@stickguy said:
It's a 104. The last version was the 105 and had normal doors.
I hadn't noticed the doors. Since posting this I have just seen part of a programme on TV here which shows two guys restoring various old cars - and as an incredible coincidence tonights episode was about a Syrena 105 .... They sold it for £8000.
Know what I find funny? Today it seems like anyone in the north thinks you are on a suicide mission without AWD. Even FWD is probably a death ride.
yet look at all those RWD cars with negligible traction, even with old school snow tires, that people seemed to get around with just fine in wintertime Vermont.
Back in my 20 Anchorage winters I would have agreed with you. Got most places with FWD rigs, about half the time with studded tires. Rarely would have to chain up. I did avoid people's driveways up on the "hillside" though.
Even with good tires on the van, it mostly sits winters here in the UP. The AWD Subaru is just more surefooted, especially this winter. So I've come around a lot. A FWD sedan would probably be okay, but the van is just too front heavy for the snow.
Guess I should mention that average snowfall in Anchorage is ~50 inches a year. Up here the average is 150". We've had over 200 inches both last winter and this winter.
@explorerx4 said:
AWD takes the drama out of winter driving, especially area's with hilly terrain.
Yes it does but I found out if you're going to climb snowy hills you'd better have good snows on too. In fact a RWD w TC and good snows will work nearly as well as AWD +TC+Snows. It's all about weight transfer and contact patches.
I think you're right. It's funny, but I think most anyone who has any familiarity with Rambler can pick out the 62. It wasn't that big of a change, especially compared to the next year 63, but maybe it's because it was a one year style? I thought the 62 was a nice update to the 58-61.
lol, good warning if the owner ever drives it up here outside the 3 summer months. Best wait for a few good rains to clean the asphalt of most of the winter salt, even after we thaw out.
There was a HUGE Sears warehouse in my old neighborhood. At its peak in the 1960s, more than 6,000 people, many from the Crescentville neighborhood, worked at Sears on the Boulevard. For many Sears workers, the company wasn’t just a livelihood, but a way of life.
The warehouse even had its own Sears store and auto center. It also had a huge powerplant plus it's own firehouse which still stand. Alas, the place closed in 1993 laying off hundreds of people and the building itself was imploded in October 1994. When Sears went, it took the neighborhood with it. What was once a safe, peaceful, clean neighborhood is now a trash-strewn, graffiti-scarred, bandit sign blighted, drug and thug-infested toilet safe for neither man nor beast. A couple days ago, a young man was shot in the head walking home from the store. Such violent crime was unthinkable in that neighborhood a mere 15-20 years ago let alone all the quality of life issues.
"American crime rates generally rose after World War II, and peaked between the 1970s and early 1990s. Since the early 1990s, crime has declined in the United States, and current crime rates are approximately the same as those of the 1960s." (wikipedia)
Two demerits for having zero cars in your postcard Lemko, although your Pennsauken shot more than makes up for it.
Newest thing I see is 1956, and zero foreign cars.
Regarding crime, not all types are the same, and it wouldn't surprise me if reporting criteria and metrics have changed over the years - we all know the three types of lies
Occasionally you see cars that you would rather forget; this is one of many Austin Metro models from the mid 1980's.
Possibly a Van den Plas variant; a sad decline, even from the early 1960's Van den Plas Princess which had a Rolls Royce motor; Pininfarina design and Rolls Royce engine.
Austin Marina ca. 1980s, a really bad car by all accounts, it contributed greatly to the demise of British Leyland. Ironically the British car industry makes many more cars now that is mostly foreign-owned than it did when it was British-owned (according to Top Gear )
Malaise hit Britain harder than the US. The Princess once had a stately appearance and Rolls Royce engines. Barely more than a decade before the BL wedge, they were like this:
In the 50s there was a limo model that was made for a long time, too:
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I didn't know you're Polish texases!
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I hadn't noticed the doors. Since posting this I have just seen part of a programme on TV here which shows two guys restoring various old cars - and as an incredible coincidence tonights episode was about a Syrena 105 .... They sold it for £8000.
They were unwanted and troublesome when new. Now they gained a bit of collector status in Poland.
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Nope...nothing google can't do, though!
More Czechs down here, especially south of Dallas. Great food at the "Czech Stop" in West...
A 66-68 Fairlane wagon on the corner of the building and a 70 Impala(?) next to the Roadrunner.
Not a coincidence. Where do you think I found out what the heck a Syrena was in the first place?
The show was Wheeler Dealers. That episode premiered a few weeks ago.
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Know what I find funny? Today it seems like anyone in the north thinks you are on a suicide mission without AWD. Even FWD is probably a death ride.
yet look at all those RWD cars with negligible traction, even with old school snow tires, that people seemed to get around with just fine in wintertime Vermont.
probably chains in all the trunks of course.
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Back in my 20 Anchorage winters I would have agreed with you. Got most places with FWD rigs, about half the time with studded tires. Rarely would have to chain up. I did avoid people's driveways up on the "hillside" though.
Even with good tires on the van, it mostly sits winters here in the UP. The AWD Subaru is just more surefooted, especially this winter. So I've come around a lot. A FWD sedan would probably be okay, but the van is just too front heavy for the snow.
AWD takes the drama out of winter driving, especially area's with hilly terrain.
Guess I should mention that average snowfall in Anchorage is ~50 inches a year. Up here the average is 150". We've had over 200 inches both last winter and this winter.
This one stays parked all winter too:
Yes it does but I found out if you're going to climb snowy hills you'd better have good snows on too. In fact a RWD w TC and good snows will work nearly as well as AWD +TC+Snows. It's all about weight transfer and contact patches.
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'62 rambler?
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I think you're right. It's funny, but I think most anyone who has any familiarity with Rambler can pick out the 62. It wasn't that big of a change, especially compared to the next year 63, but maybe it's because it was a one year style? I thought the 62 was a nice update to the 58-61.
@stickguy, yep, the craigslist ad says "1962 AMC Rambler Classic".
Well, it also says "awesome". And maybe it is for $2,000.
Here's the Wheeler Dealers Syrena, in Polish flag colors:
" it will not last long !!!!!"
(Is that a warning?)
lol, good warning if the owner ever drives it up here outside the 3 summer months. Best wait for a few good rains to clean the asphalt of most of the winter salt, even after we thaw out.
Pennsauken Mart, New Jersey:
Looks like my Dad's '53 Buick Special in the bottom right corner.
There was a HUGE Sears warehouse in my old neighborhood. At its peak in the 1960s, more than 6,000 people, many from the Crescentville neighborhood, worked at Sears on the Boulevard. For many Sears workers, the company wasn’t just a livelihood, but a way of life.
The warehouse even had its own Sears store and auto center. It also had a huge powerplant plus it's own firehouse which still stand. Alas, the place closed in 1993 laying off hundreds of people and the building itself was imploded in October 1994. When Sears went, it took the neighborhood with it. What was once a safe, peaceful, clean neighborhood is now a trash-strewn, graffiti-scarred, bandit sign blighted, drug and thug-infested toilet safe for neither man nor beast. A couple days ago, a young man was shot in the head walking home from the store. Such violent crime was unthinkable in that neighborhood a mere 15-20 years ago let alone all the quality of life issues.
"American crime rates generally rose after World War II, and peaked between the 1970s and early 1990s. Since the early 1990s, crime has declined in the United States, and current crime rates are approximately the same as those of the 1960s." (wikipedia)
Two demerits for having zero cars in your postcard Lemko, although your Pennsauken shot more than makes up for it.
There is at least 1 car in the postcard. Far right next to building
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It's interesting. In 1960 you'd look at that monstrous edifice and say "That'll be there forever, like the Roman forum....".
I blew it up - it's a smudge.
Okay but what YEAR Smudge?
Newest thing I see is 1956, and zero foreign cars.
Regarding crime, not all types are the same, and it wouldn't surprise me if reporting criteria and metrics have changed over the years - we all know the three types of lies
Nice!
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There is one foreign car at the mart. A dark color beetle in the middle of the picture. Easy to overlook. A minnow in a pod of whales.
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Funny, I can't see it - maybe I will check when I am at home on a computer with a smaller desktop.
A lot of those late 40s style cars have kind of a Beetle profile.
@lemko,
Pennsauken Mart has something spelled out on the roof ending in 'Noon to 6 PM'.
I was not the one who posted that !
HAs everybody gone away?
Spring fever? (even up here at 46° north). Spring break has started in some parts of the US.
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early 80s shelby ramcharger?
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One of my kids sent a picture from their cruise ship leaving Miami. 5 days, $300.
It's unreal how cheap some of those college trips are... My son spent a week skiing in Vail in December for just $525.
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1984 Dodge Shelby Rampage.
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I either didn't know, or don't remember, that they made the Rampage in a Shelby version. Cool.
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Dunno, must have influenced the Dodge Omni (or vice versa) though.
Austin/Rover Metro from the mid 80s - I think some actually thought it would replace the Mini.
G'day
Occasionally you see cars that you would rather forget; this is one of many Austin Metro models from the mid 1980's.
Possibly a Van den Plas variant; a sad decline, even from the early 1960's Van den Plas Princess which had a Rolls Royce motor; Pininfarina design and Rolls Royce engine.
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Really an ugly stepsister:
Austin Marina ca. 1980s, a really bad car by all accounts, it contributed greatly to the demise of British Leyland. Ironically the British car industry makes many more cars now that is mostly foreign-owned than it did when it was British-owned (according to Top Gear )
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
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2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Austin Princess, with T suffix from around 1978-79. Maybe the oddest BL concoction, hilariously raced in an episode of Top Gear.
That's it! What an ugly car to call a Princess considering its infinitely prettier predecessors.
Malaise hit Britain harder than the US. The Princess once had a stately appearance and Rolls Royce engines. Barely more than a decade before the BL wedge, they were like this:
In the 50s there was a limo model that was made for a long time, too: