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  1. StraightEight

    Now This is an Electric Car!

    With a top speed of 22 mph, you might as well take a bicycle.
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    favorite cars of the golden era

    Whups, re-checked the old Standard Catalog and I stand corrected!
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    Show us your vehicles

    Those fins at the ends of the front bumper are unusual. I don't recall seeing that before. The deco accents imply that they're original. I wonder if that was a Canadian model?
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    Show us your vehicles

    A fabulous '41! Complete with an "A" gas ration sticker. I almost bought one just like it before finding the Sedanet, but they wanted way too much and wouldn't budge. Hard to believe yours is un-restored, it's in such fine condition. How did it come to be in Dublin?
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    Old street scenes

    Great slice of life pics. Loved the split-window 'Vette, and the shot of Main Street c. 1941 judging from the newest car in the pic.
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    Show us your vehicles

    No problem. Craigslist, out of North Prairie, Wisconsin. As it is difficult to search Craigslist nationally, I usually depend on Google. Type into Google "Craigslist" and the item you are looking for, in my case "Craigslist sedanette" (even though Buick spelled it sedanet, my seller chose the...
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    Varying reactions are observed on LA freeways. Because left-lane lounging is so common out here, people wanting to move more quickly are often forced into the right lanes to get ahead, and there they must slalom around the slower traffic. I know, I've done it, though I try not to linger on the...
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    Show us your vehicles

    It's all stock and came to me with about 29,000 miles on the clock, which I believe to be original based on its condition.
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    Haven't seen this one discussed. We can't live in the past but it's a nice place to visit, especially in a swing-era car. Cars of the '30s and '40s were built before Eisenhower's freeways. Most have under 100 hp. Most are 3-speeds and lack overdrive. If you go for an authentic look, your car has...
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    Show us your vehicles

    Guess again, FMan, it's no Mazda. The Buick is a technically a '49 but it's really a '48 as there really was no '49 Special.
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    favorite cars of the golden era

    Thanks very much, CC. Your Fleetline had basically the same body as my Buick, all 1942 styling rehashed until '49. The '48-'49 Series 46S Special was the only short-wheelbase Sedanet and the only Sedanet to bridge the gap between Buick/Cadillac and the rest of the GM lineup. In other words...
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    Show us your vehicles

    Posted elsewhere, but here's one of the Buick at berth alongside its tender, and the view from the wheelhouse.
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    favorite cars of the golden era

    Likely his new '38 Ford five-window coupe (the whale-baring-his-baleen nose gives it away) is either a hot rod now or it has been recycled into a Toyota. But the bridge...still...stands!
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    Vintage style interfere with buying modern clothes?

    Just back from a shopping trip myself this weekend. What I have learned is that cheap stuff simply doesn't pay in the end as it's usually cut or patterned in a modern style and generally hangs poorly and looks, well, cheap. For new suits, sport coats, bow ties, etc. you're best shopping in...
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    Classic Car Auction in LA

    They sent me the catalog for that three weeks ago but I was out of town and missed the auction. The catalog is fabulous. Art Astor was in the radio business and had a huge collection of '20s-'40s console radios and microphones. Zenith black dials in almost every form., cathedrals, deco...
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    Automobile racing.

    I run a '91 SpecMiata with a friend of mine in SCCA and NASA. On the vintage front, a pal of mine and I built a '53 Ford Mainline V-8 for the 2002 La Carrera Panamericana in Mexico. We were on the road three weeks, had a great time but were exhausted. The car dropped its overdrive on the last...
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    1940-50s? 8mm Keystone projector

    I'd say early to mid-'50s. At first I thought Keystone was another brand made by Revere in Chicago as the design and color scheme is virtually identical to the cameras and projectors made by Revere, but it appears to have been its own company. The number of adjustments and the streamlining of...
  21. StraightEight

    Sartorialist Shots - Hats Back?

    From last Sunday's LA Times, a photo spread in the fashion section: http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-ig-scout.062208-pg,0,763576.photogallery
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    1933 Buick sighting "on the street"

    A grand old dame of the roadways. A terrible year for Buick, 1933, with calender year production of just 45,150. Except that it was the year Harlow Herbert Curtice took over the division. It would take four years to fully revive the brand, but Buick's best days were still ahead. Note that Buick...
  23. StraightEight

    New hat routine

    Searched the stickies and the important threads and perhaps I missed it, so please direct me if I did. In "Woman of the Year," Spencer Tracy does this little folding and shaping routine with his new hat, apparently to get the brim to break in just the right place or at just the right angle...

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