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  1. Flivver

    the country drive

    The Sunday drive after Sunday dinner was a regular occurrance in my family when I was growing up. My parents continued to do it as long as my Dad could drive. I've never done it on my own...there's always too much to do, it seems. I think the people of my parent's generation were on to...
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    Show us your vehicles

    That's a great looking Crown Vic, Warbaby! I love my 2000 model. It just turned 175,000 miles.
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    Decline of the Blue Box

    I had forgotten about the dates on the sides of mailboxes! I also loved checking those out on every mailbox I saw as a kid. In our town, the sewer grates also had dates on them. But I never saw a date earlier than 1937...about the time my neighborhood started to be developed. Does anyone...
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    Air Conditioning in the Golden Era

    Vent windows on cars were a Fisher Body invention that first appeared on all GM cars in 1933. The rest of the industry soon adopted them, but for a while, at least, they had to change the design sufficiently to circumvent the GM patents. Their original name was "ventipanes". GM was also the...
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    Lawn Mowers

    That's a nice looking mower! When I was a kid in the '60s, I used a mower very similar to that one to mow lawns for the neighbors to earn money to buy car models. My mower was a Clemson...painted bright yellow with black trim.
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    Treasure Island 1939 Worlds Fair

    1939-40 saw World's Fairs on both coasts. The Golden Gate Exposition doesn't seem to get the recognition today of the '39 New York World's Fair, but it was a first class World's Fair in its own right...and it was an equally big deal back then. I've known about the Golden Gate Exposition since...
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    Air Conditioning in the Golden Era

    The first car to offer optional air conditioning was the 1940 Packard. Cadillac added the option in 1941. One of my friends has a 1941 Cadillac Coupe with both air conditioning and Hydra-Matic automatic drive. He loves nothing more than to drive this car on hot summer days with the A/C on...
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    Any License Plate Colletors Out There?

    That used to be true here in Mass also. But now the state holds an annual lottery for low number plates that are turned in. I've never entered the lottery because I want to keep my Dad's original number...even though it's five digits and really not that special. But I have many photographs...
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    Show us your vehicles

    That's a great looking DeSoto! My Dad fell in love with the '58 DeSoto Fireflite. But he never got around to buying one. As Groucho Marx said... "Drive a DeSoto then decide".
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    Any License Plate Colletors Out There?

    I've collected license plates since I was five. That's when I found a 1926 Mass plate in the dump. My dad then gave me his run of plates (all with the same number) back to 1942. Here in Mass we have something called a reserve plate. If your plate has 5 characters or less you can keep the same...
  13. Flivver

    Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

    And, of course, Doug Sr. was married to another early superstar Mary Pickford.
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    Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

    Fairbanks Sr. is one of my all-time favorite actors. To me, he portrays the "all-American boy" image of the first third of the 20th century. I'm not as much of a fan of Fairbanks Jr., although in fairness to him, his father was a tough act to follow.
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    Show us your vehicles

    From studying a "52 Mercury Deluxe brochure, I believe your car to be the Monterey series, not the Custom. The Monterey series had a chrome rocker panel molding (which your car has) while the Custom did not. The nameplate on the rear door should read "Monterey". If it is a Custom, the nameplate...
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    Show us your vehicles

    That's a great looking Dodge, 50sgal. Here in the U.S., that vehicle was sold as a Plymouth Fury. The fullsize Dodge Polara sold here had different sheetmetal giving a very different look. I love seeing Australian and Canadian versions of American cars. The Canadian cars were quite...
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    Circa-1949-1952 Pontiac sighting

    My guess is that it recently came out of storage looking like that. During the Korean War, the government mandated a reduction in the thickness of the chrome plating used on cars (rather than eliminate chrome entirely as was done in 1942). The result was that 1951-52 vehicles had thin chrome...
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    Circa-1949-1952 Pontiac sighting

    It's a 1951 model as indicated by the grille and side-trim details. These were good solid (if un-exciting) cars. They were powered by L-head inline six and eight cylinder engines. They were often driven by school teachers...in fact my 5th grade teacher drove one almost exactly like the one...
  20. Flivver

    Coney Island 1927

    That's the best 1920s Coney Island movie I've ever seen! Thanks so much for posting it.
  21. Flivver

    Vintage Magazines?

    I couldn't agree more! That aroma can be intoxicating! I started out with old National Geographics as a kid. I bought them for the car and radio ads...twelve for a dollar at an old bookstore my Mom had gone to when she was a kid. When I was 14, I discovered a shop in town that specialized...
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    The death of the American luxury sedan

    Engine displacement is the size of the engine...or more technically the swept volume of the pistons in the engine. So by taxing vehicles on the size of their engines, the Europeans forced smaller engines to be used thus forcing the size of the cars smaller as well. Here in North America, there...
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    The death of the American luxury sedan

    The '48 Cadillacs were *very* controversial when they were first introduced...but people adjusted to the "radical" new styling quickly. By 1955, Cadillac was out-selling all other luxury brands combined (in the U.S.). It's interesting how, after they are copied by everyone, these radical...

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