Vintage shots from days gone by!

I'm afraid it wouldn't be anywhere near 44K after all the safety and emissions equiptment was added.

 

It would be more like $68,000 in today's money.

 

Johnny, you're using a very different inflation counter than the four I checked. They all came up with $44 grand, includig the D.O.L. Your figure is half again what the others got. Just curious what calculator you used.

 

Man, I remember the story in I guess Popular Mechanics about this guy and his car. The dash had every instrument known to man!

 

Thats the most radical '39 Chevy coupe I've ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Hey!----This is where I bought my 260 Cobra motor at----In 1964, still running great!!!-------Don

 

Damn!----Wonder what my 260 Cobra motor is worth today?

 

Wow, how great can you get. LOVE IT!!! Jay Y>

 

Hey, Dad! I checked the 'Bama-Rama-Inflation-Counter, dood. It's worth a dollar-ninetyeight.

 

Buick with a twist...

 

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Yup, I just bought an issue of that magazine at the local flea market last Sunday. I got three Popular Mechanics (2 1952's and 1 1954) all for just $5. They're all in mint condition too, just like I picked it up off the newsstand almost 60 years ago.

 

Sure does bring back some fond memories! Folks that put hippies down just don't realize how much fun it was to be one.

 

Well it took me 3 weeks to look at every page. Wow, it was great.
Thanks all
Tony

 

Very nice!!

 

So true.

 

Yeah, I think we talked a bit about that before. The mid/late 60s & early 70s were definitely a fun time for many. Unfortunately the draft and Vietnam were very sobering realities for many others as well. Nevertheless, many fond memories remain from that period.

 

Google Louie Mattar Cadillac to relive those days again!

 

There was a guy in Port Arthur Texas with a car full of instruments. I think it was a Studebaker. Been a long time. When that one died, he moved all the stuff to a later car. I only saw the later one a couple of times. He had so many instruments, he could hardly see out. That was the only clue of what the inside looked like. The gages stood several inches above the dash.

 

There is not enough money in the World to pay me for the expierences I had in those years - There is also not enough money in the World to pay me to go through it again.

 

A papier-mache cow on Mrs Mellor’s car, 1944 by Australian War Memorial collection, on Flickr

 

Jun 25, 1956: Last Packard produced...

With sales dwindling by the 1950s, Packard merged with the much larger Studebaker Corporation in the hope of cutting its production costs. The new Packard-Studebaker became the fourth largest manufacturer of cars in the nation. Studebaker was struggling as well, however, and eventually dropped all its own big cars as well as the Packard. In 1956, Packard-Studebaker's then-president, James Nance, made the decision to suspend Packard's manufacturing operations in Detroit. Though the company would continue to manufacture cars in South Bend, Indiana, until 1958, the final model produced on June 25, 1956, is considered the last true Packard.

 

Please don't repost this picture more than another hundred times or so..... It sure does save me the time of going back to look for it though.

 

Reminded me of a joke I hadn't thought of in years.

"It's a bird...It's a plane..."

("It's a bird.)

 

To borrow from Dickens..."It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

 

Brazil restaurant from the 50's. So sad, like many other fun places, it's abandoned.

 

bingo

 

WoW!!!!!!

The Fastest Increase In Resale Value Of Any Car!!!!!

UP As Much As 9.6% When You Drive It Off The Lot!!!



I Should Have Bought 3 And Sold 2 Off For Profit!



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