Nice call on the DeSoto wagon the photo is from 1965 but I can't see enough of the car on the lower left to tell the make model or year but it does look a bit like the nose of a '65-'66 Mustang to me.
So far no one has mentioned the most identifiable car in the shot, at least as far as make/model if not year. Just past the red ('58?)Buick you can see the top of a white Volkswagen Bug.
As a very small boy growing up in a small town in rural Victoria, Australia, I was (compliments of two indulgent older sisters who would take me to Saturday afternoon matinees at the local picture theatre), a keen, albeit uncertain, follower of Batman's adventures. This was a 1940's series (repeated in rural Australia in the 1960's because it was really, really cheap entertainment) where Batman drove a black saloon (maybe a Cadillac - someone can correct me, but I think Alfred was the chauffeur). Everything was in black and white, so the Batmobile could had been anything from dark grey to blue or maybe brown.
In the mid '60s there was the TV series (very camp) with a wildly futuristic Batmobile, based on a mid fifties show car, the Lincoln Futura. (okay, I will admit that the most appealing aspect of the show was the car and a remarkably skin type costume, defying fluid dynamics, draped over Eartha Kitt as Catwoman). In the past week, that car, modified by George Barris, has sold for over $4.2m.
The trigger for pondering this is sitting in our garden as our local megabats fly within a metre. The grey headed flying fox has a wingspan of 1.0m (3'3") and makes a clearly audible flapping sound as they seek fruit and insects. They do not have the echo-location of smaller bats and the prospect of being hit by 500g (1lb 2 oz) of rapidly flying bat known for carrying lisavirus (rabies like) and Hendra virus (fatal in all casse of human infection), is a little concerning. They are however magnificent and remind me of the motif of the camp '60s show.
Can anyone recall what the car used in the 1940's serial was. I am hopeless at American cars.
Oh----- I always thought it was a truck that hit James Dean's Porsche. Man, that car really got creamed.
Whoever shot the Bonnie and Clyde car certainly got an excellent grouping using a Thompson submachine gun. Those things are very hard to point straight.
Cool site. I still say Di would have survived had she used a seatbelt. I've also suspected Patton's accident wasn't completely accidental, but I guess that's something for somewhere else :shades:
There's continuity blunder. Notice how bad the paint is on the '66 Chevy Impala parked between the two Fords with its top down. This scene is obviously supposed to represent 1968 or '69 since the newest car is the yellow 1968 Impala H/T parked in the next row(to the right).
How'd the convertible get so beat up looking in a few years?
Thunderbird, hmmm...1975? When I was a little kid, my mother had one of that style, but white on white (!), 460, huge. My parents were fond of that car. I remember it fairly vividly for something had when I was young - I seem to recall ours had a wider body side molding than the pictured car.
I think the colors are so much more vibrant here than in the Philly junkyards... Top right - '54 Chevy on top of a red '57 Ford, left brown '63 Chevy, '59 Olds, green '58 Chevy, left white '62 Ford with 2 '57 Chevys under it (and another '57 Chevy up top), the brown forementioned '60 Ford, a white '60 T-bird on top of the red Falcon with the white '58 Chevy under it, aqua '63 Caddy, a really old yellow '47 Chevy on top of a 'brown '59 Chevy wagon, and a poor white '59 Nash Rambler and a white '59 Dodge at the bottom. Whew!
Is that one of those conventional Willys Jeep pick ups? Looks like it might be a converted military vehicle. I also liked the FWD Willys Jeep vehicles.
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So far no one has mentioned the most identifiable car in the shot, at least as far as make/model if not year. Just past the red ('58?)Buick you can see the top of a white Volkswagen Bug.
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As a very small boy growing up in a small town in rural Victoria, Australia, I was (compliments of two indulgent older sisters who would take me to Saturday afternoon matinees at the local picture theatre), a keen, albeit uncertain, follower of Batman's adventures. This was a 1940's series (repeated in rural Australia in the 1960's because it was really, really cheap entertainment) where Batman drove a black saloon (maybe a Cadillac - someone can correct me, but I think Alfred was the chauffeur). Everything was in black and white, so the Batmobile could had been anything from dark grey to blue or maybe brown.
In the mid '60s there was the TV series (very camp) with a wildly futuristic Batmobile, based on a mid fifties show car, the Lincoln Futura. (okay, I will admit that the most appealing aspect of the show was the car and a remarkably skin type costume, defying fluid dynamics, draped over Eartha Kitt as Catwoman). In the past week, that car, modified by George Barris, has sold for over $4.2m.
The trigger for pondering this is sitting in our garden as our local megabats fly within a metre. The grey headed flying fox has a wingspan of 1.0m (3'3") and makes a clearly audible flapping sound as they seek fruit and insects. They do not have the echo-location of smaller bats and the prospect of being hit by 500g (1lb 2 oz) of rapidly flying bat known for carrying lisavirus (rabies like) and Hendra virus (fatal in all casse of human infection), is a little concerning. They are however magnificent and remind me of the motif of the camp '60s show.
Can anyone recall what the car used in the 1940's serial was. I am hopeless at American cars.
Cheers
Graham
I founds a couple of these images, although I don't know what kind of car it is.
1937 Buick Series 40
Great looking cars weren't they?
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BIGGER, more cars!
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There are other pictures of the car, but I didn't want to post one because it shows a covered body.
A site with some photos--may be offensive to some.
http://mredviolinlost.blogspot.com/
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Whoever shot the Bonnie and Clyde car certainly got an excellent grouping using a Thompson submachine gun. Those things are very hard to point straight.
I guess it was a Buick Electra 225 before the accident.
The parking lot photo looks like a tractor/trailer as an exhibit with a hidden walkwalk to observe the car after paying...?
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A hardtop made to look as though it is a convertible.
How'd the convertible get so beat up looking in a few years?
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60 Ford in the middle.
Top right - '54 Chevy on top of a red '57 Ford, left brown '63 Chevy, '59 Olds, green '58 Chevy, left white '62 Ford with 2 '57 Chevys under it (and another '57 Chevy up top), the brown forementioned '60 Ford, a white '60 T-bird on top of the red Falcon with the white '58 Chevy under it, aqua '63 Caddy, a really old yellow '47 Chevy on top of a 'brown '59 Chevy wagon, and a poor white '59 Nash Rambler and a white '59 Dodge at the bottom. Whew!
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I think it says something that I can now recognize crushed carcasses of '60s iron...not sure WHAT it says....
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