ChrisBcritter

Tell me about it. I didn't mention that the GEN light came on when I was at a stoplight. Went off when I hit the gas, and at least I made it home. Hope it's just my eight-year-old battery giving up the... ghost?

That looks like one tough machine! What kind of smog laws do you have there? If anyone tried that in California they'd get the bum's rush at the DMV...

I don't know, but I wonder if it's time somebody started building new Charger bodies like what's being done with '57 Chevies and '65 Mustangs?

Got it here as well starting about 6:15; plus last night I went to pick up some Taco Bell goodies for dinner, and when I got back home the odometer on my Buick read 58,666 .

Like the smoke that rises from a flame I hear that homesick ????? call my name Telling foreign tales that are not new Listening for the lies when nothing's true And he's waiting for me to perform... (Never could decipher that word in the second line - sounds like "hobo" or "Volvo". Hint: Not the Doors but sounds a lot like them.)

Donovan - "Season of the Witch"

And Cadillac even had ads that suggested buying a used Caddy as the next best thing to buying a new one:

Hey, if you can't laugh at yourself... I made a face and it stayed that way - in Kodachrome...

OK, now we have statistics - 300,000 American families have two Fords. Note it doesn't say two new Fords.

Since you asked... My parents' first car, a '48 DeSoto... ...which they traded in on a new '53 Bel Air... ...which they traded in on a new '57 Century... ...then I came along, so we moved to the suburbs and got a '53 Bel Air sedan as the second car... ...then the Buick's Dynaflow lost reverse, so we traded it in on a used '59 DeSoto (of which I don't have any photos), but we sold it shortly after because we had use of my uncle's '58 Bel Air while he was overseas with the Army... (only image I have, scanned from 8mm movie film) ...and after my uncle came home and took his car back, we got a used '61 Dodge... (God, that kid was a doofus)... then we sold the '53 Chevy and got a '56 210 (taken when it was new; the family friend in the picture sold it to us in '65)... ...which we traded in on a '63 Dodge 440 wagon (no photo again, some old biddy in a '62 Continental hit it), which we traded in on a '65 Impala... (stupid cat messed up the slide)...and the Dodge was replaced by a '64 Biscayne... ... which was replaced by a '69 Delta 88 (this was taken several years later, after demonstrating why 5 MPH bumpers were mandated), which was the first car I rode in at 100 MPH on a long empty stretch of I-24. Thanks for the thrill, Dad. Over to you guys...

Saw a red '68 GTO convertible with mags and the top down in a shopping center off Willow Road this evening; looked like a decent driver rather than restored.

Ray Peterson. Ricky Valance in England.

When my boss bought his '90 Lotus Esprit at a B-J auction in L.A. we went to gas it up. Finding the fuel doors wasn't too hard; what had him really furious was we couldn't find the release for the crummy things. It sure wasn't where the owner's manual showed it to be. Crawled all over the inside for half an hour (no fun because the doors don't open that far) before I found it in a completely different place than it was supposed to be (somewhere around the center console? I forget).

Well, she shot him dead On a sunny Florida road When they caught her all she said Was she couldn't stand the way he drove...

"Tell Laura I Love Her"

I imagine quite a few second cars were the result of "That's all you're giving me for my trade-in? I might as well keep it!" My folks were similar to many others here; only had one car until I came along and we moved out to the suburbs; Dad had the six-cylinder go-to-work cars ('61 Dodge Seneca, '64 Chevy Biscayne) and Mom had the V-8 family car ('65 Impala four-door hardtop).

Don't forget that at the same time the Chevy II was being hurried to production, Ford was rushing in the other direction to compete with VW with its Cardinal project. A V-4 front-engine, front-wheel-drive coupe with styling somewhat resembling a Rambler American; it would have hit the showrooms in 1963 as the Redwing but was canceled at the last minute; instead it became the new German Taunus 12M and was successful overseas. I wonder what would have happened with Corvair if it had been designed with this (front/front) drivetrain layout?

Well, I see how the underside should be painted...

It will give info as long as you have the last five of the VIN and the license number - and the county and zip code - I just did it the other day for that Subaru: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/FeeCalculatorWeb/renewalForm.do If there's a license plate or an old registration with a license number somewhere in that wreck you're good.

Just ran the VIN JS23N0E102388 through the NICB database and it's not coming up stolen; if you had the license number and last five digits of the VIN you could run it through the CA DMV database, that would give a lot more info re salvage/junk, last registered, etc. (I just found that the low-mileage garage find '78 Subaru 4x4 wagon my boss just got has $619 in back fees... )

Just waiting for our Australian friends to chime in, especially about Falcon GT sedans...

That's what I figured, 2" x 4" in 1/35 scale?

That looks identical to the display in Glenview right down to the selection - separate from the other racks of kits too.