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  1. StraightEight

    Show us your vehicles

    Radio Daze http://www.radiodaze.com/
  2. StraightEight

    Show us your vehicles

    Still here. My wife and I spent a Saturday rearranging the garage to fit in the DeSoto. Just had the Buick's radio rebuilt. Amazingly, you can buy a brand new, solid state vibrator for a 1948 Buick radio for $39.
  3. StraightEight

    Riley owners/lovers thread

    Thanks for the resources. A few I had already found through Google but some were new. Good to know that the parts supply is healthy. In my experience, British cars always have the best (and cheapest) parts supply. Personal preference and budget leans toward a closed car with a preselector...
  4. StraightEight

    Riley owners/lovers thread

    Okay, I'm hooked. Where's the best place to find out more information about the various Riley models, parts supply, cars for sale, models to avoid, etc?
  5. StraightEight

    Show us your vehicles

    It's delightful, it's de-lovely, it's our new 1958 Desoto, with the look and feel of the future! And we need a whole new wardrobe.
  7. StraightEight

    favorite cars of the golden era

    Great looking car. Love those survivors. At the Buick club's all-GM car show a few weeks ago in Woodley Park, Van Nuys we had most of the '48 catalog lined up in the steel, including a Roadmaster just like yours.
  8. StraightEight

    favorite cars of the golden era

    Um, not quite. The Y-Job was the precursor for the '42 Buicks, which were built in more or less the same form through '48 with a re-skin for '49 in the upper trim levels. Note the grille, fully integrated headlights, bombsight hood ornament, overall shape, etc. The Y-job's interior is basically...
  9. StraightEight

    Vintage Phones

    We have a mid-30s Western Electric 202 that has been refurbished. In the wall box, the ringer has been replaced with an electronic ringer that sounds dead accurate (and fairly loud). It works fine as a phone and a phone company engineer once told me that the phone network will except pulse...
  10. StraightEight

    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    True, traffic is different, but so are the roads. Signage and lighting are much better, far more of the roads are paved and striped, and they have things like embedded reflectors and rumble strips. It probably all balances out. Ultimately, the best measure of your safety in a vintage car is...
  11. StraightEight

    Reviving Detroit

    Great looking house. You have my admiration. My dad grew up between Dexter and Linwood in the '40s and early '50s and used to say "the houses were old when I lived in them."
  13. StraightEight

    ATF Roughout Service Shoe

    Wore mine all over European battlefields last month. The right one continued to rub on the top at that same place but the left one never did for some reason. I never really had a major problem with them but I did develop a callous where it was rubbing. They certainly are not as comfortable for...
  14. StraightEight

    favorite cars of the golden era

    Very nice. Like the blackwalls, straight out of a Life magazine photo spread of Main Street, USA.
  15. StraightEight

    Normandy 2009 and beyond

    Yep, tens of thousands of people, perhaps a thousand vintage military vehicles, and we bump in Eyemo at the Super U in Sainte-Mere-Eglise on the very first day--really, in the first hour, just after getting off the ferry at Cherbourg! That was indeed amazing. That was the original plan but...
  16. StraightEight

    Normandy 2009 and beyond

    Some pictures from the D-Day anniversary in Normandy and our tour of European battlefields in Rum Buggy, our '44 GPW. Dog Green sector, Omaha Beach, 6:00 AM, June 6, 2009 101st Airborne tribute, Place de la Republique, Carentan. The Colleville Draw, Omaha Beach...
  17. StraightEight

    favorite cars of the golden era

    Some of my favorite vehicles: '67 Mazda Cosmo 110S Mitsubishi Minica Toppo Town Bee Lamborghini Espada NASA Mars rover Spirit... ...and Opportunity
  19. StraightEight

    D-Day Tribute,

    Great pics Eyemo. Hope to see you there. First trip for us, sailing Portsmouth to Cherbourg on the 3rd and camping at Carentan with the North Staffs MVT. Look out for the '44 Ford GPW in 9th USAAF/344th BG colors nicknamed "Rum Buggy."
  20. StraightEight

    At the Front Militaria

    True, but those guys were 19 years old, generally weighed much less than your typical contemporary American corn-fed male (even with their equipment on), and didn't know any better. And they suffered terribly for their footwear.
  21. StraightEight

    At the Front Militaria

    I bought a pair of the roughout service shoes for Normandy next month and have been wearing them around to break them in. I usually wear an 11.5 wide with an orthopedic insert for flat feet. Got the 11 per their recommendation, which is to go small on half sizes, and they fit very comfortably...
  22. StraightEight

    Show us your vehicles

    Very easy. Prices are down a bit and there are some good ones for sale. Milweb is the best starting point. http://www.milweb.net/ Join us in Normandy next month!
  23. StraightEight

    favorite cars of the golden era

    Yeah, especially the Lamborghini Espada parked next to it. Quite a contrast!

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