[Harvey Hopkins]

Scarborough

St. Catherines '77

tow truck prep

'77 Toronto

 

[audifans]

1944 Toronto

They had to take snow out of the town on rail cars there was so much of it

no place to put it

 

[mavric_ac]

and Toronto drivers are horrible in the snow:laugh:

It's a national disaster here when we get 2" of snow

 

[lil' thumper]

More Toronto '77

Big Storm

1968

'88

 

[Jesarray]

The old cars in snow..... that looks like a challenge

 

[LT1M21Stingray]

and Toronto drivers are horrible in the snow:laugh:

It's a national disaster here when we get 2" of snow

They are probably better than Vancouver drivers in the snow. :laugh:

 

[LT1M21Stingray]

Charles Sheeler.

 

[barry2952]

Charles Sheeler.

Those are cool. Industrial photorealism.

 

[Ed52]

and Toronto drivers are horrible in the snow:laugh:

It's a national disaster here when we get 2" of snow

No way...it's actually 1 cm that causes major havoc..body shops and tow trucks love it! The salters and sanders are nowhere to be seen till the snow stops.

 

[jeff james]

U.S. / Mexico Border crossing

'20's

 

[RabbitsKin]

I was thinking the same thing.

As a kid, we had:

-rear drive
-no ABS
-no traction control
-no airbags
-bias ply tires
-possibly retread snow tires, but not usually


And yet, the school buses still ran, the govt. didn't shut down, everyone got to work, etc. By comparison, a modern car is light years better in the snow, and safer too. But everytime we get an inch around here....mayhem..

 

[kowabonga]

In the ditch.... a perennial adventure for many

 

[kasbah]

Calvin Coolidge and his radio equipped Buick

 

[Lightnin']

Sailing across the snow

 

[Massive Attack]

'49 Lincoln Cosmopolitan

 

[Blunderbuss]

Original "Roadmaster"

 

[vwlarry]

'49 Lincoln Cosmopolitan

Trivia factoid about the Cosmos (I can't resist ): The "sad-eyed" look of these first all-new postwar Lincolns was the result of a decision made not by the designers, but by the accountants. The original proposal for this model carried concealed headlamps, behind body-colored doors, similar to the 1942 DeSotos. But, during the tooling-up period for the new car, when the location and mounting of the headlamps was locked in, the decision came down to cancel the hidden lights. So, the designers, in a burst of "necessity is the mother of invention"-ness, fashioned the chrome nacelles that are "frenched" into the fenders to replace the doors, and the sad-eyed Cosmopolitan was born.

BTW, the bottom photo is Ronald W. Reagan, with his first wife, actress Jane Wyman.

 

[barry2952]

Trivia factoid about the Cosmos (I can't resist ): The "sad-eyed" look of these first all-new postwar Lincolns was the result of a decision made not by the designers, but by the accountants.

Ugly bulbous car is ugly and bulbous.

 

[vwlarry]

Ugly bulbous car is ugly and bulbous.

True, but a few of the details have merit. The taillamps are v. pretty, IMO, and the front "brows" over the wheel openings almost surely inspired the designers of the Mercedes Benz 300SL and 190SL.

 

[barry2952]

Meh. Leaves me cold. Not Lincoln's best effort, by a long shot.