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Post by **the mingo** » November 5th, 2009, 12:42 am

General George Armstrong Custer's Favorite Half-Breed Indian Scout Car

Post by **Artguy** » November 5th, 2009, 8:55 am

It has become no more or less natural than the forest around it....It is a picture of our future as mother nature takes it all back....

Post by **the mingo** » November 5th, 2009, 12:12 pm

It could be so, Kurt, it could be so. There are surprising things in store for sure.

Post by **mtmynd** » November 5th, 2009, 12:25 pm

1948-49 Dodge or Plymouth, maybe..?

Nice pic, el mingo... me gusta...

Post by **the mingo** » November 5th, 2009, 2:33 pm

... I think it's merc mt, three letters left on the trunk lid, E...U...Y... ...but my guess is you're right about the years. I thought it was a Dodge too when I first came upon it.

Post by **WIREMAN** » November 5th, 2009, 6:05 pm

nice slice....do you all remember how them old cars used to smell when you got inside one of 'em?

Post by **the mingo** » November 5th, 2009, 10:46 pm

Yes I do indeed.

Post by **judih** » November 5th, 2009, 11:41 pm

a little fixin up
good as new
last another 100 yrs

Post by **jimboloco** » November 6th, 2009, 5:57 pm

you an me too

Post by **stilltrucking** » November 6th, 2009, 11:23 pm

I thought it was a Packard at first but it must be a Mercury going by the letters on the trunk. Two piece windshield must be around a 1949-to 1951 because Ford went to one piece windshield in 1952. About the same year as James Dean's Mercury in "Rebel Without a Cause." a 1949 Mercury. The 1948 looked like the pre-war models because all the factories were not retooled yet.

Anybody old enough to remember how easy it was to hotwire one of those old cars with a piece of aluminum foil? You could use the foil wrapper off a stick of gum.
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On the subject of old cars...

Can anyone loan me seven hundred and seventy five thousand dollars? I need to buy this car.

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Post by **stilltrucking** » November 7th, 2009, 4:08 am

It could have been my father's car. I always wondered what happened to Crazy Mike's 1951 two tone 51 mercury. Like a Proustian cookie for me. Speaking of smell I can smell the tobacco, Model pipe tobacco he always smoked. Knocked his pipe out on the dashboard. The car reeked of that sweet pipe tobacco. Remember the night I stole it and stalled out in the middle of Pulaski highway. So scared ran back to the house to get jitterbug to help me push it back home.

Yeah I loved that old car. So easy to steal those old cars, three posts on the ignition switch, hot wire two of them and touch the third with the foil. Dean Moriarity didn't have nothing on us in 1954.

Post by **the mingo** » November 7th, 2009, 1:32 pm

That Bugatti is something else. Art Deco supreme. Wouldn't mind having that myself. I'm heading back down to the scout car. See if I can get the year off the tail lights.

Post by **Arcadia** » November 8th, 2009, 1:00 pm

organic resting machine, lovely!!!

Post by **dadio** » February 9th, 2011, 4:32 am

If cars could talk...Good capture.

Post by **the mingo** » February 10th, 2011, 11:58 am

Thx, dadio. If I could get back down in the woods I'd find that car completely buried in snow.

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