Autos Thread
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aja8888
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'30's Ford roadster (maybe '32)
aja8888
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OK car guys, here's one of my favorite classics....a low production model. Guess it!
CRLLS
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aja8888, you should rename your photos. It gives away your challenge. 
I was going to guess a Mercury before you clued me in.......aja8888, you should rename your photos. It gives away your challenge.
i like the Hornet myself..
aja8888
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Well, you are correct! I should have done that. BTW, only a couple dozen of those Hudson's were made and they sold for $300 + K back then!aja8888, you should rename your photos. It gives away your challenge.
aja8888
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also known as the Bathtub Hudson.
Doc Hudson, FKA the Fabulous Hudson Hornet, for the Pixar-informed. Newman was a great voice in Cars.
aja8888
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I took my test for my driver's license in 1959 (if I recall the exact year) on a Hudson Hornet. It was snowing out at the time too!
Koolau
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Me too. Looks very much like early 50's Mercs.
aja8888
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Since I had a '63. this looks like a 1962 Chevy grill. Impala?
Car-Guy
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^^^^^
Yep, 62 Chevy but I couldn't afford an Impala. Mine was a Biscayne. 283 2bbl with 3 on the tree, No PS, No PB, No AC, but it had a radio. Paid $600 for it in 1968. IIRC, I paid it off in one summer working 12+ hours a day 7 days a week.
$600, wow... Now that's about 2 bets at the tables. How things have changed!
Yep, 62 Chevy but I couldn't afford an Impala. Mine was a Biscayne. 283 2bbl with 3 on the tree, No PS, No PB, No AC, but it had a radio. Paid $600 for it in 1968. IIRC, I paid it off in one summer working 12+ hours a day 7 days a week.
$600, wow... Now that's about 2 bets at the tables. How things have changed!
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aja8888
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My 63 was an Impala convertible (red with black top and interior). I was in the Air Force at the time in Missouri and was in my 4th year (1968). It was a 283 two barrel, auto trans. Nice car, a real "chic magnet". That car got me my first wife! LOL!
how did it handle compared to other cars of the time?I took my test for my driver's license in 1959 (if I recall the exact year) on a Hudson Hornet. It was snowing out at the time too!
aja8888
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All those cars at the time drove like battleships and didn't have the braking performance that today's cars have. I'm talking 1940's - 1950's cars. In the 1960's, things changed with the higher horsepower engines and better suspensions.
aja8888
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Model A Ford roadster.
Koolau
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Yeah, my family had the '62 Biscayne but with the "big 6" (250 CI I think) AND it was a (wait for it) station wagon with 3 on the tree. Talk about a stone! This was a really bad car for a 16 year old to learn how to drive. Not that I had any trouble operating it. More that I wanted a hot car and this wasn't it. Treating it like it was hot ruined the engine in 27K miles. Required a full overhaul for rings. Dad never did fully realize that I was the likely culprit. He just said that "it was a 6 cylinder engine in an 8 cylinder car." I'm guessing he figured I was at least partially responsible for the issues.
I was not sad to see that car go.
aja8888
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I think it's a mid-1930's Chevrolet. Engine could be a Hemi.
SecondCor521
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Mine. Maybe a classic someday.
Nice! Alfa Romeo Guilia. Italians know how to build beautiful cars.
