Time for another visit to residential areas of the past and the vehicles found on driveways and curbsides. As usual, it’s a mix of homes, neat roads and nice rides of the past. So check out what’s around these neighborhoods and let’s see if any of these cars tickle your fancy.
Great pictures with nice color.
What’s the blue car in the second photo, a Dodge? I can’t make out the badge on the fender. Possibly Coronet?
Yes, 1953 Dodge Coronet
https://www.classic.com/veh/1953-dodge-coronet-sedan-34607197-N4AOObW/
59 Olds wagons were rare! All 59 GM cars were essentially the same, and all had big V8s and automatics, so there wasn’t much reason to spend extra money for the Olds version.
All ’59 GM cars were had the same body structure, glass, etc. True, but there were plenty of six cylinder Chevrolets built that year, many with three speeds. We had the cheapest Brookwood two door wagon that year, not a big V-8, but the small 283 and yes, Powerglide automatic, whitewalls, radio and heater.
Yes 1953 Dodge Coronet
Thanks, Ken!
Doesn’t that accessory bumper guard alter the appearance?
And not beneficially!
Gee, where I grew up, cars were “in” the driveway, not “on” it. Interesting,
English is a strange language, for sure…
Indeed; where we park on (in) a driveway and drive on a parkway.
I am partial to the ’62 Valiant V200 Sedan – I have 2 of them.👍
The red Valiant and the bungalow with yellow trim are my early sixties American dream, just need a pool and Tiki bar in the back garden to complete the picture.
Like that pic too!
In that first picture, it appears that the Oldsmobile station wagon is nearly as long as the main part of the house (without the garage) is wide. The Olds probably didn’t fit into the garage, either, which seems barely big enough to accomodate the Beetle. I realize house sizes are much larger today than in the 1950s and 1960s, but that is eye-opening!
Housebuilders were slow to adapt to big cars. My parents bought a new house in 1957, and their ’57 Chevy wagon was a tight fit. The doors wouldn’t open fully. Cars got even bigger in ’59.
Even in the “70’s”, cars could go on in. Opening the doors once ya got in there though…..
That’s a “30’s”, house too.
Garage doesn’t look original to the house.
Photo #6
For the longest time, I did not care for the early Falcon. Compared to the competition from GM and Chrysler, the Falcon was completely uninteresting.
But I’ve recently come around to them. I admire the simplicity, both in design and mechanical bits. They’re a sort of proto-Volvo 140/240.
Green, “60’s Coronet”, pic is a “Cali”, neighborhood for sure.
My family’s just barely middle class home in the ‘burbs of New Orleans, circa 1967-ish. Mom’s “Suburban Status Symbol” 1966 Ford Country Sedan wagon, Dad’s 1963 1/2 Falcon Sprint peeking out of the bottom right of this picture. The lighter colored slate shingles are replacements from when hurricane Betsy “visited” #NOLA; had not had time to turn to the color of the other 1958 original shingles.
Mark, I like the small yard. would take a 12 yr old “me” about 20 minutes to mow!
(I live in family’s original `55 ranch on almost an acre. Still today it takes me a couple hours!)
The front yard seemed huge to my in grade school, pushing a heavy non-self propelled Sears & Roebuck lawn mower thru all that thick St. Augustine grass every 4 or 5 days during the 8 months per year that we call “Summer” in New Orleans.
Today, I drive by this house, and I wonder how the yard shrunk down so much.
#3 could have been in the recent Hawaii-pics post. Looks like somewhere in Manoa or St Louis Heights, in HNL.
Thank you! I was pretty sure it was Hawaii.
Am intrigued by the spooky looking house hiding behind the ’53 Dodge. Down South somewhere?
I’m getting a Hawaii vibe from #3 too. Reminds me of the view from Aiea Heights Drive in the ’60s.
Pretty neat pictures .
Hard to choose just one .
-Nate
Pic # 5 looks like it could be near the house in this pic:
https://www.shorpy.com/1960-chevrolet-parkwood?size=_original#caption
1963 – In one driveway we see a ’63 T-Bird coupe and a beautiful ’63 Sunliner. The houses on the street and the street itself are not so great. It is winter and they’ve got these two very nice, upscale Fords sitting outside. Is this suburban Detroit somewhere and the cars belong to a Ford employee?
The Falcon is just perfect – exactly what it was meant to be. Evan noted the Falcon’s merit. I’d be proud to have that car and Henry Ford would have been proud that his company built it.
I don’t think that 59 Olds wagon would fit in the garage. The VW will.
63 Galaxie convertible 62 Thunderbird
Great photos.
#1 The ’59 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 is wearing a New Jersey license plate.
#2 ’53 Dodge Coronet with a black ’49 or ’50 Chevrolet Fleetline 2 door in the
background.
#3 ’56 Chrysler Windsor in white.
#4 A very sharp ’59 Ford Galaxie Sunliner.
#5 I really like that all red ’62 Valiant from California.
#6 Good basic transportation on this first year ’60 Falcon.
#7 ’65 Dodge Coronet in two tone with a ’73 Buick LeSabre or Centurion in the garage.
#8 ’63 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible with one of the big block motors, probably the 390,
idling in the driveway behind a ’62 Thunderbird with a Studebaker Hawk in the
background.
#9 A nice line up. ’65 Galaxie 500 4 door with one of the big blocks and in all red,
followed by a ’65 Impala Sport Coupe, and a ’64 Impala SS Sport Coupe.
It was 1963 and Dad went looking at a Ford 500 XL. The one in the showroom was red. But I spied a 1963 T-Bird and in my 11-year old mind, no choice. Dad bought the T-Bird. Like the picture of a 1963 Ford convertible with the 1962 T-Bird.
Patrick Bell reports that “The ’59 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 is wearing a New Jersey license plate.” When I first saw that picture, I thought, “That DOES look like NJ–probably Essex or Union County!”
My late Aunt Phyllis lived in Springfield, and just around the corner from her place I found this house on Colfax Rd. It looks as if it was constructed by the same builder as the house in Photo #1. The problem is, the remodelers (“remuddlers”) have stripped away so many of the distinctive, charming features these houses once had. Contrasting materials in siding, real shutters, window boxes, etc. all get covered over with vinyl. So you have to find vintage photos to see how these houses were intended to look before later owners confounded the architects’ beautiful renderings. I guess people don’t care how charmless and dull their houses look, as long as they’re “maintenance free!”
Yea I have a 66 galaxy 500 and a 63 falcon which a 4 speed
Picture #5: Red Plymouth or Dodge sedan
Above the garage door. Is that some type of bird house with the 4 holes or some type of ventilation system??
Wouldn’t want that in the south for the wasps would build a nest in it.
#7 nice screw up. 65 Dodge in the driveway and a 73 Buick in the garage. Can’t fool 2 of us true geadheads that caught this boo boo in the 1st glance. Nice try. Thinking more of the pics are of cars that are collector cars as non are dirty and all wsw tires are clean and bright white. Not in my upper middle class neighborhood in the 60’s!