Pontiac

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

 

Great cast. 

[watab kid]

yea , like they ever shipped a new car on a flatbed car - would be a used car by the time it hit the dealership , but it was a fun add , we had a new one about that era in our family 

[Eyesa Horg]

7 hours ago, watab kid said:

yea , like they ever shipped a new car on a flatbed car - would be a used car by the time it hit the dealership , but it was a fun add , we had a new one about that era in our family 

When I worked at the Chevy dealer in 2010 we had a lot of paint issues on white pickups due to the rail dust (iron particles) causing rust pits on the vehicles. Especially one's without clear coat!

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

That was filmed in the Mojave Desert. 

[Rye Miles #13621]

Great commercial! I hated to see Pontiac go away, they were great cars. I never owned one but my best buddy always bought Grand Prix’s.

[J-BAR #18287]

Great cast!

 

Mike Mazurki, Elisha Cook Jr., Robert Strauss, Lon Chaney Jr., Leo Gorcey, and Broderick Crawford.  
 

The person responsible for getting all those stars together deserves an award!

 

I just showed my age, didn't I...

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 5 by J-BAR #18287

[Eyesa Horg]

1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Great commercial! I hated to see Pontiac go away, they were great cars. I never owned one but my best buddy always bought Grand Prix’s.

I learned officially how to drive in a 71 Grand Prix with a 400!! Mom couldn't understand why it seemed wear rear tires! 🤠😎

[Blackwater 53393]

1 hour ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

Great cast!

 

Mike Mazurki, Elisha Cook Jr., Robert Strauss, Lon Chaney Jr., Leo Gorcey, and Broderick Crawford.  
 

The person responsible for getting all those stars together deserves an award!

 

I just showed my age, didn't I...

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t feel too bad, J-Bar!!  I knew ‘em all too!! 🙄🤣

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

 

Fer well and fe good, we know Brodrick Crawford weren't doing all that running 😜

[Cypress Sun]

10 hours ago, watab kid said:

yea , like they ever shipped a new car on a flatbed car - would be a used car by the time it hit the dealership , but it was a fun add , we had a new one about that era in our family 

 

2 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

When I worked at the Chevy dealer in 2010 we had a lot of paint issues on white pickups due to the rail dust (iron particles) causing rust pits on the vehicles. Especially one's without clear coat!

 

I stayed in a duplex in Monument, CO., for a month in 1974 near some RR tracks. I saw plenty of new cars on trains being transported by real long trains. I was surprised that they weren't covered by anything. They were going way too fast to hop on also.

[Eyesa Horg]

I'm surprised that they aren't wrapped like the Beemers are! BMWs at our sister dealership were wrapped in white shrink wrap when the came in. It was cut around the driver's door only and looked like it had been through a war sometimes!

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

1 hour ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

Great cast!

 

Mike Mazurki, Elisha Cook Jr., Robert Strauss, Lon Chaney Jr., Leo Gorcey, and Broderick Crawford.  
 

The person responsible for getting all those stars together deserves an award!

 

I just showed my age, didn't I...

 

 

 

 

 

I also recognized them 🤣

[Subdeacon Joe]

3 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

Leo Gorcey,

 

THANK YOU! I drew a blank on that name. For some reason I can almost never come up with his name. 

Edited May 5 by Subdeacon Joe

[J-BAR #18287]

7 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

THANK YOU! I drew a blank on that name. For some reason I can almost never come up with his name. 

The Bowery Boys movies were on every Saturday matinee at the downtown theaters, usually with a Three Stooges mixed in.  Cheap way for parents to get rid of their kids for an afternoon in the early '50s!

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 5 by J-BAR #18287

[watab kid]

14 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

When I worked at the Chevy dealer in 2010 we had a lot of paint issues on white pickups due to the rail dust (iron particles) causing rust pits on the vehicles. Especially one's without clear coat!

were they shipped as in the add = i doubt it , for as long as i can eremember they were shipped in enclosed cars - breatable but enclosed 

[watab kid]

13 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

 

I stayed in a duplex in Monument, CO., for a month in 1974 near some RR tracks. I saw plenty of new cars on trains being transported by real long trains. I was surprised that they weren't covered by anything. They were going way too fast to hop on also.

really - no covers at all ? i dont remember ever seeing that , they would have had gang spray paint tags if they stopped anywhere 

[Cypress Sun]

Nope, no covers. They were on train cars that looked a lot like today's semi trailers with a row on top and a row on the bottom. That's what surprised me as I had been on trains and hung my head out of the doorways between cars like a dog. Wasn't a good idea as I would occasionally get droplets of a liquid that smelled like diesel on my face. That was just for a minute or two of hanging my head out of the doorway. I can't imagine what those new cars looked like after 1,000 miles.

[Eyesa Horg]

No idea, they came on a car hauler truck to our lot. 

[Eyesa Horg]

6 hours ago, watab kid said:

were they shipped as in the add = i doubt it , for as long as i can eremember they were shipped in enclosed cars - breatable but enclosed 

No idea, they came on a car hauler truck to our lot. 

[Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485]

13 hours ago, watab kid said:

really - no covers at all ? i dont remember ever seeing that , they would have had gang spray paint tags if they stopped anywhere 

I remember them being shipped uncovered, when they stared getting "tagged" and people threw rocks at them, then they started covering them.

[Sedalia Dave]

Been lots of different ways to ship cars by rail. In the 40's flat bed rail cars were used. Modified Box Cars were also used. Then dedicated open air rail cars were developed. followed by fully enclosed cars we are used to seeing today. 

 

Here are pics of a few.

 

 

 

 

Here is how the 1971 Chevy Vega first shipped by rail. A total of 30 could be packed into one rail car.

 

 

 

Read more here;  All aboard! When almost every new car rode the rails

 

Edited May 7 by Sedalia Dave

[Sedalia Dave]

RUT ROH.

 

$2M Worth Of Brand New Cars Destroyed After Ford Train Crashes Into Low Bridge : Video

[Cypress Sun]

11 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

RUT ROH.

 

$2M Worth Of Brand New Cars Destroyed After Ford Train Crashes Into Low Bridge : Video

 

At least they were covered....for a while anyway.

[watab kid]

18 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

No idea, they came on a car hauler truck to our lot. 

pk , the damage was not on the train it was on the trailer in delivery , 

[watab kid]

10 hours ago, Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 said:

I remember them being shipped uncovered, when they stared getting "tagged" and people threw rocks at them, then they started covering them.

well i may not have noticed in the very early 50s as i was fairly young , but i know what rolled on our double set of tracks in the late 50s and 60s - im sure things changed as time went by and problems made them rethink 

[J-BAR #18287]

11 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

RUT ROH.

 

$2M Worth Of Brand New Cars Destroyed After Ford Train Crashes Into Low Bridge : Video

Pretty good bridge; looks like it was still usable!

[Cypress Sun]

19 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

Pretty good bridge; looks like it was still usable!

 

That's what I thought also. Ironically, it looks like a RR bridge with a newer slight dogleg.

[Rough 'N Ready Rob]

21 hours ago, Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 said:

I remember them being shipped uncovered, when they stared getting "tagged" and people threw rocks at them, then they started covering them.

This ^