Thread by @iowahawkblog

Today's episode of #DavesCarIDService is brought to you by the all new 1952 Dodge Coronet. Bring your friends to your local Dodge dealer and take one out for the blindfold test!

*yes, it's a parody, but based on a real Dodge ad.

As we begin our Sunday services, let us car ID seekers open our hymnals to page one and join in the old familiar I Will Follow Thy Guidelines Dave:

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Always happy to help local history museums; the newest vehicle visible here is the pickup, a 1958-59 Chevy (or GMC) Fleetside, so possible pre-statehood. And I feel I should visit the Sky Bowl in Soldotna Alaska and roll a few frames.

https://twitter.com/hpamf/status/1424133507660451840

Hangin' out
Down the street
The same old thing
We did last week
Not a thing to do
But sit on the hood of a 1957 Dodge C-series panel truck

https://twitter.com/cvavuris/status/1424032291035049989

I always appreciate a little background story on photos, but... TMI, Chuck. Also, the car is a 1961 Chevy Impala.

https://twitter.com/chucksavga/status/1421068981939621890

The car is a 1953 Ford Customline, but the star here is the lovely house. Florida maybe? I used to fantasize about living someplace with palm trees during the Iowa blizzards of my youth.

https://twitter.com/thebrakesareoff/status/1419362216017645569

You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey in a wondrous car whose boundaries are that of imagination. There's a signpost up ahead- your next stop: the 1939 Studebaker Commander Zone

https://twitter.com/jfisher736/status/1419290940716507139

A 1937 Chevy coupe, fading into the fog of time

https://twitter.com/fobrg/status/1416476372042719232

The double suicide doors and windshield tell me 1934-35 Dodge sedan. And I think I need that press sign for the Dave's Car IDmobile

https://twitter.com/fobrg/status/1416216372699451399

Oh, there's nothing halfway
About the Iowa way to treat you
When we treat you
Which we may not do at all.
There's an Iowa kind,
A kind-a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude,
We've never been without that we recall.

(And the truck is a 1948-52 Ford)

https://twitter.com/michaelddaley/status/1415083520238792709

Man this is a tough one. Pic may be 1914 but I'm pretty sure Great Gramps' touring car was at least a few years old. I'll take a stab at ~1911 Buick Model 33 but not a lot of confidence.

*by 1912 pretty much every touring car had front doors, with the exception of Ford Model T and this isn't one. Henry Ford was miserly when it came to production cost, and even when side doors were added to the T the driver's "door" was only ornamental and didn't actual open.

Ol' Texas cowhand Hap drove a 1968 Pontiac Bonneville 4 door hardtop, and wasn't afeard of any dang rattlesnake.

https://twitter.com/shiftzz/status/1415012848846135298

Unk's Olds ragtop was a mighty 1970-72 442; blur makes specific year difficult. The Olds Cutlass 442 option wasn't an engine, it stood for 4 barrel/ 4 speed/ dual exhaust. A very collectible car today, especially the 455 cubic inch W-30 version.

https://twitter.com/DonChase5553/status/1402251666364248068

The snowbound coupe here is a 1939 Plymouth.

https://twitter.com/BrunoKenmore/status/1414987001045168129

*I apologize for the sometimes lengthy delay in getting to ID request, and appreciate your patience. It would help greatly if more of you followed the guidelines.

Another spectacular Texas image from our old amigos at @TracesofTexas: Center car is a 1949-50 Pontiac, to its right are 49 Olds, 46-48 Ford, 50 Packard & 49-51 Ford; to left 3 straight 46-48 Chevys. Squint hard, maybe you can see 9 year old Janis Joplin.

https://twitter.com/TracesofTexas/status/1422754198576373761

The two pace cars are rather spectacular specimens: a 1940-41 Graham Hollywood, and a 1930-34 American Austin Bantam roadster. The small race cars were known as Midgets, a minor league driver's stepping stone to racing at Indy.

https://twitter.com/HazeDoran/status/1422192397216190466

If the Graham reminds you of Gordon Buehrig's 810/812 "coffin nose" Cord, it's not a coincidence; Graham (of Evansville IN) bought the tooling from the defunct Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg empire in 1938. Alas, by 1941 Graham too was out of the car biz.

*I have a 1938-41 Graham Hollywood supercharger somewhere in my parts pile, one of the weirder car items I own. HMU if you need one.

Here's another midget racer, a late 1930s Kurtis Kraft. Midgets were often powered by Ford V8 60 motors, occasionally an exotic Offy. And those are the most well dressed people I've ever seen at a dirt track.

https://twitter.com/JohnPlunket/status/1417204772810240008

It was all fun and games bicycling along, smoking and eating baguettes and playing the accordion, until WHAM you run smack into a 1931ish Citroen C4G

https://twitter.com/acceleratingJoe/status/1416762524054265863

Earliest this could be is the extremely late 1940s, after September 1949; car in the lower right is a 1950 Mercury coupe. The car with split wraparound rear window is a 1948-49 Studebaker, and in front of it is a 1949-50 Ford.

https://twitter.com/CryptoSpike/status/1416452733473804293

By golly I believe that's a 1932 Ford Fordor behind these gals' outdoor kaffeeklatsch.

https://twitter.com/brianmflatley/status/1416455337935351824

Yessir, I detect a snow covered 1953-54 Ford in front of the 64 Chevy.

https://twitter.com/swizze_gfrank/status/1415815003094007814

I think that's Earl Cooper behind the wheel of the Stutz race car in this humorous gag shot, and time frame is around 1920 (ht @drpizza007)

https://twitter.com/weird_hist/status/1417169376726470656

*The occasion would have been the delightfully named California Raisin Day Classic, an annual car race that initially took place on shut down public highways.

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