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[Wesseling Audio Lab]

My 1990 Miata. Built in 1989 ser#2480. 94,000km. never seen a winter.
Last weekend drove 420km with mine, supercharged ND Miata and C6 Corvette. swapping cars several times! Lots of fun!

 

[Power Pop 23]

My 1990 Miata. Built in 1989 ser#2480. 94,000km. never seen a winter.
Last weekend drove 420km with mine, supercharged ND Miata and C6 Corvette. swapping cars several times! Lots of fun!

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Very nice. My 1992 Sunburst Yellow Miata has seen winters and almost 70K miles (post #1,682).

 

[Dr Morbius]

Actually the 3 best carmakers before Duesenberg were known as the 3 P’s - Packard, Pierce-Arrow and Peerless motor car companies. All three were pretty much the equal to at the time the current Rolls-Royce. The depression of ‘29 did in Peerless in 1933 and Pierce-Arrow in 1937. Packard folded in 1958 amid bad decisions and bad luck. Interesting fact - when Studebaker came out with their new Avanti, it was initially to be called Packard!

 

[Power Pop 23]

Actually the 3 best carmakers before Duesenberg were known as the 3 P’s - Packard, Pierce-Arrow and Peerless motor car companies. All three were pretty much the equal to at the time the current Rolls-Royce. The depression of ‘29 did in Peerless in 1933 and Pierce-Arrow in 1937. Packard folded in 1958 amid bad decisions and bad luck. Interesting fact - when Studebaker came out with their new Avanti, it was initially to be called Packard!

The size of the Packard factory in Detroit was impressive. I read a claim that Packard came out of arms production for WWII in the best financial condition of American automakers.

 

[Soandso]

 

[Soandso]

1919 cool Leyat "Helica" model =

 

[Doodski]

1919 cool Leyat "Helica" model =

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That! Is outrageous! Very cool.

 

[Dr Morbius]

That! Is outrageous! Very cool.

Very cool……….except for pedestrians who get sucked in!

 

[Somafunk]

1919 cool Leyat "Helica" model =

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With the amount of reared pheasants (for the dickhead shooting crowd) round here polluting the roads in Galloway (Scotland) you’d need to wear a rubberised hose down proof suit, you’d end up plastered in pheasant carcasses within a few hundred yards of driving

 

[Dr Morbius]

With the amount of reared pheasants (for the dickhead shooting crowd) round here polluting the roads in Galloway (Scotland) you’d need to wear a rubberised hose down proof suit, you’d end up plastered in pheasant carcasses within a few hundred yards of driving

I would imagine so!

 

[EJ3]

1919 cool Leyat "Helica" model =

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Goggle buster!

 

[Count Arthur]

1919 cool Leyat "Helica" model =

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It'll never take off.

 

[Soandso]

Apparently going into the 1939 new car sales market offering built-in head lamps were the next best thing …

 

[Power Pop 23]

The headlamps and tailamps of Chrysler's 1961 Imperial were in assemblies that were not built into the body of the sedan.

Chrysler Imperial--1961

For sale in town, this beauty was fun to shoot. The process tapped fond memories of auto design from not too many years past. (I wish to think.)

www.flickr.com

 

[EJ3]

Apparently going into the 1939 new car sales market offering built-in head lamps were the next best thing …

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I guess that #6 Bucked the trend.

 

[Power Pop 23]

The building below at 1124 Pike St in Seattle housed a just-closed Starbucks 'Reserve Roastery' since 2014. It may be razed for redevelopment. The street was the first 'Auto Row' in Seattle and the building originally housed a Packard dealer, before later selling Datsuns, Mazdas, Jeeps, and Eagles.

 

[Power Pop 23]

AP News photos from a 'private car sculpture park' in western Germany.

A vintage car graveyard in western Germany, in photos

METTMANN, Germany (AP) — Michael Froehlich celebrated his 50th birthday in 2000 by buying 50 vintage cars, all manufactured the year he was born.

apnews.com

 

[Power Pop 23]

1919 cool Leyat "Helica" model =

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A similar vehicle from 1932 is at a the (Jeff) Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, TN in running condition.

Helicron- 1932 - Lane Motor Museum

Constructed in 1932, this one-of-a-kind, propeller driven car was discovered in a barn in France in 2000 having been placed there by the original owner in the late 1930s. Little could be seen of it through the rubble. It was completely rebuilt but many of the mechanical components are original...

www.lanemotormuseum.org

The WSJ has a profile of the founder of the museum with a focus on the vehicle, including video.

Mr. Lane says it is as loud as an airplane.

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/the-engineer-who-drives-a-propeller-powered-car-73ac01ad?mod=wsjhp_columnists_pos_2

 

[EJ3]

Hi All

What car do you have or previous owned

Older the Better

Not sure of anything about this car? but it was driven to where I took some pictures of it in a town named Adams Run, South Carolina:

 

[Trouble Maker]

First trip to Tail of the Dragon, what an amazing slightly lawless place. I'm not sure why it took me so long to make it there, but I love it and can't wait to go back!