Guest Dennis Smith Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Can anyone identify these 2 cars? Both photos were taken around 1945 or so. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trimacar Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Top picture appears to be a 1933/34 Chevrolet. Can't get a handle on the car pictured in the bottom photo, large hubcaps and upright cabriolet windshield should allow someone to identify. Is that a headlight mounted on the rear fender, facing backwards? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 The car on the left in the first photo looks to be a 1938 Chrysler product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLynskey Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 The license tag is from Shelby County (Memphis), Tennessee. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dennis Smith Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 Don, you have better eyes than me! What does it say, 2-256 TN ? Thanks for everyone's help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dennis Smith Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 This afternoon I drove out to the house where the first photo was taken. It's been abandoned for years now. Funny how time keeps right on passing by. One more from the photo album, if anyone can identify any of these. Thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hursst Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 1937 Ford, 1941 Pontiac, 1941 Chevy Truck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dennis Smith Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 Thanks hursst! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 I LOVE that updated photo of the home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLynskey Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 8 hours ago, Dennis Smith said: Don, you have better eyes than me! What does it say, 2-256 TN ? Thanks for everyone's help! I can't read it all, but the first digits indicated the county the car was registered in. "1" was assigned to Davidson County, the home of Nashville, the state capital. The others were in order of the population when the system was initiated. 2 - Shelby County, Memphis, the most populous county in Tennessee. 3 - Knox County, Knoxville 4 - Hamilton County, Chattanooga etc. Just curious. Where is the house located? In the Memphis area? Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dennis Smith Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 Hey Don, No the house is in Fayette County. If I remember correctly, our tags were number 33. I had to ask around the family and do some research why a car with Shelby County tags was in the photo. I learned that the photo is from 1942. My dad's army division had been sent to Camp Shelby Miss. for basic training. After that, they were sent home for 12 days. His sister and her husband (who lived in Memphis) had come to visit. That was their car. A few days after that photo was taken, he had to be back at Camp Shelby where the division boarded a train for San Francisco. There they boarded a troop ship for New Zealand, the first stop on their way up the "Solomon Ladder". After the Solomons Campaign, they were in the invasion of Aitape, New Guinea. After that they were in the invasion of the Philippine Islands. My dad said that he only survived because after the invasion of New Georgia there was an opening for corporal of transportation and he had the rank and time in service to get the job. There are lots of books about the soldiers' love affair with the jeep, and they tell it just like my dad did. He never wanted to talk about the war but he would always tell me about the jeeps! I hope this hasn't been more information than you wanted. My thanks to the forum owners for their bandwidth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Mellor NJ Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 That's a 33 Chevy in the top picture. The fenders fly up higher like a boat going through water and the headlights are bigger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dennis Smith Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Nice picture Dave, thanks! I'll bet "like a boat going through water" was an apt description of driving on Fayette County roads in the 1940's! That house is on what is known today as Hwy 194. In the old days it was known as "the Sand Road". My thanks for everyone's help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Henderson Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 (edited) Here's my swag on what the cabriolet in picture 2 is; ca. '31 Hupmobile. Edited November 27, 2016 by Dave Henderson year change (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Mellor NJ Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 While looking at pics of the 31 Hupmobile as Dave Henderson suggested I came across this pic of a 31 LaSalle. Notice the low tail end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Henderson Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Dave, I think you nailed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drwatson Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Love the then & now shot. You would think the tree trunk at left in the contemporary photo would appear in the 1945 photo....Great job lining up the shots. ......next time wait for the sun shadows to align.....kidding ....thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JACK M Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 60 YO tree. The one in the back ground must have been cut down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brass is Best Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Those wire wheels on the cabriolet sure look to be Packard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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