Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 10/25/2019 at 08:45 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Okay, all you old car aficionados. Get busy ID’ing these cars. Here’s the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! if you think it might help.

Oh, and happy Friday, y’all.

InFierority Complex > ttyymmnn 10/25/2019 at 08:47

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Such a shame that cars all have to look alike nowadays. So much more variation back in the good old days.

pip bip - choose Corrour > ttyymmnn 10/25/2019 at 08:59

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ford, chev and a few others

:D

I love you but I've chosen hooning! > InFierority Complex 10/25/2019 at 09:00

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Starred because not everyone will get it.

Ash78, voting early and often > InFierority Complex 10/25/2019 at 09:19

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There is no room for subtlety on the internet anymore, or so I’ve heard.

+1, totally agree.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 10/25/2019 at 09:20

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Is it considered modelist if I say they all look the same? I mean, I’m not a modelist, I’m just curious if I can state that fact.

Thomas Donohue > ttyymmnn 10/25/2019 at 09:24

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I don’t see any lamp posts, but I’ll get to work trying to ID that crane.

JeepJeremy > ttyymmnn 10/25/2019 at 09:30

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Woah!!! This photo keeps getting better the longer you look at it

So many awesome cars! 

fintail > ttyymmnn 10/25/2019 at 09:44

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I see a number of cars that would have been brand new, kind of surprising, but I suppose DC was a more prosperous area than most. For the jokers who say all cars look alike, everything here is easy to differentiate, I see no real mystery cars - I think front ends on these cars are more distinct than the gaping big mouth bass trend and upkick beltline 6 window look favored by sychophant “designers” today.

The oldest cars in the pic are around 10 years old, expected as cars aged a lot faster then. I see a number of cars that would be desirable today even though this era of cars has cooled in the market - convertibles and 3 window coupes. No foreign cars as expected, due to realities of the time and that American cars were generally the most modern and robust in the world.

For odd or rare cars, the 36 Ford phaeton at kind of lower left couldn’t have been common even then, and the 39 Mercury convertible at lower right is also unusual. The late model Lincoln Zephyr parked at left in front of the little parking office is also a good spot.

user314 > InFierority Complex 10/25/2019 at 09:51

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ttyymmnn > fintail 10/25/2019 at 09:52

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Thanks for the lengthy reply. I’m kind of drawn to that Allied moving truck in the back.

fintail > ttyymmnn 10/25/2019 at 09:59

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That’s a tougher one, perhaps a Reo or Diamond T, maybe a Dodge, all ca. 1935.

The brownstone style apartment in the background being torn down already is also interesting.

ttyymmnn > fintail 10/25/2019 at 10:21

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Yeah, I never thought of how much residential DC was razed to make way for Federal DC. 

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > InFierority Complex 10/25/2019 at 10:21

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It is so annoying to heear that phrase over and over at car shows.
Every decade had their go-to shapes. Differences were mostly headlight counts and taillight shapes.

Of course no other car looks like my 1960 Bel Air

That last one’s mine :)

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > fintail 10/25/2019 at 11:56

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Folks will say America became dependent on the car in the 50s but forget the massive adoption started in the 20+30s, was tempered by the depression and ww2.

Meanwhile in Germany only 1:50 owned a car. 

fintail > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 10/25/2019 at 12:55

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Car culture was a 50s thing, but cars as tools and lifestyle enablers for working class people was a 20s thing, thanks to Model T and friends. And for as bad as the depression was, most people were still employed in the 30s, so cars still sold too.

W orking class Europe didn’t really motorize until the 50s or 60s , as you hint at - prewar, for most, cars were for the solid middle class and higher.

ranwhenparked > ttyymmnn 10/25/2019 at 19:52

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Middle 3rd row from bottom had great taste - ‘36 Hudson and a new  ‘39 Chrysler side by side.