Chic Magnet autos back in the day.

[John E. Guitar]

Cyklon Cyklonette

 

 

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[ron hausmann]

2 hours ago, Jim Skelly said:

I've seen the Jackrabbit but never heard of the "Big D___" model and wonder if any survive.

The most chic-magnet Apperson ever proposed was The Jackrabbit Speedster. ‘A persons designer dealer was Conover Silver, who also designed the Kissel Gold Big Series of cars around 1919-ish. Notice the similarity between the Apperson and my Gold Bug.

[8E45E]

13 hours ago, ron hausmann said:

The most chic-magnet Apperson ever proposed was The Jackrabbit Speedster..

The Jackrabbit Speedster is for ladies; compared to the bigger and brawnier (and faster), "Big D"!!

 

Craig

[caddyshack]

Did not have any trouble bringing women, including my future wife, back and forth from college in 1965 in this modified 1956 Corvette. Three people crammed into the seating area made shifting the 3-speed a little challenging however. Skip in MN.

[Paul Dobbin]

I think this was South Carolina, about 1977.   Near Anderson SC.

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[sunnybaba]

Here is my first camper... and my new wife... this is our year-round, full time home..... on wheels....   Double bed, kitchen,& skylights... solar lights inside.... Fun.... I tanned the deer hides the old way... using the  deer's brain oil and smoking the hides to make them golden... it was her wedding dress... I was 40 she was 20.... those were the days my friend....

[zepher]

On 12/23/2022 at 3:04 PM, sunnybaba said:

Here is my first camper... and my new wife... this is our year-round, full time home..... on wheels....   Double bed, kitchen,& skylights... solar lights inside.... Fun.... I tanned the deer hides the old way... using the  deer's brain oil and smoking the hides to make them golden... it was her wedding dress... I was 40 she was 20.... those were the days my friend....

 

Great set of pictures and story to go along with them.
What were you towing your home with?

 

[DrumBob]

Mine was my '77 Camaro, but I don't have a photo to post. It was metallic orange. The girls loved it. The car was beautiful, but a mechanical lemon. 

[auburnseeker]

This is the one my wife liked most when I met her and the first one I sold.  Though I gifted it to her as an early wedding present,  she told me i should sell it.  I have never heard the end of it since.  

 

So if anyone knows where it is,  let me know.  Sold it almost 20 years ago.    I was never really a fan of the flames on it.  It came that way.   I added the original Tonneau. We actually drove it alot the first year we met,   which was the year I sold it. 

 

Ironically my wife knew nothing about old cars when I met her.  The first time she saw any of them was when they were in winter storage as we met on the 31st of January.  It was 3 more months before she got her first ride in any of them. 

 

[John_Mereness]

No offense, though my 80 year old mom will say: "The cool kids did not drive Nash's, Hudson's, Kaiser's, Dodge's, Plymouth's, Packard's, and/or  ..."

 

And what did she drive in the late 50's and early 60's:  1947 Cadillac Sedanette in black with red wheel rims // and then moved on to Austin Healey's