May 12, 2011
browncar: Simca Coupé-de-Ville This is every photo ever taken of a proud owner at a car show. I like the fixie of hipsters looking at the car, obviously thinking “what they hell is this thing”. I like the burly dude the with the white hat. I think he owns the black Austin Healey. I really like the guy with the pipe and tam-o-shanter detailing his Karmann Ghia. But best of all I like the proud owner-and-partner. This photo is from 1956, so these people are probably about as old as my grandparents, and I can really see my grandparents dressing this way, out with their Riley 2.5 or Borgward Isabella. /via VW+VW1500’s blog. Here’s the basic story of the photo: Charles Phoenix, […] sent in these slides of a 1956 car show held by the Four Cylinder Club at the Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale, California. The Four Cylinder Club was based in Glendale but had chapters all across the U.S. It was a general foreign and sports car club that, despite its name, didn’t limit membership to owners of 4-cylinder cars There’s several more photos at the link, including one of the Karmann Ghia and it’s stylin’ owner. those socks! also what is he doing with his other arm? (need to track down former members and resuscitate Four Cylinder Club Western New York Chapter)

browncar:

Simca Coupé-de-Ville

This is every photo ever taken of a proud owner at a car show. I like the fixie of hipsters looking at the car, obviously thinking “what they hell is this thing”. I like the burly dude the with the white hat. I think he owns the black Austin Healey. I really like the guy with the pipe and tam-o-shanter detailing his Karmann Ghia. But best of all I like the proud owner-and-partner. This photo is from 1956, so these people are probably about as old as my grandparents, and I can really see my grandparents dressing this way, out with their Riley 2.5 or Borgward Isabella.

/via VW+VW1500’s blog. Here’s the basic story of the photo:

Charles Phoenix, […] sent in these slides of a 1956 car show held by the Four Cylinder Club at the Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale, California. The Four Cylinder Club was based in Glendale but had chapters all across the U.S. It was a general foreign and sports car club that, despite its name, didn’t limit membership to owners of 4-cylinder cars

There’s several more photos at the link, including one of the Karmann Ghia and it’s stylin’ owner.

those socks! also what is he doing with his other arm?

(need to track down former members and resuscitate Four Cylinder Club Western New York Chapter)