There's a weird bar on the rear bumper, so there just might be a continental kit back there. Probably blue dot or similar lights, too. I am surprised there isn't a creepy kid doll in the pic.
I notice the Montclair has a "for sale" sign in Swedish, which isn't surprising at all.
With that extension beneath the weird bar, I'd say it definitely has the Continental Kit. It's just hidden by the open trunk. Confirmed:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlXwhgMWGMM
Yes Lake pipes. The origin is probably from the 1950s hot-rod era, relating to the dry lake beds of California.... They could be uncapped to run on the dry lakes, then capped up for the ride home.
Incomplete answer, it's a 1955 Mercury Montclair Sun Valley, the SV being the Mercury version of the Ford Crown Victoria. Aside from the badges and minor styling differences there's a big difference- the CV as seen in the pic provided by Tmart a few posts back was a pillared coupe with the B-post chromed and styled into a hoop. The Sun Valley by contrast is a 50's style hardtop coupe w no B-pillar.
Honestly I'd forgotten about the Sun Valley until I saw one at a local car show a few weeks ago.
Shut Down - Beach Boys, Drag City - Jan & Dean, GTO - Ronnie & Daytonas, Hey Little Cobra - Rip Chords...Then came the surf and surfer songs
I'm impressed. Really. I have always had trouble connecting songs with the groups. Often I know a few words from the song but don't know the real title.
I would like to have said these 4 must have been before my time, but I remember some titles and Beach Boys and Jan & Dean.
BTW SiriusXM has channel 4 as the Beach Boys channel right now. I can't take it. Just like I can't take more than one song on the Elvis channel.
Song is No Money Down by the Allman Brothers Band.
Right title but there was an artist long before they were even a thought (I actually did not know they covered it).
Ok, gonna give it up in case anybody is interested.
Chuck Berry (the TRUE King of Rock N Roll) wrote and recorded No Money Down in 1955. Fantastic car song about a man trading his "broken down raggedy Ford" for a Cadillac. Hey, I did that when I swapped my Stang for the CTS. Of course, mine was far from broken down.
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Since I'm pretty sure no one will get it, I'm copying the wikipedia reference:
"Hot Rod Lincoln" is a song by American singer-songwriter Charlie Ryan, first released in 1955. It was written as an answer song to Arkie Shibley's 1951 hit "Hot Rod Race" which describes a race in San Pedro, Los Angeles between two hot rod cars, a Ford and a Mercury, which stay neck-and-neck until both are overtaken by "a kid in a hopped-up Model A".
Yup, Hot Rod Race. Ended (as close as I remember) with
i looked in the mirror and I saw something coming I tthought it was a plane by the way it was a’running Humming along at a terrible pace And I knew right then it was the end of the race
When it flew by us I looked the other way And the guy in the Mercury had nothing to say It was a kid in a hopped-up Model A Yeah, a kid in a hopped-up Model A
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I remember watching that on TV. Dana Andrews had a bad back, and every time he would confront the punks, he got a bad spasm, and his wife and daughter had to help him back in the car.
At the time, as a kid, I thought that was ridiculous, but after back surgery, I understood completely.
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No Conti kit? No furry dice?
I notice the Montclair has a "for sale" sign in Swedish, which isn't surprising at all.
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Honestly I'd forgotten about the Sun Valley until I saw one at a local car show a few weeks ago.
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Match the Song to the Group that recorded it:
Shut Down / Ronny and the Daytonas
Drag City / Beach Boys
G.T.O. / The Rip Chords
Hey Little Cobra / Jan and Dean
I want 4 carburetors
And 2 straight exhaust
I'm burnin aviation fuel
No matter what the cost
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"Tooling down the highway doing 79
I'm a twin pipe papa and I'm feelin' fine
Hey man, dig that was a red stop sign
………...never, never, never gonna speed again."
the doctor is in!
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Put your head on my shoulde,r
Don't say a word,
We'll cut across town
In my Thunderbird...
If you don’t stop drivin’ that Hot Rod .......”
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I would like to have said these 4 must have been before my time, but I remember some titles and Beach Boys and Jan & Dean.
BTW
SiriusXM has channel 4 as the Beach Boys channel right now. I can't take it. Just like I can't take more than one song on the Elvis channel.
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Chuck Berry (the TRUE King of Rock N Roll) wrote and recorded No Money Down in 1955. Fantastic car song about a man trading his "broken down raggedy Ford" for a Cadillac. Hey, I did that when I swapped my Stang for the CTS. Of course, mine was far from broken down.
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No... Hot Rod Lincoln was the response to a different, earlier song..
The song IS Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen.
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My pappy said, “Son, you’re gonna drive me to drinkin’,
If you don’t stop drivin’ that Hot Rod .......”
OK, that song was written in response to an earlier song. What was it?
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"Hot Rod Lincoln" is a song by American singer-songwriter Charlie Ryan, first released in 1955. It was written as an answer song to Arkie Shibley's 1951 hit "Hot Rod Race" which describes a race in San Pedro, Los Angeles between two hot rod cars, a Ford and a Mercury, which stay neck-and-neck until both are overtaken by "a kid in a hopped-up Model A".
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i looked in the mirror and I saw something coming
I tthought it was a plane by the way it was a’running
Humming along at a terrible pace
And I knew right then it was the end of the race
When it flew by us I looked the other way
And the guy in the Mercury had nothing to say
It was a kid in a hopped-up Model A
Yeah, a kid in a hopped-up Model A
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At the time, as a kid, I thought that was ridiculous, but after back surgery, I understood completely.
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