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  1. David Kipling
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    This is a 1957 photograph of a Doukhobor funeral procession in the tiny village of Krestover, British Columbia. The Doukhobors are/were a Russian pacifist religious sect. Seemingly contrasting with their modest bare-bones lifestyle was that smart coupe in the background. What is it? Doukhobors.jpg
     
  2. Let me be the first wrong answer :rolleyes:, how about Kaiser
     
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  3. David Kipling
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    Here's a Kaiser --- any advances, any suggestions?
     

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  4. Mr48chev
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    Looks like a Kaiser. Either Deluxe or Manhattan around 1951. They were a nice car in their day but were never big sellers. I have no idea of where they hit in the price range at the time they were new. 51 kaiser.jpg
    The car could have belonged to anyone and may not have belonged to a member of that group even though that house looks pretty sparse and may have been abandoned.
     
  5. SS327
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    Lots of good sturdy ladies there! Where is this place?
     
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  6. alanp561
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    That's a great picture. I learned to change tires on one of those. The woman who showed me how smacked me in the back of the head every time I screwed up and put the tire on backwards, or the lug nuts, or dropped her car off the bumper jack or got dirt on her car seats. My biological father refused to teach me. He thought it was one of those things a boy should automatically know.
     
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  7. alanp561
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    Spelling police here again :(. I looked it up and the town is actually named Krestova.
     
  8. Rocket29
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    lol!
     
  9. David Kipling
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    About 40 miles north of the US-Canada border in British Columbia: like several refugee religious groups in North America, the Doukhobors settled and farmed and worked very hard and clung to their old ways. In 1980 I met an old woman in Vancouver, who'd been born in that region of BC, but had ever heard or spoken English until she was 5 years old. She still had a Russian accent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krestova
     
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  10. 1st series Volga, it's a Russian car. HRP
     
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  11. David Kipling
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    That would be really something because the Doukhobors had (1) a hatred of the Russia that had persecuted them, and (2.) a very strong loyalty to Russian culture. I hope your suggestion can be confirmed or otherwise. A Volga is shown:
     

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  12. David Kipling
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    Thank you. I never mind being corrected, and do the same!
     
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  13. David Kipling
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    "One of those" meaning a Kaiser, or --?
     
  14. Model A Gomez
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    Looks like a Kaiser to me but can't tell if there is the dip in the top of the rear glass in the picture. The picture below is a 52 same taillights and side trim

    kaiser.jpg
     
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  15. Squablow
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    Definitely a '52 Kaiser, those tail lights were first used in 1952 and in '53 they started having a big chrome spear piece on the tops of the quarters that this car does not have.
     
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  16. Now where did i get that brainstorm :rolleyes:. Only thing i know about Kaiser is the dip in the windscreen and rear window :cool:. Theres something about that roofline. Here is a image i have saved for ages just because there was a Kaiser factory here in Rotterdam. It says "Pride of Rotterdam" ( Early Ford factory was in Amsterdam. )

    51kaiser Rotterdam.jpg
     
  17. alanp561
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    Yes, that's what we were talking about, weren't we?
     
  18. DDDenny
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    That "dip" in the windshield is commonly called a widows peak.
    Why, who knows!
     
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  19. David Kipling
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    The three (so far) Kaiser fans have it right. It certainly looks like a Kaiser Manhatten 1952.jpg Kaiser Manhattan, see this collage: A big thank, as usual, to H.A.M.B. whose members seem always to be informed and polite.
    You were right.
     
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  20. Widow's peak - Wikipedia

    Although it's an exaggerated example, when I asked many years ago, I was told what a widow's peak is/was and that Eddie Munster has one...

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  21. David Kipling
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  22. Z06-LITE
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    I have never seen an all female group of pallbearers. Maybe they are called paulinebearers. :D
     
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  23. spanners
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    I reckon it's a Dodge:D
     
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  24. Tow Truck Tom
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    I know see below
    The widow of, olden days, when breaking from her sobs, pulls her head and hair back, exposing the forehead, exclaiming what will I do now?.
    These days every body has a plan.
     
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  25. Stan Back
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    . . . and I doubt it's a coupe.
     
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  26. I used to have a "Widow's Peak" hairline, but now it is becoming more of a Bosley hairline.
     
  27. It was never in doubt.;)
     
  28. The car in question is definitely a 1952.
    The tail lights are the giveaway.
    In 1951 they are flush with the body and very small, in 1952 they are angled and stick off the back of the car with a fat bumper corners (both look like add ons trying to keep the car relevant and fresh even though it's clearly a 51 knockoff the tail lights and bumper you can see in the picture. So in 1953 Kaisers look almost identical to the 1952 but has a chrome strip that runs across the top of the tail light almost to the door it just looks like more crap glued on to a 1951. In 1954 they do a major revision with Kaiser supposably telling his design team to copy the Buick x19 concept car so the ideas incorporated into the Kaiser in 1954 like the hood scoop the headlight bezels and that type of stuff all look buick-ish definitely a mid century looking futuristic car...
    How do I know you ask?
    Because I am stupid and bought one two weeks ago for $52- dollars at an auction here in Riverside California
    This is the picture from that auction.
    The car is at the side of my house waiting for me to get bumpers and a radiator...( which I may have found all that already).
    The Kaiser is going to be my kustom project after the ever costly model A is drivable.
    From where I stand It already looks sectioned from the factory and if I use 1951 parts on it it looks really slick then if I shave off door handles and lower the thing on its nuts with some kind of crazy metal flake paint job and maybe a laced roof it will look wild with hardly any modifications. It's all about having fun and a kaiser to quote 1990s Rod and custom magazine is a dare to be different automobile.
     

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  29. Squablow
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    Fifty-two dollars! And I thought old cars were expensive to buy in California. I like Kaisers, I'd build that.
     
  30. Looks like $52 well spent to me!
     

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