I’ve already posted a couple of vintage galleries with cars in driveways, all nicely parked in rather sunny settings (links below). The time has come for a winter edition of that theme, with these images of driveways in snowy conditions.
Not that I’m certain these are all driveways, conditions just weren’t favorable for some of these photographers when they took these. Also, talking about unfavorable conditions, good thing cars were so distinctive back then, or we would have no idea about what lies beneath some of those heaps of frost and snow.
Related viewing:
Vintage Snapshots: What’s On The Driveway?
Vintage Snapshots: What’s On The Driveway? – Part 2
Of course the Caddy has no snow on it…..
I love the Valiant (?) lightly dusted .
These pix all remind me why I’m not homesick .
-Nate
Is that first pic a Camino?
I think you’re right. It’s a 1959 El Camino in front of a `1956 Buick Special sedan.
Back in winter of 2011, someone I don’t know took a picture of my Cadillac parked in the driveway and posted the photo on flickr.
Which makes me wonder–how many pictures of our cars (present and former) are out there that we don’t even know about?
When I drive a 50s-60s car now, the latest thing is people driving behind me whipping out their smartphones and snapping photos or videotaping while we’re moving down the road. I see them doing this in the rear view mirror. I guess these photos and videos get posted on Facebook or whatever, and I never get to see them.
Stephen: That just goes to show how we really don’t have much privacy or know where our info/pics are going any more. Kind of scary in a way.
I guess it just goes to show, watch your P’s and Q’s when out in public anywhere!
Variation 2: They pull up along side of you, holding the smartphone out the window, filming you.
One year my dad and I drove our Beetles (my 59 and his 61) on a beach vacation in Florida. My dad said “I wonder how many peoples vacation photos we’re going to end up in?”
I’ve been tagged when a friend of a friend takes a photo of one of my cars and posts it. I’ve made a couple of friends and even scored a date that way.
As a lifetime northener, this is an appealing CC theme–thanks for gathering these images for us.
I always wish there was more “clue” about photos’ locale (I see a CT license plate for the Cadillac). The Ford Starliner seems to be the kind of sunny winter day seen more in the West that elsewhere in the U.S., but who knows?
For the second-last photo, some parts of the country now call that “grassy snow”–it’s not all that cold, and such snow as there is melting quickly on all the paved surfaces.
Was it unusual for a 1961 Chrysler Newport to have been sharing a driveway with a VW Beetle?
Not at that house.
Yes, but only because the Newport wasn’t a very common car. /s
But seriously, my Uncle had a 64 Cadillac and a Beetle that I don’t remember the year of. The Beetle was almost exclusively used for his commute and rarely left the driveway on weekends. Later after he and my Aunt divorced he purchased an Eldo but still used the Beetle as his commuter car.
Cars in snow in the driveway? Yup.
In a parking lot. I can recognize a Pontiac on the left, and a first gen Mustang on the right.
This is why I keep my car in the garage. Although in the fourth pic of the wagon, it looks like he has the car covered with a tarp. Probably why he is smiling, just pull the tarp off and the car is ready to go.
Unfortunately, not all of us have a garage and have to make do with a driveway…
Many of us have “neither”. –
That’s one “nifty, lil, Valiant”!! The Buick just looks “depressing”.
That year Buick always did have kind of a sad face. Must be the droopy eyes.
As I always say, winter is no excuse for not keeping your car clean. 😉
Our snow melted and then we had a week of rain. Today is the first day without either so I just got back from washing my 09 Mustang at our car club garage. I don’t need to post a picture of mine since it looks just like yours.
Hi Rick.
We had a similar situation a week or two ago with back to back snowstorms. While not “Snowmageddon” like the above picture shows (my Mustang between the those two storms), it did slow my roll for the week.
Immediately after the second storm, it got rainy, and then extremely cold, encouraging Maryland and Baltimore County to put WAY too much additional salt on the road. My Mustang sat, safe at the top of the driveway, but the Civic and CX-5 were out and about and got salt encrusted.
The very first day that I could, which was last Saturday, it was nice enough for me to wash those two cars. Thankfully, before the storms, I had used that Griot’s Garage Speed Shine (a cheater’s ceramic coating) on both of those cars, which helped the salt not stick very well. The heavy rains did a fine job of rinsing off all the cars. The Mustang ended up looking like I washed it for real!
My car sleeps in the garage but it got a good dose of salt because it is my daily driver and my wife’s Nissan has never been driven in snow, so I want to keep it out of the salt. Mustangs, I have to admit are one of the worse cars I have ever driven in snow.
By the way my favorite of all those snow pictures is the one with the El Camino. I have owned both a Ranchero and an El Camino and loved both, so it is good to see one. Mine was a ’75.
I know it’s not the same exact taillight lens, but your El Camino (and the wagon of those Colonnade years) seemed to be trying to bring back a favorite Chevy taillight of mine… the ‘68 Impala. If you never noticed this, you won’t be able to unsee it now.
A buddy of mine when I was in my early 20’s had the generation of El Camino that was like your ‘79 Malibu, although I think his may’ve been an ‘82. I always liked those cars.
Our Mustang is hiding in a barn, with about 8 bars of Irish Spring inside to keep the mice away. It makes for an eye-watering drive home when we pick it up but it seems to work.
Great winter photos, I’d pick the Valiant for my classic winter ride.
Irish Spring… cool. I’ve heard of the dryer sheets trick, but never that one. Perhaps auto parts stores should carry those items in “New Car Scent” 😂
As to picking the Valiant for winter duty, hasn’t our own Aaron65 done something similar? IIRC, his winter car is the “Dirty Dart”. To me that’s a bit of a misnomer as indicated by the pictures he posts. That car looks pretty good!
I recently rediscovered this family photo (Lunenburg NS, c. 1962). This is a good place to give it a home on the web. 🙂
What’s the large dark thing behind the Buick in the first pic? Conestoga trailer?
My 1984 Mustang GT that luckily I kept out of the snow with a pop-up tent garage. It cleared up enough for a start up!
That is one sharp looking Fox Body, Sal.
Snow is such a wonderful way to see your neighbors! Yours in mirth (and my girth), Tom
Saw that shot on Facebook recently- digging out of the blizzard of 78 in Massachusetts
My first thought upon seeing the picture with the Cadillac is “Man, that guy must have really pissed off the town plow driver.”. Then I figured out that the snow bank is probably at the top of his driveway and is the result of having nowhere else to push the snow.
There’s nothing I hate more though in a big snow than to encounter the gigantic snow bank at the end of my driveway where it winds up after the plow goes down the street. Often times, that’s the main thing that prevents me from hitting the road. Snow blowing my driveway is fine…knocking down 4+ feet of frozen snow at the bottom is a whole other thing.
Native Tucsonan here. We like to say that you never have to shovel sunshine. But then, a garage is a huge help much of the year, because it keeps the sun from rotting plastic and rubber and fading paint.
how’s the skiing? Mt Lemmon
I don’t remember the Valiant being so comely
that Buick must have run over someone’s best friend
While I’m no longer locked out from the site, now I can’t reply directly to a post. Only to the general comments.
While I do have snow in my yard left over from a few weeks ago, this season it’s been mostly absent. 2013/14 was the hardest season I remember in a long time.
Last winter I had my Jeep pulled apart to replace a ridiculous amount of rusted steel, so I kept it in the garage. So my rust free Oldsmobile had to go somewhere. After a $400 portable garage collapsed shortly into the season (and the car got really lucky), I parked it on a tarp to keep wet grass off the underbody. And then an old interior cover on top, then a large tarp over that. I put rodent repellent granules everywhere and used wheels to hold down the tarp. That worked quite well.
I posted a couple of the followings pics separately on CC a few years back, but I think they go particularly well together in this post. All pics taken at number 39, our home from 1957 to 1975 in Ottawa, Canada
First up is our 1957 Chevy Belair, and our family toboggan. I’m ‘at the helm’, while my sisters bring up the rear. Picture probably dates from 1958.
First pic did not post. Let me try again…
Next up is our 1965 Envoy Epic. Picture is from about 1967, taken sometime around Christmas based on the lights in the cedar tree on the right.
Last one is from circa 1970. Our silver grey Cortina looks rather sad under leaden skies and a blanket of snow.
What city/town is this? Is the house still standing today?
As mentioned in my first post, it’s in Ottawa, Canada.
Yes the house is still there. It was built in 1950. My sister (the one wearing a red coat in the first picture above) visited Ottawa last summer, and I’ll post a picture she took in front of the same house at that time, as soon as I get her permission to use it.
Here’s the same house, as of October 2023 (not last summer as I mistakenly stated earlier).
New windows, doors, aluminium trim, and landscaping, but very much recognizable.
And yes, that’s my sister standing in front of our old house.
Sorry, no cars or snow in this one!
I just spent the weekend at Pismo Beach. 70 degrees and pretty clear, though it clouded up by Wednesday, and we are expecting a big rainstorm in Northern Ca. this week. Now the weather guys call these “atmospheric rivers” first it was “el nino,” then “la nina” (can’t add a tilde on my keyboard). When I was a kid we just called it a storm.
The dog’s mood seems to match the Stepdown’s mood.
Wisconsin State Patrol looking for snowy speeders.
hear was my ride in 77 custom paint job + wheels
Our 1980 Volvo 240: Transformation of the “brick” into a streamliner by the blizzard of Feb. 1983 in Arlington, Virginia.
These may as well be shots from the environs of my childhood.
Nobody has noticed the background of that green 1960 Ford – someone has a copper/white 57 Studebaker President sedan in the driveway!
Loaf of Bread!