TG57Roadmaster

Sled, Make it whatever you wish...just remember to enjoy taboos wherever & whenever they appear... (I wonder if Senator Joe Biden is a Cadillac Man?) TG We lived in Durand (note depot name), right across the road from the <span style="font-style: italic">legendary</span> "<span style="font-weight: bold">Durand Dirties</span>", a notorious XXX-rated Drive-In Movie Theater...didn't even notice it till this post!

The "Ramble Seat," its ersatz rumbleseat? If this is correct, I can't answer the 1968 part, but Jeep comes to mind... How's about throwing doggie a bone? TG

Contrary to what many believe, these buildings can be nominated to be placed on the National Historic Register. The City of Anderson was going to tear down a 1957 Texaco streamline moderne gas station, till I suggested that we sell it on ebay. It's been done before, but never by a municipality; I listed it, ran the auction, and it was sold for $3552.00, to a car guy who disassembled it (& hauled it away in a truck, the way it arrived in '57), for later use as a car themed deli/burger joint. Rather than going to the landfill, the City made some money, I made 20% off the top plus listing fees, and an important structure will live on. The resultant publicity bonanza astounded even jaded old me. Your Buick Deal is another animal altogether, not a "portable erector set" like our station was, but creative thinking, getting tongues wagging is key. Listing on the Register doesn't guarantee salvation, but it does have its benefits. Good luck, TG

There's a curious aside to the '64 225's; the brochures & 8x10 factory stills show a taillight bezel with "twin-tower" vertical strips on the bezel. Some early cars were so-equipped, but they were phased out; I spied this NOS example at the '98 BCA Nat'l in Boston... Shoulda bought the darned thing! TG

Thanks Brian & Bill, When the Electra 225's six-window hardtop sedans debuted for '61, they called them "Riviera" (their name since '59), then with 1963's intro of the Riviera T-Bird-fighter, they referred to them as 6-Window Pillarless Hardtop Sedans, with the 4-window variant dubbed the Hardtop Sedan. "Black Beauty" and her ilk were simply Electra 225 Sedans. The two 225's in the garage were a beater '64 225 4-door HT , and a sweet, Autronic-Eyed '64 225 4-door HT, with custom interior, and <span style="font-style: italic">every</span> available option. Didn't get that one, but saw it a few years ago waiting for new upholstery. The former now sits outside at a "resto-rod" shop, sharing space with a variety of clapped out hulks waiting to be "ratted." Wouldn't want it anyway...it had roll-up windows! Stars in the realm of Misses Davis & DeHavilland should <span style="font-weight: bold">never</span> appear in anything less than a luxury car. Witness this glimpse of Bette (in her Margo Channing era) at a Lambda Car Club Meet at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway some years ago. TG

Right down to the door edge & gas filler guards! There's something about the car that's soooo darned elegant, almost limousine-like. My Uncle Tommy had a '64 225 6-WP Sedan, baby blue with venetian blinds in the backlight, which I always loved, but the sedans are the ones with the real class, in my humble opinion. Curiously, "Black Beauty" is black (duh!), with the light green interior...my guess is that it was a funeral parlor car. She's awaiting paint, but the interior is in great shape, has the usual stuff plus PW, P-seat & Tilt. She's also got the then-one-year-old AM/FM radio option, complete with the Buick-issue list of FM stations throughout the country. TG

"<span style="font-weight: bold">Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte</span>" is one of the best Buick films EVER! Poor spinster Charlotte (Bette Davis), driven into seclusion (and near-madness) after the death of her one true love (Bruce Dern, the husband of Jewell Mayhew), beheaded at a soiree years before, is set upon by; the county, who wants to build a bridge right thru her plantation home, her "evil" cousin Miriam (Olivia DeHavilland, in a role Joan Crawford was originally set to play), and Miriam's lover Dr. Drew (Joseph Cotten). Miriam & Drew are trying to drive her <span style="font-style: italic">totally</span> mad to get all of Charlotte's money. Mary Astor, (in her last film role) as Jewell Mayhew, rich in name only, sitting years later in her "ruined finery," utters the classic line, "<span style="font-style: italic">You see, I am not a well woman</span>," to a sympathetic Cecil Kellaway. Agnes Moorhead, as Velma, the frumpy housekeeper, plays a role nowhere near her much-more glamorous "Endora." Buicks abound, notably the two '64 Electra 225 sedans. You MUST screen this film when you can, as it's full of twisted "Southern Charm." I can't type fast enough to say how good it is. At the end, Charlotte, vindicated of her imagined wrong-doings in the past, makes a grand exit in a dark 225 Sedan. It looks just like my own "Black Beauty," which I've attached. Worth watching just for her being chauffeured away in that <span style="font-weight: bold">Beautious Big Buick</span>. 1964 Buicks (even the Special Sedan) were never lovelier than in this camp classic! TG Miriam, who's blackmailed Jewell into poverty, arrives from Paris to help Charlotte close the house. At dinner, Charlotte asks her what job she's been doing all these years, to which she answers, "Public Relations." Charlotte quickly shoots back, "Public relations?...sounds <span style="font-style: italic">dirty</span> to me!"

Can't say I remember those places; our big night out was Friday. A few games at the bowling alley, followed by burgers at the A&W. We were all heavily influenced by "American Graffiti." Lynn & I placed second at Lake Forest College's sock hop; "Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids" was the band. We drove my '65 Impala, loaded with A/C, PS, PB, PW, P-seat, spinner hubcaps...Big time for small-town high school kids! TG

Good Answer...you win a kewpie doll! I went to high school in Kenosha from '71-'75, and it was a great time to live in "K-town." Everyone in school had a brother, father, uncle, cousin...somebody working at the plant. They'd slash your tires if you parked anything other than an AMC at the Kenosha Main Plant. As the oldest plant in operation (Jeffery, Nash, AMC, later Renault & some Mopar products), maybe that, and not the unions, was why Iaoccoca had it bull-dozed! This image comes from the wonderful "American Motors Family Album," published by AMC in 1969. Now that Daimler- Chrysler "owns" all things AMC (and it's forebears, the above + Hudson, Terraplane, LaFayette, Kelvinator, and so forth), I hope the Highland Park Storm Troopers won't come Goose-Stepping to my home to drag me off in chains for showing you the Cavalier. <span style="font-style: italic">Sieg</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">Heil!</span> TG (My 1st "Car Show" was the first Nash-LaFayette Car Club Meet held in Kenosha in summer, 1971.)

I've been hunting this post since I put up pix of the Glidden Trophy two days ago. If you'll notice atop the globe on your pendant, there sits a tiny 1901 Napier auto. Go to the AACA Photo Gallery and key in: The Charles J. Glidden Touring Trophy. You'll see the real thing as it exists today, minus the little car on top. Methinks you have a little treasure on your hands. If it was mine, I'd never part with it! TG

I'm going along with Stearns-Knight, 'cause of the thin bead at the top of doors, also the seats, and as long as you could get a plated radiator shell in 1921. Still, the louvers don't add up, and the rear door seems to be hinged wrong... a custom-bodied Stearns? TG

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The irony never seems to let up, well into the Seventies. This one's downright sexist! "Honey, no wonder you can't decide, what with that <span style="font-style: italic">rat's nest</span> on top of your skull!" TG (Makeup by Tammy Faye Bakker)

Funny, last July, when I was at the quaint park at the base of the "Mighty Mac," I didn't notice anyone living in cardboard refigerator boxes under the long approaches to the bridge. TG

Hey Amphicar, There are many words in our vast lexicon that have taken on new, somewhat kinky meanings thru the years. I think you'll agree that this is one. TG Wanna play <span style="font-style: italic">ball</span>?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">Centurion, fantastic pix...too bad they have the Tacoma Library stamp on them!</span> </div></div> "<span style="font-style: italic">Stamps</span>?...We don't need no <span style="font-style: italic">stinkin</span>' <span style="font-weight: bold">stamps</span>! If anyone wishes copies of their own, clean, without the "stamp," they need only contact the library and shell out the cost of reprints. Since they're working from original negatives, my guess is that each one would cost $15-$25(?), and they'll probably give you the choice of glossy or matte finish. As the library "owns" them, they're proprietary information, and sold for private use only...any repros (publishing in articles or books, posting on the web) is strictly <span style="font-style: italic">verboten</span>. The library charges additional fees for any publication rights. Go back to Centurion's first post, click on the library link and pick from the excellent choices offered up. It would take years to amass a collection of this variety, scope, & quality... This way, it's like the box chocolates in which you know <span style="font-style: italic">exactly</span> what you're gonna get! TG

Here's the '56 DeSoto intro Pushbutton Powerflite Tranny... I always thought trolls lived under bridges. TG

If only Grandma had kept her Coronet! I'd buy a round of Centurions & Bonnevilles for everyone! So many I'd have to hand 'em out in (rust)buckets... But <span style="font-weight: bold">noooo</span>, she just <span style="font-style: italic">had</span> to have that new '72 Swinger! TG

I'll toss this out: Pierce-Arrow, with regular (not fender-mounted) headlights; the radiator, door and fender shapes, (plus the distance of frame valance from fender to hood), and the large size point me there. The hood louvers want to make me keep looking, tho' it could be custom body touch. TG

"Make mine a Martini, <span style="font-style: italic">Daaahling</span>, den I vont to hear all about your <span style="font-weight: bold">clazzic</span> <span style="font-style: italic">Muzstang!</span>" That's right folks, here she is again, shilling for stainless steel hubcaps, America's most famous "Copper Whopper"...Zsa Zsa Gabor, with parade-boot poodle in tow. The star of such memorable films as, "Queen of Outer Space" (1958), "Boys Night Out" (1960), and her last flic, 1978's, "Every Girl Should Have One." Born in Budapest circa 1920, she's about <span style="font-style: italic">45</span>-<span style="font-weight: bold">ish</span> in these U.S. Steel ads from 1965, and yes, of course she was the "Queen," but I can't figure out exactly what she "Should Have." Maybe a Manhattan? <span style="font-weight: bold">Gag Me!</span> Ta-Ta For Now, TG (That's TTFN; "Queen-speak" for all you Earthlings.)

Well then, you gotta check out the ultimate "Youper Snowplow", over in "Bowdlerized Buicks", at BCA General Forum. TG

<span style="font-weight: bold">Yes</span>, you are <span style="font-style: italic">correct</span>, sir!...Just left out that one <span style="font-style: italic">other</span> prerequisite for surefire selling success. The <span style="font-style: italic">de rigeur</span> "<span style="font-weight: bold">Mustang II</span> <span style="font-style: italic">Front-end</span>!" TG Some Assembly Required.