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Report: Bowler hat from Lock & Co
Much agreed! With what does one wear a bowler? I'm thinking black business suit and a black tie, but perhaps that would make you look too much like someone's footman or a mid-level bureaucrat in the '60s. -Dave- David Conwill
- Post #9
- Forum: Hats
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Show us your Guns!
Blast, that is a heavy barrel, isn't it? Definitely gotta be a pencil barrel and a square butt. Do you happen to know what's more commonly available: the S&W Model 10 or the Colt Police Special? Either one would be just gravy with me.- David Conwill
- Post #299
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
Ahh, then perhaps I'll never know. Back in the late nineties I was downtown and saw a Chicago cop dressed in a blue wool coat with a revolver handle sticking out of his pocket. I have since always wondered what it was. Okay, I guess I'll just decide it was a S&W Model 10 and set my heart on...- David Conwill
- Post #297
- Forum: The Display Case
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Do you have a favorite vintage movie car?
sweetfrancaise, You might enjoy this photo album. I've got a whole "bucket" full of pictures I've saved as inspiration for my T project. I don't think I've got any with the scrawlings intact, but one of them originally had "Go Western HS" on the side. There's also a fellow on the Model T...- David Conwill
- Post #59
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Show us your Guns!
I have a Columbian Navy Madsen Model 1947 (sorry, no picture) that I dearly love. I would like to build a complete collection of US WWII and WWII firearms: M1903 Springfield, M1917 Enfield, M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, M1911, M1917 S&W revolver, S&W Victory Model, etc. Perhaps one of you fellows...- David Conwill
- Post #294
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your vehicles
Oh good, mine just sneaks through. My old digs in the background. -Dave- David Conwill
- Post #381
- Forum: The Display Case
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Sad Story...
Some of them, plus the kids that wanted to be that gang but couldn't afford it, weren't allowed, or didn't have the talent. If you've ever read a Henry Gregor Felsen novel, you'll know the kids I'm talking about. Nowadays they can pay someone to do it for them - their cars are the ones with...- David Conwill
- Post #22
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Do you have a favorite vintage movie car?
Not to stray too far off topic, but I've been gathering 1920s Ford parts for a while now - touring cars have long been my favorite (see my original post in this thread). When my daughter was born, I calculated her graduation date - she's class of '25. You know she'll be driving a...- David Conwill
- Post #54
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Do you have a strategy on ebay????
This is what I do, more or less. I look at (or find out) the cost of shipping and figure that into my total price. I then bid what I would pay for the item less the cost of shipping. If I win, I win. If I lose, it's usually by fifty cents. I got caught up in one bidding war and hated it. I...- David Conwill
- Post #7
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.
A-11 Military Wristwatches I have seen some incidental talk about these in threads, but a Google search encourages me to believe that I'm not duplicating a topic for my first "original" post. First, a little backstory: My grandfather was an AAF officer from 1940 to 1945 (and an AF officer...- David Conwill
- Post #731
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Calling All Michiganders...!
Hmm, this looks like a good place to do a belated introduction. I too am a Michigander, and proud of it! I was born in Alpena, grew up in Whitehall, went to school in Mount Pleasant and now live in Muskegon while attending law school in Grand Rapids. I've also lived in Lansing, Kalamazoo and...- David Conwill
- Post #29
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Elephant in the Room - Man Purse
It depends on the look you're going for. Obviously if you're dressier a briefcase or at the very least some kind of leather shoulder bag is a necessity. However, for a more casual look, might I recommend an M1936 Musette bag? My book bag in Junior High was such a beast and I loved it to death...- David Conwill
- Post #177
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Sad Story...
Sorry this one slipped by you, Sam, that's a sharp car. I've still got an unbuilt AMT 1/25-scale kit of one hanging around that I never started because my skills weren't yet worthy of such a fine subject. I think I have a little insight as to why early MoPar prices aren't up there with the...- David Conwill
- Post #15
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Hats In The Car/A Newbie Question
Gosh, I've read this whole post and I didn't see a single K.T. Keller reference! Legend holds (and I value this legend too much to research it) that the '49-'52 Chrysler Corporation products look the way they do because Keller was a hat wearer and wanted "to build cars you sit in, not piss...- David Conwill
- Post #61
- Forum: Hats
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Mystery in a NYC wall
Well of course it was done by a mason - what else do you call a bricklayer? ;) What I think is funny is that in the brutalist world we live in, people are baffled by a little bit of old fashioned decoration. It's probably like finding a Queen Anne in the middle of a sea of vinyl siding...- David Conwill
- Post #36
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Do you have a favorite vintage movie car?
It's been a long, long time since I've seen that movie (I was probably 8 or 9 years old). Is that an overhead valve engine in the '50? Perhaps a Y-block? Gosh, anything with three two-barrels is all right with me! Interestingly, they look like they might be Holley 94s rather than the...- David Conwill
- Post #36
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Giant Pith Helmet Thread of Doom
Fascinating. It's not often you see civilian pith helmets. Mine, for example, is a beat-up old Navy model that I got at a gun show for $3.00. I do love it, though. It makes me wish I had a rotary mower so I could wear it while trimming the lawn (they don't work very well with ear...- David Conwill
- Post #119
- Forum: Hats
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Do you have a favorite vintage movie car?
It's not so much the funky yellow on Milner's Deuce, but the chopped grille shell and the unchannelled body that screws the car up for me. The proportions on Idzardi's car are just so much more on. As far as Falfa's car, while the '55 gasser is cool (although the 396-427-454 engines weren't...- David Conwill
- Post #25
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Do you have a favorite vintage movie car?
I know AG is sacred, but I've always thought a remake with better cars would be even cooler. Something like Axle Idzardi's Deuce Coupe for Milner, a 409 Impala for Bob Falfa, and a set of whitewalls for Steve Bolander's '58. Oh, and get rid of the ridiculous rake on the Pharoh's Merc. -Dave- David Conwill
- Post #8
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Christmas Hat Gallery
My first new, unmodified fedora arrived in the mail a couple weeks before Christmas - a gray Dobbs from "hatsinthebelfry.com." It is called, appropriately enough, the Dobbs Gray Fedora. I love it and am starting to feel naked if I leave the house without it. It was just the thing to liven...- David Conwill
- Post #126
- Forum: Hats
