Flemings Junkyard Photo Gallery Album Two
More pictures from one of the most unusual car show venues I ever attended! All pictures by your blogger, c2017. Please note that this year's show will not be held at the junkyard.
A 1942 Buick. Any 1942 car is rare. After Pearl Harbor and America's entry into WWII, automakers switched over to making weapons of war and did not go back to automobile production until late 1945. I believe civilian car production ceased by February of '42. This chrome-laden car identifies it as an early production model. The later into the production run, the less chrome became available. Later cars simply had painted metal in place of bright trim. These were called "Blackout" cars.
Call her Gypsy Rose Lee (a famous burlesque queen) and stick a couple of tassels on her: a very stripped 1962 Buick LeSabre.
'72 Eldorado droptop. Nice, big "torque monster" 500 cubic inch V-8 under the bonnet. Plenty of power to pass anything but a gas station!
Gas fillers concealed behind the taillight were a mid-50's fad. Cadillacs and the Continental MK II are two other cars I can this of with this feature.
After James Dean's troubled teenage character drove one in the 1955 film "Rebel Without a Cause", 1949 and 1950 Mercurys became instant icons. To find one in stock condition is rare.
Lavender '59 Mercury to die for!" Planned For People", was their slogan that year.
"Oh, Ricky! A Pontiac!"
A '57 Buick rejoins the earth.
This is what I call "patina"! Cool mid-1930's Cadillac 8 cylinder model (you could go up to 16 cylinders, if you had that kind of dough in Depression-ravaged America).
This '56 Fleetwood Sixty Special was part of the show and driven in. Either the owner likes the "patina" (I think it goes way beyond patina). Or intends to restore it someday. To me, it looks like one of the junked cars!
Announcements for each year's show always contained a 1975 cutoff, but if you had a modern muscle car, they'd let you in. I saw brand-new Chargers, Challengers, Mustangs and Camaros one year!
Love this "picturesquely abandoned" 1920s Chevrolet.
1956 Clipper. A line of copy from the sales brochure describes it as "Every Inch a Queen and Born to Rule the Road!"
'Mater Gets a Makeover
How the were marketed: two pictures taken from the sales brochure. From the literature collection of Neil Settle.
A 1942 Buick. Any 1942 car is rare. After Pearl Harbor and America's entry into WWII, automakers switched over to making weapons of war and did not go back to automobile production until late 1945. I believe civilian car production ceased by February of '42. This chrome-laden car identifies it as an early production model. The later into the production run, the less chrome became available. Later cars simply had painted metal in place of bright trim. These were called "Blackout" cars.
'72 Eldorado droptop. Nice, big "torque monster" 500 cubic inch V-8 under the bonnet. Plenty of power to pass anything but a gas station!
Gas fillers concealed behind the taillight were a mid-50's fad. Cadillacs and the Continental MK II are two other cars I can this of with this feature.
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| Handsome black over silver Torino at a time when Silver was a unique color. |
After James Dean's troubled teenage character drove one in the 1955 film "Rebel Without a Cause", 1949 and 1950 Mercurys became instant icons. To find one in stock condition is rare.
Lavender '59 Mercury to die for!" Planned For People", was their slogan that year.
"Oh, Ricky! A Pontiac!"
Just a little bronze Bug, sittin' at the car show/A little bronze bug lookin' my very best so/The people came around just to say "hello"/Even got my picture snapped by some geeky fellow/I'm just a little bronze Bug sittin' at the car show/Vroom, vroom vroom!
A '57 Buick rejoins the earth.
This is what I call "patina"! Cool mid-1930's Cadillac 8 cylinder model (you could go up to 16 cylinders, if you had that kind of dough in Depression-ravaged America).
Mildly customized '53 Coupe de Ville.
Love this "picturesquely abandoned" 1920s Chevrolet.
This 1956 Chrysler has been waiting a long time for service.
1960 Imperial LeBaron. A personal favorite of mine. Love that font!
Car is the star: 1960 LeBaron makes an appearance in "Butterfield 8". Photo from imcdb.org 
Closer view of old Texaco Station! So Cool!
Artwork on the tailgate of a pickup.
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