A "Thread" which only the SUPERSWEEP could possible love!!!

[cb123]

...And I see why, too! Desoto's...Desoto's...And yes, even more Desoto's!!! And just a wee, small bit of other flavors to wet your palate , of course! A regular cornucopia of steel and chrome...Bon appetite and enjoy Detroit's bounty!   

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[s31463221]

I beg to differ!!

I just had to wipe the drool off my iPad here! I am a classic car NUT!! If I had the room and money, I'd give Jay Leno a run for his money!! Beautiful....absolutely BEAUTIFUL machines there! The humble Model A is my next one on my "must haves" list!!

 

[cb123]

Whenever you go to a antique auto show, it's hard not to hear the theme song from " 2001 a Space Odyssey " bouncing around betwixt your ears. It's like you reached the last valley, but found a shiny hill instead...Oh the glory!!!  I added a couple more photos that I somehow sinfully forgot!

 

[arh1953]

You've got your nerve, what in the HELL do you mean ONLY Supersweep could love? Do you know who you're talking to? 


 


By the way, the rest of the cars look pretty darn good too! Where is Supersweep lately anyhow?


 

 

[kenkart]

Ill take!

A 56 Desoto ANYDAY over these ugly bubblemobiles made today!

 

[cb123]

Well Alan, I was trying to smoke that ever allusive SuperSweep out, but since he's a tumbleweed, it might not be safe...like he would burst into flames and all -- kinda like the Scarecrow from the " Wizard of Oz, " fire and kindling just don't quite mix if you please! Why, a SuperSweep sighting has just about become as rare as a bona fide sasquatch encounter of the third kind! I heard tell if you look into a mirror and say Desoto three times, The magical SuperSweep will then appear and say, " Where are the keys?!" or " The keys or your life!!!" I really can't remember which, but it's one or the other for sure.


 


Oh yes, I almost forgot! That second photo is one fantastic showroom, I kid you not!!!


 


 

 

[cb123]

I really like that, " Bubblemobiles!" If you have ever watched them " Signal 30 " videos from the 50s, you will see a stark difference between the motor vehicles of today and yesteryear. Back in the day a car crash looked like a car crash, but today they more resemble a plane crash with all of that thin aviation aluminum they mind as well be making them out of. At least back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s you could have the dignity of an open casket, but nowadays there's a fair chance your casket will have to be closed, on account, you'll have to be shoveled into little baggies, after being shredded thru that overly dangerous, thin, sharp, jagged, scalpel like metal  that your poor, crushed, and broken body gets violently pushed thru...Yes, very much so like a plane crash! Here's the video to " Signal 30!"


 


PS. Also watch " Red Asphalt 3,4, and 5 " and you'll know what I mean! 

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Although I'm NOT a 'car guy'

I do LOVE cars from the 50s and 60s.  They had style, class, imagination!!


  We had that Oldsmobile, 2 tone gray.  it was a tank.  We had it until 1972.


Loved it.  I love the '59 Caddy and the '59 Chevy Impala, and Biscayne.  LOVE that teardrop light and gullwing.

 

[tolivac]

I think you are SAFER in a NEW car than an older one-remember those older cars didn't have seat belts,air bags,and such.The frames on new cars are stronger than of yesteryear-and on newer vehicles the motor-transmission is designed to "submarine" in a crash rather than get shoved into the passenger cabin.Yes,the old cars were cool-but NOT as safe as today.Remember the Packard my Dad had when we were kids--The AC vents in the rear were plastic tubes that stuck up from the rear shelf behind the seat.On long trips us kids dropped our marbles down those adn watched and giggled as they blew back out-one time they DIDN'T blow back out-ANGRY Dad had to take the rear shelf apart to get the marbles out!Despite that the Packard was a favorite car-comfortable-the AC and no add on desert coller.Also in the family we had an Internation Travelall-Could THAT be the first SUV?A Rambler station wagon and a Hearse-don't remember its brand-just a big grey car with a purple interior.On the side walls were two glass vases us kids werfe asked to put pretty flowers in.Then the rear had the rollers that you slid the casket on.loved spinning them as a kid-strange entertainment!

 

[arh1953]

Back in "the good old days" the cars on the road were all the latest, of course, mixed with the ones remaining from the '40's on back. Seat belts were introduced for the public as an option by Ford Motor Company in 1956, how many people ordered them or used them is unknown. The new cars are a lot safer, unfortunately, people are led to believe they will always walk away without so much as a bruise, in a head on collision. Some people still believe in safe driving fortunately. 

 

[tolivac]

Safe driving by the driver is the BEST safety tool for ANY car-new or old!Collisions of any sort are what you AVIOD!!T-bone crashes are bad,too a car door IS NOT going to stop the other car from hurting or KILLING you!So you aviod those,too!STOP at all stop signs and lights!The likehood of you or others riding with you walking away from a head on or T-Bone is unlikely-but you or they may survive despite injuries.Its the OTHER "guy" driving that presents the dangers-IDIOTS that blow stop signs or lights!And numbskulls that "race" trains at crossings-NO car will "win" from a train collision!!!!

 

[cb123]

Did y'all even watch the videos?  I was talking about an open casket vs. a closed one. I wasn't talking about safe and responsible, but rather the quick and the dead!

 

[human]

Yeah, they were still showing "Signal 30" at my junior high school when I took driver ed in the ninth grade in 1979. It was pretty gruesome. Come to think of it, I believe all the films they showed us in driver ed were from the '50s. One of them was a corporate film from Ford that showed the latest car safety innovations from the 1950s like seat belts (lap belts only in that era), rotary door latches and safety glass.

When I was little, circa 1967, I remember my dad stealing the optional rear seat belts out of his company car and putting them in the front seat of our '59 Olds Fiesta 88 station wagon, which had none from the factory. Of course, we kids loved riding in the 'very back' of the wagon, where they were no seats, much less seat belts.

http://www.automobile-catalog.com/photo/1959/2335550/186712.html

 

[gottahaveahoove]

I knowthat the older cdars certainly weren't as safe

I remember when seat belts were a new 'option'. When I was a young child, we were in an old car...no seat belts.
We were hit head on by a DRUNK DRIVER. I was thrown into the back of the front seat...thus, my broken back. 3 bones are still ' in there'... 'dorsal lumbar 3,4,and 5 damaged, unable to be removed. I wore a back brace for years, and swam in a gym pool also. I can always tell when it will rain. i KNOW I'm lucky...as, the doctors told me that if the damage were about a half inch 'over', I'd be in a chair.
Still, I admire those cars, American design, etc. ANY car (even today's) can be very dangerous. The most dangerous element, is a poor, inept, drunk, impaired, etc driver.

 

[cb123]

...or distracted driving, otherwise known as under the influence of technology! At least a drunk has one eye on the road, on account, if he had both eyes open he'd be seeing double. And don't get me started on dopers!

 

[rugsucker]

Great Cars!

Almost looks like our every Sat night-April/October downtown cruise in (1 block from my shop).One difference is that our oldest Packard is usually a 1949.
Reply 3,Photo 2--Reminds me of a story in a car magazine that told of an older,distinguished gentleman(I picture him as Vincent Price)who would attend the New York City new car shows into the 60s.He would stop at the entrance and ask-"Could you please direct me to the Packard exhibit?"
International Travelall--A 69 came to the cruise in last year.Brown with black vinyl top,factory air,deluxe interior,etc.It had been bought new to tow the boat from the city suburbs to the vacation cabin on the lake in Michigan every summer and back in the garage for the winter.It looked about 2 years old!

 

[cb123]

Look, Ma, Noooooooooo airbags!!!

You definitely don't want to be drivin' like this!

 

[kenkart]

I sure would!

Be drivin a Desoto if I could afford one!! Nothing like full time power steering!

 

[human]

When I worked in the alumni office at East Carolina University (never attended there as as student), we were given a '48 DeSoto to raffle off. i got to ride in it during the homecoming parade. We got it to raffle off in '97 but I would have liked to have been able to sit on it for a year and raffle it off when we were honoring the class of '48 at alumni weekend.

Back in the late '80s, I went to hear Ralph Nader speak and someone had parked their Corvair by the entrance to the auditorium with balloons taped to the steering wheel and dashboard--the world's only airbag equipped Corvair.