1951 Plymoth in an Autozone parking lot in Mississippi
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1951 Plymoth in an Autozone parking lot in Mississippi
Looks to be in great shape too!
My dad had a pale blue '53. Very similar to this '51 but with a one piece curved windshield. And black-wall tires of course.
Beautiful car.
You know, it was always a tradition to try save the two door cars, but millions of four door cars went straight to the crusher. Glad that one survived.
Something from the same vintage.
When a grille was a grille, and a bumper certainly was.
My aunt and her husband also had '53. It had the first windshield washer system I ever saw in operation, an amazing trick back then. It was also the first car I knew that made it beyond 100,000 miles on the original engine. Chrysler used the flat-head Six until the Slant Six OHV arrived about 7 years later.
Ours didn't have a windshield washer. On muddy days my dad would clean the windshield with snow he picked up from the ditch. I don't remember what he did in the summer but since we never went very far a dirty windshield "while on the road" probably wouldn't matter very much.
That was our transportation until we bought a new Chevy II in '63.
We sold our old Plymouth to a neighbour. It probably had only 50,000 miles on it - and quite likely less than that. My dad made sure everything was in good order before he delivered it. I remember him changing the brake shoes after it had been sold.
That was our transportation until we bought a new Chevy II in '63.
We sold our old Plymouth to a neighbour. It probably had only 50,000 miles on it - and quite likely less than that. My dad made sure everything was in good order before he delivered it. I remember him changing the brake shoes after it had been sold.
Agreed. My brother had a '58 Ford. Its vacuum powered wipers only worked well when the throttle was closed. But step on the throttle and they'd almost stop. Some automotive advances are actual advances.
They normally functioned ok during normal cruise situations, i.e., part-throttle. Floor the accelerator to pass on the a two-lane road in the rain, and they'd stop.
School buses had electric wipers long before most cars did (about 1960?) My parents' 1961 Biscayne had one-speed electric wipers.
twouvakind
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AMC was still diddling with vacuum wipers in 1968
Make that 1971. I had one.
Chromed steel!
twouvakind
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Yipes!Make that 1971. I had one.
Yep. I had one myself. 1971 was the last year and AMC was the last manufacturer that used them (as far as I know).Make that 1971. I had one.
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