OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines

[Delmonico]

Yeah but that car in the video is not a Nash, it's a 61-63 AMC American, btw it would have a flat-head six in it.

Also known as a Rambelr American.

[Leo Tanner]

Well if I at least got that song stuck in yer head my work here is finished.

[Delmonico]

Nope, didn't work, btw, a 1950 Nash Rambler convertable looks like this:







And came in at least 3 colors.

[Texas Lawdog]

The Rambler dealership in Amarillo called itself "The Home of the Teeny Weeny Gasburner"!

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Lady friend of our family had an American that she went up to the factory to pick up, a '59 if memory serves. 6 stick, replaced a '53 Studebaker that she called Nellie Belle.............Buck

[Texas Lawdog]

I had a extradition trip to South Bend, Indiana one time. I took a tour of the old Studebaker plant which is now a Museum. The got a bunch of cars and also a collection of Studebaker Bros. wagons (Conestoga). I really enjoyed it. We had a Studebaker dealership till about 62 or 63. One of my Dad's friends put a Chevy V8 in a 56 Champion. I always wanted a Silver Hawk, a Golden Hawk, and an Avanti.

[Wireman]

Avanti's were cool. I saw a pristine one when I was at Puke Unisparsity. The Wife of the long ago President had ah Big House right on campus. We did the maintenance on it. He obviously had some really good perks.

I'd take ah Rambler over ah Smart Car!

[Texas Lawdog]

I couldn't have a "Smart Car", My 6'3'' 350 body would not fit in one.

[Arcey]

My 5’10” 210 ain’t fittin’ either cuz I ain’t gettin’ in one.

Have to admit we’re seein’ more of ‘em. The folks what own the Toyota store was sellin’ ‘em outtah the ‘Miscellaneous’ store. They’ve taken over a bulidin’ from a defunct furniture store ta sell ‘em outtah now. Think they have the Mini-Coopers in there too.

[Delmonico]

Freind has one, but he's a full blowed Conservative Yuppie. (yep a bit strange)  At his Dad's funeral last yer he set the seat all the way back and told me to take it for a spin, 6' 1 1'2" and 230 don't fit either.  Told him we could get the pall-bears to toss it in the back of my pick-up and he could ride back to the church with me.

[Texas Lawdog]

Get two of them and then you would have a pair of skates!

[Arcey]

A car lot/junk yard in Ivor is sellin’ these things.

http://www.wildfiremotors.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=387&category_id=26&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=75

I’d drive it for errands ‘n such. The tailgate ‘n sides fold down to make a flat bed. Just way too expensive for a toy.

[Wireman]

More junk from China.....

[Delmonico]

Found this lookin' Wiki, but interestin'.

Wildfire Motors is a company based in Steubenville, Ohio, specializing in the sales of scooters, motorcycles, ATVs and electric vehicles. The vehicles are manufactured in China and are distributed throughout the United States.

This distributor has ten cases under review with the Ohio Attorney General and 30 with the Better Business Bureau

[Wireman]

I was lookin at ah Import thang with the Chinese for a Motorcycle front and a Truck rear end and motorized rickshaws. The truck part was just like the pitcher Arcey had. Any whoo, after investigation, they was junk. So... I'm still lookin fer that spetchel sumpin' that everbody wants and needs ta sell.

Yep! Primers are out too. Ya ever seen ah Chinese primer? At's whut I thought.

[Arcey]

What I meant by too expensive for a toy. Ya gottah figger it as disposable when it breaks.

Then again, that’s the way I look at Ford, GM ‘n Chrysler……

[Leo Tanner]

Harley Davidson made the Servicar from 45 ta 76.  Yer truck bed with two wheels under it an a motorcycle front end.  Meter maids used em fer ages.

[Forty Rod]

A car lot/junk yard in Ivor is sellin’ these things.

http://www.wildfiremotors.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=387&category_id=26&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=75

I’d drive it for errands ‘n such. The tailgate ‘n sides fold down to make a flat bed. Just way too expensive for a toy.

I tried to bring a Mitsubishi three wheel pick up back from japan in '74 and was told they weren't legal in the US of A.  Three years laer I was driving one around the McDonnell Douglas plant as a on-site utility vehicle.  Had some little four wheelers, too.  Looked a lot like this beastie.

[Texas Lawdog]

They used to have some of them over at the General Dynamics plant in Fort Worth to run parts in from one bldg. to another.

[Ozark Tracker]

They have a manufacturing plant over the line in Oklahoma just over from Ft. Smith,

look like they'd be fun to have,, I know they were looking for people to open dealerships this last spring.

http://www.tigertruck.com/

[Ozark Tracker]

coupla weeks ago, we saw several semi loads of em going down I-40, saw a article where they were takin em to Norfolk, VA  puttin em on a ship for somewhere,   can't remember where now.

[Wireman]

Those are cool little trucks.

Be good to have in City environs, or around ah big plant, universities ...


Hmmm.....


 

[Texas Lawdog]

OT, You need the crew cab model so all the dogs can ride.

[MontanaSlick]

Del, thanks fer the pix, belive it or not, I'm old enough to remember these machines back in the Nebraska's farm land.

Gran Pa Orson had 2 sections he homesteded just north of Thedford, GranPa Wilson homesteded in Pierce right after the Civil war, took 3 yrs. to get a corn crop.
Just some history fer thought.

MS

[Texas Lawdog]

Del's got a bunch of those old farming pictures.