Art & Inspiration Sitting and Rotting.............picture thread

Clanton Alabama

 

^^^Rare one year only body style 1941 Lincoln Zyphyr limo. Only 295 built that year.

 

Delta Alabama

 

Covington County Alabama

 

Madison County Alabama

 

Ah, I see the truck has the usual "Alabama Tatoo" on the door.

 

49 Buick behind my shop. Anyone interested PM me.

 

Dadeville Alabama taken literally acrossed the street, and 2 hours before the shooting.

 

64 or 65?

 

I think it's a '63.
Um, could be a '64.

 

1963 Grand Prix.

 

Looks like more " Down in the Dirt"

 

Dadeville Alabama

 

Dadeville Alabama

 

Would one of you dadgum hoodlums please save the dadgum Caddy?

 

Dadeville Alabama these 2 belong to Singer/Songwriter BOB WAYNE and are supposedly bound for Sweden

 

We`ll take them!

 

It occurs to me @j hansen , that you might have a thing for those two automobiles. Am I right?

 

Not really,,,,but there is always a need for more American cars here in Sweden.

 

El Mirage estate auction was today.

Sold for $2600.


Sold for $3400.
Best deal I spotted: Pile of '55-'56 Packard grilles and trim, including 4 (!) taillights:


Went for $50. 'Scuse me while I go kick myself for not grabbing 'em

 

It's simple, it was fuel mileage.
American cars were all 6 cylinder or v8's in that era other then some Willys, Jeeps and the Nash Metropolitan.
I have some old car magazines from the era and they mention fuel consumption as a top reason to buy a European import and they reviewed all the imports.

What's strange to me is In the 1950s the French must have imported quite a few cars to the States at least to here in southern California because I've came across them a lot over the last 30 years being involved in the old car hobby but by the early 1960s they just fade away and you really don't see any "late models" the same goes with the British cars other then the fun to drive cheap sports cars. I assume between the muscle car wars starting in the early '60s and the domestic (American) companies producing economy cars (The falcon, the Nova, American, the Lark the Valiant and the Dodge Lancer it must have really cut into European imports sales... Other then the Bug as they really seem to take off right around 1960ish until the early 1970s when the Pinto and Jap cars (and other domestics like the vega or gremlin) ate into the sub compact market with way better cars (at least for the time)

 

Dadeville Alabama. Was arrow straight and daily drivin, 326 car, before it rolled off of a trailer, and into a tree,16 years ago. It was drivin to this spot, and now sits, awaiting resurrection.

 

Dadeville Alabama. Full model A frame. The body is housed in a building on an adjacent property.

 

Thanks for posting prices, always curious to see that. As for the Packard parts, that was definitely a good deal, but the Packard senior series tail lights like that are still pretty common, not nearly as valuable as the Clipper style ones. For fifty bucks though, that was a good deal.

 

Mid 1950s Renault Colorale needs some TLC.

 

One of the last French car on a frame, same frame used on the Goelette van, both of them are pretty neat in their 4X4 form.
I like to use their X member to reinforce Ford frames, just the right size, I just got a free Renault frame last week to put the X member in my '28 RPU. I did a '32 frame that way some years ago.