My better half is very involved with Polish heritage, thus we attend the Polaski day parade in New York City. There is a group that collects and restores Polish cars such as the Warszawa, so I would bet there are collectors for most any car made, but I will stick to more main stream vehicles. She is still waiting to inherit her Dads 60 Lincoln convertible, not exactly mainstream but I guess I will be made to maintain it, and lose 1/2 of the garage to it.
Hello, From the time we grew up in So Cal from 1946 to the time we left after getting married in our twenties, we always remember those old cars sitting on empty lots over grown with weeds. Some of them in backyards covered with canvas tarps and weeds growing almost car height. But, it was a treasure trove of cars just waiting for young folks like us to buy one and give it a new purpose. Jump up many years and there some places that still have old cars under canvas tarps or new fangled nylon/plastic tarps, waiting for something… some one forgot or just gave up the idea of a different life for the old car and just let it sit there. In our So Cal area along the coast, sitting cars as well as cars used daily, constantly get a dose of salt mist coming into the shore area where the cars are sitting outside or even in garages. There is never a time of no salt in the air. The constant winds from the ocean always battle the winds from the land and it is a recuring battle that has happened for centuries to see each other’s superiority. Jnaki We have battled the “salt mist” for the years of our hot rod builds, even when we lived 4 miles from the coast in Long Beach. Those winds know no boundaries. These two old cars are still around and are used as good running daily drivers. we see them in different spots along the coast areas we frequent. But, the salt air knows no barrier it does not like and will attack any surface with a vengeance. A good wax protectant and a car wash helps, but not if those cars are always outside in day and night. “Rust Never Sleeps…”
I know this is an old post , but I'm astonished by the statement that there was no interest in old cars until the 80's , must be when life began , huh ?
rusty1: Do you think it's that the same car heading toward the camera in your first two photos of the street scene? Maybe a 37 Chevy?
I notice that a lot of movies that are set in the past will have cars that are all shiny and clean and new looking, when the reality was most of them in real life were dull or dirty.
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