zach3
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|  Make and Year of this car???
I am not sure but I think that this is a late 40's early 50's GM vehicle.
Could someone please help me identify.
Thanks,
Zach |
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sdgthy
@optonline.net | Not much to work with, but I'll say a '41 Buick. |
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You can look here:
»www.hubcapcafe.com/ocs/cs_index.htm
Or ask at a Hemming's Forum »forums.hemmings.com/ |
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zach3
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Thanks to you both.
After looking at the picture a little better I believe that I am about 2.5 years old so that would make the picture date about Summer or Fall of 1947.
So it is possible that it is a 41 Buick.
I posted the image on Photo Bucket and asked the same question on the Hemmings Motor News forum.
I will post back when I find the answer!!
Zach  |
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sdgthy
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| About the best I can find in a reasonable time: »www.pbase.com/ppjasper/image/69953348
Good luck. I was lucky, I know every car my father ever owned. And found a list a grandfather made of ever car he owned, I only remember the last three, the first was '22 Gray. |
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1941 Buick |
»www.pbase.com/xl1ken/rbf52 |
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zach3
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Thanks to you both!
I believe that this is a 41 Buick and possibly the first new car that my Father used to talk about that he purchased just before WWII. I had no idea that he stored the thing while he was serving in the Army Air Core during the war but he must have.
Anyway it was the last new car that he had until 1960 when he bought a Chrysler Valiant. He bought a new car every 2 years after that until his death in 1980.
Thanks for helping with the memories!!
Zach |
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sdgthy
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| said by zach3  :I had no idea that he stored the thing while he was serving in the Army Air Core during the war but he must have. Army Air Corps!
That would not be surprising, during WWII car production was halted and gas was rationed. So even those that didn't serve, couldn't get new cars and couldn't drive those they had much. After the war, when production restarted, the new designs where notably different. Which is why, at first look, I was sure it had to be a pre-WWII design. |
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zach3
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Re: Make and Year of this car???
sdgthy,
Army Air Corps! I must have been tired!
Yes all of the Auto production lines were converted into making Tanks, Jeeps, Airplanes and what ever else that the military needed.
I still find it hard to imagine just how much production this country must have turned out during the war years! Absolutely amazing.
Zach |
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said by zach3 :Anyway it was the last new car that he had until 1960 when he bought a Chrysler Valiant. He bought a new car every 2 years after that until his death in 1980. 2 years? wow he was rich.
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zach3
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| In many ways he was rich. Just not in $. Growing up during the depression he learned to save and was always frugal.
His last new car was a 1980 Chevy Citation and I can not call that rich!!! |
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