Today's #DavesCarIDService celebrates oversleeping! Due to which I came to class somewhat unprepared, without my usual tedious rambling lecture on some arcane aspect of car history. So I'll fall back on an old crowd-pleasing topic: rock star & their cars.
Ladies first! The woefully underappreciated Detroit tomboy cutie pie Suzy Quatro, waving from sunroof of a circa 1935 Austin Ruby hot rod. In her homeland she is best known as "Leather Tuscadero" of Happy Days, but reached her biggest stardom in the UK. She added some gritty American protopunk muscle to the British music charts in the 1970's, a bit like the American V8 I believe is lurking under that Ruby's hood. The dual quad tunnel ram velocity stacks poking out tell me it's got at least a Small Block Chevy.
Being a chivalrous gentleman I will continue with the ladies, and the ladiest lady of them all: America's beloved long reigning musical queen, Dolly Parton. I spy some fine junk in the trunk of her 1964 Cadillac Sedan de Ville.
You know what? Executive decision. Today we're focusing on FEMALE rock stars with cars. Voila! A cohesive topic has emerged. So here's another set of iconic classics, Debbie Harry and a 1966 Ford T-Bird coupe. Hmm... thinking this might've been shot by @chrissteinplays?
Now a five-for-one female rock star car ID, the Go-Gos with a 1964 Mercury Monterey. Peering from the Breezeway retractable rear window, my pal @kathyvalentine, Jane Wiedlin, & Gina Schock; flanked on the fenders by Charlotte Caffey and Belinda Carlisle.
Aha! Thank you kind sir for confirming. Chris Stein is aces at music, photography and just being a fine fellow. I highly recommend his terrific memoir, wherever fine books are sold.
@chrissteinplays
@iowahawkblog NYC car c 1976. Notice the bicycle lock holding down the hood, likely to protect the battery among other things
Phew! A worthy last-minute topic pulled out of the hat. Got a favorite female rock star with a car? Country, R&B, Soul, Jazz, it's all good, share 'em in the replies. Meanwhile I'll get to work on solving some of those reader mysterymobiles.
I've had a few new follows recently. So I will explain my car ID threads are, by design, a sanctuary from politics. It's a group project where people share splendid snapshots from their family albums, and I go all OCD to ID the cars in them. Use the #davescaridservice hashtag to submit one, but if you dare inject politics into these threads I will promptly, cheerfully, and permanently block you.
"I'm Grandpa, this here's Grandma, and we rob banks."
Now this is the top shelf content I live for, and is going straight into my Bonnies & Clydes treasure vault. The getaway car here is a 1928-29 Ford Model A Tudor, but with later 30-31 Ford wheels.
@BBQWhenICan
My grandparents on my dads side. Mildred and Wilburn. Doing their best Bonnie and Clyde up around Osborne/Belleville KS. My guess, 1930 or so. Any idea of the ride #DavesCarIDService https://t.co/AQoCJtHima
*And may I add "Mildred and Wilburn" might just be the most perfect Depression Era couples name? Dang, you could write an entire novel using that photo as a prompt.
Another stylish and sassy A+ grandma from late Great Depression days, this time behind a 1937-38 Oldsmobile Sedan. The 37-38 Oldsmobile and 39 Chevy sedan had those kinda floating high mount bullet rear taillights.
@ajwimsatt
@iowahawkblog
Here is my classy and sassy grandma back in the day!
Allow me to recollect it for you sir. As a feral buzzcut child you were photographed next to a 1958 Rambler 6 sedan. To my dying breath I will claim it was the design ripped off by Mercedes for their later "fintail" sedans.
Must've been late 1958, because the future prez is emerging from a 1959 Ford Galaxie 2-door post, and approaching over by the Western Auto store is a 1959 Chevy.
@_mjcurry_
JFK campaigning in Sheboygan, WI - 1958. p/c Sheboygan County Historical Research Center. #DavesCarIDService https://t.co/ky9mgWvIFZ https://t.co/wY29IvYQsY
Well Heather, I can tell you that all 3 ancestral Sunshine sedans are different, and photos are post-1923. In #1, a 1928 Buick; in #3 a 1925 Dodge Brothers; and in #3 a 1926-27 Buick Master 6, and per California plates photo is 1927.
@arglebarglegarg
@iowahawkblog #DavesCarIDService
Here are some assorted dearly departed family of mine posing circa 1923. Same car or different ones? Thank you for help in identifying the car or cars! https://t.co/yc0mw79RDT
*by the way, if you have multiple old family photos in need of a car ID, feel free to break into individual requests. Sometime the photos are worthy of individual attention, like Ms. Sunshine's splendid family keepsakes.
My pal @MattWelch appropriately asks "what is this" in Czech, because this dandy pork product wagon hails from the Czech Capital of Texas, West. Visit West Fest and enjoy its world renowned kolaches and sausages! Truck: 1939-40 Dodge.
@MattWelch
That seems like a handsome work-truck, #DavesCarIDService! Co to je? https://t.co/SzmOTjyLDX
*As I've noted before, Central Texas is chockablock with towns once settled by German and/or Czech immigrants. We can thank them for chicken fried steak (adapted from schnitzel) and the distinctive accordion-driven, oompah polka beat heard in Tejano/ Norteno music.
Aww. Unk looks like one of the fellers from "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" with a mop full of Dapper Dan, and Auntie his pretty plaid siren. Bonus points for the doggo. Car is a 1941 Chevy Special Deluxe, and I suspect photo is somewhere 1941-47.
@smitty927
#DavesCarIDService Uncle and aunt. Couldn’t guess the year as these two never seemed to age. https://t.co/pz0jasValE
I can add that behind the classy mama and the VW Samba in #2 is a 1962 Ford Galaxie, a bit of 1963 Chevy, and hints of a 1964-67 Ford T-Bird; in #2, a frisson of 1964 Chevy Impala.
@Bkthou
More from June 1967. It’s obviously a VW bus in the background, but other mystery machines are in this time capsule of a photo. #DavesCarIDService https://t.co/keiIXJSoXr
But the payoff is the tough as nails fancy dame. Shades of nasty theatrical agent Jane Plough (Doon Mackichan) in the hysterical Matt Berry series "Toast of London." Pronounced "Pluff."
Thanks for sharing tons of terrific pics from life as an American oiler in 1950s/60s Saudi Arabia, which I will be IDing in the next few weekends. My wife's cousin is married to a petro engineer and similarly raised kids there in the 90s-00s.
@58ARAMCOBrat
.@iowahawkblog #DavescarIDservice
10,000 Amis in Saudia, in ‘American’ towns so housewives would live there. Women could drive. Kids went to American schools. Petro engineers could build ‘stills’ ... ‘research refineries’. #CarsofARAMCO
Pics are from this book printed in 1960:
5 https://t.co/jF993qFVZJ
Off the bat: holy moly, a 1934 Ford Deluxe phaeton in the sands of Araby. One of my favorite cars ever, and if still there I would dig down through a sand dune to get it.
@58ARAMCOBrat
.@iowahawkblog #DavescarIDservice
Broken cars in unusual places? How about the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.
I've got a sneaking suspicion this oil prospecting car is the same 1934 Ford Deluxe phaeton. Pretty practical for the task - room for 4 or 5, and a canvas top that provided shade and open ventilation. In the desert heat you'd be cooked alive in a sedan.
@58ARAMCOBrat
.@iowahawkblog #DavescarIDservice
How long have Americans looked for oil in Saudi Arabia?
Thanks for the context, and looks like Pops made enough dough over there to visit Palo Alto Jaguar and let you test drive a '63ish Jag XKE roadster. Beside it, a couple of Jag Mk II saloons.
@58ARAMCOBrat
.@iowahawkblog #DavesCarIDservice
You previously did this car ID for me. We were back in the USA in ~1963 in the Palo Alto area.
Back from …? Dhahran, Saudi Arabia where we lived from ’58 to ‘70. I’d like to share some pics and history about that. #CarsofARAMCO https://t.co/6MmUCB8UyY
Speaking of rock stars and cars, the late great session guitarist Jesse Ed Davis was a Native American of Kiowa descent and played for Dylan, multiple Beatles, Clapton, you name it. And holy smokes his early tour bus was a fuel injected 1961 Corvette.
@MattWelch
Jesse Ed Davis & The Continentals, circa 1962. Que es esto, #DavesCarIDservice? https://t.co/owgyVCQWrU
*I highly suspect the photo is for PR purposes only. While a C1 Corvette fuelie is one of the coolest cars ever, somewhat impractical as for a 4-piece band tour van. Love that Playboy rabbit on the bass drum.
Time to move on to street & wilderness mysteries, and another request from @MattWelch. Oddly another 1961 Chevy Corvette, just like the one in his Jesse Ed Davis request, but this time without the Fuel Injection option.
You never know what you might find in a New Mexico ghost town: a colony of space aliens, chupacabras, maybe even a circa 1970 Opel Kadet wagon. Man I love Tomahawk building.
@NHJeffersonian
@iowahawkblog #DavesCarIDService We’re driving thru NM and decided to take the old Rte 60 instead of the quicker Rte 25. I love finding these old abandoned places and exploring them. They tell a story! Next to this defunct service station was this little gem. What is it? https://t.co/EhVqVNLx14
This Big Easy eccentric is a circa 2003 Daihatsu Hijet. Another one of those cutesy Japanese market-only "Kei" cars (Nissan Figaro et al) that finally become legal in the US market after they reach the 20 year US antique car import loophole.
@johnhboyer
@iowahawkblog Saw this odd mini truck(?) here in New Orleans. What in the world is it? #DavesCarIDService https://t.co/ljkHCb4T8G
Since it's Female Rock Star day today, I'm not gonna miss the chance for a Anne & Nancy Wilson reference. Here are the dynamic sisters, no Barracuda but a '56 Ford T-Bird and a Range Rover.
Today's #DavesCarIDService celebrates oversleeping! Due to which I came to class somewhat unprepared, without my usual tedious rambling lecture on some arcane aspect of car history. So I'll fall back on an old crowd-pleasing topic: rock star & their cars.
Ladies first! The woefully underappreciated Detroit tomboy cutie pie Suzy Quatro, waving from sunroof of a circa 1935 Austin Ruby hot rod. In her homeland she is best known as "Leather Tuscadero" of Happy Days, but reached her biggest stardom in the UK. She added some gritty American protopunk muscle to the British music charts in the 1970's, a bit like the American V8 I believe is lurking under that Ruby's hood. The dual quad tunnel ram velocity stacks poking out tell me it's got at least a Small Block Chevy.Being a chivalrous gentleman I will continue with the ladies, and the ladiest lady of them all: America's beloved long reigning musical queen, Dolly Parton. I spy some fine junk in the trunk of her 1964 Cadillac Sedan de Ville.You know what? Executive decision. Today we're focusing on FEMALE rock stars with cars. Voila! A cohesive topic has emerged. So here's another set of iconic classics, Debbie Harry and a 1966 Ford T-Bird coupe. Hmm... thinking this might've been shot by @chrissteinplays?Now a five-for-one female rock star car ID, the Go-Gos with a 1964 Mercury Monterey. Peering from the Breezeway retractable rear window, my pal @kathyvalentine, Jane Wiedlin, & Gina Schock; flanked on the fenders by Charlotte Caffey and Belinda Carlisle.Aha! Thank you kind sir for confirming. Chris Stein is aces at music, photography and just being a fine fellow. I highly recommend his terrific memoir, wherever fine books are sold.Phew! A worthy last-minute topic pulled out of the hat. Got a favorite female rock star with a car? Country, R&B, Soul, Jazz, it's all good, share 'em in the replies. Meanwhile I'll get to work on solving some of those reader mysterymobiles.I've had a few new follows recently. So I will explain my car ID threads are, by design, a sanctuary from politics. It's a group project where people share splendid snapshots from their family albums, and I go all OCD to ID the cars in them. Use the #davescaridservice hashtag to submit one, but if you dare inject politics into these threads I will promptly, cheerfully, and permanently block you."I'm Grandpa, this here's Grandma, and we rob banks."
Now this is the top shelf content I live for, and is going straight into my Bonnies & Clydes treasure vault. The getaway car here is a 1928-29 Ford Model A Tudor, but with later 30-31 Ford wheels.*And may I add "Mildred and Wilburn" might just be the most perfect Depression Era couples name? Dang, you could write an entire novel using that photo as a prompt.Another stylish and sassy A+ grandma from late Great Depression days, this time behind a 1937-38 Oldsmobile Sedan. The 37-38 Oldsmobile and 39 Chevy sedan had those kinda floating high mount bullet rear taillights.Allow me to recollect it for you sir. As a feral buzzcut child you were photographed next to a 1958 Rambler 6 sedan. To my dying breath I will claim it was the design ripped off by Mercedes for their later "fintail" sedans.Must've been late 1958, because the future prez is emerging from a 1959 Ford Galaxie 2-door post, and approaching over by the Western Auto store is a 1959 Chevy.Well Heather, I can tell you that all 3 ancestral Sunshine sedans are different, and photos are post-1923. In #1, a 1928 Buick; in #3 a 1925 Dodge Brothers; and in #3 a 1926-27 Buick Master 6, and per California plates photo is 1927.*by the way, if you have multiple old family photos in need of a car ID, feel free to break into individual requests. Sometime the photos are worthy of individual attention, like Ms. Sunshine's splendid family keepsakes.My pal @MattWelch appropriately asks "what is this" in Czech, because this dandy pork product wagon hails from the Czech Capital of Texas, West. Visit West Fest and enjoy its world renowned kolaches and sausages! Truck: 1939-40 Dodge.*As I've noted before, Central Texas is chockablock with towns once settled by German and/or Czech immigrants. We can thank them for chicken fried steak (adapted from schnitzel) and the distinctive accordion-driven, oompah polka beat heard in Tejano/ Norteno music.Aww. Unk looks like one of the fellers from "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" with a mop full of Dapper Dan, and Auntie his pretty plaid siren. Bonus points for the doggo. Car is a 1941 Chevy Special Deluxe, and I suspect photo is somewhere 1941-47.Peering through the blur, I can see that behind Dad and his wheelbarrow full of toddlers is a 1969 Plymouth Satellite wagon.I can add that behind the classy mama and the VW Samba in #2 is a 1962 Ford Galaxie, a bit of 1963 Chevy, and hints of a 1964-67 Ford T-Bird; in #2, a frisson of 1964 Chevy Impala.But the payoff is the tough as nails fancy dame. Shades of nasty theatrical agent Jane Plough (Doon Mackichan) in the hysterical Matt Berry series "Toast of London." Pronounced "Pluff."Thanks for sharing tons of terrific pics from life as an American oiler in 1950s/60s Saudi Arabia, which I will be IDing in the next few weekends. My wife's cousin is married to a petro engineer and similarly raised kids there in the 90s-00s.Off the bat: holy moly, a 1934 Ford Deluxe phaeton in the sands of Araby. One of my favorite cars ever, and if still there I would dig down through a sand dune to get it.I've got a sneaking suspicion this oil prospecting car is the same 1934 Ford Deluxe phaeton. Pretty practical for the task - room for 4 or 5, and a canvas top that provided shade and open ventilation. In the desert heat you'd be cooked alive in a sedan.Thanks for the context, and looks like Pops made enough dough over there to visit Palo Alto Jaguar and let you test drive a '63ish Jag XKE roadster. Beside it, a couple of Jag Mk II saloons.Speaking of rock stars and cars, the late great session guitarist Jesse Ed Davis was a Native American of Kiowa descent and played for Dylan, multiple Beatles, Clapton, you name it. And holy smokes his early tour bus was a fuel injected 1961 Corvette.*I highly suspect the photo is for PR purposes only. While a C1 Corvette fuelie is one of the coolest cars ever, somewhat impractical as for a 4-piece band tour van. Love that Playboy rabbit on the bass drum.Time to move on to street & wilderness mysteries, and another request from @MattWelch. Oddly another 1961 Chevy Corvette, just like the one in his Jesse Ed Davis request, but this time without the Fuel Injection option.You never know what you might find in a New Mexico ghost town: a colony of space aliens, chupacabras, maybe even a circa 1970 Opel Kadet wagon. Man I love Tomahawk building.This Big Easy eccentric is a circa 2003 Daihatsu Hijet. Another one of those cutesy Japanese market-only "Kei" cars (Nissan Figaro et al) that finally become legal in the US market after they reach the 20 year US antique car import loophole.And if the real thing don't do the trick
You better make up something quick
You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn to the wick Ooooooooh, BARRACUDA
(Specifically 1965 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S)Since it's Female Rock Star day today, I'm not gonna miss the chance for a Anne & Nancy Wilson reference. Here are the dynamic sisters, no Barracuda but a '56 Ford T-Bird and a Range Rover.
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Today's #DavesCarIDService celebrates oversleeping! Due to which I came to class somewhat unprepared, without my usual tedious rambling lecture on some arcane aspect of car history. So I'll fall back on an old crowd-pleasing topic: rock star & their cars.
Ladies first! The woefully underappreciated Detroit tomboy cutie pie Suzy Quatro, waving from sunroof of a circa 1935 Austin Ruby hot rod. In her homeland she is best known as "Leather Tuscadero" of Happy Days, but reached her biggest stardom in the UK. She added some gritty American protopunk muscle to the British music charts in the 1970's, a bit like the American V8 I believe is lurking under that Ruby's hood. The dual quad tunnel ram velocity stacks poking out tell me it's got at least a Small Block Chevy. ... Being a chivalrous gentleman I will continue with the ladies, and the ladiest lady of them all: America's beloved long reigning musical queen, Dolly Parton. I spy some fine junk in the trunk of her 1964 Cadillac Sedan de Ville. ... You know what? Executive decision. Today we're focusing on FEMALE rock stars with cars. Voila! A cohesive topic has emerged. So here's another set of iconic classics, Debbie Harry and a 1966 Ford T-Bird coupe. Hmm... thinking this might've been shot by @chrissteinplays? ... Now a five-for-one female rock star car ID, the Go-Gos with a 1964 Mercury Monterey. Peering from the Breezeway retractable rear window, my pal @kathyvalentine, Jane Wiedlin, & Gina Schock; flanked on the fenders by Charlotte Caffey and Belinda Carlisle. ... Aha! Thank you kind sir for confirming. Chris Stein is aces at music, photography and just being a fine fellow. I highly recommend his terrific memoir, wherever fine books are sold. ... Phew! A worthy last-minute topic pulled out of the hat. Got a favorite female rock star with a car? Country, R&B, Soul, Jazz, it's all good, share 'em in the replies. Meanwhile I'll get to work on solving some of those reader mysterymobiles. ... I've had a few new follows recently. So I will explain my car ID threads are, by design, a sanctuary from politics. It's a group project where people share splendid snapshots from their family albums, and I go all OCD to ID the cars in them. Use the #davescaridservice hashtag to submit one, but if you dare inject politics into these threads I will promptly, cheerfully, and permanently block you. ... "I'm Grandpa, this here's Grandma, and we rob banks."
Now this is the top shelf content I live for, and is going straight into my Bonnies & Clydes treasure vault. The getaway car here is a 1928-29 Ford Model A Tudor, but with later 30-31 Ford wheels. ... *And may I add "Mildred and Wilburn" might just be the most perfect Depression Era couples name? Dang, you could write an entire novel using that photo as a prompt. ... Another stylish and sassy A+ grandma from late Great Depression days, this time behind a 1937-38 Oldsmobile Sedan. The 37-38 Oldsmobile and 39 Chevy sedan had those kinda floating high mount bullet rear taillights. ... Allow me to recollect it for you sir. As a feral buzzcut child you were photographed next to a 1958 Rambler 6 sedan. To my dying breath I will claim it was the design ripped off by Mercedes for their later "fintail" sedans. ... Must've been late 1958, because the future prez is emerging from a 1959 Ford Galaxie 2-door post, and approaching over by the Western Auto store is a 1959 Chevy. ... Well Heather, I can tell you that all 3 ancestral Sunshine sedans are different, and photos are post-1923. In #1, a 1928 Buick; in #3 a 1925 Dodge Brothers; and in #3 a 1926-27 Buick Master 6, and per California plates photo is 1927. ... *by the way, if you have multiple old family photos in need of a car ID, feel free to break into individual requests. Sometime the photos are worthy of individual attention, like Ms. Sunshine's splendid family keepsakes. ... My pal @MattWelch appropriately asks "what is this" in Czech, because this dandy pork product wagon hails from the Czech Capital of Texas, West. Visit West Fest and enjoy its world renowned kolaches and sausages! Truck: 1939-40 Dodge. ... *As I've noted before, Central Texas is chockablock with towns once settled by German and/or Czech immigrants. We can thank them for chicken fried steak (adapted from schnitzel) and the distinctive accordion-driven, oompah polka beat heard in Tejano/ Norteno music. ... Aww. Unk looks like one of the fellers from "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" with a mop full of Dapper Dan, and Auntie his pretty plaid siren. Bonus points for the doggo. Car is a 1941 Chevy Special Deluxe, and I suspect photo is somewhere 1941-47. ... Peering through the blur, I can see that behind Dad and his wheelbarrow full of toddlers is a 1969 Plymouth Satellite wagon. ... I can add that behind the classy mama and the VW Samba in #2 is a 1962 Ford Galaxie, a bit of 1963 Chevy, and hints of a 1964-67 Ford T-Bird; in #2, a frisson of 1964 Chevy Impala. ... But the payoff is the tough as nails fancy dame. Shades of nasty theatrical agent Jane Plough (Doon Mackichan) in the hysterical Matt Berry series "Toast of London." Pronounced "Pluff." ... Thanks for sharing tons of terrific pics from life as an American oiler in 1950s/60s Saudi Arabia, which I will be IDing in the next few weekends. My wife's cousin is married to a petro engineer and similarly raised kids there in the 90s-00s. ... Off the bat: holy moly, a 1934 Ford Deluxe phaeton in the sands of Araby. One of my favorite cars ever, and if still there I would dig down through a sand dune to get it. ... I've got a sneaking suspicion this oil prospecting car is the same 1934 Ford Deluxe phaeton. Pretty practical for the task - room for 4 or 5, and a canvas top that provided shade and open ventilation. In the desert heat you'd be cooked alive in a sedan. ... Thanks for the context, and looks like Pops made enough dough over there to visit Palo Alto Jaguar and let you test drive a '63ish Jag XKE roadster. Beside it, a couple of Jag Mk II saloons. ... Speaking of rock stars and cars, the late great session guitarist Jesse Ed Davis was a Native American of Kiowa descent and played for Dylan, multiple Beatles, Clapton, you name it. And holy smokes his early tour bus was a fuel injected 1961 Corvette. ... *I highly suspect the photo is for PR purposes only. While a C1 Corvette fuelie is one of the coolest cars ever, somewhat impractical as for a 4-piece band tour van. Love that Playboy rabbit on the bass drum. ... Time to move on to street & wilderness mysteries, and another request from @MattWelch. Oddly another 1961 Chevy Corvette, just like the one in his Jesse Ed Davis request, but this time without the Fuel Injection option. ... You never know what you might find in a New Mexico ghost town: a colony of space aliens, chupacabras, maybe even a circa 1970 Opel Kadet wagon. Man I love Tomahawk building. ... This Big Easy eccentric is a circa 2003 Daihatsu Hijet. Another one of those cutesy Japanese market-only "Kei" cars (Nissan Figaro et al) that finally become legal in the US market after they reach the 20 year US antique car import loophole. ... And if the real thing don't do the trick
You better make up something quick
You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn to the wick Ooooooooh, BARRACUDA
(Specifically 1965 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S) ... Since it's Female Rock Star day today, I'm not gonna miss the chance for a Anne & Nancy Wilson reference. Here are the dynamic sisters, no Barracuda but a '56 Ford T-Bird and a Range Rover.
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