You are cheating, too many 57's in your postcards the first one is a 57, in the second picture I see a 60 Dodge (front) and a 60 Plymouth (rear), in the fourth I see a 57. Am I missing any bridge overpasses
Faulkner wrote:Yeah, well, I should have Matthew vet my postcards first
Dan
Sorry,
I can't send him over now, sorry. He still has a lot of work to do before my sport Fury can go to the painter, he did a lot today and he will show his work later I guess.
Well Ron, if you are asking ME, here is my story: I was raised on the East Coast of the U.S. (NY State..born in 1956), where foreign cars have always been favorites of car lovers.
I followed the lead of my older brother who variously owned a 1959 Lincoln, a Porsche 356 and a Jaguar XK-150. (He bought the Jaguar for $90!) His close group of high school buddies' cars included a Morgan Plus 4, an MGA, and ??. As I got more interested in wheels for myself, I would ride my bicycle around the neighborhood and notice cars that werent being used. Having neither much money nor courage, I would look- but not act. My first purchase was a Fiat 1100, but I never got it to run. I watched a 58 Buick Special, but never spoke to the owner. Finally I bought a Fiat 600 and put new rings and bearings in it (very amateur work), but I never felt confident enough to plead with Dad to license it.
My ideas were not very practical.
I did not actually put a car onto the road until I was 22, and leaving college. I bought a 1965 ChevyVan and drove it acoss the country. It had been a Sears Roebuck Service truck and had MANY miles on it...although it didnt leak oil or send out blue smoke, it consumed 13 GALLONS of oil on the drive from Chicago to Sacramento!
Nighthawk wrote:When i was a young car crazy kid in the early 60s, i recall a neighbor having a 59 Plymouth and it was gray, but i dont recall either seeing any others around......
Bob
Being born in 1962 as a car crazy kid and had never seen a 59 Plymouth until 2001 That was when I saw my car for the first time! From documentation I know there must have been some Savoy's used as taxi in some cities but I had never seen one, that why I told my dad (when I was about 4 years old) I wanted a 59 Impala when I was old enough to drive. I wonder what you told your father?
Ron
I was born in 1955 and got my license to drive in 1971,i worked in a service station part time at that time and i remember telling my dad the same thing, i wanted a 59 Chev!
I did get one which i still have, in 2001!
rogerh wrote:Well Ron, if you are asking ME, here is my story: I was raised on the East Coast of the U.S. (NY State..born in 1956), where foreign cars have always been favorites of car lovers.
I followed the lead of my older brother who variously owned a 1959 Lincoln, a Porsche 356 and a Jaguar XK-150. (He bought the Jaguar for $90!)
Great story of the past, I am opening a new topic to show the cars I have owned since I had my drivers license. I'll try to find pictures on the web of the right model and year. I'd like to see from all the others what they have been driving through the years.
Nighthawk wrote:I was born in 1955 and got my license to drive in 1971,i worked in a service station part time at that time and i remember telling my dad the same thing, i wanted a 59 Chev!
I did get one which i still have, in 2001!
Bob
When I was writing my story I remebered you own a 59 Chevy Thinking of buying any other 59's?
Nighthawk wrote:I was born in 1955 and got my license to drive in 1971,i worked in a service station part time at that time and i remember telling my dad the same thing, i wanted a 59 Chev!
I did get one which i still have, in 2001!
Bob
When I was writing my story I remebered you own a 59 Chevy Thinking of buying any other 59's?
Ron
The guys in my car club keep telling me that i should get a 59 Ford to complete my collection of the "1959 low priced field" but my 2 "old gals" as i call them are enough to look after!
Wow, cool! Where are all those cars now... And isn't it neat to think, that perhaps one of the cars we are driving now appears somewhere in a postcard.
Faulkner wrote:Wow, cool! Where are all those cars now... And isn't it neat to think, that perhaps one of the cars we are driving now appears somewhere in a postcard.
Dan
Keep searching, Faulkner might be in the next few postcards
the first one is a 57, in the second picture I see a 60 Dodge (front) and a 60 Plymouth (rear), in the fourth I see a 57. Am I missing any bridge overpasses 
That was when I saw my car for the first time! From documentation I know there must have been some Savoy's used as taxi in some cities but I had never seen one, that why I told my dad (when I was about 4 years old) I wanted a 59 Impala when I was old enough to drive. I wonder what you told your father?
Thinking of buying any other 59's?
