Photos of classic cars or cars in general.

You gotta take the cable out and grease it by hand. The cable fits inside the sleeve just like a speedometer cable used to. WD40 will only work for a short time, because it dries out. I used grease from a grease gun or a wheel bearing grease. The dash mounted push button trany switches were a bitch, but could be serviced.

 

54 Bel Air

 

1970 Chevrolet Suburban; very similar to my first ambulance.

 

Oddest thing about that picture is the combo isn't on a hemi.

 

Friends mom had -( I believe) a Chrysler product from the late 40s and it had a fluid drive transmission. You could go through the 3 gears on the steering column or you could just put it in any gear and take off, including high or third gear. Anyone remember those or have one?

 

Hey ty--that beautiful picture of that 55 Plymouth reminded me -----I had a 55 Plymouth station wagon --green in color and pretty much pristine. One night a fellow roofer called me and said--"hey Joel--my dad has a friend in Hawaii that owns a roofing company. They need roofers--you want to go"? I said "Oh, hell yes. When can we go"? He said--"In the morning--we have to be at the airport in San Francisco by 11: o clock tomorrow"!! "Where can I put my car," says I? "I was living in Santa Cruz." "Take it to my uncles house early and I'll pick you up there." So I did and off we went to San Fran and then Hawaii. I left that little beauty of a car there in Santa Cruz and never went back for it. Wonder who has it now? Picture to come.

 

SHIT-- this is the only 55 Plymouth station wagon clip I could find.

 

Boy the way Glenn Miller played
Songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us we had it made,
Those were the days.

And you knew who you were then,
Girls were girls and men were men,
Mister we could use a man
Like Herbert Hoover again.

Didn't need no welfare state,
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days.

 

Great!! Thanks M-A.

 

This is another one I abandoned-- on Maui though, that time. I lived in it for a while and parked next to the big Banyon tree in Lahaina. When I moved back to Oahu to work, I left it with the keys in it. When I went back to Maui to visit, there it was ---cruising around Lahaina full of hippies!! I didn't say anything to them--I had had my fun in it! The color was two tone white and brown on mine.

 

I remember them fluid drives and the Oldsmobile 1936 slush bucket automatic too.

 

Not sure what make, modal, and year this car is? I was in a hurry so I couldn't take a few minutes to get out and see.

 

Umm, surely they later suspiciously 'disappeared' and were never heard from again?

 

Yep, that's like my 1950 Dodge Windsor. The one I'd mentioned before, which broke its hood release cable and is now sitting, covered, whimpering softly. I'd love to pass her along to someone, but with no way to even charge the 6v battery and start her, not many are gonna believe me that she ran and drove fine before. Rats.

 

Well, I don't know how to solve your hood release problem, but I know how to solve the 6 volt situation if you CAN get the hood open. Change to an 8 volt battery. Works great with no change to existing wiring. Did that on either my 49 Olds or my 50 olds. (Maybe both--)

 

Post 495--I think that's a '56 Chrysler Windsor