10 4:10 AM (#208865 - in reply to #81647)
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Antlers Hotel & Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, CO





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FL, Orlando - Northgate Home Builders

 



Dang you, Jim!

Now I'm missing my '59 Olds four door Holiday Hardtop!

And Big M has a decent one for a good price.................

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Ray Bell
Posted 2010-02-10 6:11 AM (#208877 - in reply to #81647)
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D500Jim
Posted 2010-02-10 11:56 AM (#208896 - in reply to #81647)
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1957 Dodge Coronet Convertible at Algiers Resort Motel in St Petersburg, Florida

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1957 Dodge Custom Royal Convertible at Algiers Resort Motel in St Petersburg, Florida

See my try-out postcard webpage here (opens in a new window/tab)



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hemidenis
Posted 2010-02-10 12:56 PM (#208903 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2010-02-10 1:04 PM (#208904 - in reply to #208903)
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hemidenis - 2010-02-10 6:56 PM

actual

And what a waste of such an appealing building/architecture...

Here 's a closer look. Looks just like straight from a fairy tail.



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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2010-02-10 1:29 PM (#208905 - in reply to #208904)
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Location: Parts Unknown		The mineral riches of the Front Range and a few others right behind in the background made for the most phenomenal cities and towns to spring up like this one. Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Trinidad, Leadville, even Gunnison had utterly breathtaking high Victorian architecture. The sad part is that the fine caretakers of this treasure saw it as trash and treated it accordingly. Very little survives today compared to the vast eden that once was here.
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Posted 2010-02-10 4:27 PM (#208921 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2010-02-10 7:18 PM (#208956 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: bishop, ca		Actually, Jim, that's a Coronet convertible, in your image up above here.

Besides the thin upper-side molding, all Coros got the black end-of-fin plate, and no Coros were supposed
to have the "V" emblem on the trunk---it did not designate the V/8 engine, and was only (supposed to be)
installed on the Royals and the CRL's.

Some Royals appear to have received the 'Coronet' black fin plates, and some Coros may have received that "V"
trunk emblem, but, those were non-normal/standard occurrences, IF.... they were OEM-installed.

And, Steve, those $8K cracker-box houses would correspond to about $80K, today, but, with all
the foreclosures recently, a much better house can be bought for not a whole lot more than that,
today.













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Posted 2010-02-10 7:57 PM (#208963 - in reply to #81647)
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I love railroad pictures. Thanks for posting.

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Posted 2010-02-11 1:30 PM (#209099 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2010-02-11 2:48 PM (#209107 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: bishop, ca		See? Right-there, is a Royal with the (not-supposed-to-have-it/them) black painted end of fin plates!

It does, correctly, have the "V" trunk emblem, though.

The weight of the boat/trailer is not adversely affecting the ride height of the car.....
you'd think that it would bear down on the rear suspension more than 'this' (none-)
amount; the front end looks to be 'up' a little bit.






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Posted 2010-02-11 5:00 PM (#209130 - in reply to #209107)
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Location: Parts Unknown		I prefer my trailers to have a reasonably balanced tongue weight ..... with the axle vs. tongue (or load) weight being close enough that the trailer can be moved without a vehicle. This also allows the trailer to NOT pull the back end of the tow vehicle to the ground and ride pretty close to level with weight on the axle, not the tongue / tow vehicle.
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Posted 2010-02-12 5:13 AM (#209210 - in reply to #208963)
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catman - 2010-02-10 4:57 PM

Kenny,

I love railroad pictures. Thanks for posting.

:cool:


Glad you like then, Robert. With I-94 torn up for re-construction south of Milwaukee, a lot of people wish that high speed trolley line was still around. Most of the right of way is intact, but serves as a bike trail and power line corridor.

K.



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Posted 2010-02-13 8:44 AM (#209328 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Montreal, Canada		Found these while surfing the Getty Images website. Hope they're not reposts, but they were new to me.

Captions for some of the pics, in random order:


Caption: BROOKLYN, NY - JULY 19: Brooklyn Dodgers great Gil Hodges with his wife, and family sitting in a Dodge convertible given to him by Goldring Motos during 'Gil Hodges Night' at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York on July 19, 1957. (Photo by Rogers Photo Archive/Getty Images)
Date created: 19 Jul 1957


Caption: DAYTONA BEACH, FL - FEBRUARY 26: Driver Lee Petty poses on the beach with his 1956 Volusia Motors Dodge before the Beach and Road Course race on February 26, 1956 in Daytona Beach, Florida. Petty finished the race 12th. (Photo by Don O'Reilly/Dozier Mobley/Getty Images)
Date created: 26 Feb 1956

Caption: 1956: Marvin Panch drove the Tom Harbison Dodge convertible the first part of the 1956 season, finishing 4th at Daytona Beach. (Photo by ISC Archives via Getty Images)
Date created: 01 Jan 1956


Caption: A family of four and their dog enjoy a day outdoors during a picnic, Agoura, CA, 1958 in this advertisement for Plymouth Belvedere convertibles. (Photo by Tom Kelley/Getty Images)
Date created: 01 Jan 1958

Caption: Convertible in front of crowd awaiting visit by Khrushchev. (Photo by Michael Rougier//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Date created: 01 Sep 1959


Title: Lawrence Welk
Caption: 1959: Full-length portrait of American bandleader and accordionist Lawrence Welk (1903 - 1992) posing next to a custom-built Dodge Royale convertible with a special D-500 engine on a residential street lined with palm trees. The car cost $5,100.00. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Date created: 01 Jan 1959

Title: Chrysler At Gas Station
Caption: A petrol pump attendant filling up a Chrysler car at an Amoco station, 1958. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Date created: 01 Jan 1958




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Posted 2010-02-13 11:14 AM (#209344 - in reply to #209328)
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soiouz - 2010-02-13 2:44 PM

Found these while surfing the Getty Images website.

Wow..., makes me feel very humble.

A custom-built Dodge convertible with a special D-500 engine...

Very nice photos, thanks for sharing!

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Posted 2010-02-13 1:45 PM (#209353 - in reply to #209344)
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Jim Hoek - 2010-02-13 11:14 AM

soiouz - 2010-02-13 2:44 PM

Found these while surfing the Getty Images website.

Wow..., makes me feel very humble.

A custom-built Dodge convertible with a special D-500 engine...

Very nice photos, thanks for sharing!



Thanks for the comment!

Yeah, the 1959 Dodge is really something.. the caption says the price tag was 5100$!!


I thought the 1957 Dodge convertible pics were particularly nice!
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Posted 2010-02-13 3:13 PM (#209359 - in reply to #209353)
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soiouz - 2010-02-13 7:45 PM

the caption says the price tag was 5100$!!

I know, it's been said so many times, here. But I really can't help myself, I have to say it: I'll take two!

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Posted 2010-02-13 7:39 PM (#209375 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: bishop, ca		Jim; you got $51K, because that's about how-much L. Welk's black Super D500 would have cost, in today's USD.

And that car was probably salvaged sometime before 1970, because if it had survived after then, I'll bet that
it could have/should have been able to continue surviving, through today.

Who knows? Given that it was a SoCal car, which Larry would have only had for that one year, before he got
his '61, for free, maybe it received some TLC ownership.

Also, factory records confirm that no '59 Super D's were built in the L.A. plant, so this car would have been built & shipped
from Detroit.

That yellow(?) CRL vert is Van Nuys, too.....



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Posted 2010-02-13 9:21 PM (#209395 - in reply to #209344)
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Jim Hoek - 2010-02-14 8:14 AM

soiouz - 2010-02-13 2:44 PM

Found these while surfing the Getty Images website.

Wow..., makes me feel very humble.

A custom-built Dodge convertible with a special D-500 engine...

Very nice photos, thanks for sharing!



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No matter how nice the 59, it still ain't no 58 !
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Posted 2010-02-15 12:10 AM (#209610 - in reply to #209395)
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