LOOK!...Up In The Sky...

[TG57Roadmaster]

What with "Big Brother" coming in and killing all our fun with zoning and such, how long will we be able to see these great Roadside Aerial Autos as Advertising? Here's your chance to dust off the photo albums and show us what you've seen...

TG

Go to my Photo Gallery page for the description.

(Thanks to Centurion for letting us all see the light on inserting pix in our text!)

[Guest imported_MrEarl]

Tom that car is about 4 miles from my house. When he first put it up, the headlights and tail lights would come on at night. The car was a pretty solid car and at the time I had some spare running gear for Spitfires and begged him to take it down and sell it to me but of course it all fell on deaf ears. Them Alewine boys have made a killin off the junkyard business over the last 50-60 years.

[MCHinson]

I'll bet a lot of us have seen this one.

[Amphicar BUYER]

Either on I-70 or I-80 (Kansas or Nebraska) I have seen a farm inplement dealer with the most amazing sign. It has several HUGE implements up on display. Anyone remember where that is?

[Tom M]

There was a stripe mall in Berwyn Illinois that had a pole with a VW BUG and some other cars on it. I am not sure if it is still there. Will need to check and see.

[26pack]

In Queens, NY there's a junk yard that has half (cut front to back, not side to side) 20 something Chevy or Ford. You can see it from the LIRR.

[TG57Roadmaster]

Yo, jd in Long Island,

Whatever became of the <span style="font-weight: bold">Big Duck</span> in Riverhead?

It was sitting pretty in '87 when I took this shot,

and I know it's really not a "Look Up in the Sky" image

(unless you're 3 or 4 years old), but

Enquiring Minds might like to know.

TG

[Ivan Saxton]

There used to be a bit of a fashion for this out here in the 1960's. One I particularly remember was a pole-sitting 37 Graham at a wrecking yard in the Ballarat area. (Of course, cars of the 30's were mostly just curious oddities that one would never consider restoreing then. I could have had a complete going supercharged one, earlier than that, which a friend had parked and not used for several years. It was too far to borrow a tandem trailer and tow it 300miles home behind the 1927 Cadillac. I have always wanted one of those blowers, but I managed to persuade an aquaintance who was mad on Grahams to gather it. As far as I know he has not restored it.)

If anyone wanted to erect and display an aerial transport device today there might be great consternation. First, it would have to be in an industrial zone. Then it would run the gauntlet of a process of public advertisement to weigh protest of everyone from self-appointed guardians of standards of public amenity to econazis. Most local government Councils here are very positive in their support and promotion of art and culture, yet a car on a pole might carry little sympathy for its artistic merit. There would have to be engineer's computations, public risk insurance, and common sense might have little relevance. As an elected councillor, it may not be appropriate to comment further.

Ivan Saxton

[TG57Roadmaster]

Ivan,

I think your position is quite clear. A good rant every now and then is what makes for well-rounded elected officials...Let's just hope that none of your constituents are <span style="font-style: italic">econazis</span>, and that they don't know about your <span style="font-style: italic">double-life</span> on these Forums! A broad comment, based on the assumption that they can <span style="font-weight: bold">read</span>.

My life in the hobby began with the cars strewn in the woods and fields around my Grampa's defunct Standard gas station and auto body shop. The emblems I took off them (in the mid-'60's) included the brass (trunk-mounted) '42 <span style="font-style: italic">Dodge</span> from the car that my folks had when they were wed. Their <span style="font-style: italic">Wedding Car</span>! It's displayed in my coffee table (an 1850's solid cherry piano bench, <span style="font-style: italic">sans</span> lid), along with many others; what treasures will be left for future generations when all that stuff is "zoned" out of existence?

Lamar, right after we took the Alewine photo, we stopped by the "Top Gun RC Club," on a day they were out flying. Next time I'm in the area, I'll help you unload the "stiff" that's in your '54!

TG

[Guest windjamer]

Im to dumb to put pictures on the computer, and im sure I dont have the equipment to do it if I knew how, but here in Binghamton we have a full size bread truck about about 40 feet in the air for a local bakery and I think the darn thing might still run. Also at local race track is a 42 (i think) coupe. Dont know if it has a drive train or not, but sure wish I could figure a way to get it down. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

[Guest aussie610]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I particularly remember was a pole-sitting 37 Graham at a wrecking yard in the Ballarat area.

Ivan Saxton </div></div>

Where is it now.... where is it now.... damn got nowhere to store it <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

[trimacar]

Hi to all- in Jackson Mississippi there is a used car dealer with a early 60's Corvette on his sign pole. I'm 900 miles away, anyone from the Jackson area who has a picture?

[Mike Cullen]

Fulton Speedway (Fulton NY) has (or had) a 32 or so coupe with the engine and transmission stripped out on the top of their sign on NY 57 for as long as I can remember, at least back to the early 60s. The last time I remember specifically looking at it, maybe 5 years ago, it was starting to really rot away in place.