October 24/25, 2020 – People seem to love to tell us about their dad and how he took care of the family car!
OCTOBER 24-25, 2020
WEEKEND EDITION
191st Edition
THE CARS
OUR PARENTS
DROVE
FROM EDSELS TO CADILLACS
1950’S Chevrolet
1950 CHEVY STYLELINE DELUXE
1953 CHEVROLET BELAIR
I remember riding in the car with fins. It was turquoise and white I believe. There was enough room in the ledge behind the back seat that my brother and I could lie down on it. I liked the windows that the Dodge had for decades, and other cars too. It was a triangular window in the front that you could open to get fresh air without it whipping around. Those would be good to bring back.
STATION WAGONS
FROM OUR READERS
I don’t remember the first car my family had, but I do remember the mid-1970’s Ford Country Squire Station Wagon. It had the wood paneling on the sides and the backwards facing rumble seat in the back. It was so much fun riding in that seat and making faces at the drivers behind us. The one thing I don’t recall from that rumble seat is seatbelts. Amazing us kids are still alive.
John Gallagher
A used Ford Country Squire station wagon with faux wood panels on the side! It was driven from Minnesota to California, where I grew up. Clara Bells
FROM OUR READER …MATT ALTWICKER
FROM OUR FRIEND ROBERT
My dad had a fire engine red VW bug!
TWO FRIENDS FIRST RESPONSE WAS
“FORD FAIRLANE”
1960 Ford Fairlane 500 sedan
MY TEACHER HAD A RED CORVETTE IN 1958
For Sale: 1958 Chevrolet Corvette in Anaheim, California $79,900
1958 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL
WITH WEIRD REAR WINDOW
My father had this car when I was a pre-teen. It had the inverted rear window. and modified fins.
OLDS 442
My brother’s first car was an Olds 442, probably 1968.
FROM ITALY…ROSSANA REPORTS ON HER DAD’S LOVE OF CARS
FIAT TOPOLINO AND FORD CORTINA WERE TWO OF MANY HE HAD
CAR DIES OF BROKEN HEART
When I was a kid we had a 1948 Pontiac. But I can’t think of any stories about it. The only thing that comes to mind is that in 1955 my father decided to trade it in for a Buick. Between the time he actually purchased the Buick and the time it was delivered, the Pontiac developed a cracked cylinder block—or a broken heart, depending on how you look at it.
Bobbie Slonevsky
CARS, CARS, CARS
This week I have been working the Javits Center training Election workers…….Javits is better known as the home of the AUTO SHOW.
Riding down 11th Avenue from 57th Street to 44th Street, these are dealerships that I spotted:
BMW
VW
TOYOTA
RANGE ROVER
PEUGEOT
VOLVO
PORSCHE
MERCEDES BENZ
JEEP
RANGE ROVER
CHRYSLER
LEXUS
JAGUAR
These are definitely the high end dealers……………….HAPPY WINDOW SHOPPING…………..A GREAT WAY FOR AFICIONADOS TO SPEND A SOCIALLY DISTANCED SATURDAY!
Thanks to our friends and neighbors who shared their memories with us.
Judith Berdy
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Text by Judith Berdy
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