Guest claudiu1988 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 (edited) I love american old cars, I have a 1937 Dodge waiting to be restored. In the 30's and 40's there were a lot of american cars in Romania, and still today we can find such cars, but not in a very good shape, a lot of them are brutally modified because much of these old cars retiered in the 70's and 80's. In the comunist regime you couldn't find spare parts so you had to improvize, so that is why a lot of cars have russian or romanian engines. So this is a short history. Now let's put photos whit the cars.The first car is my 1937 dodge, bruttaly modified in the 70's, Volga Gaz 21 engine, rear axle, rims, steering wheel, clutch etc.First I will post the unrestord cars, then I will post the restord ones. Edited October 20, 2010 by claudiu1988 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 1937 Caddilac Imperial, the car has a tractor engine and the front is modified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 1936 Chevy, the car is in good shape, has a romanian engine, the owner still has the original engine, the car has horrible rear lights from a romanian car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 1939 Chevy, the car is all original but not in a very good shape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 (edited) 1937 Dodge, only the shell is original, the engine, frame, axles, are from a romanian car IMS. Edited October 19, 2010 by claudiu1988 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 1938 Dodge, original engine, the rear axle, dash instruments and rear lights are from an other car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 An other 1938 Dodge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Silverghost Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 (edited) Very interesting photos ! The old American cars in Cuba are mostly of similar construction now with Soviet-built cold war era engines.They have also cobbled together many old 50s US-built autos The Cubans also try to fabricate their own replacment parts where needed...Most here in the USA think that the old American cars still operating in Cuba are 100% original~Not So ! I guess you gotta to do what you have to do to keep these old cars on the road if you cannot find the proper replacment parts ! Keep the photos comming ! Edited October 19, 2010 by Silverghost (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 (edited) Very interesting !The American cars in Cuba are also cobbled together with old soviet-built engines and other Cuban hand fabricated parts.Most folks in the USA think they are still 100% original... Not so !I guess you've gotta do whatever you can to keep them on the road !Keep those geat photos comming !I will post all the photos I have with american cars. Yes in Cuba this cars still run today, but in Romania these cars stoped runing in the 70's and 80's when romania started to produce it's own cars "Dacia" "Aro" "IMS" "TV". We aslo imported other cars like Vw beetle, Wartburg, Volga, etc. Now moast of them stay in back yards and rust. In those days people had to do major changes to cars to keep them runing. Edited October 19, 2010 by claudiu1988 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 1939 Dodge, has a Molotov engine, clutch, and axles, the dash is from a Volga. The car is sitting from the 70's in the same spot, the owner paints it once evrey 2-3 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 1939 Chrysler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 1938 Dodge, original but in a vrey poor condition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 1946 Dodge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1936 D2 Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 (edited) Excellent! Thanks for posting these! You would never have imagined there would be so many American cars (pre-war) that would still be over there and not crushed or recycled since the 50's! I like the guy that keeps painting his to preserve it but had diamond plate runningboards! There seems to be a "thing" for LARGE taillights over there too! I guess you have to use what you can find. At least the rest of the car will survive! Claudiu, in covering the search for parts for your car, you have run across a treasure trove of other American cars! You will eventually get to know where they ALL are!Keep the photos coming. I can hardly wait to see some of the "restored" ones! Edited November 15, 2010 by 1936 D2 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kingoftheroad Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 Excellent! Thanks for posting these! You would never have imagined there would be so many American cars (pre-war) that would still be over there and not crushed or recycled since the 50's! I like the guy that keeps painting his to preserve it but had diamond plate runningboards! I guess you have to use what you can find. At least the rest of the car will survive! Keep the photos coming. I can hardly wait to see some of the "restored" ones!Ditto......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty_OToole Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 It's a little surprising most of these cars are Chrysler products. In the US Ford and General Motors cars were more popular.Did Chrysler have a really good dealer in Romania or did the Chrysler products survive where the others were scrapped? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1936 D2 Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 It's a little surprising most of these cars are Chrysler products. In the US Ford and General Motors cars were more popular.Did Chrysler have a really good dealer in Romania or did the Chrysler products survive where the others were scrapped?Hi "Rusty",I am pretty sure there is a disproportionate number of photos here of Chrysler Products because "Claudiu" is working on finding parts to restore his '37 Dodge. As he traveled around his area he was finding and collecting many photos of Chrysler Product cars and wanted to post some of them for the enjoyment of the Chrysler Product fans out there. It is sort of amazing the number of these cars he has run across in Romania! He just didn't want to clutter up his earlier post with sort of un-necessary info and thought this would be an interesting series of posts so he started a second thread.Later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest P.M.O. Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Ditto......... My Guess Canadian built in North America Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 I posted first like 1936 D2 said the chrysler cars because I have much more pictures whit them, there are a lot of Ford cars in Romania, we also had a Ford factory here from 1935 to 1940. Here is a 1936 Dodge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 A beautiful 1933 Plymouth, all original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 1936 Plymouth whit 1937 frille and hoods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 1937 Plymouth, the car is beeing restored Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 1939 Plymouth, the car is original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Now some photos for 1936 D2 whit restored cars, I don't have a lot of photos whit these cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claudiu1988 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1936 D2 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Excellent! Another batch of very interesting car photos from Claudiu. These are great! Keep them coming as you find more interesting autos and get more photos. :cool:Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alesha1 Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 really i love this car . Because i have own this one in eminent blue colour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIPLOWGUY Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Cool photos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleach Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Any updates? This is very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leif Holmberg Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 claudiu 1988,The Plymouth 1933 has a radiator maskot from a 1928 Buick. Beautiful pictures,my father bought a dark blue 1939 Dodge as in the picture in 1953,I cut it down in 1958 and sold it in parts. Leif in Sweden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Oracle Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 I wish I knew what the build plates on the Chevrolets, and I guess the Chrysler cars, say. I am not aware of any Romanian assembly plant though there was a private company assembler in Poland 1937-1939. Before the war Ford of Britain had a Romanian subsidiary and supplied cars, possibly including US-sourced as well as UK cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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