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12-29-2011, 11:02 AM | #1 |
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Period photo of an accessorized Sport Coupe
Check up those headlight visors!!
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12-29-2011, 11:26 AM | #2 |
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Re: Period photo of an accessorized Sport Coupe
Were sidemounts an option on a sport coupe from the factory? I'm putting together a 29 and it came with welled fenders. They sure look good in the picture.
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Love your photos. Thanks for posting them ! MIKE |
12-29-2011, 02:53 PM | #4 |
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It looks like the "period" was late 1960's.
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12-29-2011, 04:16 PM | #5 |
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Love your photos. Thanks for posting them ! MIKE Mike, Thanks glad you enjoy them. Marco, The photo is very old, I did crop it and take the sepia out of it, but here is the original. I believe it is early 30's |
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A fashion buff could possibly nail it down. It could be late 30's. The car has single sided white walls, new top, and certainly appears to have new paint and stripe on the body.
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Re: Period photo of an accessorized Sport Coupe
My guess is the photo dates from the late 50s-early 60s. It doesn't look to be from the Model A era. The car looks like it had one of those 'restorations' pictured in early 1960s issues of The Restorer & Model A News.
The guy's clothes sorta give it away. Popped collar, sweater, and the like reminds me of the way men dress in those 50s-60s TV shows. |
12-29-2011, 07:34 PM | #8 |
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I don't know.....but somewhere around here I've got photos of dad with two-toned shoes like that. In the thirties.
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12-29-2011, 07:35 PM | #9 |
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Here is another period picture of a Model A with some accessories.
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12-29-2011, 08:11 PM | #11 |
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Picture is cool, but the white walls gotta go!!!
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12-29-2011, 08:46 PM | #12 |
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I have handled many thousands of antique photos and this one is OLD. It does not look or feel anything like a 50's or 60's photo would and it has a burn on the corner, wrinkles and the general type of age and crazing you see on a photo that old.
In enlarging it here I see that it is a period license plate, it has a bent front bumper, looks like a very nice repaint (you can see his pants reflected in the paint on the door) with non factory stripe and the whitewalls are painted on. Tim......Thanks for that neat photo of yours, the headlight visors look very similar. The out- board motor is neat and the hubcaps are pretty wild. Last edited by t-head; 12-29-2011 at 08:53 PM. |
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I can't comment on the physical attributes of the photo. I'm simply going by the attire of the person by the car and what appears to be a very amateur restoration of the car. As a historian I have a rather large number of old photos in my personal collection(some of which I've posted on my site) and will argue the point that a photo from the 1950s can indeed 'feel' like a photo that is older, most certainly one that has not been taken care of. Types of paper, photo size, any trademarks etc can identify the period the photo was taken better than the subject matter can. |
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I love the lightning-bolt emblem across the radiator, in that one photo... I wonder if that made the car go faster?
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No way this is early 60s unless this kid was the most un-cool kid in Highschool.
This is early to mid 40s. I have a photo album full of college kids dressing this way. He is showing off his gow job and is dressed up to boot. The high waist, type of sweater and collars on the shirt would have me dating the photo around 1944.
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This is interesting, trying to nail the era of this Spt Cpe. I would just about agree with Jason in it being during the War era. He is wearing those 2 tone leather shoes & clothes do not look '50's, certainly not '60's. The Model A looks a bit worn, check the dinged front bumper & w/w tires appear done as a paint on job? A guy that young probably could not have afforded a second hand A in the Thirties, but by the Fourties they would have been cheaper.
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12-30-2011, 01:12 AM | #17 |
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the lightning bolt was an aftermarket accessory
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12-30-2011, 04:14 AM | #18 |
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Nice piece Tom, I have seen those "Doll Up" radiator Bars in several early photos and wondered what they were.
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There was a lot of two toned shoes in the 50ts and 60ts in our area. Plus those head light shades were popular with some folks in the 50,60ts, Look at the front bumper it is bent back. Looks like a 50,60ts photo.
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