OldsDoug Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 All right, so we seem to be talking history... I came home from the hospital in a '48 Plymouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Walling Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I was delevered by the stork, ask my mother! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 This is like old home week. What's up with that. Here's my ride; 1942 Packard 180 limo. Still in my dad's garage, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 My brother, Winston, came home in this: 1934 Bugatti Type 57 Stelvio cabriolet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TG57Roadmaster Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 My "delivery livery" was this '56 Mercury Custom, Labor Day weekend, 1957...My cousin David is standing by it at top in the California sunshine. One of these days (when my ship comes in), I'm gonna have one, hopefully in Heath Green/Classic White as this one was. It was my folks' first new car and every time I see one, I need a dribble bib!TG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketraider Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 A black 1953 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight sedan.Yup. It started early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldohioan Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 What about some of us older f@rts that were born AT home???Dad did have a brand spankin new 1930 Ford touring car sittin in the driveway tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwells Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Have no idea what I was brought home in but our older son (who'll be 29 in May) came home in the very same 1942 Packard 180 that ferried West home.The younger son (who turned 25 a few weeks back) would probably have come home in the same car except he decided to be born at home! (I don't recommend this course, unless one is planning for it, as it is a very messy process...)I tell folks I've done a couple of things most men never do: sign my son's birth certificate as "Attending Physician" (and I don't even have a HS diploma) and give my mother's hand away in marriage (because when she remarried, her father was the minister!). LOL!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TG57Roadmaster</div><div class="ubbcode-body">My "delivery livery" was this '56 Mercury Custom, Labor Day weekend, 1957.One of these days (when my ship comes in), I'm gonna have one, hopefully in Heath Green/Classic White as this one was. It was my folks' first new car and every time I see one, I need a dribble bib!TG </div></div> Get the bib. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldsfan Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I was brought home in a Roman Red '61 Impala Super Sport convertible. 348, 3-speed. My dad had to sell that car (for $200!) because they had to get down to one car, and my mother couldn't drive the 3-speed. I've still got a set of keys for it somewhere.Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Wolk Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 1951 Studebaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Brought home in a 1938 Buick Special Slantback w/ duel sidemounts.TG, I love that Merc! It was probably named Custom because it sure looked custom right out of the showroom back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Seems to me (because I don't remember it) my dad said that he had a 1950 "humpback" (his words) Chevrolet when I was born in 1952 in Detroit. I guess it was a two door sedan because I vaguely remember seeing a photo of it years ago. I think it was a mint green color. Where I live now there is a beautifully restored one running around town. Here's a photo of the car my dad owned directly after the Chevy. That's me and my sisters in the windows and my brother Charlie (11 month's my senior) standing outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave@Moon Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 1951 Dodge. It wasy my dad's first new car, and I still remember the smell.I lied. It was a $25 junker, a price no car of his exceeded until I was about 4 years old, when a 6 or 7 year old pink/white 1956 Plymouth became the oldest car I can remember. There were probably 4 or 5 cars in between.He still thinks I'm nuts to be interested in old cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Born in the back bedroom. The doctor probably arrived in a black Mercury! Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TG57Roadmaster Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 West,You're a true pal to hand-tint our Merc! I owe you BIG time.Great thread, BTW...And thanks Bob; with the "custom" prices '56 Mercs are fetching these days, it's gonna have to be a pretty big ship with a load of simoleans in in the hold before I get one!Regards,TG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_Badger Guy Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 My father thinks he had a 51 Rambeler at the time. He wouldn't let me drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Leonard Shepherd Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 40 Chevrolet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxops Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 A 1949 Cadillac limousine, which now belongs to my brother.My oldest daughter came home in my parents-in-law's 1979 Oldsmobile. My youngest daughter came home in a 1983 AMC Concord Station Wagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AntarcticDave Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 My dad was in the army and overseas at the time, but I am sure his 49 Mercury coupe was in the garage at the time. I'll have to ask my aunt if she remembers how I got home, no one else left to ask.Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel88 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 West, You came home from the hospital in a very classy car, the 1942 Packard 180 Limo. I think your brother Winston came home in the most classy of all, the 1934 Bugatti Type 57. I had to settle for my Dads 1940 Buick Super coupe. I have very happy memories of that car which was 4 years old at the time and my father kept it for another 7 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ChrisSummers Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 A Ford Escort... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K8096 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 An all black 1967 Chrysler Imperial sedan with a black leather interior and a 440 under the hood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 41 Plymouth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centurion Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 My parents' 1951 Pontiac Chieftain 8 2-door sedan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AlK Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 I have to ask my aunt, but I was either carried home by my mother who most likely took a bus. In Albany N.Y. where we lived the hospital was on a city bus route and as far as I can tell from all of the family photos, no one owned a car at that time. My uncles were in the military, and my mother and aunt never drove. Well I have to revise this. My aunt sat down with my uncle and did some thinking and it turns out that I came home in a green 38/39 Chevy. It belonged to another aunt of mine who was wife to my uncle who was overseas at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Wolk Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 I hope no one minds but this is such a great thread that I've posted it elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tcuda340 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 '49 Plymouth Special Deluxe 4 door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dabecker65@gmail.com Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Black 1938 Buick 41 w/ dual sidemounts. Dad kept it until 1952 and I tracked it down and bought it back in 1967 - had to part with it in 1984 divorce - big mistake (losing the Buick - not the divorce...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bollman Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I would guess a 46 Chevy my Dad bought new when he got out of the service. I'll try to remember to ask next time I talk to them.My wife may have come home in a 46-47 Crosley. I know her parents had one during the pregnancy. They wondered if that was cosmically how we ended up together. They relate a story of how they got it stuck in trolly tracks during that time frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Dube Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 My ride was a 1950 GMC one ton flatbed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oldmobile1 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 The year was 1946, and I'm thinking the car was a Teraplane, not sure of the year. I have seen pictures of me beside one though. Must be where I get my urge for weard cars. Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleek Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Dad's 37 ford coupe. Black of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ken bogren Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I've been told that I rode home in my grandfathers 39 Ford coupe in 1946. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John348 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 A 1949 Mercury in The Bronx NYCJohn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I think they brought me home on a John Deere Tractor.... LOL... Dandy Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin1221 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 1955 Ford Fairlane. The year was 1955 also.Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durant Mike Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I believe I was brought home in a Studebaker Golden Hawk or it could have been my dad's Crosley station wagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GARY F Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 I WAS BROUGHT HOME IN MY FATHERS 34 PLYMOUTH COUPE IN 1939. I STILL HAVE HIS FACTORY SERVICE & OVERHAUL MANUAL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tom Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 '55 Buick Special 2 door hardtop. My mother was pregnant with me at the time this photo was taken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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