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Re: Pat [steve_] by pat HOST
Jul 02, 2009 (6:33 am)
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Replying to: steve_ (Jul 01, 2009 8:28 pm)

Also true of earlier versions of IE, but the links are just plain not there in Firefox no matter the text size. This is a recent development.
 
I agree - if people would post their pics in their CarSpace albums and then display them from there, most problems would be avoided.
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Re: Reduce picture [imidazol97] by andys120
Jul 02, 2009 (6:49 am)
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jul 02, 2009 6:16 am)

Does anyone know what city the picture is representing? Maybe that explains why the cars are the American Motors and Kaiser (Henry J) cars
 
Don Draper, the principal character of Mad Men, is a resident of Ossining, a Westchester County suburb of New York. I would say that the photo is not a true representation of the automobile fleet in an affluent NY suburb c. 1960, like the one I grew up in. Statistically there ought to be more Big Three cars and perhaps a Triumph or Porsche as these were certainly becoming popular among the ad men and Wall Street types who populated those towns at the time.
 
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Re: Reduce picture [andys120] by wgrafer
Jul 02, 2009 (7:55 am)
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Replying to: andys120 (Jul 02, 2009 4:50 am)

Posted 11 minutes before your post:
"the light blue coupe looks like a 1951 Henry J,"
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Re: Reduce picture [andys120] by lemko
Jul 02, 2009 (9:27 am)
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Replying to: andys120 (Jul 02, 2009 6:49 am)

Ossining? Isn't that where the infamous Sing-Sing prison is located?
 
Anyway, I recall the episode of "Mad Men" where Don Draper wrecked his Dodge and replaced it with a new 1962 Cadillac.
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Re: Reduce picture [lemko] by andys120
Jul 02, 2009 (10:22 am)
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Replying to: lemko (Jul 02, 2009 9:27 am)

Yes, indeed Sing-Sing State Prison is located on the Hudson in bucolic Ossining.
 
Ossining was also the home town of author John Cheever, famed as a chronicler of suburban angst.
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Re: Mystery motor> [stephen987] by andys120
Jul 02, 2009 (10:44 am)
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Replying to: stephen987 (Jul 02, 2009 6:00 am)

...the sheetmetal doesn't look right, especially that black corrugated piece in the upper left corner of the pic, which reminds me of the plastic engine cover of a Fiat X1/9.
  
I'm stumped.

 
Any day I can stump Stephen 987 is a good day. Anyone else wanna try this one, he's actually getting warm?
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Re: Mystery motor> [andys120] by fezo
Jul 02, 2009 (11:39 am)
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Replying to: andys120 (Jul 02, 2009 10:44 am)

Nah. He's already taken all of my best guesses.
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Re: Mystery motor> [fezo] by andys120
Jul 02, 2009 (11:54 am)
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Replying to: fezo (Jul 02, 2009 11:39 am)

This should explain the strange metal piece surrounding that motor>
 
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Re: Mystery motor> [andys120] by cooterbfd
Jul 02, 2009 (11:55 am)
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Replying to: andys120 (Jul 02, 2009 5:32 am)

This HAS to be a Corvair motor. That fuel pump is distinctive. Beins as how it has an alternator, it's in the '65-69 version.
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Re: Mystery motor> [andys120] by cooterbfd
Jul 02, 2009 (11:57 am)
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Replying to: andys120 (Jul 02, 2009 11:54 am)

OK, so it's a Corvair Pickup.

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