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The Buick is a 1951 or 1952. The portholes are the same those two years. The 1950s share the same dash but the portholes are different. Before I got out of messing with GM cars, Buicks were by far my favorites.
There's a white 1952 Buick ragtop parked in front of the 1956 Dodge station wagon. You can tell it's a '52 by the chrome fin above the taillight.
It's totally worth signing up on the HAMB just to page thru the "VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY!" thread, currently around 4,000 pages. All pics on there are supposed to have "some" automotive relevance, but that covers a wide range of pictures. Vintage shots from days gone by! | The H.A.M.B.
This is actually my Dads Texaco back in the late 50's I can remember running around the bays falling on my butt because they used to wash the floor down with solvent and water and so did I later on in years. I have more pictures but have to find them. I remember the jeep but not the 53 wrecker.
This is actually my Dads Texaco back in the late 50's I can remember running around the bays falling on my butt because they used to wash the floor down with solvent and water and so did I later on in years. I have more pictures but have to find them. I remember the jeep but not the 53 wrecker.
What a neat picture. It seems almost every service station in the 50's and 60's had an old Jeep.
It looks like a '35-'36 REA truck in the upper LH corner. Also nice '41 business coupe in the lineup. Cool Photos!!
Mark
My younger brother is restoring a 41 Ford business coupe. It was mine a long time ago. Dad bought it used in 1950. Been in the family a long time. Patrick
I like these old photos, especially the ones staged by ad campaigns. Take a look at the 1956 "Pantorium" photo with the woman sorting her clothes going into the cleaners. The drivers door on that Dodge convertible will not open given where the car is parked, too close to the planter box. Or the next one with the Buick convertible...who parks like that to get gas? I like that "clamp-on" trailer hitch on the Buick...I haven't seen one of those in many years. Almost too hard to believe that there was a time that cars were constructed in such a manner as to allow a hitch to be mounted to a bumper. Good stuff, thanks for the link...
Ok, the Buick convertible being gassed looks like a picture by a famous photographer that worked for Norfolk and Western Railroad. His name was maybe O. Winston Link or close to that. He staged famous night scenes with Norfolk and Western Steam engines at night and used a whole lot of flash bulbs. I remember one famous one with a couple in a convertible watching a movie at a drive in theater with a large steam engine in the picture. Patrick
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