Tell me about it… Milwaukee’s full of 'em! I grew up with the Davidson family there, and was just back for Summerfest, and even last week it was hard to get around downtown.
I had to drive to the office today for the first time in months. On the way there I saw a late 1970s Toyota Corolla wagon. It had aftermarket wheels and one of those annoying “fart can” exhausts, but still in interesting sight just because Japanese cars from that era are a very rare sight nowadays (apart from a few desirable ones like the 240Z). They just weren’t the type of cars people saved. And it was especially nostalgic for me because my dad had one when I was a kid.
Went to the absolutely fantastic Gilmore Car Museum outside of Kalamazoo today. Chosing just one from the huge collection would be tough enough, but they were holding their “Celebration of Brass” event this weekend with over 100 pre-1920 cars. This, of course, made picking a single “most interesting” auto just impossible. (click to see full images)
I braved the heat to take a walk today, and discovered this 1953? Chevy a block from my house.
I see this old junker every day. Google Images is telling me (based on a screenshot of this picture) that it’s a DeSoto Firedome or a Chrysler Windsor.
I passed an interesting looking mini pickup on the highway the other day. It had Dodge Ram badges on it. Later, I found it in a web search.
I couldn’t snap a photo. It was very interesting and reminded me of the Subaru Baja from some 20 years ago. It is the Dodge Ram 700… which is a rebadged Fiat Strada. The Fiat Strada is a supermini coupé utility made since 1998. The one I saw was its second generation.
It kinda looks like an updated version of an older Honda Ridgeline.
It sure does.
And the current Hyundai Santa Cruz.
As much as I’ve never been a fan of the crew cab/short bet combo, it’s those diagonal parts that go from the back of the cab to the top of the bed that were always the deal breaker for me. I can’t find a picture right now, but one of those trucks had ones that looked like flimsy plastic after market add-on fairings. I’m almost positive it’s the Ridgeline.
we have those fiat strada’s in LatAm … not a super common sight, but they are there …
those -however- are way smaller than Honda Ridgelines, etc… basically a compact car/SUV with open trunk …
I’m with you too. Visually, they just look awkward. And not just on the small ones, but also the big ones like the Chevy Avalanche.
When you live on the coast in Rockport MA and drive a Jeep Wrangler, this could be your driveway view. Not bad. Not bad at all.
Yours? I love those old stone houses.
Not mine. I do not know the owner. An old high school friend of mine lives nearby and I saw this when I visited him a couple of days ago.
And since we’re on the subject, near that stone house with the Jeep Wrangler, also in Rockport MA, there was another house with a diesel RHD Land Rover Defender, and an H1 Hummvee in its driveway.
The two other ways to tell are the headlight bezels and the rake of the car. The continuation models took out the rake and every Avanti II has the square headlight bezels while the Studebaker version uses round ones tight to the lenses.
I saw a shabby, white, Ford van (total serial-killer van, that looked like it was painted with a roller). In the one side I could see, and on the back, in pink spray paint, was ‘Bunnies’. Made me wonder…
Chevy pickup, 1950s?
