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and I converted that narrative post into a video. It's here on Youtube and here on Substack Adds a little motion and sound, which livens it. JDaly

Thanks Vintage1, It really was a nice looking, nice handling and overall great car. I wish the underside had been stainless steel! John

They say your first car is your favorite car. For me that is true. I bought this 1967 Fiat 124 Sport Coupe used and loved it. But.... well, here's my substack post on the car. You might enjoy it. John Daly

Excellent point John and that (recording history) is at least part of the reason I am writing these. The cars intersect with big family events AND with pivotal auto industry directions and they tell a little behind the scenes history. e.g. My grandfather's insistence on a Packard Limousine at my mom and dads 1947 wedding and what happened to Packard. Why Kelvinator, an appliance company got affiliated with American Motors and how it provided cars for our family throughout the 50's and 60's and so much more. Thanks for the encouragement.

Thank you, John_S_in_Penna.

Yes , drove really well; and glad the plow spared YOU!!!

Very cool. I think I remember most of these. Wonderful that you collected the ACTUAL badges.

Kind of same with me. THe styling rocked. THe hard core car guys at least turned their heads.

Well, I just crossed everything out. Premise smashed. They say arbitrager George Soros always assumed he was wrong and was ever ready to take an opposite currency postion. I thought I learned that lesson. But I keep forgetting how wrong I am. Thanks to all of you. And in EmTee's video words... "Oh well that's VERY different... nevermind," Nice hanging around you Buick folks, as an interloper, for a while. I republished corrected / Chevy version here. Gratias.

Thanks for the corrections. Yikes. I am very sorry. A novice I am. So I will need to correct it to a 1940 Chevrolet Special Deluxe series KA? Just want to confirm. THanks, (also, can you pinpoint the 1940 price of that Chevrolet Special Deluxe Series KA?) (also, takes away my entire story line on the fam being upper middle class. But that's OK>) VERY obliged to Matt, Machine Gunn, Barney, Matthew and 1939_Buick Club. Thanks.

Yes indeed. You can submit your own. Chromeography has a "submit" capability here. Great additions! imho. He's got some dealers already in the archive... as here:

Vey interesting F.F. Not great reliablity. With my father's deal we kept these cars only 6 months to a year and then got another so we never saw the full life. I can believe you ran into that though. My GM devoted friends would scoff at the plastic -y dashboard and I do remember a rattle developing in the driver's side window. Looked great, drove well while new but... not durable. I have driven only Toyotas or Lexi for the last 22 years and some of these have gone close to 300k. Very different than the AMX experience. Thanks for filling us all in. John Daly

Thanks Larry for answering James question on Kelvinator. AMC had sold the brand to White company and my father stayed employed as regional sales manager working for the distributor Northeast Distributors in Cambridge MA. WHat I have heard is that they still hold good share in the commercial ice cream freezer market. No more Foodaramas though. And not many old Kelvinator appliances still left at the Daly's homes Thanks

Very sorry about that Jim. I have not encountered that before. It might have been Substack asking for subscription?? but usually one can x or cancel out of them. Here's a link to a pdf version of the post that will allow you to see it. I hope this works. Thanks so much for letting me know. John Daly

Stephen Coles wrote the book The Anatomy of Type and was a creative director at FontShop. He also developed a body of under-appreciated auto-art work called Chromeography - an online archive of chrome lettering affixed to vintage automobiles and electric appliances. He saw that the various emblems and chrome lettering on older cars — the “bright work” — as not just the label and name for a car but also a main source of its personality -- especially mid - twentieth century cars (50’s and 60’s). He felt that no-one seemed to be archiving, cataloguing, saving them. That set him on a project to photograph, label, tag and publish them. Stephen talked about his Chromeography project, at CreativeMornings Berlin, May 2012. I keynoted some highlights from his talk and posted them in a Substack Post Here. I think you'll enjoy it and its links to Stephen's work.