want to touch up on your welding skills try this

 

I have to assume that is a "flower car" as most every one of those ever made were. Amazing art, that sucker is one of the best ever!

Brian

 

Is this a rare option or what

 

That is fantastic!

 

A rare rear???

Later gator
Russ

 

!951 Mercury with B/U Lites and a crumpled Montana Lic Plate!

BB :thumbup::thumbup:

 

you missed it

 

OH MY GOD it's got a rear wiper!

Brian

 

Yea and the Only one I have ever seen,
:thumbup:

 

Could that be original?


Brian

 

HOLY CRAP, it looks like it is! 1951 Lincoln Mercury Accessory Rear Window Wiper Partial Kit 4264 | eBay

Brian

 

I don't really know the article didn't say but the way it is mounted thru the chrome trim I would guess yes

 

Wow, I missed it too David. Just thought you were talking about the BU lights.

I have an origional 49-51 Lincoln/Mercury shop manual but they are not mentioned.

John

 

Speaking of rare. Have any of you seen one of these in real life. I know they were built, are covered in the shop manual, and I saw one for sale once on line but never saw one in person.

Loncoln Cosmo fastback.

John

 

Johnny Jacks has one he has had about 15 years,,bad part is ,he chopped the top I think 4 in and has all the welding finished but never painted (about 10 years )
he put it on a 70 -71 LTD frame used all the same running gear 429 and C6
It would be a great ride if he would finish it ,

 

Good one! I also missed it! Boy how I hated Vacuum wipers! You wished like heck they'd work going up hill and marveled how fast they'd go down hill!

BB :thumbup::thumbup:

 

Good one! I also missed it! Boy how I hated Vacuum wipers! You wished like heck they'd work going up hill and marveled how fast they'd go down hill!

BB :thumbup::thumbup:

My vacuum wipers work great with a 454. Even with its low vacuum at idle, when you accelerate a bit the vacuum goes up. And with a 454 you don't need to open that throttle past the point where it's making more vacuum anyway, especially in the rain! Love 'em. When I first rebuilt the vacuum motor and on another group exlaimed how I love them, well you can guess the replies. Just have to think of the accelerator pedal as a wiper speed control. :thumbup:

 

Remember these

 

I never had one but my brother did in a custom '49 Merc. It did not like rough roads.

John

 

LOL on the tracks,,i had a GP but it only worked with the radio.

 

Check this vintage car transport, WILD!

I never would have dreamed they would have done that!

Brian

 

The aircraft your looking at is a WWll Douglas C 47 Skytrain. That door was created obviously for cargo loading but also to allow Jeeps to enter along with a piece of field artillery. The C 47 was essentially a DC 3. The C 47 was the workhorse of the War.
I believe Areovas was owned by Pan American Airways. I wonder what "El Presidente" was shipping his new Caddy?

Great picture!!

BB :thumbup::thumbup:

 

This will make it fit


cadillac with 5th wheel - Bing video

 

THAT is incredible !! I had never seen anything like that before. I wonder if there are any cars left with that installed ??

 

I saw an article don't remember wher they sold the kit from 1950 until 1955 so some might still be around

 

 

That is pretty cool. Never seen a car where you had to start your starter motor before! If you had to drive that to the grocery store, your ice cream would be melted, and your milk would be churned to butter! I like it.:thumbup:

Dave

 

Imagine what that would look like after OSHA got done with it...

Him reaching over that open jack shaft looks like an "accident" waiting to happen..:nono:

 

i've seen that hit n miss car video before, it makes me smile just to see it move

 

Never saw this clip before,you can clearly hear the blower which it was not suppose to have.

https://www.facebook.com/AmericalGraffitiPetaluma/?fref=nf

 

I can't hear this on this computer but neither of those cars had blowers, it must be a gear drive. The 55 had a tunnel ram with two fours.

Wait a minute! That is about an 2000 Ford Ranger! This was shot a few years ago who knows if those are the original cars or what ever.

Brian

 

There were at least 3 55 used in filming plus camera car ,,It was suppose to be a 427 tunnel ram 2x4 ,,but they used a 454 ,one with 2x4 and 1 with single 4 because the 2x4 engine kept loading up and fouling plugs ,,they had to use different cars for the certain scenes,,But NOT a Blown engine which this clearly has,,

Clip might be from American graffiti part 2
???? part 2 ,

 

As far as I know and I am a nut on this film. I hit a girl running across the street with my mom's 68 Impala driving to a store to get the StreetRodder Graffiti cars issue. ain:

The three cars were the car you see, the car that crashed which had a full cage in it and the one that burnt (a 265 powerglide with single exhaust) that was the only cars used from what I know.

This was a very low budget film and I seriously doubt the did anything but remove the tunnel ram off the car if anything.

There were no special cars for the interior shots, they simply put the camera mounted to the car or on a truck in front of the car that was being towed.

Brian

 

Don't show much ,
but it is all I can find


The 1955 Chevrolet driven by Bob (Harrison Ford) was actually three different cars: the "hot rod" version that is seen the most--which was also the same car used in the earlier Two-Lane Blacktop (1971))--one for interior camera shots and one for the rollover after the drag race. Both the "hot rod" '55 and the 1932 Ford coupe were bought from the studio by an individual in Overland Park, Kansas, in the mid-1980s who restored them back to their movie appearance.

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The Ford Coupe driven by Paul Le Mat's character had a 1966 Chevrolet 327 cu.in. engine. The black 1955 Chevy driven by Harrison Ford had a Chevrolet 454 cu.in. engine capable of doing 11-second quarter-mile times.

 

I couldn't find a shot of the 55 in American Grafitti but did from 2 lane blacktop.

Brian

 

Here is one from TLB



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