jmg3rd posted a couple of nice shots of these old timers working up some nice brown tans. He didn’t say where this was shot, but it looks a bit Southern to me. So what have we here?
Here’s another angle to aid in your viewing pleasure. They are getting nice and brown, eh? Mind you don’t let it turn into cancer!
Cancer shows up on Studes (usually) at the rear edge of the front fender, the base of the door pillar, and the rockers, The fenders look pretty good but the pillar looks kinda iffy. If that were the hardtop, it might still be worth saving…
First thing I though of when I read the title:
I didn’t need to see that!
Ditto…I just threw up a little at that sight.
I didn’t know Leatherface had a sister.
Someone didn’t put the lotion on it’s skin…….
1952 Studes always look so strange to me. They got rid of the bullet nose and gave us a bland foreshadowing of the 1953 face.
No beauty queens in this group! Just a bunch of blue-collar cars who worked hard all their lives sitting out in the sun.
If we ignore the minivan at the end of the row, all I can wonder is how a Chevy crashed this party of independents. Stude, Kaiser, and a bunch of Ramblers. Then a Chevrolet?
I always kind of liked the 52 Stude. I was never a big fan of the bullet nose, and consider this an improvement. Every once in awhile, I come across a 52 Stude hardtop for sale, and swoon over it just a little bit. IIRC, the company had planned the new car in time for its 100 year celebration in 1952. However, the new model was not going to be ready in time, so a final facelift on the 1947 body was done at the last minute, and as a quickie job, came off fairly well.
This has to be somewhere south or west, as that Stude looks remarkably rust-free (other than it’s tan)
The Chev looks almost done.
Looks very green but it still could be Texas. Very common scene down here and I wish I had bought and stored one of these studes when it would have been so easy. Now most of them are well done and so labor and $ intensive.
I’m going to say Texas as these cars aren’t “rusted’ but “sunburned” . . . the paint and primer are gone. The vegetation and topography makes me think of the central/eastern part of the Lone Star State.
I think I can guess which way is south by their baked rear ends. Nice selection. I’d have a hard time picking which one to drag home.
The scissors-shaped trunk hinges on all the 47-52 Studebakers were gimp, and I’m not at all surprised at the ill-fitting lid on the otherwise very straight old 1952 sedan here.
I don’t know my old Ramblers all that well, but isn’t that a year run – 60,59,58,57?
The wagon is either a ’61 or a ’62. I lean toward saying ’61 because it looks like it has fins on the back. The next one looks like a 1960, and then the one with the wrap-around windshield would be a ’58 or a ’59. The one on the end looks like another ’60 Rambler.
If you leave cars outdoors unused here stuff grows I’ve just removed the front axles with motor/box attached from a couple of old cars that are growing all sorts of stuff especially on the glass you cant see thru it, this thing has a layer of filler over it but the floors are gone coastal car. Both this and its blue stablemate were dragged into harvest position by a 50s Fordson Dexta diesel that with a jump start runs fine.
Speaking of growth, I spotted this poor complete SWB ’69-’70 C10 at the scrapyard last week. The tree(s?) actually bent the grille, radiator support, and bumper over the years. Someone finally “cut it loose” and sent the truck to Vehicular Hell.
I bet it ran when it was parked (6-cylinder/3-on-tree).
The white car to the right would be a GREAT CC clue, but I don’t think I the pics I shot of it came out.
Junqueboi, I’ll take a guess at your white car clue. Appears to be a 1970 Mercury Cyclone.
Of course it ran when it was parked. You can’t park a non-running vehicle.
Great photo!
I’ll take the Chevy… to go!
I love that Studebaker, but the black Rambler wagon in the middle speaks to me the most.