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    DOTS-O-Rama Sunday, Rocky Mountain Edition: Henry J
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    04/19/09

    In reply to DOTS-O-Rama Sunday, Rocky Mountain Edition: Henry J
    I'll buy Henry J

    A drink any day.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    04/19/09

    In reply to DOTS-O-Rama Sunday, Rocky Mountain Edition: Henry J
    Well, that's a pretty solid Allstate of affairs.
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    04/19/09

    In reply to DOTS-O-Rama Sunday, Rocky Mountain Edition: Henry J
    Well hey, the $1400 you plunked down for your Henry J Vagabond may not have gotten you things like a trunk, glovebox, radio, heater, blinkers, or reverse lights- but it did get you a Willys 4-cylinder (or a 6 in the 1500-buck Corsair), and best of all, faux-reptile upholstery!.


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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    04/19/09

    In reply to DOTS-O-Rama Sunday, Rocky Mountain Edition: Henry J
    For all you guys ruminating on cheap cars with long options lists, Senor Baruth over at SpeedSportLife has an interesting writeup on how we got here from there:

    [www.speedsportlife.com]
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    04/19/09

    @Mad_Science:

    That article is well worth reading. Thanks for pointing it out.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    04/19/09

    In reply to DOTS-O-Rama Sunday, Rocky Mountain Edition: Henry J
    Nice find. That wee beastie has a hell of an underbite.


    When my Mom bought her rambler, the heater was an option. When she got her Nova, the cigarette lighter was an option. Kids these days, they got it easy I say.


    BTW, I'm wonder if this car didn't supply a bit of design inspiration for the SAAB 96.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    04/19/09

    In reply to DOTS-O-Rama Sunday, Rocky Mountain Edition: Henry J
    This is excellent:

    "Frank Zappa recalls in his autobiography the torment and horror of travelling cross-country sitting on the bench-like rear seat of a Henry J (he called it an "ironing board from hell") in the 1950's."


    That front end looks like the perfect place in which to graft a faux Stude bulletnose. Bizarro baby-non-Stude, R3 powered, of course.


    Okay, sorry, <threadjack>: I can't identify this car at all... it should be easy but I'm totally blanking!</threadjack>

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    04/19/09

    @Gutpunch McRodbender, a strolling player's understudy: Early '70s Plymouth Satellite. Probably a '74.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    04/19/09

    @FromaBuick6: With dogdishes from a 1980s Diplomat police car.
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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    04/19/09

    @Gutpunch McRodbender, a strolling player's understudy: That's either a 73 or 74 Plymouth Satellite. I've got one- the 74, last year of that body style. The roadrunner was basically the same car with hood nostrils.


    If I'm not mistaken, this one is painted Petty Blue.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    04/19/09

    @Gutpunch McRodbender, a strolling player's understudy: I'm going to commit to 73, based on the rear.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    04/19/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: Cool! You guys are awesome. '73 Satellite it is.


    I don't know why this one gave me so much trouble, I've never had too much of it identifying any of the other cars I've shot, but as I'm a child of a different era I guess I'm not immune to a few toss-ups.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    04/19/09

    @Gutpunch McRodbender, a strolling player's understudy: When I identify cars I run all the possible models through Google Images until I get it right. This is especially fun when one's sense of scale and depth perception are less-than-stellar and you don't have a camera handy whenever you see the car. (It took me a few days' commuting past the '65-66 Buick to get it right.)


    Some are easier, and you can tell about what they are at a glance - the full-size mid-late '60s Chevy two-door that I've never seen from closer than 10 yards turned out to be a '68 Biscayne/Bel Air, for example, and the '67 Ford wagon was a gimme.

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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    04/19/09

    In reply to DOTS-O-Rama Sunday, Rocky Mountain Edition: Henry J
    Nasty little car that help to sink Kaiser as a viable automaker, but these were popular with hot-rodders in the later 1950s because of the size and light weight. This is one of the later ones - the early ones didn't have taillights on the fins - they had small round lights where the backup lights are on thus car.
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    Image of SmaartAasSaabr SmaartAasSaabr
    04/19/09

    @tonyola: these were the original bailout cars, Kaiser got money from the fed and had to make this :|
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    04/19/09

    @SmaartAasSaabr: According to Dutch Darrin, he proposed a drastically-shortened but good-looking version of the standard 1951 Kaiser that would have fulfilled the loan requirements while leaving enough money to design a V8 engine - something that Kaiser desperately needed to stay competitive in the 1950s. He was overruled by Henry Kaiser, who thought he found a cheap design alternative from a third-party metal supplier (AMP). Darrin hated the AMP car but reluctantly improved the prototype styling the best he could on a very limited budget. It ended up costing tons of money to get the AMP car production-ready. High costs and ugly looks doomed the Henry J from the start. Darrin claimed that had his alternative been approved and the V8 developed, Kaiser could have stayed in the car business much longer.
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    Image of SmaartAasSaabr SmaartAasSaabr
    04/19/09

    @tonyola: sounds about right


    At least they still made Manhattans in Argentina until what '62? ;)

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    04/19/09

    @SmaartAasSaabr: Well, the Falcon survived until...


    ...oh, we don't talk about that, do we.

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    Image of TriumphRacer TriumphRacer
    04/19/09

    In reply to DOTS-O-Rama Sunday, Rocky Mountain Edition: Henry J
    I know a guy who has one of these. His has the extravagant trunk lid. It also has paint and a front bumper. He tells me that they used to be sold out of the Sears catalog.


    And I thought the Sears catalog was only good for the ladies undergarment pictures.

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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    04/19/09

    @TriumphRacer: Is his a Henry J or an Allstate (the Sears version)? I've been looking for one of those.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    04/19/09

    In reply to DOTS-O-Rama Sunday, Rocky Mountain Edition: Henry J
    I wonder what sort of motive force the owner has planned. Those rear tires look a little wider than stock. Is he planning to drag race this? What would you put in a Henry J if someone gave you one?


    Me? I would throw the cheapest V-Twin I could get and LeMons it.


    Or put a 351W in it and scare the crap out of myself and the passengers.

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    04/19/09

    @JalopEngineerd: I'd put a blown GMC 292 six in it.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    04/19/09

    @JalopEngineerd: Well, isn't the general rule for what to put in, "the biggest engine that will fit without bending the frame and/or your skeleton."
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    Image of .357 .357
    04/19/09

    In reply to DOTS-O-Rama Sunday, Rocky Mountain Edition: Henry J
    To everyone that thinks the Nano is low on standard equipment, I say Ha Ha.
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    Image of skitter skitter
    04/19/09

    @Lord Pferdestärke the 357th: If the Tata is a stripper, what we have here is a straight up nudist.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    04/19/09

    @skitter: I wouldn't mind a pair of stripper Tatas in my life every now and again.
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    Image of .357 .357
    04/19/09

    @Gutpunch McRodbender, a strolling player's understudy: Stripper Tatas? Those are probably made from the same materials as Tata Nanos.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    04/19/09

    @Lord Pferdestärke the 357th: Well, while stripper Tatas aren't the best things to play around with, and they are slightly disproportionate with most of the others on the market, they are quite amusing to look at.
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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    04/19/09

    @Lord Pferdestärke the 357th: its amazing what used to be considered an "etcetera". Heaters were optional on a lot of cars until the 60's. And I recall seeing some 1950's cars with dealer-installed turn signals.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    04/19/09

    @mechimike: A magazine ad for the 66 Fury listed its amazing features--one of which was "turn signals." Wow, it also had seats and floorboards! Living large!
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