Every TV news piece on Cuba shows an old US car.
Good for the US car, shame on the US.

Yeah, nothing like a nice old piece of iron hacked all to hell.

I keep seeing the 57 (or whatever year it was) Chevy (or whatever make it was) with the engine bay Sawz-All'ed all to hell running a Nissan diesel engine...

I like this because it's subtle, not real flashy.

Thomas---

That's a big ole ride!

Yes, same chassis as the big old touring car, 118" wheelbase I think.

They soon replaced the Cambridge windshield with one you could see out of.

LOL!!

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I think this would have been kind of cool...

Had me goin' there.
The Caribbean was my favorite car when I was 13, but I never saw anything but a convertible.
This pic is a "concept" and fooled me. You are right , it "would" have been cool.
There was a hardtop in the last year of production, 1956.
It also started a discussion that continues still: Is it care-eh-BE-an or ca-RIB-ee-an?
I think it is the first one.

Agreed, never heard the second one before I was married.

This guy only gets one week vacation so no time to waste. :haha:

Another Packard concept car based on the Caribbean.


https://www.conceptcarz.com/view/pho...ept_photo.aspx

Hmm, a Packard Edsel. I always find the vertical grille a little jarring on anything but a Rolls. My head knows that's silly but it's a gut thing.

My buddy sent me this picture of a truck for sale a couple miles from me.

^^^Want^^^

Actually the grill on the '56 Packard Request is closely based on Packard front-ends from the '30's +/-.

Yeah, but those went out with sword fighting and Knickers. :lol:
The prewar touches showing up in the 50's/60's were jarring.

I have owned several Packards and worked on many more, hence the appeal of this thread.
Here are two more, one actual, one just a beautiful idea.

https://blog.consumerguide.com/packard-twelve-concept/

https://blog.consumerguide.com/photo...-pan-american/

Patriot 'vettes...

Is the skeleton included in the deal?

Purty Corvettes! Made me wonder whatever happened to Susan Crane and her special edition 'Vette.

What's a Susan Crane? And...What's a Susan Crane Corvette?

Google got no clue.

Loewy's XKE...

:redcard::vomit:

I am almost certain that, if you placed my dead body in that car, I'd get up and walk away from it.

The man ruined that car.

Don't remember if I posted this before but it would make a hobby which would love you long time.

back end looks like it came from a Pinto

Pinto? I don't see any flames. :haha:

That's because Fire wouldn't be caught anywhere near that travesty...

I've never liked cars that were mostly curves at one end; but, mostly angles at the other. It just doesn't appease my sense of aesthetics.

I prefer design continuity in my automobiles, as well.

Automobiles are OK; but, I prefer cars.

And a visor!

But what they needed was an ad-visor, someone to tell them no.
I wonder if the wagon was bent to match the block or vice versa?

It was one of those early experimental all-terrain station wagons with rubber chassis and body. They didn't go into production because they couldn't get the paint to stick. The flexible plastic windows scratched easily too.

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He's really good to do that in 150 hours, but maybe lots of Bondo in it.

The guy that built this thing says it's a bear to drive so he doesn't very often.

Buick straight eights. Said to be able to pass anything on the road except gas stations.

I'll buy that, I had a '48. :D

I dislike the color combo but this Nomad is beautifully built.

The Magneto-mobile!

Um... that's kind of a stretch. :lol:

Morgans aren't stodgy anymore...

HFS Morgan rolls in his grave.

That is dead sexy.

Too bad I haven't a chance to own one.

... Of the *eight* that will ever be made.

Heh, I didn't realize there actually was one; Magneto was just the first one with a red and purple color scheme that I came up with.

I didn't either so I googled it and sure enough there it was. :haha:

When it is good, it is very very good.
But when it is bad, boom, Big Bada Boom.
One misfire in one cylinder will destroy a $30 or $40 thousand dollar motor.

Another Morgan from 2011...

Some years ago Sir John Harvey-Jones, former chairman of ICI, presented a TV series called 'Troubleshooter'.

In each episode he visited a firm which which was in need of a bit of advice to help it modernise or simply to survive.

The Morgan Car Co was the subject of one programme and I vividly remember him commenting that:

Sir John was an engaging sort with an infectious cackling laugh and a TV natural.



Ten years later he went back to a number of the firms to see how each was faring.

The Morgan segment starts at about ten minutes in.



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I suggest that you hold on to something firm while doing so. :eek:

BTW £1 = $1.24

I like those a whole lot.
Their cost is not out of line with a bunch of cars with less to offer.
As a practical matter, I will split a bottle of fragrance with one or two of you.

They gave me the US price lists which were in dollars, except the Plus Six gives me a 404 on the price.
The Plus-4 at $70k and Roadster at $80k (plus custom embroidery/piping and leather or Walnut dash, etc) are quite tempting.
However, I shan't do business with heathens who hang sweaters on hangers.

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He left in a snit.

When you spent all your money on the engine...

Slicks have lots of traction on dry pavement

Until those patches of belt blow out.

Seeing tires worn past the tread was more common years ago.
Perhaps related was that flats and especially blow-outs were too.
Up to even the forties and fifties, actually fixing (patching) a tire on the side of the road was something you occasionally needed to do. Of course you carried a patch kit and a pump. LOL

Run-flats and no spare at all are taking over.

And cell phones and AAA