Hope this isn't a repeat. Here's what looks to be a '33 Willys on a U Pick Parts on Alameda in Los Angeles.
Took me a while to find a pic of this one, who remembers (without cheating and doing web research) where this one was...
All the years I lived in Yucca Valley I never got a photo of this one. Google Street View to the rescue: Another shot here. The L.A. Times once ran an article about that car; according to the owners it's been up there since about 1936! The article had a photo taken on the roof showing the car to be pretty solid; every few years it gets another coat of paint and the front tires are replaced when they rot off.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hays-Auto-Parts/158796690818622 click the link. you can see the sign even with out having a facey-space account.
The old Barbary Coast restaurant in Mexico, MO. The Jeep hanging over the door was nothing compared to the old junk inside fraom cabin cruisers to airplanes and Coke trucks.
Thanks. Lots of old memories. Born and raised in central Illinois so saw most of those car signs and more from Illinois and all around the midwest. Iowa, Minn., Wisc, Mich, Ala, Ga. and more. Also many of the big rigs on poles in truck stops from Illinois to Idaho. Now in Florida, I've seen several Truly Nolan bug mobiles, an old yeller Hudson "Hell Driver's" car like I used to see back in central Illinois on the show circuts, and many others. Restaurants in Gainesville and Crystal River, also Key West, and many other places have restored old trucks and wrecks as advertisements. Only a mile from our home in the boonies near Fanning Springs, Fl is a small car up on a sign on rt 19-27 for a junk yard. At Webster, Fla there's a 56 Chevy as a sign at the swapmeet fairgrounds. We bought a 1950 Studebaker off the roof of a bar type club near Cross City, Fl. The 4-dr Commander is in very good shape minus engine/tranny. Must have seen several hundred over the years and never took any photos. Thanks again for the memories. Yea, I remembered later the race and stunt driver's name I saw in Pekin, Illinois at the old airport and the car in central Florida. it was Lucky Lee Lott. Perhaps the one sitting along a Florida backroad was a Nash.
A friend in Jefferson City owns one of Lee Lot's old Hell Driver Nashs. It still has all its original signage. It was stolen by a disgruntled Hell driver and hidden in a barn. When found decades later, it was delivered to Lee in FL. Now, it's in the showrooom of Governor Motors-the capitol city's most nostalgic used car dealer.
This shows exactly what Sikkens paint does when left out in the elements. What a great way to show your potential customers the durability of the paint you plan on putting on their car!
My dad told me that 20 years ago when he would go to the Smokeys, there was a place that had a bunch of old nash metros lined up for all to see. He said that as the years went on you could see the tires losing air and the paint fading away. Anybody know of the place?
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