favorite cars of the golden era

[jamespowers]

My favorite car is definitely early to mid '50s Cadillacs and my own '49 Buick Roadmaster.

link to pic.
http://tinyurl.com/9gmupa

You sure you don't like this cadillac a bit more?:

There is certainly a lot of chrome there.

 

[Forgotten Man]

How about free ones you just happen to find in your garage?

I don't have a garage... Jenny sleeps out in the cold... and if I did have a garage, Jenny would push that broken down "High Hat" Euro outa there! lol

=R

 

[jamespowers]

I don't have a garage... Jenny sleeps out in the cold... and if I did have a garage, Jenny would push that broken down "High Hat" Euro outa there! lol

=R

I would be waiting with open arms.

 

[StraightEight]

I'm one of those people who can't quite loook a '39 Buick in the eye. They just make me wince.

I'm with the majority: the '39 Buick didn't quite get it right. The grille was too small, the evolution from the vertical stack to the horizontal fan incomplete. The result was a grille that just looks too small for the size of the car and the bug-eye lights. A metamorphosis in progress caught by a flashbulb. By '40 the symmetry returned with a larger grille and the lights fully incorporated into the fenders.

Alas, I'm partial to the '38, the year the styling and technical transformation of Buick was complete. Here was mine.

Lately I have become fascinated with another "golden era" vehicle. Here is our '44 GPW. We're invading France next June for the 65th anniversary, then making a dash for Remagen and the Rhine.

 

[Caity Lynn]

*sigh* I'm in heaven.

Cars and Horses. Two things that are in my blood. I love old cars, wouldn't give 2 cents for a modern mess. I LOVE practically anything from the golden era, right up to the 70's...I have a 67 vw beetle.

My father is restoring a 36 ford. I love that car, unfortunately he's been working on it for a very long time, but it runs, so thats good lol.

 

[Lamplight]

While I have a distaste for cars and have no desire to own one, I do like old cars, especially pre-40s, although I am not very knowledgeable in that area. I like these:

 

[JimInSoCalif]

I don't think one needs to like cars to appreciate those beautiful designs. Modern cars all look alike and are about as exciting a refrigerator. On the plus side they are about as dependable as a refrigerator.

 

[Chrome]

You sure you don't like this cadillac a bit more?:

There is certainly a lot of chrome there.

Nice car for sure, but you cannot seriously say that there is something more beautiful that this

 

[Chasseur]

Perhaps I watched "Day of the Jackel" too many times growing up, but the even through it doesn't come until the second half of the 1950s the Citroen DS is a favorite of mine:

Hey its odd looking but both de Gaulle and Brigitte Bardot loved them!

 

[jamespowers]

Nice car for sure, but you cannot seriously say that there is something more beautiful that this

I suppose to each his own. The lines on that Cadillac are too blocky for me. [huh] My neighbor had a 55 coupe for sale a while back for $5,000. I would have bought it if it were a 59.

 

[Chrome]

Doub!

Here you can't find a '50s Cadillac for 5k, especially if it's running and registered. I would have been interested of it if I'd knew it then.

Ofcourse importing it here would raise costs, but even then it would be cheaper than buing one from here.

 

[David Conwill]

1940 Chevrolet in Color!

You folks might appreciate this post on the Jalopy Journal. It's an original 1940 color promotional film for the new Chevrolet. Kind of a neat look at an idealized version of middle America just before WWII.

-Dave

 

[MEDIUMMYND]

Perhaps I watched "Day of the Jackel" too many times growing up, but the even through it doesn't come until the second half of the 1950s the Citroen DS is a favorite of mine:

Hey its odd looking but both de Gaulle and Brigitte Bardot loved them!

The best best looking car of all time i had a safari (estate) many years ago they were light years ahead of their time,one strange feature was the brake peddle which was not a peddle but a small rubber button on the the floor.The DS 23 also had headlamps that turned with the steering this was apart from the self leveling hydraulic suspension which also ran the braking system i could go on.

 

[jamespowers]

Doub!

Here you can't find a '50s Cadillac for 5k, especially if it's running and registered. I would have been interested of it if I'd knew it then.

Ofcourse importing it here would raise costs, but even then it would be cheaper than buing one from here.

I knew I should have bought it and resold it.
I just don't have room for another Cadillac. :eusa_doh:

 

[imoldfashioned]

Fun movie! I wish I lived in an era when "modern" was the highest praise one could bestow.

You folks might appreciate this post on the Jalopy Journal. It's an original 1940 color promotional film for the new Chevrolet. Kind of a neat look at an idealized version of middle America just before WWII.

-Dave

 

[kools]

My favorite car is definitely early to mid '50s Cadillacs and my own '49 Buick Roadmaster.

Hey Chrome...I can't PM you yet, but I'm diggin' the Buick. You might get a kick out of the recording I made of a tune I wrote called "Roadmaster Boogie". Once you get enough posts to PM, contact me & I'll hook you up.

 

[N2S3]

DS = Déesse = goddess

@ Chasseur: DS sounds like the french Déesse, what means Goddess. Had many features can't be found in any other car of this period.

 

[Chasseur]

N2s3,

Yes that is the one, the "Godess" as the nickname was. Citroen liked making puns from the model numbers. Very interesting car for its time and quit unique looking.

 

[Forgotten Man]

Modern cars all look alike and are about as exciting a refrigerator. On the plus side they are about as dependable as a refrigerator.

Depends on the refrigerator Mine is an exception to the rule.

The way cars were designed back in those times were merely for looks. The styles of earlier cars were merely coaches with motors... the coach like body lasted into the early 30s and by 1935 it was all streamline and turret tops.

My favorite eras for cars is the 30s and 40s. I love 20s cars, always will but, something about the lines of the cars of 1933-1947 just drive me wild. I like curves, lots of curves and graceful lines... I have a soft spot for 50s to early 60s cars if restored correctly... that's as far as it goes for me.

I want this:

That is one of 3 known motor carts from the 1939 World's Fair New York... you can see one in the first part of this clip from the Fair!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dyQe1sWKPE&feature=related

I also love this one! 1934 Plymouth:

And just for an added bonus, here's a link to one of my favorite clips, the clip is made of many different clips taken from promo movies for Chevy and home movie clips... set to "Swing is in the Air" by Ambrose and his Orchestra.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZKXopavQZk&NR=1

 

[Forgotten Man]

I'm with the majority: the '39 Buick didn't quite get it right. The grille was too small, the evolution from the vertical stack to the horizontal fan incomplete. The result was a grille that just looks too small for the size of the car and the bug-eye lights. A metamorphosis in progress caught by a flashbulb. By '40 the symmetry returned with a larger grille and the lights fully incorporated into the fenders.

Alas, I'm partial to the '38, the year the styling and technical transformation of Buick was complete. Here was mine.

:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap The '38 looked so much like the '37... I like both quite a bit... I must say, you get my respect by havin' black wall tires on it!!! That makes it look so authentic! 80% of old photos of people's cars I see are with black wall tires. That's what I have on my '46 and I love them now! Once you go black, you don't go back! lol