Dave@Moon

Full size Ford LTD, Country Squire, and Galaxie XL (pictured here by Bleach) only. Lesser models (Galaxie, Galaxie 500, Custom, Custom 300, Country Sedan, etc.) used a less elaborate grille seen below.

Most of the cars in this photo are AC Aces, made from 1954-1963, many of which after 1956 had optional 6 cylinder 2.0L Bristol engines and were referred to as Ace-Bristols. Most had less-powerful AC 2,0L 6 cylinder engines. In 1961 a 2.6L Ford Zephyr engine was made available. The distant car in the center of the photo is an AC Aceca (facing away from the camera), a GT version of the Ace whose production began in 1957 and was also available with Bristol engines. The roofed car on the left of the photo appears not to be an Aceca, and may be an Ace with a factory fiberglass top or an aftermarket top. As far as I know there is no reliable way to tell which engine is in an Ace by it's outward appearance.

...apparently for a car with relatively small, fender-mounted lights. They look like they may fit a 1938 Ford Standard, like the one linked here wearing similar adapters. http://www.earlyfordv8qld.org/images/jeremy%20gibson.jpg

Triumphs get left out of everything.

Something the owner of every historic building that might make a more lucrative Taco Bell can certainly relate to, and the guy with the horsemeat rendering business who owns the lot behind your house. Damn zoning people! I hope it's not my imagination, but it's my impression that the Lost Souls aspect of the street rod hobby seems to be slowing down, or maybe people just aren't caring enough to point it out anymore. It could just be that the hobby is dying. Oh well.

I seem to recall the commission plate on Morgans being attached to the firewall, but I might just be thinking of MG T series cars and getting them confused. I can't find a good image to tell me either. Hopefully a Morgan person will happen by and let us know.

You are definitely going to have to post a photo or two of the car to get a reliable answer to your question. Cycle fenders were put on some pre-war Morgans at the factory, but mainly racing specials of very limited production. Then again pretty much anyone could have installed a set on a Morgan at some time, be they aftermarket or just off of another car. The second possibility would be the more likely, especially a car that was club-raced in the 1950s and 1960s. If you can, find out the car's commission (serial) number. This will help to sort out what year the car was made and (hopefully) tell whether it was a factory racer or not. Posted below is a photo of a 1938 LeMans 4-4 with original cycle fenders, if that helps.

It's a Simca 8 Sports Cabriolet, circa 1950.

If it is the Iowa State Fairgrounds then the picture was taken some time before 1914. This still image is from 1938, but the exact same inner rail is prominently visible in online images as old as 1914, including a rather spectacular film of the 1914 race between Eddie Rickenbacker in an early Duesenberg and an airplane.

Awesome! :cool:

Not to disparage anyone of means, but for the most part I'd say it's just for the entertainment value. Many things are traded for values that are simply not intrinsic to the item (art, ephemera, manuscripts, cancelled stamps, etc.), and not just "things". Without taking ANY political side in the point I'm about to make, many people were baffled early last year when Sheldon Adelson donated over $10 million to an already faltering and obviously hopeless candidate in one of the Presidential primaries last year. People professed to be mystified at spending that kind of coin for a genuinely hopeless cause that was bound to fail (and did, spectacularly). Then one of the shows I watched analyzed what $10 million was to man of Sheldon Adelson's means. It happened to be exactly the percentage of his wealth and income that an average American person making $50,000/yr. would spend on a good dinner and movie for 2. In all likelihood he was just enjoying the show. Those of us that have $5000 or $50,000 cars that we are extremely proud of and spend an inordinate amount of time on are no different in scale than Jay Leno, J.B. Nethercutt, or anyone else who appreciates these cars. I suppose if you or I were a person for whom $10 million is equivalent of a night at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse and the Showcase Cinema, a $27 million car would have to sound like a relative bargain.

I think the larger trunk lock bezel and lack of "Consul" badging on the sides mark this as Mark 1 (1956-1958) version of the Mk. 2 Consul (1956-1962). (Believe it or not that actually is what they were designated.)

It's a fascinating story, but the latest email going around has a few of the details wrong. Mr. Swift passed away in 2005 at the age of 102, when he had owned the car for a remarkable 77 years. Mr. Swift's Gift Goes To Springfield - Hartford Courant Man Owned and Drove the Same Car Since 1928-Truth! Some Details Inaccurate!

The door handle location is incorrect for American Bantam or American Austin. The vertical hood louvers are most like a very late (1933) American Austin Bantam, but again the belt moulding and door handle location is incorrect. However the body proportions are perfect for that car. It also doesn't match up with a British Austin 7 either. Perhaps it is a custom bodied Bantam, or a version imported from one of the many other countries licensed to product the design under other names. Otherwise my best guess is that it's a European car of some sort. 1933 American Austin Bantam

Fortunately the photo is quite detailed and can be expanded quite a lot. The raised fin on the back of the hood ornament marks this car as a 1948 Chevy.

You're welcome, Doug. I look forward to seeing the car. There are a number of "British Car Days" in western Ohio that would love to have the car, including the one in Cincinnati I'm associated with. :cool:

The car Keiser posted is a Mk2 Ford Zodiac (1956-1962). This is the steering wheel and horn button from a 1958 model. Other than an identical one used in a street rod this is the closest horn button I can find to the one in question.

There are several suppliers that can make up reproduction plates. They may be able to help you, or supply new plates. For example see: Triple C Motor Accessories license plates

The part number decodes to a 1971 Ford "cab truck", probably a semi-truck and/or COE truck.

Yeah, get in one of the cars and get away from the bears!:eek:

I'm sure we all share the same sentiments for the victims and their families. Please post the results of any investigation here for the rest of us.

I believe this is from a 1938 LaSalle. The previous years used a different style "LaS", and the 1939/40 hubcap adopted a stepped edge design.

,,,until they are gone. Have you tried to buy a good used component stereo lately, especially a turntable for vinyl records? Most sell for at least their cost new, and (if of a popular brand like Pioneer, Sansui, Dual, Technics, etc.) usually a good bit more...even though they are for the most part only 20-30 years out of production and hardly "antiques" by any definition. Any quality component made between (roughly) 1965 and 1990 is a serious collectors item, simply because you just can't go the Best Buy and get one any more (certainly not one of the same configuration and quality). They make the same music you can get from an iPod hooked to an iHome device, but people are literally snapping up whatever they can to save these devices so they can enjoy music the old way. Yes, ethanol and hybrids and electrics and biofuels and whatever's next are the beginning of the end of simple internal combustion automobiles. That is going to make driving anything that you have to turn a key to start an interesting experience soon, and the limitations presented by that experience will be part of it's appeal as much as an occasional scratch tick when listening to The White Album makes for a more appealing experience. So stop pretending progress is a threat to the vintage car hobby. It isn't. In fact it's probably our best friend.

My experience is exactly the same. I was in high school before I even met people who liked older cars and enjoyed working on them, and in my 30s before I could afford my first British sports car and began meeting people of that persuasion (which was always my primary interest). None of my friends from before I was 30 could tell an MG from a Fiat, and unless one somehow did a 12 sec. 1/4 mile none of them would look at one anyway. Meanwhile I was sketching the MGA I wanted (a new TR6 was too much to hope for) in 6th grade. I honestly cannot tell you where that interest came from, except maybe from Matchboxes and building models as a kid. It certainly was not encouraged by anyone.