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6 Nov, 38 tweets, 12 min read
Today's episode of #DavesCarIDService is brought to you by Turbonique™ rocket-powered drag axles. Give your car that extra zip enjoyed by dozens of satisfied Turbonique™ customers like Roy "Mr Pitiful" Drew and his 183 mph Black Widow VW Beetle!
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Before diving into today's batch of car mysteries, please take a minute or two to read the guidelines before tweeting me an ID request. I don't want to miss any of those swell old family album photos of yours.

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Boy howdy, here's a good one to kick off today's thread: a top-of-the-line 1955 Ford Crown Victoria coupe, and while I can't tell for sure it may be one of the 2,000 made with the acrylic glass transparent roof option.
*In 1954-56 Ford offered the "Skyliner" glass roof option on Crown Vics, and the similar 1954-55 "Sun Valley" option on Mercury Montclairs. As you can imagine the ant-under-magnifying glass effect led to its demise.
**Ford continued the "Skyliner" model in 1957-59, but during that time it referred to the retractable hard top convertible option.
<tilts head> Likely early 1930s. Big truck is a 1930-31 Chevy, small one is a 1928-29 Ford Model A roadster pickup. "Ice Man" may sound like a great nickname but was a brutal way to make a living.
Aaah, much better. Please remember to rotate / crop those photos in your ID requests.
Your handsome and debonaire escorts to the Allenberry Playhouse Tunnel of Love await, ladies. But the car isn't a Cadillac, it's a 1958 Chevy Impala.
I hope you're not disappointed by the revelation that the car is a Chevy instead of a Cadillac. By and large late 1950s Chevys have proven to be more valuable on the collector market than their Caddy counterparts. Would probably come as a shock to 1958 car buyers.
These two hugbuddies are leaning on a 1959 Ford Galaxie convertible. Not the aforementioned Skyliner, this is the regular fabric convertible top Sunliner.

Awwww. To the left of the little gal posing with her favorite baby dolly is a 1933-34 Ford.
Time to break up the Ford-Chevy monotony with this 1950-51 Nash Rambler "tin woody" wagon; not real wood but painted on. And Mom & Dad had the town beauticians and barbers on their A game that day.
Fearless Fosdick says Get Wildroot Cream-Oil, Charlie
Pretty sure this Highlander and his wee lassie are inside a ~1937 Morris 14/6 Saloon.
This bit of Florida Noir features a 1946-48 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 or 98 sedan. Man, that is one swanky neon sign.
The loss of these beautiful old filling stations is a tragedy. Car in question is a 1952 Studebaker Commander sedan, and looks like some greaser punk swiped his hubcap.
Ring the bell, we have a first-time brand car ID! Welcoming home the doughboys here is a ~1917 Owen Magnetic touring car. Kind of an amazing make, the world's first hybrid electric car.
*Owen Magnetics (1915-22) had a gasoline engine that powered an electric generator, which powered a driveshaft to rear wheels. Made in NYC, Cleveland, and Wilkes Barre PA, and infinitely cooler than a Prius.
Gotta say "The Car of a Thousand Speeds" is a dandy ad slogan.

Incidentally Jay Leno has an Owen Magnetic in his garage, which Mr. @ARTofCOOP and I got to snoop around some years ago.
Interesting composition in this shot, featuring a 1935 Chevy coupe.
Took a bit of digging, but I'm pretty confident Great Grandpop's whip was a ~1925 Willys Overland sedan.
Cheap gas down by the Chop Suey palace! Not completely sure, but I think car on left is 1925-26 Dodge touring. Car on right is definitely a 1928-30 LaSalle sedan.
The swaggerin' gunslingers of the Old West were still around as late as 1935, as evidenced by Granddad's 1935 Ford. BTW I owns me one of them.
kind of a challenge here, but I'm 95% confident it's a 1926 Hudson or its low price brand Essex. Only car off top of my head that had suicide doors fore and aft in this era.
Fantastic pic of Booker T Washington. Unfortunately not enough visual for a solid ID on the car (tho I venture a 1911ish Hudson). Gas cannister on running board (for the gas headlights), left hand drive, and doors say car is solidly in 1911-13 era though.
Can I say how much sheer delight I take in these vintage photos of yours? They really make my day.

That said, it's time to move onto the wilderness & street find portion of our program, starting with this Wine Country 1936 Ford pickup.
A very handsome 1937 Ford Deluxe Phaeton, and in Portugal to boot. FDR had a similar 1936 Ford Phaeton equipped with hand controls that he famously enjoyed driving.
Lucky for you I have rescinded my ban on 1957 Chevys (nothing against 57 Chevys, I just think that everybody should be able to automatically ID one).
1966 Oldsmobile Toronado, the first American car since the Cords of the late 30s made with front wheel drive. The FWD Cadillac Eldorado, based on same platform, would follow in 1967.
1930 Ford Model A Fordor
1965 Ford Mustang fastback. Still the best selling debut year car model of all time.
1926-27 Ford Model T Tudor sedan. Swan song for the venerable Tin Lizzy, which would be replaced by the Model A in 1928.
1964 Mercury Comet
A rather sinister looking 1973 Olds Delta 88
1952 Chevy 2 door hardtop with AR 5 spoke daisy mags
One of my favorite cars in the world, a 1936 Ford cabriolet, in front of my favorite bar in the world, the Mai Kai Fort Lauderdale
And on that cheerful note, I am clocking out for the day. Back tomorrow AM for another round of automotive mysteries. Until then, Happy Motoring!

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