History 1953 Battle Cry "DEATH TO ALL JALOPIES !!!"

What a deal!! How about the suits riding on top of the Buick in the "parade" now thats safe!! NOT!! Some great tin going to hell in a hand basket here. Damn jalopys!! Jalopy Journal?? Must be more of them there hellions carryin on! Indeed---~Sololobo~

 

cars dont kill people, people kill people!

 

Those piles of cars ironically resemble both the housing market and the state of affairs with the auto industries in the detroit area.


rome

 

I'm sad now

 

Me???? I think I'm going to go to the movies for .50 and cool down after seeing all that.


That cop'er on the Indian with the side car will pass muster though.....

At least the gents weren't wearing narrow ties....But those street sweaper pleated pants....( hate to admit it, but seeing those reminds me of my age)


HellRaiser

 

Hope my tag does'nt doom my ride!

 

My thoughts exactly! hahaha, never trust anyone who wear their drawers above the navel! Most likely, they're out to kill your car.

 

I bet the auto dealerships where behind this!
jimV

 

F'N Pricks. At least in Portland they used many, many, of these type of cars to build Marine Drive along the Columbia river. With some rip rap of course. These photos make me kinda' ill.

 

No pics here.

 

Can't see the pix either. Gary

 

Should be fixed now,..... I guess I had exceeded my band with

 

wow, that is sad.

 

When I was a kid there used to be a stack of cars about 20 x 20 x 30 high. I'm saying 20 cars in each direction and 30 cars high all the way solid through the stack.
Looked like a giant chimmey, neatly stacked! Nice car's too, I figured when I got old enough to drive I'd go there and get one and some part's, but in the two years I waited they were all gone. Found them on a day I was cutting school and thought they were long forgotten.
Wish I had a picture of that...

 

Why don't you leave that argument on the other thread,... don't drag it over here.

 

Sad, Sad.................Sad!

 

Kinda like what Government Motors is doing with Toyota today...

 

I was going to spare you all from this one,..... but considering this reaction was the same as mine,.... I figure I will share this one as well,...

 

What was the point of burning them? If they're off the road...smacks of a stupid propaganda trick.

 

Now the "Division and Hooker" photo shows the field museum and the Shedd aquarium in the background. (Chicago) This would place the car pile to the east of Soldier Field, possibly on what used to be Meigs field (Lakefront airstrip)
(Northerly Island now). Of course I don't know how old Meigs is.

Is this the Origional Hunnertcarpileup?????????????????

Quick!!! Now that we know where its at someone fetch a time machine!!!!!!!!

 

It was by accident, looking for pictures of old Detroit for another thread,.. when I seen these, the bottom of my jaw hit the top of my boots,... I couldn't let this carnage go unmentioned,..... (misery loves company !)

It was like a death sentence,... "cremation" according to one of the signs, besides , it would burn them down to bare metal for re-prossing.

And I thought I was sick !

 

Your close Al, I think that looks like the Adler Planetarium, east of the aquarium. So the pileup must have been on the north end of Northerly Island where the Burnam Harbor marina parking lot was built. Some of the photos are from Detroit and some from Chicago...a similar campaign? I wonder if any other major cities' Chevy dealers did the same?

 

Nice pix. Just a campaign to sell new cars, eh? Besides, old light-weight tin didn't have a chance against the newer and heavier cars and trucks anyway. Remember, the tire mfg and the auto makers conspired to KILL mass transit, too, just to sell more cars. I don't mind the drunk driving deals you see at schools, everyone should know not to drink and drive by now. Cept the bar owners of course and those who collect taxes on booze. Gary

 

Hey Man it was just an older version of "Cash for Clunkers." Those were just junk cars in their day just like all the junk jap cars we see driving around everyday here in the big city.

Except ....what a loss of good parts. Who will cry if a Civic meets the crusher?

 

Those pictures are hard to look at.

 

This was the wrong thing to start my day with.

 

Is this Hot Rod Hell? Yikes..

 

Apparently, the jalopies acted alone in these deaths as no drivers were at fault.

 

It's all about perspective....yeah, that totally sucks, but those cars weren't worth anything back then...and even if you somehow had a premonition that 50 years in the future they would be worth gold, very few could've stored them that long....

I'm sure someone will be crying 50 years in the future because of all the mustang II's were stripped of their front-ends and crushed.

Cool pics, thanks for posting.