Car Porn

Climbed Mt Washington!

 

Nice car

 

Rain Man or Karate Kid?

 

Well that's a Plymouth...the Karate Kid was a Ford Super Deluxe, and Rain Man was a Buick Roadmaster

 

Porsche - 2 by Mike M, on Flickr

Going through my old photos. This was my Dad's car when I was very young (circa 1985-1986). He had his mid-life crisis and hauled this out of a field. It looked good but was already a bucket of rust.

I like joking with people that my Dad had a Porsche when I was very young. He sold it to buy my Mom a Cavalier station wagon. Something about that just seems so, so wrong.

 

I don't ever recall seeing one of these before.

 

International Travelall. They made a smaller version, the Scout. Sold by farm implement dealers or big truck dealers or hardware stores, not car dealers.

 

Old suburban look, i like it

 

I remember the Scout, I even drove one, just didn't recall that long version.

 

Anybody noticed a downward trend in the old Model A pricing in their areas? I've seen cars for sale around here for around $8k-$10k that 5-10 years ago would have been $20k cars. I'm sure it has to do with the average age of the people who had nostalgia for the old 20's & 30's cars being 'dead' but it's still interesting to see. I've always wanted an old Model A roadster or pickup, so maybe I should start keeping an eye out. Soon they'll be hitting the 100 year mark, and while they'll never fetch Cord/Duesenberg/Marmon money it seems like they'd be a good investment.

 

I drove a Model A deluxe roadster for 25 years. I finally sold it to another collector a few years ago, after traveling extensively with it.

 

'58 Coronet with 59 front end, or vice versa, note difference on 2nd car. Sinister.

 

'61 Ford Starliner. Remember when it came out.