The 55er

A guess would be 1958 Chevrolet. If you could find a CWS-58 stamping on one of the lower flanges, that would confirm.

Actually, it is a Newport. It's a C-69 Imperial Newport hardtop coupe. In 1956, the Imperial 2-door hardtops were called Southamptons.

Here are the specs.

1958 Olds dogdishes.

There are vintage old-time universal moulding clip kits called ZipKlips available on Ebay. I've used these kits occasionally over the years when I couldn't find the correct original style clips for my application. You assemble the clips with the pieces provided depending on the size of the hole in the body of the car, attach it to the backside of the moulding and push the moulding into place. I've never tried it on a 53 Pontiac shark fin and I don't know if it will work in your particular case but I've had some success attaching mouldings to all kinds of vehicles with one of these kits. The metal strips in the kit are 5/8" wide and have a 20 gauge thickness, you insert them into the special tool provided and snap them off to the correct length you need. If certain moulding clips are truly unobtainium this might be worth a shot.

Given all the cosmetic work alone this car needs they should cut the $16K price in half and find out if there are any novice takers out there that don't know any better. 20 year old tires are not "still good" IMO, heater core was disconnected and with lots of little things to fix, I'm sure there are better projects out there for the money. Keep looking.

You've got a 1951-1952 Pontiac grille assembly on top of the first picture and a well-used 1951 Chevrolet hood in front of it along with the remains of a late 60s-early 70s VW beetle. If the Pontiac grille isn't twisted or rusted out it might have some core value to someone. Whatever the windshield fits, i don't think it would be worth anything because restorers would prefer nice new glass instead of used, scratched windshields that are turning white around the edges. IMO you have mostly a pile of scrap metal there and I wouldn't get too excited about most of it.

Fits a 1956 Chrysler Windsor.

I believe that GM Olds/Cadillac style batwing air cleaner would be correct for Packards that came with Rochester 4-bbl carburetors, I have seen that same air cleaner on a number of 1955-1956 era Packards. Maybe an expert can confirm.

Might not be for everyone but I've done it this way many times. Paint suppliers like my local NAPA store have color books full of the most popular Truck/Fleet colors. There are over 340 popular colors in this particular book with many reds. I don't paint much anymore but every color I've ever selected from this book was still available and they had a formula for it. If it were me I'd just pick a color off these charts that I liked, get a pint of paint mixed, prime the wheels with some suitable red primer and shoot the wheels with red acrylic enamel. A pint should be enough for 4-5 wheels. Some paint stores will even put the color in aerosol spray cans if you want. For a nice driver that's not a show car and with the hubcaps & maybe some trim rings covering the wheel how accurate does it have to be?

The Facebook ad shows either some NOS or newer reproduction hubcaps that are still in the original wrapping paper. If these caps are as good as they look and could be positively identified and their application noted, the set should be easily worth $100 or more to the right person. Buick Specials get restored and are proudly displayed on the showfield too.

Due to the fact that your car was sitting so long, IMO you're not going to get any kind of a pedal until you repair, rebuild (or better yet replace) every hydraulic component of the brake system including the master and all four of the wheel cylinders. Since you're dealing with a lot of unknowns on an 84 year old vehicle it would also be good practice to replace the the old steel and flexible lines. You might want to replace the shoes & lining and have the drums turmed as well while everything's apart. If you decide to restore the entire car, a complete brake system overhaul is the only way to go. Safety first, fix it once and fix it right. Just my 2 cents.

1951-1952 Chrysler, would make a good wall hanger!

As always, thanks for posting the pics! My thinking is the pics were posted Saturday morning since it's not drizzly and the sun is trying to make an appearance. Typically in the Fall the car corral is much smaller and stops around the bottom of the hill, in the Spring it's larger and extends up over the hill and onto the flat area on top. I'm a Spring vendor and have been there since day one but that's normally the only annual Carlisle event I attend. Weather permitting, we always stay set up until late Saturday afternoon.

A part number from the backside will confirm.

A moldy oldie. Too many insignificant pictures. Buyers want to see the bottoms of the front fenders, the rockers & lower quarters. And the engine compartment while you're at it.

I always thought of Moxie as old fashioned soft drink that is still around but not readily available. It has an unusual taste (to me it's just bad!) Most people I've talked to don't care for it. My father really liked it and enjoyed drinking it. Some beer distributors in Lebanon, PA used to sell it but I don't know if it's still available. There's a drive-in type restaurant east of Hershey in Brickerville,PA near routes 322 & 501 called the Pretzel Hut that offers it with all the other drinks on their menu. While some folks like it, it's definitely not for everyone. Ugh!

Google Buick Sport Wagon.

Nice to see an 8 cylinder New Yorker for sale instead of the more common Windsor sixes but IMO that green paint has really dulled out and might be too far gone to bring back. The ad says it runs & drives great but it would really pop with some shiny new paint and a fresh engine detailing.

There will be some cars for sale in the corral Wednesday but there will be more cars for sale in the corral Thursday & Friday.

From the General Requirements and Conditions List that was sent to all vendors:

It's possible there were several different types of 1954 Desoto hubcaps. The Canadian Mopar parts books show a different hubcap part number than the US Mopar parts books and there were also 6 & 8 cylinder models. There was also an export model called a DeSoto Diplomat that looked a lot like a 1954 Plymouth and that could have had a different style hubcap. All the Ebay listings will probably look like the one pictured in drwatson's post above as that would certalnly be the most common type. As for 1954 aftermarket fake hubcaps, there were over 1.1 million Fords & Chevrolets produced and maybe there were reproductions made for those. However in 1954 DeSoto (production: 78,580) finished in 12th place in the sales race, below Cadillac and even Nash so I have doubts anyone made replacement hubcaps for a car with such comparatively low production numbers. Maybe if the OP could show a picture of the edge of the hubcap showing the gripping "teeth" it might help determine its origins. I've shown two shots of the edges of two random 1953 DeSoto caps (identical 1953 appearance but for some reason the teeth differ slightly on both) for comparison. I don't have any 1954 Desoto caps that I know of for comparison. Aftermarket caps always had a cheaper appearance and a different tooth style all their own, something like the edge of the smaller lower cap in my bottom picture. Hey, this is ALL CONJECTURE on my part but I still think the OP's hubcap that needs identified is for some kind of a 1954 DeSoto, or at least someone tried to make a hubcap that looked like one. Sorry to be so long winded!

Obnoxious buyers, that's a good one. Obnoxious buyers are the ones that contact the seller, tell him right off the bat his car's overpriced and try to immediately beat the price down on the phone before they even inspect the car in person or hear it run. IMO this gives the seller the right to be obnoxious as well and just hang up the phone!

It's a 1954 Desoto hubcap.

For the record, here are some production notes on the big 1963 Pontiacs. A 4-speed manual transmission was a $231 option. Tri-power induction was a $116 option on Grand Prixs and Bonnevilles.