Moondance Posted August 20, 2018 Author Share Posted August 20, 2018 375 http://78.media.tumblr.com/b269b80b766c184d653aa9d0bae49214/tumblr_o5nlglaqyR1qdfsh0o1_1280.jpg beachboy, Electra225, Walker1 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 376 377 378 Electra225, beachboy, + honcho and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 379 a/b 380 beachboy, bigvalboy, + Just Sayin and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted August 25, 2018 Author Share Posted August 25, 2018 381 http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hOgFTDTMWY0/U1FH8eNNMAI/AAAAAAAAIEI/n8v6zbTAn8k/s1600/Vd.+X+-+10+Small+town+cuties,+1950s.jpg 382 383 prof, beachboy, bigvalboy and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 #381 looks like a fairly poor little western town, yet I see a clean new Buick and Chrysler in the photo. bigvalboy, + azdr0710 and + WilliamM 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigvalboy Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 #381 looks like a fairly poor little western town, yet I see a clean new Buick and Chrysler in the photo. And the Chrysler is a Town and Country. Pretty snazzy stuff. http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Chrysler_and_Imperial/1946_Chrysler/1946TownandCountry/1946%20Chrysler%20Town%20%20amp%20%20Country-04.jpg + bashful and Electra225 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigvalboy Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Electra225 and + Just Sayin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted September 1, 2018 Author Share Posted September 1, 2018 384 http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/UfQAAOSwVJhZRwa0/$_57.JPG?set_id=8800005007 385 Electra225, + Just Sayin, Whitman and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted September 2, 2018 Author Share Posted September 2, 2018 386 - A Memorial Day traffic jam, Boston, Massachusetts, 1949 (PHOTOGRAPHER: CORNELL CAPA) + WilliamM, + Just Sayin, Whitman and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted September 2, 2018 Author Share Posted September 2, 2018 387 Albert Camus’s Death and a Rare French Sports Car By Phil Patton , THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 4, 2010 [2010 marked] the 50th anniversary of the death of Albert Camus, the existentialist philosopher and novelist — and of the brief moment of notoriety Camus’s death brought to the car in which he died, a Facel Vega. Camus was 46 when he died in a crash while returning to Paris from Provence after the holidays on Jan. 4, 1960, in a car driven by his friend and publisher Michel Gallimard. Camus with Michel Gallimard in Greece, 1958 In the small town of Villeblevin, Gallimard lost control of the car, and Camus was killed. Gallimard was injured and died a few days later. Camus had with him a ticket for the train he had originally planned to ride and the manuscript of his last book. Camus, known for his ideas of the absurd, is supposed to have said that the most absurd way to die would be in a car crash. Today, there is a monument in Villeblevin to Camus. The bronze plaque on the monument reads: “From the Yonne area’s local council, in tribute to the writer Albert Camus who was watched over in the Villeblevin town hall in the night of 4 January – 5 January 1960.” Only the wealthy, like Michel Gallimard, a publishing heir, were able to afford the Facel Vega, the unusual French competitor to the Mercedes SL or Aston Martin DB5. It was created by Jean C. Daninos, an industrialist who operated the metal stamping company Facel (the acronym for Forges et Ateliers de Construction d’Eure et de Loire, or Factory and Construction Shop of Eure and Loire). Daninos began his business in the late 1930s. After the Second World War, Facel stamped out pieces for Simcas and other smaller French auto companies. But Daninos lamented the loss of great French sporting marques, like Bugatti or Delahaye, and conceived his own car. He drew the body lines himself, and adopted Chrysler Hemi engines to power the Vega. At first, Daninos used DeSoto engines, but by 1957 he had upgraded to the powerful 5.8 Hemi from Chrysler’s 300. The Facel Vega was first shown to the public at the Paris auto show in 1954. Sometimes compared to a DB5, sometimes to a Thunderbird, the Facel Vega enjoyed sales among celebrities who wanted to be seen in something a little more exotic. Owners of Vegas and other Facel models included Joan Fontaine, Ringo Starr, Tony Curtis, Ava Gardner, Danny Kaye, the king of Morocco and various Saudi princes. Facel produced only about 200 cars a year, [including] models modified from the basic Vega. http://www.jbclassiccars.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Facel_HK500_007.jpg Whitman, beachboy, + WilliamM and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted September 7, 2018 Author Share Posted September 7, 2018 388 http://car-from-uk.com/ebay/carphotos/full/ebay243400.jpg 389 390 http://www.autoguru-katalog.at/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/1953_skylark_1.jpg Electra225, Whitman, bigvalboy and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bnm73 Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5UxHp4twnuM/UcDDSL4bN7I/AAAAAAAAIQY/t74WJxsgYC0/s1600/ass5.jpg bigvalboy, Electra225, + Just Sayin and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigvalboy Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 + Just Sayin and Electra225 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigvalboy Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 http://www.brucesallan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Sean-Connery-with-Aston-Martin-from-Goldfinger.jpg Electra225, + azdr0710, beachboy and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigvalboy Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 + honcho, + Charlie, Moondance and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bigvalboy Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 http://www.essentialstyleformen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Delahaye_USA_Bugnotti.jpg Moondance, + bashful, + Just Sayin and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 (edited) 381 http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hOgFTDTMWY0/U1FH8eNNMAI/AAAAAAAAIEI/n8v6zbTAn8k/s1600/Vd.+X+-+10+Small+town+cuties,+1950s.jpg the geography and history nerd in me wonders what town this is.....Moondance: did your source have any clue?.....or any other path I can take to figure this out?.....thanks EDIT: figured it out......Arco, Idaho.....the buildings across the street are still standing, according to a Google Street View from the same spot Edited September 12, 2018 by azdr0710 + Just Sayin and + bashful 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gallahadesquire Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 What car? Don't know the year, but the model is an retired escort named Matt York. + honcho, + sync, + WilliamM and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigvalboy Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 Electra225, + Just Sayin, + bashful and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bigvalboy Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 http://3op3y73cr0pg3q7yp42vkp1pmr1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/American-graffiti.jpg Electra225 and + WilliamM 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted September 16, 2018 Author Share Posted September 16, 2018 391 + Just966, + Just Sayin, bigvalboy and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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