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    Wisconsin Rust Trip: 1950 Chevrolet, 1951 Plymouth

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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    08/23/09

    In reply to Wisconsin Rust Trip: 1950 Chevrolet, 1951 Plymouth
    The Bad News: The rust on these cars is a quarter-inch thick.
    The Good News: That's still only halfway through.
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    08/23/09

    @HoonThatFerrari: LOL, too true.
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    Image of GTBruiser GTBruiser
    08/23/09

    In reply to Wisconsin Rust Trip: 1950 Chevrolet, 1951 Plymouth
    Pictures of that Chevy have brought to mind when, as a kid, I first fell in love with automobiles while taking a trip with my "PaPa" (grandpa) from Nellis AFB to Las Vegas in his '51 Styleline. I got to sit on his lap and hold the wheel the whole trip. A really big deal to a 5 year old.

    Thanks again Murilee. I now have a big smile on my face and couple tears of joy in my eyes.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    08/23/09

    @GTBruiser: One of my fave things on Jalopnik are the stories of how as a young child each one of us got hooked on cars in a different way. That's a nice one!
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    Image of CptSevere CptSevere
    08/23/09

    In reply to Wisconsin Rust Trip: 1950 Chevrolet, 1951 Plymouth
    Good lord, those kiddie signs are the stuff of nightmares. David Lynch indeed. Creepy.
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    discontinuuity is happy that everything has been set right in the Jalopverse. Now all we need is more of engineerd's Brefas Scotch! promoted this comment CptSevere was starred CptSevere was unstarred
    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    08/23/09

    @CptSevere:

    "Hey Sis, come over here & we'll go down this slide into a pit of antifreeze & old 30-weight together!"

    "OK, in a minute - I wanna play in this sandbox full of rusty nails first!"
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    08/23/09


    @HoonThatFerrari:
    "You guys are BOTH lame! I'm gonna run up into the elephant's mouth & get shit out his ass!"
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    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    08/23/09

    In reply to Wisconsin Rust Trip: 1950 Chevrolet, 1951 Plymouth
    South Eastern Minnesota and you manage to end up going through Sturgeon Bay? What the heck kind of road trips home do you do?

    I like them.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    08/23/09

    @lilwillie hides autos in the attic: Flew into Green Bay, drove to Winona, then up to Sturgeon Bay, then flew back home out of Green Bay. I've also done the trip via Minneapolis.
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    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    08/23/09

    @Murilee Martin: Now I understand.

    They've made the drive from GB to Sturgeon Bay a fast and smooth one.

    Now if they could improve some of the roads between Tomah and Oshkosh it would be a really fast drive.

    All though that might take some character away from the drive. Twists, turns, little unincorporated spots. Fun drive.
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    Image of TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah
    08/23/09

    In reply to Wisconsin Rust Trip: 1950 Chevrolet, 1951 Plymouth

    Oh my, the '50 Chevy strikes my heart, Murilee, your playing with my heart again!

    My dad has a very nice rust free 1950 Chevrolet Styleline Deluxe in storage. Black, Stove-Bolt 6 with ta 3 on the tree. There is a pill bottle (Glass) in the glove box from 1964 too!

    It was his grandmothers I believe. When she died, he was driving it back from South Carolina to Houston TX, when the motor died in Georgia. Trashy gas (Old, and just crap pump gas), and the lack of driving before my dad was able to get it (Sat for many years) caused a valve to stick and it locked up. I think it stayed with an uncle of my dad's for a few years until my dad was able to drive a tow truck all the way from Houston to Georgia to pick it up. I grew up in Dallas with it sitting in my driveway, usually under a car cover. Back when I was young it was hulking, massive, and reminded me of the Bat Mobile. In 2001 when we moved back to Houston it went into storage. I wasn't over 10, so the car was still huge to me. About 2 years ago, we went into the storage lot to pull some parts for the CST10, and I decided to pull some of the covers off it. Hadn't seen it in nearly 7 years. Boy, Hun's car was a lot smaller now. I never got a good picture of the whole car (Only the one attached above), and lost the others I had when the Hard drive on my PC froze, but if someone wants I can go dig up the photographs and scan them, if murilee can post them, That'd kick ass. A 20 year old DOTS set of photos.

    Currently it sits holding old car parts in the trunk, and a built TPI 350 under the nose, but only as an oversized engine stand, that was for another car of my past. A certain '78 El Camino.
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    08/23/09

    In reply to Wisconsin Rust Trip: 1950 Chevrolet, 1951 Plymouth
    Wautoma! I spent an entire month there in the summer of 1989. There used to be a resort right off of Highway 21 on Bughs Lake, and the show-band I was in had a month-long gig there. I remember seeing the Milty-Wilty Diner but I don't recall ever going in (our meals were comped by the resort). A sleepy little town, it seems like Wautoma's main notoriety was that it was just down the road from Plainfield - home of Ed Gein. I could imagine Ed hanging around the diner "play area" watching the children...(shiver).
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    08/23/09

    @tonyola: Nah, children don't have enough meat on their bones. Ed went after the bigger game.
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    Image of Franzouse Franzouse
    08/23/09

    In reply to Wisconsin Rust Trip: 1950 Chevrolet, 1951 Plymouth
    The close-up shots of the Chevy's rusty front fascia are just awesome; the car looks like some evil anime monster (no I'm not on shrooms).
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    Image of BRAWNDO_POWERED BRAWNDO_POWERED
    08/23/09

    In reply to Wisconsin Rust Trip: 1950 Chevrolet, 1951 Plymouth
    What? No photographs of the "play area"?
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    Novaload Believes the Jez 9 Will Be Back Soon... promoted this comment BRAWNDO_POWERED was starred BRAWNDO_POWERED was unstarred
    Image of Novaload Novaload
    08/23/09

    @BRAWNDO_POWERED: Agree; because if I had to choose, I think I'd need to buy those signs instead of the cars--the cars I could find somewhere else, but I'm pretty sure the signs are one-of-a-kind. For good reason.
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    08/23/09


    @BRAWNDO_POWERED: And I think it looked like this:
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    08/23/09

    @BRAWNDO_POWERED: I was so fascinated by the "miniature golf course" (a muddy field with random Astroturf lanes) that I forgot to shoot photos.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    08/23/09

    In reply to Wisconsin Rust Trip: 1950 Chevrolet, 1951 Plymouth
    I say both of 'em are restorable.

    You'd have to leave the IH foundry sticker on the Plymouth, though.
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    Image of Turboner Turboner
    08/09/09

    In reply to Chrysler Newport Hash-Smuggling Family Vacation, Belgium To India And Back!
    I'm glad police never thought to look under the horn button cap of a certain Nova wagon.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    08/09/09

    In reply to Chrysler Newport Hash-Smuggling Family Vacation, Belgium To India And Back!
    Trying to smuggle fireworks back from Canada in the Country Squier, while on the family summer vacation, wasn't anything like this.
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    Image of bangernomics bangernomics
    08/09/09

    In reply to Chrysler Newport Hash-Smuggling Family Vacation, Belgium To India And Back!
    Epic trip, the closest I came to this was a trip to Morocco. On the way back into France the police took a very long hard look at my clapped out Mercedes bus and uncovered a fragment of hash that my idiot passenger had failed to remove. Thankfully they let us go, probably figuring that big time dope dealers don't drive ancient busses full of dread locked crusties.
    They weren't so blase about the one year old people carrier next to us, they took every bit of plastic and every removable metal panel off it...don't know if they found anything but if they didn't I sincerely doubt they got it back together again.
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    Image of coupeZ600 coupeZ600
    08/09/09

    In reply to Chrysler Newport Hash-Smuggling Family Vacation, Belgium To India And Back!
    Man, I Suck at posting photos
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    08/09/09

    @coupeZ600 in black as well: That was a huge waste of time.
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    08/09/09

    @coupeZ600 in black as well: Try again
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    08/09/09

    @coupeZ600 in black as well: Try this then,
    img src="link"12-2-07Brick-Lakewoodpics003.jpg
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    08/09/09

    @coupeZ600 in black as well: Ha! Got closer!
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    08/09/09

    @coupeZ600 in black as well: Oh,... This is utter FAIL, and I can't even delete the other ones
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    08/09/09

    @coupeZ600 in black as well: O.K.,
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    08/09/09

    @coupeZ600 in black as well: Gosh Durnit!
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    Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet promoted this comment coupeZ600 was starred coupeZ600 was unstarred
    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    08/09/09

    @coupeZ600 in black as well: Dude! are you using JPEGs that are smaller than 2 MB? Are there any spaces in the name of the file? File name might be too long...
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    08/09/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: The line of beers I had drank was too long. I had posted pics before, and was too lazy to go find that Lifehacker or Gizmodo "Guide To Commenting" post, and I tried to apologize to Murilee and ask that these all get deleted, but then things got fuzzy, and I woke up with an uncanny likeness of a keyboard pad impressed on one side of my face. Need to save this stuff for the CSRSL.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    08/09/09

    In reply to Chrysler Newport Hash-Smuggling Family Vacation, Belgium To India And Back!
    Ah, the 70s.
    Get off my grass, you bastard kids!
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    Image of akier akier
    08/08/09

    In reply to Chrysler Newport Hash-Smuggling Family Vacation, Belgium To India And Back!
    This dude needs to get in touch with a scriptwriter. Would casting Johnny Depp be too cliched?
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