Cruise-O-Matic: Part Eight

[ea56]

Re: Reply #37

My Grandpa had a 53’ Nash Ambassador like the red and black one in the ad, only his was two tone green, dark green roof and light green body. I remember I thought it was ugly then. He traded it for a 55’ Studebaker Hawk, three tone, cream, salmon and charcoal grey body, with a cream roof. It was a hot little 2 dr HT in its day.

Eddie

 

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The 1970's

 

 

1970 Dodge Charger 500 R T

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1974 Plymouth Valiant Brougham

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1975 AMC Pacer

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1975 Lincoln Continental Mark IV

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[ea56]

Re: Reply #40

the first time I visited Santa Barbara, CAlif. in 1976 I saw the actor, Burl Ives, Big Daddy in “Cat on A Hot Tin Roof”, driving a silver AMC Pacer in Montecito. This is another car that I always thought was ugly as homemade sin.

Thanks Louie for posting these great ads from the past, they always bring back memories.

Eddie

 

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The 1980's

 

 

 

1980 Pontiac Sunbird

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1981 Cadillac Seville

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1983 Ford LTD

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1989 Ford F-150

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[tolivac]

Just think-the places where the nice cars shown---they are now abandoned,crumbling,and scrapped by scrappers or demolished!Many old car factories are now urban explorers delights!SAD!!!!

 

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The 1900's

 

 

1902 Waverley



 

1904 Apperson



 

1905 Yale



 

Hartford Tires 1909

 

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The 1910's

 

 

 

1911 Hudson "33" Torpedo



 

1914 Cunningham Seven Passenger Touring Car



 

1916 Lozier H.A.L Twelve



 

1917 Overland Country Club

 

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The 1920's

 

 

 

1923 Walker



 

1925 Pierce-Arrow Dual-Valve Six



 

1927 Buick



 

1929 Wills-Knight Great Six

 

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The 1930's

 

 

 

1930 Peerless Custom Eight



 

1932 Chevrolet Standard Five-Window Coupe



 

1936 Lincoln-Zephyr V-12



 

1939 Nash 4-Door Sedan



 

 

 

 

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The 1940's

 

 

 

1940 GMC



 

1942 Studebaker Champion Coupe



 

1946 Dodge



 

Fulton Sun Shield 1948

 

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The 1950's

 

 

 

1952 Pontiac Chieftain DeLuxe Sedan



 

New Moon 1953



 

1955 Chrysler New Yorker



 

1958 Lincoln Premiere Landau

 

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The 1960's

 

 

 

1960 Ford Galaxie



 

1963 Oldsmobile F-85 Cutlass



 

1967 Dodge Dart



 

1969 Cadillac Sedan de Ville

 

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The 1970's

 

 

 

1971 Dodge Coronet Crestwood



 

1975 Cadillac Eldorado



 

1976 Chevrolet Monza Town Coupe



 

1978 Pontiac Bonneville Brougham

 

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The 1980's

 

 

 

1980 Ford Fairmont



 

1981 Jeep



 

1985 Ford Thunderbird



 

1989 Plymouth Voyager Turbo

 

[toploader55]

As always... Thank You Louis for taking the time to post these.

My favorite years for cars was up until 1972. Once they started with the "Park Bench" safety bumpers, I lost most of my interest in American cars. Lincolns always perked me up but the style changes were getting too compact for full size cars.

End of an Era.

 

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You're very welcomed Eddie. Those 5mph bumpers sure ruined a lot of car designs. Some how I have hope you'll be able to print your own car someday. Can you imagine? A brand new 1953 Packard, but with modern running/safety gear, electric powered of course.

 

[ea56]

Thanks Louie!

I always enjoy these Cruise O Matic posts. I think the last really great year all around for American automobiles was 1967. The body styles were all so graceful, the interiors beautiful, and performance was unhampered for the most part from the federal regulations that began to take control the next year in 68’.

From the 70’s on I became less and less enchanted with what was being offered. Too much plastic, and all the models started to look the same. Now, I can tell little difference from one make to the other, probably because I just lost interest in what was being offered.

When I was 4 and 5 years old I knew the year, make and model of every car I would see on the road, my Dad coached me on this, as he was a car nut thru and thru. I can still identify correctly almost every car I see from the 30’s thru the early 80’s, after that is a blur.

Eddie

 

[retro-man]

In reply #50 with the gold Cadillac, brought back a flood of memories for me. My uncle was a bookie and ran different "pools" at the shoe factory where he "worked"
Fridays was a collection day for him. I had been riding with him for a couple of years during these times. I went with him to pick up his new Cadillac. The thing was a boat and a half. I was 14 at the time and he would get pretty trashed after the 3rd or 4th stop. Had to have a couple of shots and a beer with doing business. After the 3rd stop I was the designated driver with no license. I used to drive that car all over the place with him guiding me in the front seat. Never got stopped or pulled over. Might have looked like he was teaching me to drive. I had been driving for a couple of years prior to this so he new that I new what I was doing. Man so many fun times cruising around in that car. So back to that picture, it was identical to the Caddy that he got. That was the 1st car that I had seen that had climate control with a round wheel thermostat on the dash with the temperature on it.

Jon

 

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Always a pleasure Eddie!

 

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The 1900's

 

 

1903 Peerless

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1904 Rambler Surrey Type 1

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1907 REO Touring-car

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1909 Franklin Touring Car

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