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Editors Note: We are back to business, as usual, today after last weeks shut down for general site maintenance. Thanks go out to all of our readers for your patience and comments about The Old Motor while this work was being accomplished. The featured image is a late-1960s view of a section of the parking…
The lead image of a Chevrolet shows one of the most widely remembered classic examples of late-1950s automobile with some of the largest fins ever produced. This classic summer image taken beside a lake with a daughter, girlfriend or wife captured a pleasant summer moment in time for someone. In this series, we ask our…
Today’s colorful lead image filled with fifties cars appears to have been taken in high-class shopping district in a neighborhood of Los Angeles area. A clue in the photo that may be used to identify the exact location is the see-through placards with stars that are attached to every street light pole. As is the practice in…
Morehead Motors, a Studebaker and Packard dealership was operated by the Morehead family in Aberdeen, Washington on Market Street. Today’s feature image dating to 1955 contains a view of Morehead’s Used Car and Truck lot in a separate location. Aberdeen is a small city located one-hundred and ten miles southwest of Seattle at the confluence…
It is likely that a number of our readers have watched a video or viewed photos of early-1950s Cadillac or Packard sedans fitted with one of California inventor Brooks Walker’s patented fifth wheel parking devices. Recently we discovered that his “Park Car” mechanism constructed and filmed in the fifties was not the first one he…
“Have we got a deal for you today,” two used car lots for the price of one – almost sounds like a jingle one of the car dealers featured in this post could have used in radio spots back in time. The lead image is a view of Fred’s Auto Sales located at 1435 Sawmill…
Today’s lead photo showcases a 1960 Corvette child’s car and a mother with her children in it posing in front of one of the showroom’s side windows at White Chevrolet located in or around the Greenville, North Carolina area. Not having much knowledge about automakers children’s cars we surmise that independent companies produced these vehicles under contract…
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