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  1. StraightEight

    favorite cars of the golden era

    :)
  2. StraightEight

    favorite cars of the golden era

    As a PS, Benz tried and failed at a similar thing with their "Falling in Love Again" campaign of about ten years ago. It gave people the creeps, myself included.
  3. StraightEight

    favorite cars of the golden era

    Oh my god, the dealers hated that campaign. Did zero to lift sales. Solidified Buick's rep as an old (dead, even?) man's division. Was a monumental waste of money. Now that Harley Earl has been re-buried, the cars are better than ever. Thanks, China, for saving Buick!!
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    WWII Photos - Taken / Collected by Family Members

    Yep. When you've got free time, look at Google Earth at the area I mentioned, in the open fields just west of the forest around Rott in the Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel, just south-southeast of Aachen. Zoom in close enough on satellite view and you'll see the Dragon's Teeth zig-zagging across the...
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    WWII Photos - Taken / Collected by Family Members

    And here they still are (or were, last June) just south of Eisenhutte at the intersection of the K14 and L233.
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    BigMan, way to go! Absolutely LOVE the then/now shots in front of the house. A real time transport.
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    favorite cars of the golden era

    Wow, that picture brings back memories. First old car was a '66 Mk II Midget that I restored in a car port in Arlington, Virginia. Stayed with me through the move back to Michigan but eventually went to a new owner back in the DC area. Pic below. Conclusion: hilariously small, lots of fun, and...
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    Way to go! Post some pics. Very cool. A rolling monument. I miss our jeep. Like the GIs, we had to leave it in Europe. It now belongs to a fellow in Arnhem who reenacts as a British Red Devil. After major cylinder head surgery the Buick has just turned its first miles since last September. I...
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    European vs. American Automotive Histories

    Having completely rebuilt my '38 248 and done a fair amount of work on the '48 248, I definitely wouldn't call them bulletproof, but I'd say that for the day (obviously much more so in 1937 than in 1953) it was a reasonably sophisticated and robust design though it suffered the same inherent...
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    No more USS Enterprise

    Why are we even building another carrier? They've proved almost completely useless in the two current conflicts. Seems like we could find another use for the billions, like taking care of returning soldiers with better medical and an expanded GI Bill.
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    Show us your vehicles

    And the cylinder head is back on. Finally. Again. Let's hope it's the last time for awhile...
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    Show us your vehicles

    Widebrim, we need more pics of the fabulous Packard, so we're asking the man who owns one... Here are some my pal Morgan shot from the back seat of the Buick awhile back. Already got the new cam in, hoping to put the refreshed cylinder head back on this week.
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    Best Years of our Lives: when the boys are home again movies

    The Best Years was in my top 10 best war movies list in a thread awhile back. Just watched Bad Day at Black Rock with Spencer Tracy. Thought it was an interesting allegory for the country's unwillingness to deal with its own wartime sins.
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    Michael Paul Smith - Classic Car Models WOW

    No disrespect to the man's work, it's really cool. But those are mostly, if not all, Franklin and Danbury Mint diecasts. I have the '48 and '49 Buicks, and one or two others. Still, it's very clever. The pics just need people. It looks like a town out in the Nevada desert awaiting a bomb test.
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    British cars generally had (and still have) much smaller engines than contemporary American iron. Rolling a straight-eight with a breaker bar is effort enough. I very much doubt dear old Odessa Hensley, the original owner of my Buick, would have wanted to crank it by hand.
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    My '44 Ford GPW jeep had a crank hole and handle. All wartime jeeps did, to my knowledge. I had a jeep specialist in Kent demonstrate it for me and then I tried it myself so I would know how to do it if it proved necessary over in Normandy. Those low-compression engines are quite easy to crank...
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    Yes indeed. I have one in the Buick and the car starter spins like it's a 12-volt. It's what sold me on Optimas. Not period correct, but who cares? I think your car needs a new battery, if it can only go a week or so without going flat. Lead-acid batteries hate to be discharged. When the battery...
  21. StraightEight

    Show us your vehicles

    Let's go back to Los Angeles, 1958...
  22. StraightEight

    Show us your vehicles

    Rest assured, it was.
  23. StraightEight

    Show us your vehicles

    I had to look up the Coronado as I had never heard of it. The Standard Catalog describes it as a "springtime model: a sedan that featured an upgraded interior and three-tone exterior finish treatment." Nice. And the Rambler is pretty hot, too.

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