It’s a great thread on the Forward Look website; eBay also has 'em. I’m saving them for one day (someday
) when I can make a separate webpage for them.
Here’s a question: Is the wagon in this pic, a '59 Suburban?
Dan
It’s a great thread on the Forward Look website; eBay also has 'em. I’m saving them for one day (someday
) when I can make a separate webpage for them.
Here’s a question: Is the wagon in this pic, a '59 Suburban?
Dan
It is a 59 Suburban. It’s on the right side of the picture
Not a lot of replies, anybody wants to see more 59 Plymouths in postcards?
Ron
Ooh! I do!!
Dan
Great stuff, i see them on ebay from time to time, but i dont bother to bid on them…
Bob
Neither do I but I always try to save them on my computer. Just as much fun and a lot cheaper ![]()
Ron
I believe the one with the orange frame around it is a 58
yeah, but he meant the one that just drove by on the bridge overpass ![]()
It IS fun to see the '59s in various now-extinct locales. I believe Ken Josephson (in Las Vegas, with 3 wagons) has a large collection of like photos.
My dad had our wagon from new until he traded it in on a '65 Ply wagon. The '59 had developed a bad shimmy and was rusting (we lived in New York State). While we had it, It made at least one roundtrip across the U.S., and was taken each summer on a multi-week road trip. It was our only car.
I was 3 when he bought it, and 8 or 9 when he traded it in. I don’t recall seeing any other 59 Plymouths while we owned it.
When i was a young car crazy kid in the early 60s, i recall a neighbor having a 59 Plymouth and it was gray, but i dont recall either seeing any others around…
Bob
Being born in 1962 as a car crazy kid and had never seen a 59 Plymouth until 2001
That was when I saw my car for the first time! From documentation I know there must have been some Savoy’s used as taxi in some cities but I had never seen one, that why I told my dad (when I was about 4 years old) I wanted a 59 Impala when I was old enough to drive. I wonder what you told your father?
Ron
You are cheating, too many 57’s in your postcards
the first one is a 57, in the second picture I see a 60 Dodge (front) and a 60 Plymouth (rear), in the fourth I see a 57. Am I missing any bridge overpasses ![]()
Yeah, well, I should have Matthew vet my postcards first ![]()
Dan
Sorry,
I can’t send him over now, sorry. He still has a lot of work to do before my sport Fury can go to the painter, he did a lot today and he will show his work later I guess.
Ron
Well Ron, if you are asking ME, here is my story: I was raised on the East Coast of the U.S. (NY State..born in 1956), where foreign cars have always been favorites of car lovers.
I followed the lead of my older brother who variously owned a 1959 Lincoln, a Porsche 356 and a Jaguar XK-150. (He bought the Jaguar for $90!) His close group of high school buddies’ cars included a Morgan Plus 4, an MGA, and ??. As I got more interested in wheels for myself, I would ride my bicycle around the neighborhood and notice cars that werent being used. Having neither much money nor courage, I would look- but not act. My first purchase was a Fiat 1100, but I never got it to run. I watched a 58 Buick Special, but never spoke to the owner. Finally I bought a Fiat 600 and put new rings and bearings in it (very amateur work), but I never felt confident enough to plead with Dad to license it.
My ideas were not very practical.
I did not actually put a car onto the road until I was 22, and leaving college. I bought a 1965 ChevyVan and drove it acoss the country. It had been a Sears Roebuck Service truck and had MANY miles on it…although it didnt leak oil or send out blue smoke, it consumed 13 GALLONS of oil on the drive from Chicago to Sacramento!