Thread by @iowahawkblog

Welcome to #DavesCarIDService, home of friendly while-u-wait car identification

*car is 1966 Lincoln Continental, car on sign is 1949 Mercury

**Unlike Dave's Perfection Automotive of Austin (no relation) I am not perfect at car IDs, I just try to do my best

***If you are new to this thing, here are the general guidelines:

****one last note on that McConaughey-worthy slabside Lincoln in the garage door: it's painted in my favorite car shade, one year only 1966 Ford Emberglo. Close to UT burnt orange, thus the "BVOGLO" plates I guess.

Let's kickoff with the happy little fella, perched on the fender of a brand new 1929 Chrysler 75 Royal sedan.

https://twitter.com/MiMiHogan/status/1371106410814185475

And here's the same little fella 13 or 14 years later, all grown up and ready to fight the Axis, with his admiring kid brother and a 1940 Chevy Master Deluxe sedan.

https://twitter.com/MiMiHogan/status/1371102401361481733

Yessir, the Brommelkamps are posing with a 1934 Dodge 5 window coupe.

https://twitter.com/ToddBrommelkamp/status/1370776883760087042

No doubt about it, I gotta get me a jaunty straw boater. Off in the background behind the fam is a 1957 Plymouth Savoy.

https://twitter.com/Garysuj/status/1370768315690463234

Betty looking like she just strolled out of the pages of Vogue, entering this 1937 Buick convertible.

https://twitter.com/llong422/status/1370757624807968768

Aunt Ethel was also quite fashionable alongside her 1934 Plymouth.

https://twitter.com/ChuckZ123/status/1370753882519973892

The petty jealousy of the Little Miss Wichita runners-up is palpable in front of this 1936 Ford humpback Tudor sedan.

https://twitter.com/ohiospud/status/1368614947916283904

You can tell your kids that Great Grandpa drove a 1942 Pontiac convertible, stood alongside (I think) a 1936ish BSA 3 wheel cycle car, and that they should forever be proud of his service.

https://twitter.com/Feldorenzos/status/1368597160380538881

Two of my favorite things in the world here: a WW2 GI, and a 1932 Ford 3 window coupe.

https://twitter.com/carmackt/status/1368330068385275906

Not a lot to go on here, but I think the steak & hamburgers is blocking the view of a circa 1950 Dodge B-1 pickup

https://twitter.com/plotner_mike/status/1368196677815963648

A little tricky, but it's a Canada-specific 1953 Dodge Suburban Savoy. For years (roughly 1950-75) Detroit automakers rebadged / retrimmed cars for the Canadian market. Dodge trucks were sold in Canada under the Fargo brand.

https://twitter.com/NonninEagles/status/1368198170946191360

Yessir, I can see the tell-tale signs of a 1936 Buick sedan. And Great Aunt Estelle had a strong hat game.

https://twitter.com/LGetzler/status/1368205806445985793

These Little Rascals are on the running board of a 1927-28 Chevy sedan.

https://twitter.com/jhcannonjr/status/1368208992921600003

That'd be a 1941 Chevy coupe, with some chrome headlight shrouds from the JC Whitney catalog.

https://twitter.com/BigBobulinsky/status/1368209620179824641

Mom & her unidentified fella here got a jump on the OPEC oil crisis - and were paragons of early 70s restrained earth tone hippie grooviness - with a 1971 Toyota Corona Deluxe.

https://twitter.com/KnoedlerMatt/status/1368215999334338567

I always appreciate it when you add the hashtag to your ID requests, but photos are also very helpful.

https://twitter.com/pkhockett/status/1368367738973003776

1963-68 Jeep Gladiator Townside pickup.

https://twitter.com/TheKFV/status/1368560393602367488

I'd like to believe that the 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix being ogled by these Polish gents was the spark that resulted in the collapse of communism. Is that Lech Walesa in there maybe?

https://twitter.com/damianjpenny/status/1368561552475951109

Not sure why an Illinois-plated Grand Prix would be in Poland, but Chicago has always been Destination One for Polish emigres. Second largest population of Poles after Warsaw.

Normally a fuzzy focus narrow slice of a snowy front end would be a tough ID, but not in this case thanks to that ribbed front bumper. Definitely 1949 Plymouth.

https://twitter.com/pacificbells/status/1368569663882485766

I'm not a fire engine expert, but the chrome ball up front pegs it as an Ahrens-Fox; this one is circa 1917. The chrome ball was an air reservoir to regulate water pump outflow.

https://twitter.com/JClifford33/status/1368571294720081921

Everybody's ready to hit the holiday ro-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oad in a 1966 Ford Galaxie Country Sedan station wagon (a step below the simulated woodgrain Country Squire).

https://twitter.com/lisa_sud/status/1368598975394287620

Great photo & story, but afraid I'm a bit stumped by the bus. Best I can guess is circa 1941 International, but with low confidence. In any case it's fairly old (even for 1962), probably a 40s era school bus sold off as surplus.

https://twitter.com/vanfive/status/1368604473816453120

The big shopping center unveiling was flanked by (L) a 1968 Ford Fairlane or Torino, and (R) a 1915-16 Ford Model T.

https://twitter.com/MadMimi3/status/1368625837054984192

Tough call here, but I think behind the kid & dog is a circa 1920 Dodge touring. BTW Muscatine is where tire retreading (Bandag) was invented, and home town of Hawkeye hoops sharpshooter Joe Wieskamp.

https://twitter.com/jakey271/status/1368652255000489988

*also BTW the home of U of Iowa basketball is Carver-Hawkeye Arena, named for Muscatine tire retreading king Roy Carver.

**also also, Muscatine is home of Muscafuda (Muscatine Fun Days) and hometown of Jim Yong Kim MD, former chair at Harvard Med School, president of Dartmouth, president of the World Bank, and point guard & QB for the winless Muscatine High Muskies

Eureka! He has found it, a 1946-47 Dodge 1 1/2 ton flatbed, which would put this after his WWII service.

https://twitter.com/CrossbarHockey/status/1368653275134910467

1949-53 Studebaker 2R series truck.

https://twitter.com/HarperMcCullou2/status/1368654844924469256

These Arkansans were crazy about 1949 Plymouths; a Special Deluxe in the driveway, another in the garage (there's that ribbed bumper again).

https://twitter.com/faxonb/status/1368767709836496896

Sorry folks that's all for the IDs today, back tomorrow to tackle another batch. As always Happy Motoring!