Umm; there’s some sweet cars in this shot, at the L.F. Jacod & Co. Chrysler-Plymouth Used Car Lot. Can you identify them?
Vintage Postcard: “Everybody Drives A Used Car” – I’d Like To Drive Some Of These
– Posted on November 14, 2022
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First on left is a 1934 Ford
Then a 1935 Plymouth.
Then another 1934 Ford
Then a 1935 Ford behind the man in the right center.
Behind those cars is 600 square foot office.
I think the man on the right is a Great War veteran named Floyd – the “F” in “L.F.Jacob” and he has a limp on his left. The other guy is waiting a customer that’s bringing him lunch and a fresh pack of Luckies.
LOL
I’d have a hard time choosing which one to try first .
-Nate
That looks like a 1933 Cadillac V12 peeking into the picture in the road at the far right. Near that looks like a 1930 Packard with Woodlite headlights. Next to that looks like a 1932 Chrysler Imperial. I recognize some others but will let other people play the game too.
Those first 3 look like Chrysler products to me – 1 and 3 are 1933-34 Plymouths and I think the 2nd one is a 35 Dodge?
That picture isn’t good enough for me to ID the first really big car. The body shape reminds me of a Marmon Sixteen, but that grille looks more like a Rolls. That thing probably sat there for a long time in the Depression.
The huge, multi-cylinder luxury cars of the 1930s depreciated steeply (particularly those made by the marques that became “orphans”). A fair number of them disappeared during the World War II scrap metal drives.
Kinda like modern day V12 BMWs, only without the scrap metal drive.
I do wonder what these 1930s cars would be like to drive. The oldest car I have ever driven on public roads is a certain rather infamous 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air sedan when it was 50 model years old.
I’ve read operating those big 20s and early 30s luxury cars were like driving an old truck. Ponderous with heavy controls. Not much fun, no wonder wealthy people were happy to have chauffeurs.
> a certain rather infamous 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air sedan when it was 50 model years old.
The one that was used in that crash test?
We have a winner!
Hey 210, that’s really exciting! I don’t think it was infamous, just famous. After all, nobody would buy one as a daily driver believing it’s a really safe car, and I don’t think others its own age were any better. I’d like to know a little more behind the story of that test.
Would love to know where the pic is taken! That house, serving as the office, looks like several that used to be in my hometown.
The one street had five of them in a row,
At least one, two were already “tumbling down” in the early 1960’s.
Three went away in 1969 for a shiny new “Atlantic station”.
The part of the lot where he house stood became a row of about “8 parking spots”.
Three/four, were occupied by “Hertz Rent a Cars” for a time.
The big car with the wide whitewalls to the right appears to have woodlites for illumination.
It’s in Englewood NJ, across the Hudson from the northern tip of Manhattan and north of Fort Lee. That explains the multiple fine cars.
We bought a ’35 Plymouth two-door sedan in black like the second from left when I was 5 years old. It was our family’s first car. We named it Leaping Lena. It was a mess. The front seats tipped forward and sat back on homemade wood blocks. The model year was identical to its useful top speed. I remember helping my mother put a coat of tar-like paint on the mid section of the roof. It was before turret tops. But that car took us a lot of places and established my fondness for Plymouths (RIP) ever since.
That Packard isn’t just a production model, it’s a 1931 Packard Deluxe Eight 845 Newport Sport Sedan by Dietrich. It is an early 3-box sedan configuration with the passenger compartment forward of the rear axle plane and a coupe-style trunk integrated into the main body. It is the same body architecture as the Duesenberg J Arlington sedan by Rollston (The Twenty Grand). Three examples of the 1931 Packard 845 Newport Sport Sedan are still extant