Billy Kingsley
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This is all great information. Thank you!
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I use my own website, which I've maintained since 2004. I can post as many pictures as I want, and they are sized properly for the forum. It's not free...my website costs me $96 a year...but it's so worth it. If anyone has a passion for photography like I do, it's a must.
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This entire thread is fantastic. Now I want to go to Las Vegas.
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Here's one more- me not with a car but with Henry Ford...or at least the wax replica of him at Madame Tussauds in Manhattan! (taken January 2019)
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Wow! Yes, another trip there is coming, and soon!
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I was literally just on Route 6 in Milford and Port Jervis today. It's what prompted my post in fact. I had no idea there was something car related to check out. I saw signs for a train museum but didn't have the time to look for it so a return trip is planned. The PA/NY border is less than an hour from home, so it's an easy ride.
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Something I've been wondering...why doesn't Route 6 get a lot of press? It rarely gets mentioned on the list of most important roads in America, yet it runs from the tip of Cape Cod all the way to California! At it's construction, it was the longest road in the USA, and is still the second longest since California chopped part of it off.
In researching Route 6, I discovered that Route 20 is even longer, and runs from Boston to the Pacific Ocean in Oregon. Although I have spent less time on 20 than I have on 6- 6 goes through my family's home town of Peekskill, NY- it would seem to me that these roads should get more recognition than they do.
I have to admit, when I was on Route 20 when I went to Toledo last month, I had no idea that it was a coast-to-coast road. I went onto Route 66 while I was there and considered a ride on it to be one of my "bucket list" items. I might have been more excited to be on 20 if I had known it's importance. I've known the importance of 6 for many years, because it's something I go on fairly often.
Just a few thoughts...I still have much to learn about our highway and interstate system, but I have not been appreciating these roads enough myself.
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This is me at the Lincoln & Continental Owner's Club Eastern Meet in Poughkeepsie, NY, in September of this year.
Me at the Classics on the Hudson at Marist College, also at Poughkeepsie NY, in May of this year.
Me with Edsels at Rhinebeck, 2014
This one is a favorite, me and my dad (in the red shirt) at Gaslight Village in Lake George, NY, in 1991. My brother looking at us in the foreground with his back to the camera, my mom took the shot. (By the way, for those of you who go to the Hemmings Concours in Lake George, it is held on what used to be Gaslight Village; this section seen here has been filled in and is now the large walkway leading to Route 9 / Canada Street. Prospect Mountain is in the background here but our camera was not good enough at the time to capture it)
This one is very special, it's the last photo ever taken of my dad. Taken September 9th, 2001, in Lake George, NY, at the Adirondack Nationals. In February 2002 he lost his battle with cancer.
and finally, some humor...
Me trying unsuccessfully to get into a new Camaro at the New York International Auto Show in Manhattan in April this year
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I think it is a good thing for Indycar and the Speedway. It's certainly going to someone who cares about it immensely.
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That's really dumb, but I'm glad she didn't run down some kid waiting for a school bus or some other innocent person.
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Yes, all Chrysler products made between 1978 and 1994. My dad was a lifelong mechanic and the ONLY car he ever gave up on was our 78 Cordoba. Nothing he did with it would work. After only a year or two it was given away.
My brother's first car was a K-Car. 4 years old when he got it, it never worked properly. I can't remember everything that was wrong with it, but it was always acting up. I do remember it sitting in the driveway for a while after some guy in a pickup decided that stop signs didn't apply to him, and my dad eventually using a tow line to drag it to the scrapyard behind his VW Quantum. The K-Car was replaced with a Horizon, that only lasted 2 years before it was replaced.
In 2003 we bought a 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee and it gave us all kinds of problems. Mostly, it would stop running whenever it wanted to...usually going down the road. Occasionally at stop lights. Sometimes it wouldn't start at all. Just about every mechanical part was replaced and it didn't help, the problems persisted. The only thing that never gave us a problem was the engine block itself, I think.
Although not mechanical, my brother's current car, a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt, had really poor build quality but is still running strong. The paint was so weak that grocery bags scratched it. (Now fading and peeling). The Chevrolet Bowtie fell off while sitting parked one day. It got flooded in 2017 and the exhaust rusted off, and it goes through struts often, but it's still mechanically sound. It's the longest my family has ever owned a car. -
I didn't take the time to read the link, but I think a tracker that you control would be a good thing to have in any car- collector or daily driver. You likely worked hard for your car, so why should some thief have it?
I've been on message boards since I was 15. I use my actual name...I'm sure I'm being tracked. I don't care. I don't do anything illegal or even immoral so I don't really care who is following along. If whoever is following gets interested in old cars (because it always comes back to that!) than that's a great thing.
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Cool show. A lot of cars we don't see here in the USA. Thanks for posting!
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It's really all made up labels. They are just tall cars...
We have a 1994 Grand Cherokee (family daily driver from 2003-15), a 2018 Ford Edge and a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt. While sitting in all of them is fine, it is difficult for me to get in and out of the Cobalt- sometimes I need physical help to get my legs in and out. Getting in and out of the Edge is mostly easy (the seat track can sometimes catch the back of my leg because I have it back all the way) because it's large enough to not have to worry about contortions, but low enough that it doesn't require stretching too far to get into it. Getting out is easy, as it was in the Jeep. Also, there is more head room. I've only hit my head on the Edge 2 times in a year and a half. Don't know how many times I've hit my head getting in and out of the Cobalt since we got it new.
One thing I have thought about, is that back in the day it was a big deal when they were able to make solid metal roofs on cars. Now, our Edge has the panoramic sunroof so it basically just has a ring of metal around glass, instead of canvas. That's a much more interesting comparison to me. And it makes me wonder why they never thought to fill the roof hole with glass instead of canvas back in those pre-war days. You never even see it done in hot rods for some reason.
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That's what I basically expected...those portable ones look neat but I'm not sure how you hold them down. A guy on the next street over keeps a motorhome in one.
I have considered an auction, but I don't trust myself to not bid on literally every 50s car and then some, leading to some serious trouble later on, hah. I went to the post auction show at the Saratoga Automobile Museum this year and saw many cars I was quite fond of. Could I restrain myself if there was a car I liked and could afford, but wasn't an El Camino or Edsel? I truly don't think so. For example there was a Kaiser Manhattan in the auction that would have been in my price range, I believe...
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You can still travel to Connecticut from NYC by rail to this very day. I believe the current terminus is New Haven, but it used to go all the way to Hartford, and might still...I've never done it. Here in the Hudson Valley the rail lines go straight down to Grand Central Station mostly hugging the shore of the Hudson River. I can hear the trains when the windows are open in my house. Could walk to them but they are on other side of a small man-made lake.
I'm guessing the guy you are researching either drove to the train station or had someone drive him, then took the train south. Perhaps may have taken CT15 if he felt like driving the whole way.
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50s for sure. The 40s cars all share the same characteristics of large fenders with the same basic headlight location. From a distance you might not be able to tell them apart. Not the same with 50s cars, there's no mistaking them. The shapes of the light varied, as well. Tail lights even more so.
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Looks great, congratulations!
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Just thinking aloud now....would a car cover keep the dampness off it? I'm not sure how weatherproof they actually are, since I've not researched it at all. If I do ever get a car, I plan to get a cover for it even just for the nights spent here before a car show, because of the pollen and non-potty trained birds.😁
The oldest Chrysler product we have had was a Cordoba...
That's me in the background...and the Chevelle I mentioned earlier's wheel as well.
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I've been a hobbyist since literally 5 days old when my brother read me my first comic book. If I could cut my other hobbies out completely, or never started on them, I would have had enough to get almost any car I wanted, I suspect. (probably not a Duesenberg) But I can't bring myself to leave them behind...Earlier this month I spent a week in Ohio built around a convention for my model car building hobby. The trip cost almost $4000...
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It's at least 12 hours one way for me, unfortunately not an easy museum to get to for me.
I appreciate the comments. I'm a bit of a perfectionist and it irks me that the map and the nose of the Pontiac came out blurry.
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I actually have a fondness for those Packards.
I like being a passenger...I take lots of pictures while riding...On our family trip to Ohio earlier this month I took 8500 pictures, and just under half of them were while driving. I photo documented every town we went through and I tried to get every old car or truck we saw. (quite a few old pickups rusting into oblivion visible in farm country along the NYS Thruway) Being a passenger is not a problem for me!If someone ever did bequeath a car to me, that would be the highest honor I could possibly imagine. But I'm sure it would be bittersweet at the loss of a friend.
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Earlier this month I attended a convention in Toledo, Ohio. While there, I took time out to visit Snook's Dream Cars in Bowling Green, Ohio. I took over 600 photos so I am not going to share them all, but I will give a little overview and a link to my website where all of them are posted.
The memorabilia collection is extensive, and starts before you even go in the front door.
the collection includes some older gas pumps.
This is what you see as you open the front door:
Aside from the museum cars, they also work on old cars and trucks for clients...and you are welcome to come into the garage area. This 1938 Ford Pickup was getting new brakes while we were there.
There are old games (most of which actually work) and old bicycles in one of the rooms
A map of all the cars made in Ohio before WWII. Although the top blurred here, I do have detail photos of it as well.
The front room is mostly memorabilia.
When you open the door to go into the section of the museum where the cars are stored, the first car I saw was the Kaiser Darrin...one of the cars that I had on my list of cars I wanted to see, but never had before.
an Auburn in the musuem
This Pontiac is a replica of the car the late museum founder drove post WWII. His son operates the museum these days.
Some overviews of the museum
The room with the cars is rather dark so getting clear photos was not particularly easy.
It's absolutely worth the trip to see this museum. Although it's on the smaller side, it's jam packed with automobilia and things to look at. It's less than 5 minutes off of I-75 as well.
Here is the link to my website where I have all 601 photos I took: https://public.fotki.com/ElCaminoBilly/automotivephotography/car-museum-trips/snooks-dream-cars/
Thanks for reading.
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Some really good advice here. Thank you again. While I would love to get my hands on a Full Classic...that's just not realistic. What I like the most (El Caminos, Edsels, early 1950s Pontiac 4-doors, any 50s car) are possible, with a little effort.
We do own our home but not enough space to build a garage, unfortunately.
QuoteThere's no shame in owning an affordable car and having an excellent example of any car will make you proud. The lack of hassles won't seem like a bonus simply because the car won't be hassling you; you may mistakenly assume that all old cars are like that. Not true. If you buy a car with issues and it hassles you constantly, you'll tear your hair out no matter how "desirable" it might be. This is where experience is a great teacher, and I'm trying to help you learn from my bad experiences. Bad cars are a curse.
This quote from Matt resonates with me. The Jeep DID give us problems just about from Day 1, and as I mentioned in my opening post, it had given the previous owner problems as well, being on it's third transmission, which we didn't find out until later. I actually think my family and Mopars may be cursed...my dad was a lifelong mechanic, (for the USPS) and the only cars he couldn't get to run properly were all Chrysler products...Cancer got him before we go the Jeep but perhaps it's not a coincidence that it has given us problems. We've had 4 in my lifetime and all gave us trouble. The Chevrolets and Fords we had didn't give us anything like that, but rust got them all. It's possible that my concerns are fueled solely by having a bad car to begin with. The desire to keep the Jeep going is mostly because it was the first car in my family history that I had any say in us getting.
Jeff, your post made me laugh out loud. "What was I thinking?" could be my life quote. I actually have had articles published in Model Cars Magazine. I'm not sure I could pad it out to a full book...although I do have lots of pictures I could use. (I've taken about 10,000 car photos this year alone)
I am going to look into some of the local clubs. I never really felt like I belonged, not being an old car owner, but the encouragement I've received here has made me second guess that position. I already know some of the local club folks from being a weekly attendee at their cruise nights.
Thanks again!
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Oops, I thought it was in Vegas. My mistake! Well, if I am ever going to go that far, I'd have to see both, anyway. It might happen some day. I don't fly, so it would be a long drive...but I enjoy that immensely so I would not be complaining.