Regular CC readers know that in the last few years, vintage photos have become a regular CC staple. Today, I have a special request, and would like to encourage readers, contributors, and authors to share those visual memories with us. As a place to exchange car interests, automotive history, and personal experiences, vintage images at CC have done wonders in reawakening distant recollections and emotions. It’s been a rewarding process, and we like to remind you all that it’s open to those who feel they have something to share.
If you’re a reader and wish to be part of the experience, you can mail those images to [email protected] (preferably at the highest resolution possible, ideally at least 1200 pixels wide). If you’re an author or contributor, you can send them our way too, or better yet, put them up with your own storytelling. Several have done so, and as with COALs, they’ve found it a very rewarding experience.
I’ve truly enjoyed putting these vintage image collections together, not because they present a perfect version of history, but because they reveal the ordinary moments that usually fade away: family cars in driveways, road trips, gas stations, first cars, and forgotten daily drivers. Some of the most memorable images we have shared came directly from readers, contributors and authors, and have done much to expand the collective memory at CC.
So, if you got some and have some incline to share them, don’t overthink it. After all, the cars people actually lived with—and the memories attached to them—are often the stories most worth preserving.
Note: Opening photo, Jim Matusiak in his 1973 Mercury Montego, and the kid in sunglasses photo is Jeffrey Dunn, in a 1960 Continental.
Don’t see these in this condition very often.
Never know what you’ll find in Nawlins (New Orleans)
Nice Tow Car.
Recognize that picture. It was taken on Canoga Ave. in Chatsworth CA. in front of ‘Restorations by Julius’, a well known Mopar restoration shop.
How dare you park there.
Don’t worry, I chained it to a pole.
George Barris sells tool, too.
Oh, just put that stuff anywhere..
Retired, teacher living “4” house down the hill; her “Montego” was the same color ((no vinyl top)) as the one in the opening pic.
I think she put about “3K”, a year on the odometer. ((likely less))
The “67 Galaxie”, sdn she traded in for the “Merc” might a got “5k” a years on it’s clock.
Used to cut her grass. Most a the lawns on our block were postage stamp size..
Mt Kisco, NY
Not a car but car-related. Beltsville, Maryland 1982
Bridgehampton Race Circuit, Long Island NY 1977
Indiana 1993 and 1994
Indianapolis Soapbox Derby 1993
Indianapolis 1994
Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum, Auburn IN 1993
The opening pic is identified as a “Torino”. Can’t enlarge the pic; fender does not appear to read “Torino”.
It’s a Mercury Montego.
Nice ;
I took lots of photos in the 1970’s, sadly none remain .
-Nate