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Beautiful arrangement, I love these contrasts.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Karl.
DeleteOkay, I want the pick up! When we win the lottery, I shall buy an old pre 1940's pickup. I love the grill work! Louvers are too cool. love the shots
ReplyDeleteHi Marjorie, I think that is a post war 1940s pickup complete with a flat head Ford V-8. They are pretty sculpture.
DeleteJust looked it up, and the Ford pickup is a 1948 or 1949. I'm guessing 1949, but there was no change in body style in those years.
DeleteA couple of oldies but goodies. The louvered one might be a Packard?
ReplyDeleteMy first car was a 37 Chevy. I lowered it, took all ornamentation and smoothed it out, put on fender skirts and twin pipes. It was super-cool!
That was 1952-53.
Lowell, I believe it might have been a Packard, or perhaps it was a Hudson? I forgot to take notes.
DeleteYour 37 Chevy would still be super-cool today. Bet you wish you still had it stashed away. I didn't get my first car until I was a college student. It wasn't cool at all, but I loved having it.
Am old enough to remember thinking in the early 60s that such trucks were not cool...just old. I especially did not like running boards. By the early 70s for sure I thought the ones with running boards were about the coolest things on the planet....Funny to see these beautiful details in your images and recall how fickle I was as a youth.
ReplyDeleteI remember when the 1950 Chevy pickup came out, but still loved the trucks from the 1940s. Always thought running boards were wonderful, but doubt they will ever come back. As a H.S. student I was into sports cars, and my all time top wish list car, a 1957-58 Ferrari 250 TR, just sold last year for $7 million. Can't afford it now any more than I could back then when it was only $13,000.
DeleteIf only we could have known then what we know now...but am not sure any of could have gotten even a $13K loan for Ferrari futures. I liked the old MGs...with running boards. Wonder what they are worth today.
DeleteWe have a 56 year old MGA in fine running condition. It's a sports car that I can afford now, but it has no running boards. The other car that "got away" from me was a 1952 J2 Cadillac Allard. In 1957 I found one advertised in Road and Track in Miami for $750. I went to see the owners, but the car was just sold. Beside, I didn't have $750, nor would my Dad given me the money for a 4 year old race car. One just sold a few months ago for about $2 million. Who knew? I had taste.
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