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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
There are a few of the old Austins around in collectors' hands. Big man I am afraid you would need to buy two, one for each foot. From the information you give, I would think your great uncle bought the car new and ordered it special from the dealer. The date, the rarity of the car, and the...- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,377
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
For such a small company Bantam made an impressive variety of models including a coupe or 2 seater sedan, a roadster, a convertible, a station wagon, and a tiny pickup truck like your great uncle's. They even made a town car style delivery vehicle, with an open driver's compartment and closed in...- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,376
- Forum: The Golden Era
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How to remove odors from a hat?
Is that how the Wide awake hat was invented? Ha ha ha- Stanley Doble
- Post #66
- Forum: Hats
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
That is a very interesting picture. The English Austin was built in Butler Pennsylvania starting in 1930. About 5 years later the company was failing in spite of the efforts of a live wire dealer in Florida who sold them like hot cakes. This dealer ended up buying the company out of bankruptcy...- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,371
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What's for Dinner?
Potato and onion. Butter, pepper and vinegar on the cabbage. Butter and pepper on the perogies. Tonight had a meat pie, chips, peas and Guinness. Branson pickle on the side. Salt and vinegar on the chips.- Stanley Doble
- Post #10,322
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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What Are You Reading
No wonder, at the time Stalin's and Roosevelt's outlook was one and the same.- Stanley Doble
- Post #6,055
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What was the Most Popular Hair Product in the Era?
Ulysses Everett was a Dapper Dan man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4r4U-y5WJs- Stanley Doble
- Post #4
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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What was the Most Popular Hair Product in the Era?
One product that was so common it became a generic name was Macassar oil. This was in the mid 1800s. Fastidious housewives made special doilies called Antimacassars to pin on their upholstered chairs where their gentlemen guests heads would hit, to prevent the upholstery from getting stained...- Stanley Doble
- Post #3
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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What was the Most Popular Hair Product in the Era?
It is hard to say. From the early 1800s through to the early 1950s an oily or greasy shine was a sign of good grooming. Look at the actors in old movies, their hair was usually brushed or combed with a part like a ruler and not a hair out of place. In the twenties the fashion was for a very...- Stanley Doble
- Post #2
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
Buy a cheap car and find out how hard it is to drive a bargain ha ha ha.- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,367
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What's for Dinner?
Polish sausage, perogies and red cabbage.- Stanley Doble
- Post #10,300
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Bib overalls and suit jackets
I thought I responded to this thread but evidently I didn't. This style of dressing was common among my older farmer relatives, born in the 1880s and 1890s and up to about 1920. They wore bib overalls, work shirt, smock ( a loose denim jacket) straw hat and rubber boots when they were working...- Stanley Doble
- Post #71
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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How to deal with Static Terror!
I have some Nestle Cocoa is that close enough? Ha ha just joking. Have not tried the nettle tea, will see if they have it at the health food emporium next time I am in town.- Stanley Doble
- Post #6
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Physiological problems of bomber crews in the eighth air force during wwii
They weren't happy about it but it justified them in what they did. Not many people know that Churchill orderd the RAF to bomb Berlin before the Luftwaffe bombed London. The RAF carried out 5 bombing raids of dubious military necessity before Hitler bombed London. It was Churchill's way of...- Stanley Doble
- Post #21
- Forum: WWII
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Coldest Weather I've been in
The worst of it is the SUV drivers who think 4 wheel drive makes them Superman. Not so, 4wd means you can keep going but your steering and brakes are no better than granny's minivan. Count the SUVs you see in the ditch tomorrow but try to stay out of their way when they get crossed up. Another...- Stanley Doble
- Post #329
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
In a real meat axey situation old time racing drivers would let go of the wheel completely to "dive for the cellar" in other words, lie on the floor and roll under the dash board. Down there with your back braced against the dash you could survive practically anything including a complete roll...- Stanley Doble
- Post #3,959
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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How to deal with Static Terror!
You could drag a brass chain behind you for a ground. I know what you mean, I live in Canada and have 3 humidifiers going in my house in this cold weather. My lungs and throat are not the best, without the humidifiers I doubt I would survive the winter. The dry air is very hard on them.- Stanley Doble
- Post #3
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
I have owned both the 1961 Corvair and 1949 and 1951 Chrysler. You could hardly pick 2 cars that are more different. Corvair was Chevrolet's lowest priced offering, one of the first "compact" cars. They were a unique design best left to the specialist or Corvair fanatic. In 1950 the Chrysler...- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,338
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Can't find this hat- weird one
Looks like something you would wear with a zoot suit. You could try the zoot suit suppliers.- Stanley Doble
- Post #5
- Forum: Hats
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