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[Old Man Taylor]

I'm guessing that this picture was taken close to Santa Monica Beach. The year was 1944, and the car is a '41 Ford convertible. In the picture is my Dad, his Mom, myself and my sister. Later that car had an engine fire while we were driving. My Dad let the family out of the car and he drove it to the fire station. I don't know the total damage, but I do know that when my Dad filed a claim Farmers said they covered fires, but not engine fires. No one in the family ever used Farmers insurance again.

[U47]

Originally Posted by Old Man Taylor

I'm guessing that this picture was taken close to Santa Monica Beach. The year was 1944, and the car is a '41 Ford convertible. In the picture is my Dad, his Mom, myself and my sister. Later that car had an engine fire while we were driving. My Dad let the family out of the car and he drove it to the fire station. I don't know the total damage, but I do know that when my Dad filed a claim Farmers said they covered fires, but not engine fires. No one in the family ever used Farmers insurance again.

You are supposed to say;
" No one in the family ever used Farmers insurance again bum ba dum bum bum bum bum"

[Jack Gifford]

Originally Posted by U47

... Chevrolet never had a straight eight...

I was addressing John Wallace about the picture of his family's '38 Pontiac.

[Jack Gifford]

Jim- I've always like the convertible coupe styling of the '41 Ford/Merc, sans rear side windows. (Almost as much I admire the '40 Merc fixed-head coupe, with its unique "formal" roof style).

[johnta1]

Sorry, Jack, I don't know what it had in it.

[MikeNoun]

Beautiful colorized photo of the 1959 GM cars.

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by MikeNoun

Beautiful colorized photo of the 1959 GM cars.

Very nice. Probably prudent of them to stage the cars closer to the island/trees rather than the fountain. Every time I go by the fountain and it is running I get hosed....



I participated in a photo shoot in a similar location. They borrowed my Inferno Orange H2 to complete the model mix.

K

[Keith Seymore]

I'm sure I've posted this before (probably in this thread) but here is another:

K

[MikeNoun]

Very cool Keith! I do not recall seeing that photo before.

Here's a parking nightmare.....




Trailer full of Mercurys

[johnta1]

Was the '38 a six or straight-eight?

Jack from the pics I've looked at, it appears it might be the 6 cylinder?

Appears that the hood ornament was taller for the 8 cylinder, while my Dad's was a lower one.

The license plate would be hiding the other way to ID it I think.
(also the 6 was shorter wheelbase but wouldn't be able to tell by pic)

[1stgenbird]

Here is a photo of my older brother next to my father's Pontiac. It was the year I was born so I don't have any recollection of this but my dad says it was a two-toned green '53.

[Jack Gifford]

I don't know John. Looks to me that your dad might have had the eight. According to Gunnell's Pontiac book all '38 sixes had the 'Pontiac' script on the hood sides by the headlamps.

[johnta1]

Thanks for those pics, Jack.

Here is another view with his good friend by the car:



I was going by the hood ornament, which your pics also show the ornament as being low for the '6'.

Pic too dark to see if it has the Pontiac script though.

[Doug]

Originally Posted by Jack Gifford

I don't know John. Looks to me that your dad might have had the eight. According to Gunnell's Pontiac book all '38 sixes had the 'Pontiac' script on the hood sides by the headlamps.

Jack, John,

I don't know where I got the idea from but I seem to recall seeing a late 30's-early 40's Pontiac that had some "skinny" front bumper guards that had their tops in the shape of a Pontiac Indian head. I thought it was on a 40 (41?) 4dr sedan car I had seen in a junk yard but when I went to that yard a few years later that car didn't have the "Indian head" guards.
That car also had an array of "silver gills" along the sides of the hood (which opened by lifting the hood ornament).

I may have seen an "Indian head guard" car at a POCI convention or at Norwalk (or I may have imagined it all).

Does anyone know if such an Indian head guard/trim was ever used?

[U47]

Hood ornament is different between sixes and eights, on the side panels the sixes have a shorter grille with Pontiac script near the headlamp, the eight's side grills continue where the script is on the sixes. On the bottom of the silver streak about even with the bumper blade the script across the silver streak says eight.
Eight;
http://www.collectorcarads.com/Picture1/DSC08647.jpg
six;
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Sedan_1938.jpg

Also below the script on the lower part of the silver streak ( down by the front bumper ) The chrome grille continues down where the six at that juncture the last lower part of the grille is painted.

[Rich-Tripower]

Here are a couple snaps of my L79 Chevelle when it was about a year old.





Did that trailer hitch and door edge guards! Two items that failed to make it back on the car when I restored it..... I DO have an NOS set of door edge guards still in the package and a very nice complete trailer hitch kit along with a very nice used hazard flasher kit. All three were dealer installed options which I keep with the car, just not ON the car.

[Hikin Mike]

Originally Posted by Rich-Tripower

Here are a couple snaps of my L79 Chevelle when it was about a year old.





Did that trailer hitch and door edge guards! Two items that failed to make it back on the car when I restored it..... I DO have an NOS set of door edge guards still in the package and a very nice complete trailer hitch kit along with a very nice used hazard flasher kit. All three were dealer installed options which I keep with the car, just not ON the car.

Nice! My dad had a 65 Chevelle SS new. Then he sold it to buy a '63 Corvette.

Have a soft spot for Chevelles. Had a 66 Chevelle as a kid. Would love to get another.

[muscle_collector]

Originally Posted by MikeNoun

Very cool Keith! I do not recall seeing that photo before.

Here's a parking nightmare.....




Trailer full of Mercurys

does anyone know what the deal with this parking lot is? I have seen this picture many times and always stare at it trying to spot a rare car.

[U47]

Originally Posted by MikeNoun

Very cool Keith! I do not recall seeing that photo before.

Here's a parking nightmare.....




Trailer full of Mercurys

Probably the most recognizable car there would be the VW Beetle, at least 24 that I can see.