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.
@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!
@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.
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.
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).
@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.
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.
@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...
@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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The Good News: That's still only halfway through.
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Thanks again Murilee. I now have a big smile on my face and couple tears of joy in my eyes.
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"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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@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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I like them.
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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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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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@BRAWNDO_POWERED: And I think it looked like this:
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You'd have to leave the IH foundry sticker on the Plymouth, though.
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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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Get off my grass, you bastard kids!
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