Today's episode of #DavesCarIDService is brought to you by the all new 1956 Gaylord Gladiator. Visit your local dealer today and get inside a Gaylord!
yes it was real and spectacular, a project of the Gaylord brothers of Chicago whose father invented the bobby pin. They spent their bobby pin inheritance on bringing this $17k ($200k in 2021 money) dream car to market, but it never really made it past prototype stage.
They actually contracted Zeppelin of Germany (yes the Hindenburg people) to make the bodies, and they ran Cadillac 365 engines. Only 3 were ever made, and the only customers King Farouk and Hollywood star Dick Powell. After production issues and lawsuits, Gaylord was kaput.
Happy 97th World LSR anniversary to Malcolm Campbell and the Sunbeam Bluebird from #DavesCarIDService. Powered by a 350 HP Sunbeam V12 aircraft engine, they set a land speed record of 146 mph on this date in 1924 at Pendine Sands, UK.
Apologies to readers as I have been traveling of late and shirking my car ID duties. But please keep those family album mystery car photos coming - and remember to use the #DavesCarIDService hashtag.
Always delighted to help out my ol' pal @TracesofTexas. The late model creampuffs here (L-R) are 1950 Olds, 1951 Studebaker, 1950 Olds, 1950 Plymouth, 1951 Olds, 1950 Cadillac. Flanking the Plymouth to rear are 1947 Chevy & 1947 Cadillac.
*please note: this does NOT mean you can be closer than 6 inches during slow dances
Oregon: the only state where you need government permission to kiss, and have to ask for a station attendant to pump the gasoline for your Molotov cocktails
A: go to art school
B: make painting
C: live anonymous life of desperation, addiction, and debauchery
D: die
E: somebody pays $1 million for your painting
Regular artist: A-B-C-D-E
Hunter Biden: C-E-B
Nothing says "emerging artist" like the 50 year old crackhead son of the president of the United States whose heretofore artistic medium was brokering oil & gas deals in Ukraine